Bike IQ 1.3.6: A Garage for Your Bikes, and One Screen for Every Sensor
1.3 was about the map. This one is about everything you touch before you roll out. We reworked the bike collection, both how it looks and how you configure a bike, every sensor is now added from a single screen that works out where it belongs, and three more radar brands are supported. Plus a round-up of what shipped in the releases since 1.3.
The Bike Collection, Redesigned
Switching bikes is the thing you actually come to this screen for, and it never looked like it. It was a list of small thumbnails with a highlighted row, and a separate little strip to tap for settings.
Now every bike gets a card, with your photo filling it and the name, distance and ride count across the bottom. Tap a card and that is the bike you are riding: it takes an accent ring and a checkmark, and Bike IQ picks up its weight, tires, gearing and sensors. Tap the gear if you want its settings instead.
Press and hold a card and it lifts under your finger, so you can drag your bikes into the order you want while the others step aside to make room. That order sticks, and it is the order you see everywhere a bike is listed.
Adding a Bike Is Mostly Done for You
Search for your bike by brand, model or year and Bike IQ fills in the weight and the real gearing from the catalogue, along with a photo of it. We also rebuilt how gearing is read, so the chainrings on your bike are the ones your bike actually shipped with rather than a guess from the brand name.
Not in the catalogue? Add Custom Bike is always there, so you never have to fail a search first to find it.
If you would rather see your own bike than a catalogue shot, tap the brush on the photo and take one with the camera or pick one from your library. Drag to move, pinch to zoom, straighten it if the horizon is off. Every photo is stored at the same shape, so however you frame it, the collection stays neat.
One Screen for Every Sensor
Bike IQ used to have two sensor screens: one for you, one for the bike. It sounds tidy and it was not. Riders went looking for a heart rate strap on the bike screen and a power meter on the rider screen, and each one only ever scanned for half the world, so the app answered "no devices" to a sensor that was awake and ready to pair.
There is now one screen. It scans for everything at once and shows you three things: what is on this bike, what is on you, and what is nearby. Tap something nearby and Bike IQ knows what kind of device it is and files it accordingly. A heart rate monitor goes to you and works on every bike. A power meter, speed sensor, radar, tire pressure sensor or electronic groupset belongs to a bike, so with more than one bike, Bike IQ asks which: this one, another one, or all of them at once, which is what you want for pedals that move between bikes.
With several bikes, the sensors on the others fold into a single row, so setting up a new bike with the gear you already own is right there instead of three screens away. And if you have more than one bike, you can flip between them from the header without leaving the screen.
Swipe any sensor you have added to rename it, unassign it from this bike, or forget it entirely.
Three More Radar Brands
Bike IQ now works with rear radar from COOSPO, iGPSPORT and SIGMA:
- COOSPO TR70
- iGPSPORT SR30 and SR mini
- SIGMA RECO 80 LINK and RECO 81 LINK
There is no shared standard for bike radar. Every manufacturer invented its own way of talking, so each one has to be supported on its own terms, and we keep adding them based on what people tell us they ride. That brings Bike IQ to eleven radar brands, all with the same widget, the same threat levels and the same alerts, so the settings you picked do not change when your radar does. The full list is on the supported radars page.
Not there? On the sensor screen, tap Can't find your sensor? and tell us what you ride.
The Map Shows What You Are Looking For
Water, toilets, food and bike shops were on the map all along, behind a switch you had to know about. A rider who did not know it existed could never discover them, because the map never drew them. Points of interest are now on by default, with a sensible set of categories already chosen, so the map is useful rather than cluttered. If you had already made a choice here, we kept it.
Nu ook in het Nederlands
Bike IQ is now translated into Dutch, bringing it to fifteen languages. Menus, settings, metrics and your ride report all read naturally, and Bike IQ follows your iPhone's language automatically.
Since 1.3
A few things landed in the releases between 1.3 and this one that are worth knowing about:
- Tubolito SYNCD support. Live tire pressure now also works with Tubolito's smart inner tube, alongside the RideNow TPMS sensors.
- Open a GPX straight from a chat. When someone sends you a route in Messages, WhatsApp or Mail, tap it and pick Bike IQ. You get a preview of the route on the map, so you can look at what you were sent and decide whether to keep it.
- English names on the map. Ride somewhere written in a script you do not read and the map now shows the English name where it has one. Anything without one keeps its own.
- System Status. One screen in your profile that tells you whether everything Bike IQ depends on is actually available: location, motion, Bluetooth, notifications and Apple Health, each with what it is set to and what that means for your data. Anything you can fix is in red, with a button that takes you straight there.
- Truer route elevation. Elevation gain on a planned route is now calculated the same way as on a recorded ride, so the number you see before you leave matches the one you get back.
- Older iPhones get the full ride screen. Grade, elevation and estimated power depend on altitude readings that the iPhone XR, XS, SE 2 and the iPhone 11 family report differently to newer phones. Bike IQ now handles that, so those riders get the same metrics as everyone else.
Fixes
- Wind impact stays sensible on long descents instead of drifting off.
- Sensors connect and stay connected more reliably, and pairing no longer interferes with a ride in progress.
- Radar strips show up as soon as the radar does, on a fresh launch as well as mid-ride.
- Map labels render correctly in every script, non-Latin characters included.
- Plus a batch of stability fixes across ride recording, routes and the ride report.
What's next
Setup is now out of the way, which was the point. To get the most out of this release, see the bike profiles guide and the sensor pairing guide.