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Flashes App 🌩️
@flashes.blue

Flashes 1.11.0 is out 📸 The big one: Flashes can now describe your photos for you. Add a picture to a post and a description is written automatically, in the language you're posting in. All of it happens on your iPhone. Your photos are never sent anywhere to do it. 🧵

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Peter Sealy Art & Photography
@petersealy.bsky.social

Good! I still have no idea if the alt text is worth bothering with. (A half-blind online friend frequently rants against it, and I’m so often posting art than can really only be experienced visually. Though I do it, to err on the courteous side.)

Flashes App 🌩️
@flashes.blue

You stay in charge: tap ALT on any photo to read, edit, rewrite or regenerate the description before you post. Rather do it yourself? Switch it off in Composer Settings. It needs iOS 27 and an iPhone with Apple Intelligence turned on.

Flashes App 🌩️
@flashes.blue

Also new: • Haptic feedback is now off by default. Miss the tap when a post goes out? Turn it back on in Composer Settings. • Handles now show in full. Prefer them shortened? Settings → Accessibility & Display → Font Size & Display → Shorten handles.

Flashes App 🌩️
@flashes.blue

Fixed: • A photo that can't be read no longer fails quietly. Flashes tells you which one, and your post stays intact. • Search no longer hangs. It stops after 15 seconds and tells you what went wrong. • Search results come back faster.