Hello, my fabulous photographers!

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Candy here, and welcome to this week’s Weekly Recap. We’ve been busy fine-tuning your NowCandid™ experience with a host of practical updates—from enhanced iOS features to smarter marketing and reporting tools.

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Whether you're managing events on the go or perfecting your galleries, these improvements are designed to streamline your workflow and boost your productivity.

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Let’s dive into this week’s updates!

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1. iOS 4.16 Updates 🍏

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Our latest version, iOS 4.16, brings a host of new features and UI improvements to make your workflow smoother:

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• • Camera Permissions Required:
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  The app now requires camera permissions on startup—reducing issues caused by accidental declines.
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• • New “Resources” Page:
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  Our info page has been revamped into a “Resources” page that mirrors the dashboard site. It now includes detailed button descriptions and a stylish UI.
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• • Device Storage Indicator:
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  Check your remaining storage right from the Resources page, so you know when it’s time to free up space.
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• • Low Disk Space Login Block:
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  If your device has less than 1GB of free space, logging into an event is disabled—ensuring you can always upload your images without hiccups.
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• • New Event Landing Page:
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  A more detailed UI now lets you view image overlays and see descriptive shooting buttons before you dive into capturing photos.
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• • Photo Booth Landing Page:
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  View custom background files and camera info, among other helpful items—and also a handy link to teach you about Guided Access!
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• • Vertical Liveview Support:
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  For Sony and Canon users, you can now manually set the Photo Booth liveview to vertical. (Nikon auto-orients, and iPad cameras are always vertical.)
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• • Other UI Refinements & Performance Tweaks:
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  We’ve polished numerous small details to boost overall efficiency.

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2. Accessible Download Links 📥

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Great news for your customers—and for you, too!

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• • Order History:
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  End customers now access their download links from past orders via their Order History (if they were signed in at the time of the order).
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• • Order Details:
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  Photographers can also access links to ordered downloads from an Order's Details page in the dashboard.

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3. Hold Marketing Feature ⏸️

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Need to pause your marketing while you fine-tune your images? Our new Hold Marketing option is here to help:

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• • Pause Campaigns:
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  On an Event’s Marketing Page, you can halt new marketing messages from starting. (Started campaigns continue unless you mark the event as hidden.)
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• • Auto-Resume:
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  If you forget, the campaign will auto-resume on the first Friday after 20 days from the event’s start date.
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• • Optional Use:
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  While not generally recommended, this feature is perfect for unique situations—like editing and replacing photos before releasing marketing.

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4. Event Management Portal Updates 🌐

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Our Event Management Portal (access via quic.pics/portal) just got an upgrade:

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• • Enhanced Image Downloading:
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  Now you can download images with custom backgrounds directly from the portal.
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• • Multi-Select & New Filters:
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  Enjoy improved multi-select options and refined tools, just like on the main dashboard.
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• • Consistent Tools:
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  Most of the updates we’ve applied to the primary dashboard lately are now available here as well, making it easier for your photographers to manage active, recent, or upcoming events.

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5. Group-by-Face™ Upgrades 👥

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Our Group-by-Face™ feature just got even better!

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• • Improved Accuracy:
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  We’ve refined things to ensure fewer false matches when using this feature.
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• • In Case You Didn't Know:
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  In a Face Matching™ event, simply head to the Manage Images page and select “Group-by-Face™” to run it.
  
  This adds clickable boxes around faces on the retail site, directing users to galleries of images featuring that face.

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That’s this week’s Weekly Recap!

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We hope these updates—ranging from UI enhancements to new marketing tools—make your NowCandid™ experience even more efficient and enjoyable.

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As always, we’d love to hear your feedback.

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Cheers and sparkles,

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Candy 🍬

Hello, my wonderful photographers!

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Candy here, bringing you another Weekly Recap packed with fresh features and improvements to your NowCandid™ experience. Let’s dive right in!

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1. Introducing QuicPortraits™ 📸

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We’re thrilled to add a new Program to our lineup—QuicPortraits™—joining PartyPics™, GradPics™, Portraits, SportsPics™, QuicPics™, and QuicPics GO™:

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• • One-Time Text Limit: Each image can only be texted out once—perfect for headshots or single-family portraits where you only need to share each image a single time.
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• • Why?: Because of this limit, QuicPortraits™ costs less to use than QuicPics™. It’s a budget-friendly version of the same great service designed specifically for portrait & headshot photography.
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• • No Extra Setup: If you already know how QuicPics™ works, you’ll feel right at home with QuicPortraits™!

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2. QuicPortraits™ & QuicPics™ Feature Additions 🤳

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These upgrades apply to Quic-Events created AFTER today’s system deployment (March 1st):

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• • “Images Are Arriving Soon” Records: View text records in your event’s Marketing History page.
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• • Render Previews for Texted-Out Images: Know exactly when and to whom each image was sent—complete with a small preview.
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• • Unsubscribe Keyword “NOPE”: “Images Are Arriving Soon” texts use “NOPE” for event-based unsubscribes, aligning with other NowCandid™ marketing.
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• • Future Integrations: Under-the-hood improvements now let us potentially add advanced NowCandid™ features (like background removal) to QuicPics™ down the road!
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• • No App Update Required: Older Capture & Upload App versions can handle QuicPortraits™; they just won’t display its icon. For the icon, see iOS version 4.13.72 below.

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And good news for existing QuicPics™ fans—our behind-the-scenes tweaks should speed up QuicPics™ deliveries even more!

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3. Capture & Upload App for iOS (4.13.72) 🍎

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We’ve rolled out Version 4.13.72 with the following fixes and updates:

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New Icon: You’ll now see a QuicPortraits™ icon (older app versions don’t show it, but will still function fine).
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Photo Booth Mode:
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• • Added two new default backgrounds.
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• • Fixed old artwork sticking around when switching events.
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• • Corrected face tap location on custom background or filtered images.
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• • Fixed bug where filters sometimes failed to apply on uploaded images.

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If you’re on iOS, make sure to update for the smoothest experience!

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That’s it for this Weekly Recap, folks!

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QuicPortraits™ adds a brand-new, simpler way to handle headshots and single-user portrait sessions, while QuicPics™ receives behind-the-scenes speed boosts and more detailed marketing records.

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Next week’s recap might be even juicier—stay tuned!

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Candy 🍬

We don’t have any upcoming webinars at the moment, but check back soon for new sessions! Stay tuned for updates.