Release notes
What’s new in Failshot.
Every version of Failshot for Mac, newest first. Failshot checks for updates by itself, and you can also check from its menu in the menu bar. See what’s next.
The full window by default, an alarm, a schedule and an unlock log.
New
- The full window is now the default. The simple view is one click away at the top, and your choice is kept.
- Alarm (Pro). While Failshot is on, pulling the charger or closing the lid sounds an alarm and takes a photo, and so can an unlock you don’t confirm. It keeps sounding until you turn it off with Touch ID or your Failshot PIN and answer.
- Stay awake while Failshot is on (Pro). Your Mac won’t sleep by itself while Failshot is on.
- Schedule. Choose days and times for Failshot to turn itself on.
- Unlock log. Every unlock from the last 30 days, and how each one ended.
- Check in when you come back. Leave your Mac unlocked and untouched for a set time, and the next touch is treated like an unlock.
- Account. Your account, plan and web vault in one place in the full window.
Improved
- A stricter check on quits that claim to be a shut down.
A full window, if you want one.
New
- Advanced view. Turn it on in Settings for a full window with a sidebar: your dashboard, unlocks, watched items, devices and settings. The simple view stays the default, and you can switch back any time.
- The video now arrives. On Macs whose camera records large files, the 5-second video was dropped as too big for an alert. It is now shrunk to fit, so it stays with the photo.
Free to use.
New
- Failshot is now free to use. Turning it on, the photo of whoever unlocks your Mac, the guarded window, the owner check and the history on your Mac need no subscription.
- Failshot Pro adds the 5-second video, location, email alerts, the encrypted web vault, watched files, folders, apps and tripwires, and notices on your other Macs. If Pro ends, Failshot stays on and only those extras stop.
Watched files, tripwires and updates that install themselves.
New
- Watched files, folders and apps. Choose what Failshot watches. While it’s on, anyone who opens one is photographed, then a 5-second video is recorded, and the alert names the item.
- Tripwire files. Leave a file where someone going through your Mac would find it. Opening it is photographed and recorded the same way. Switches on 26 October.Switched on 26 October.
- Notices on your other Macs. Your other Macs signed in with the same email are told about each unlock, wrong PIN or answer, camera switch-off, and watched item or tripwire opened, and when Failshot is turned on or off. Switches on 30 October.Switched on 30 October.
- Updates install themselves. Straight away while Failshot is off, or the next time you lock your Mac while it’s on. Never when the lid closes.
Improved
- Turning Failshot on also sets it to start at login, if it’s in your Applications folder.
- Clearer alert emails, each saying why it was sent.
After updating from 1.1.1, open Failshot again from Applications.
Sound reminders and clearer prices.
- Turning sound on shows a reminder about laws on recording someone’s voice.
- Failshot’s window says when sound is being recorded.
- Clearer prices in the app.
Video and location.
- A 5-second video after each unlock, on by default and easy to switch off.
- Location. Allow it, and alerts say roughly where your Mac was, with a link to a map.
- Both are in Settings, under Video and location.
Update notices and better photos in low light.
- Failshot tells you when an update is ready, in Settings, its menu and one notification per version.
- Better photos in low light.
Failshot for Mac.
- Photographs whoever unlocks your Mac while Failshot is on, and shows them its window.
- Confirm it was you with Touch ID, or your Failshot PIN and answer, and that unlock’s photos are deleted.
- Email alerts, off until you turn them on.
- The web vault: an encrypted copy of the photos you can open from any browser if your Mac is gone.
- Switching off or quitting takes Touch ID, or your PIN and answer. Never your Mac password.