Popular flight tracking app Flighty updated with Dark Mode and more

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What you need to know

  • Flighty is a great app for tracking flights on iPhone and iPad.
  • The app just received an update ready for iOS 13.
  • The update adds Dark Mode as well as improved map detail and more.

Flighty, the popular flight tracking app for iPhone and iPad, has been updated to add support for iOS 13's Dark Mode as well as a raft of other improvements.

The headlining feature is definitely the addition of a new, dark interface that makes plane watching more fun than ever. Users will need to have iOS 13 installed to enjoy the new interface with Apple releasing that tomorrow.

Alongside the new dark look Flighty also gains improved map themes as well as in-flight landmarks including mountains and bodies of water. Airports are now labelled as well, while performance has generally been improved, too.

Beyond that there are a number of smaller fixes and changes including:

  • Allow manual archive after Estimated Arrival
  • Add divider line to flight detail header
  • Add more clear X on paywall
  • Fix notification bug after a restore
  • Fix Tail Changes missing from Record of Changes
  • Fix selected color in search results
  • Fix missing past flights on Dec 31

This free update is available for download from the App Store right now. Note that a Flighty Pro subscription is required for some features, however.

Oliver Haslam
Oliver Haslam
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Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.