We just released some major updates for our iOS browser:
All the screens now properly function in landscape mode.- The “reload” and “stop loading” buttons in the address bar actually work now.
- If you see links for phone numbers, e-mail, and maps, you can click on these just like you would in Safari.
- You can now save images from webpages to your photo library.
- The app menu now includes options to e-mail or tweet the webpage you are viewing.
Other changes include:
- We improved the overall stability of the app.
- Some users experienced a bug when they tried to enter their Covenant Eyes password. This has been fixed.
- We improved the ability to open and close tabs.
- We added AirPrint support.
- We added a feature that checks the pasteboard when the browser is opened to see if a URL is present and offers to open it when one is found.
Our app is free for all Covenant Eyes accountability users. Go the app store to download it to your iPhone®, iPod touch®, or iPad®.
The “Save Image” feature no longer works. When an image is selected, two options come up: Save Image” or “Email Image”. Neither do anything.
Hey Jonathan,
In order for our browser to save images to the device, Covenant Eyes needs to be given permission to access photos on the device. If the app updated recently, this setting may have been reset. You can open your Settings app, scroll down to Covenant Eyes and select it to see if our app has permission.
Not sure if its just my iPhone or others. I have iOS 6.1 and iPhone 4.
When I tap on share link > share link by email. My portrait mode viewport gets cut off to about 200px wide so it is very hard to type emails and autocomplete people’s email addresses.
As a ux/ui dev i was wondering if you have you received any feedback on the “+” icon? The “+” icon can be somewhat confusing as people like me can be used to “+” meaning add bookmark or something else rather than a “more options menu”.
Thanks for letting us know. You’re the only person we’ve heard from about this issue so far, but we will keep our eye peeled for anything like this from our users. We’ll look into the problem for you.
As for using the +, we’ve never heard any feedback about this. Thanks for letting us know your thoughts! I’ve made sure your comments are read by to our lead developer.
Thank you covenant eyes for what you have done. Your app has been extremely helpful and you have done a great job improving the browser. I’ve read how apple restricts your ability to monitor other apps. I read about mobile spy and their ability to log all websites visited. Not sure how they do it, but they have it listed in their features for iPhone here m.mobile-spy.com/iphone.html. Hope covenant eyes can do this too.
Hi Will, thanks for your feedback! I’ll pass the link on.
Could CE develop an accountability app that tracks web activity on an iPhone which is using something other than Safari as its browser? Or would the Apple operating system not allow that sort of approach?
As you probably know, our current app does not monitor web browsing in Safari. Our app is itself a web browser than monitors only itself. As of right now, Apple has limited our ability to develop anything more than this. The apps on an iPhone don’t really communicate with each other in a way that would make reporting possible.