Feature 1: Six smarter App Shortcuts
Ask Siri about twilight, current conditions, sunrise or sunset quality, the Moon, the night sky, and saved places—without navigating through the app.
Solora 2.0 · iOS 27
Plan skies smarter.
A new version and a new app experience—redesigned around the moment you decide whether the sky is worth chasing.
View on the App StoreCreated independently by a landscape photographer
Untouched in-app capture on iOS 27
A redesigned Home
Your planning signals, in your order.
Solora 2.0 brings the place, forecast, sky quality, Moon, and regional outlook into one calm view. New SwiftUI reorderable containers let each person move forecast cards directly and keep the signals they trust closest.
Sunrise and sunset quality
Golden hour, blue hour, and twilight
Moon phases and visibility
Milky Way and night-sky conditions
Aurora and astronomical events
Clouds, rain, wind, air quality, tides, and waves
iOS and iPadOS 27
The whole sky forecast before Solora opens.
The new extra-large portrait widget combines twilight quality, the Moon, weather, marine conditions, and night visibility in one glanceable surface. It is a complete planning dashboard shaped for the new portrait widget family on iPhone and iPad.
Built with SwiftUI and WidgetKit for the newest system surfaces.
Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight, intelligence
The right answer, wherever planning begins.
Feature 2: Every saved place, searchable
IndexedEntity and Core Spotlight give locations stable identities, useful metadata, and deep links that open the exact forecast from system search.
Feature 3: Intelligence grounded in the forecast
When Apple Intelligence is available, Foundation Models turn verified Solora data into concise planning guidance. Deterministic summaries remain ready everywhere else.
Feature 4: Timely on Apple Watch
On watchOS 27, Tonight with Solora uses Widget Relevance to surface twilight and Milky Way windows when they are most useful.
One Apple ecosystem
Native tools working as one forecast.
Solora combines Apple frameworks with proprietary sky-quality predictions so weather and astronomy become one clear decision—not a wall of charts.
WeatherKit
High-resolution weather conditions and forecasts.
MapKit
Regional maps for comparing sky quality and conditions.
ARKit
In-context paths for the Sun, Moon, and night sky.
Vision
On-device assistance for understanding sky photography.
SwiftData
Fast, private persistence for places and preferences.
WatchConnectivity
A continuous planning experience between iPhone and Apple Watch.
Built to help more people look up.
Solora is made by an independent landscape photographer who wanted to know when a sunrise, sunset, Moon, or night sky would truly be worth the trip. Version 2.0 makes that answer more personal, more glanceable, and more deeply integrated across Apple devices.
26 App Store localesVoiceOver and Dynamic TypeReduce Motion supportiOS 17 compatibility retained
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