The latest Zwift update is now available on all platforms: Mac, PC, Android, iOS, and AppleTV.
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This update is quite minor – basically two new training plans, some new route badges, and a pile of bug fixes. Word is January’s update will be more substantial, but for today… let’s dive into the details of December’s release!
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More Training Plans
Fast Track Fitness
At only 4 weeks long, with two workouts per week building from 16 to 30 minutes, this is a great training plan for newer riders. It’s also a great first training plan, since the short workouts are doable for just about anyone and can fit into any schedule.
Build Me Up Lite
Another 4-week plan with just two workouts per week, this plan provides some education and training guidance while helping you build fitness. Workouts are 30-35 minutes long. A great followup to the Fast Track Fitness plan, or a good plan to jump into if Fast Track Fitness’ workouts are a bit too short for your taste.
More Route Badges
Hurray, new route badges! Five event-only routes have been made public (and thus free rideable) with new route badges: France’s La Reine, NYC’s Gotham Grind, Watopia’s Waistband, Richmond UCI Reverse, and the run-only Surfin’ Safari in Watopia.
More Drops
The Robopacer Drops Multiplier game now caps out at x2.5, instead of x2.0 where it’s been stuck since October’s update. That means more Drops – especially welcome news for newer Zwifters looking to buy some sweet frames and wheels!
More Pixels: AppleTV 4k (3rd Gen) Update
The latest AppleTV (4k, 3rd generation) now delivers the same resolution as the other 4k AppleTV devices. This is great news, as this AppleTV is the cheapest ever – just $123.49USD on Amazon!
(Inside sources tell us we can expect improvements to AppleTV performance in the coming months, as the latest versions have strong enough graphics to support better visuals.)
More Homescreen Updates: Android Rollout
Android users have been the last to get the new homescreen UI, but today Zwift says, “The new home screen is now on most Android devices.”
More Testing: Pack Dynamics 4
This update includes an updated version of Pack Dynamics 4, but it is far from being rolled out to the general populace. This new version will be tested in specific events in the coming weeks.
More Fixes and Tweaks
A few more fixes were noted in this release. Here they are, with our notes in italics:
- Resolved camera issues when changing camera views in Makuri Islands and when joining a RoboPacer. Additionally, some screenshot bugs have been resolved. Since we take hundreds of screenshots per month, this is a welcome fix.
- Sending the sound slider to 0 in game will now correctly turn off game sounds. Although, we all know the Zwift game music is a jam. Is it though?
- Ambient sounds in New York and Innsbruck are now at the expected sound levels. Our families will miss the blast of sound at the start of our 5am rides!
See notes on this update release in the Zwift forum >
Questions or Comments?
If you spotted any other changes or bugs in the update, please comment below!
Guess we’ll have to wait for future updates for them to add timed KOM segments on the new Urukazi routes.
Yes, All of Urukazi is about the sprint (In terms of segments). Maybe a lap would be good (E.g. Festival Harbor or Mech Isle)
As if there’s any real KOM’s in all Makuri
How about a Apple M1/M2 native version… I only have 32 GPU cores…. It might have the power to do 4k resolution and shadows.
Only 32? 🙂
Shame Zwift only uses one of them …
If Zwift used more than one core, it would have more bugs. . .
Fingers crossed for sure – and not just for an M-series native app on macOS, but a new build for iOS/iPadOS to take advantage of the M-series hardware it’s already native on!
M2 meets or exceeds the Windows desktop system ZI recommends for Ultra+4K, in an iPad, but it’s stuck on AppleTV graphics. M3 is around the corner…this isn’t an iPhone 4 any more!
i was expecting route-based workouts
is this something they dropped in dev or did I miss something
I was looking forward to this too. Hopefully, in January!
Me too, I really have high expectations for that feature – it feels like quite some time since they said it was coming soon, so I was hoping for December as well, but it seems it won’t be this year…
More pixels? I just want the road flush with the ground and my bike to roll in the direction of the wheels
Upcoming Tiny Races to test updated Pack Dynamics 4? 🙂
We’ll see. 🙂 I’ll want to test them elsewhere first.
That’s fair! Keep us in the loop about when others test it. I’m VERY excited about how this can/will improve races moving forward. Thanks again!
Hi Eric, love your site. Today after the update I keep getting a banner across the bottom of the screen when I’m in game mode to say I’ve unlocked the Pinarello F8. This notice keeps repeating about every 4 seconds. I tried to run Zwift on another computer and I get the same result. I’ve put in a post to Zwift already and I’m hoping they can resolve this. Just thought I’d let you know what happened to me. This is the first issue I’ve had with Zwift up till now
Weird!
I’ve had some weird unlock messages in the past couple months too. It told me I completed the Everest Challenge and Ride California Challenge… both things I did years ago!
Strange, but NOT weird! Since they never came up with more than 3 Challenges – California, Mt Everest and Italy (the 4th one is still BLANK!) then the banner of one of these 3 will shows up anytime you earned enough points (mls?) to finish yet ANOTHER Round! Not sure if they intended that or if it is an error 🤔… My Italy Challenge banner popped up several times after I accomplished it already. It was kind of annoying so I switched back (highlighted) Mt Everest, again! It’s still happens, but WAY less than before, since Everest takes more time to finish it…🤓👈
Same here … I already earned 3 Trons 🙈🤣
I’ve gotten the Everest Challenge banner or Tron unlock bannner 3 or 4 times since getting the Tron.
There is a bug in the software which is confirmed by Zwift. I today finished the 50000 HM challenge to earn the Tron bike. Now every 3 seconds the banner pops up that I have finished the challenge and the Zwift Concept Bike is unlocked. But it is not. Now Zwift can´t be used anymore convinient as the banner pop-up is annoying as f***. Hope they fix it ASAP or I have to cancel until it is fixed as currently not usable.
Yep had this happen to me today unlocking the trek for everesting challenge. This was my first time completing the challenge but I can’t find the actual bike in my garage either just constant notifications.
For those of you who are dealing with the repeated in-game banner for unlocking a bike, it is a known issue and they seem to be updating status of it in the forum link below:
https://forums.zwift.com/t/completed-challenge-and-unlocked-reward-message-wont-go-away-december-2022-1-32/595721/5
Based on the comments, it seems to only be affecting people who have unlocked a bike from one of the challenges (Everest/California/Italy). You repeated get a notification of the earned bike and you don’t actually see it in your garage.
The forum also has a recommendation for anyone who didn’t receive their bike to put in a ticket with support, who will manual put the bike in your garage so you don’t lose out on your earned bike.
I just received an email from support that they have put the bike into my garage from finishing the Everest challenge, but I haven’t been able to log back into the game to see if getting the bike actually stops the notification issue. Fingers crossed they patch this up quickly, as the constant banner sweeping across the screen and chimes make the game virtually unplayable.
I have also contacted support and I got this message, until know I have not got the bike. Maybe in some WEEKS….
“I appreciate all the information you have provided to us and that you are contacting us to get this fixed. I checked on the system and I want to congratulate your amazing job completing the Mt. Everest challenge with 50,014 meters (164,088 feet), this is awesome! Your request for an item credit is now being looked into. In the event we’re able to credit your account, you should see it appear in your garage within the next couple of weeks. We aren’t able to guarantee credit for items, so please understand the credit may not be applied.
I hope you understand we are doing our best to fix this issue as soon as possible, I would like to highly suggest you follow this Forum for you to check on updates, we will be posting soon.”
I wonder if they’re okay getting my payment a few weeks late, too.
Latest update just came on the Forum – looks like they have a solve and should get your bike this week, along with fixing the banner issue.
Good workaround in the meantime is to switch to a different challenge, then force close your Zwift app. When you restart, the banner problem should be fixed (though you won’t have your bike, you at least can ride without the annoying banner).
UPDATE: December 12
Hey all – we’ve solved this bug and will be releasing a game patch this week to fix it.
The patch will also ensure that the bike you get for completing your Challenge will show in your garage. No need for you to write in to Support and ask for it – it’ll happen automatically.
Same here, but with the Emonda. Every four seconds for the last 25 miles. How very immersive and lifelike!
Watopia Waistband route badge becomes available the day after thousands rode it in ZRL. Couldn’t make it up 😆
Hey, if you wanted life to be easy you wouldn’t be a cyclist!
I don’t see it – is this really a route you can ride?
Hi Eric: How can we get Crit City races every hour on the hour every day?
Not going to happen, I’m afraid. Here’s some background: https://forums.zwift.com/t/please-reinstate-the-crit-city-crit-races/588680/86
I think the badge for “Surfin’ Safari” is not new. I have it and I didn’t run on swift for quite a while.
Hmm, yeah, and only 4 new total route badges got added, so the 4 new cycling routes must be all the new badges.
Looks like they added AdZ segments to Watopia. Eg: Wind Caves.
Could you elaborate on your post?
Yeah, I’m also curious what you’re seeing!
based on 20xp per km that means new route badge pouns makes up a total of 1470xp Waistband = 510XP, Richmond UCI reverse= 320XP, Gotham Grind =180XP, La Reine = 460xp
And when will we get distance triangles on iOS? Can’t believe that has never been implemented.
What? No mention of the bell on our handlebars now that we can ring?
That’s been there forever, silly billy!
Speaking of which…Hey Eric, do you know if there’s a way to change the order of those icons on Android?? There are some I never used (all the bells 🔔 and whistles!👈🙂), but some of them, which I like to have HANDY 👋👍keep disappear anytime Power up pops up ot Route showing the direction ⬅️➡️.Is there anyway to control it, or at least change the order of it…??🤔
No way that I know of!
But no fix for the PC crashes when loading Makuri …
That’s supposed to be fixed in 1.32.1 according to: https://forums.zwift.com/t/pc-crashes-when-loading-makuri-november-2022-1-31/593754/108
Mine used to do this but a full uninstall and reinstall of Zwift on the PC fixed it. Not sure if you’ve done the same or not?
Is ZwiftHub still a thing? If new routes are added by Zwift, is ZwiftHub also getting updates? Just wondering, no rush. Thanks
Yes, it’s still a thing. You can see all the latest Urukazi routes are there. We’ll these new free rideable routes soon.
Please could you add the 5 running routes with badges from 2022?
They are:
Not sure if this is a bug or a feature. If I go through the banners and get the XP points twice in a row instead of a powerup, I get 500 XP. This has happened more than once.
If above level 50 before 50-60 added in then you are getting double xp (1 Km or mi now equals 2 km or mi) for distance till your extra xp bank runs out. That applies to bouns XP from archs as well or earning route badges fist time. Normally that 500 XP would be 250XP.
I have one of the new ZwiftHub trainers and a new Apple TV 4K as my setup. Ever since I upgraded to the latest version of the app, there is no ERG mode or ability to calibrate the trainer. There is no firmware update on the trainer through the Companion app either. Anybody have any ideas on how to solve this? I could find no information on the Zwift forums or online anywhere.
Is there XP for any of these new route badges? I only see if for the run badge
Yes.
Is there XP for these new badges? I only see it for the run badge
This is great news:
(Inside sources tell us we can expect improvements to AppleTV performance in the coming months, as the latest versions have strong enough graphics to support better visuals.).
I’ve been hoping for this improvement for a while now, and fed it back in the last Zwift survey – I was pretty sure that the latest AppleTV 4k could support a better resolution, and it was running Zwift in HD.
if they manage to get it running in true 4k, it will blow our minds…!! I do hope those inside sources are right, great news indeed.
There’s likely a 1.32.1 update coming this week to fix the achievement unlock issues.
as someone who should be unlocking the Tron in the next couple of weeks, that is most welcome!
Wow! Dropouts are horrible in the new update. I rode for the first time in over a month last night, pacing D Taylor around Watopia with 20+ others. Screen froze for nearly a minute, drop multiplier reset to 1x and only a couple of fellow riders came back at first, then they all added back in. This happend about every 10 minutes (when I was at 1.4x each time). Something is NOT RIGHT with the new release. NEVER had this happen before! No, nothing changed on my local network…
It seems 1.32.1 is available for download/install.
Are the 4 new freeridable routes going to be added to the veloviewer leader board?
Ok, not sure where to ask this question and I feel really dumb as I can’t seem to find the answer anywhere, so maybe someone can help here. 🙂
I just got the new AppleTV 4k for xmas and just finished a ride. It seems to work way better than my old MacBook Air, so I’m excited for the new addition to the pain cave. There is one problem though. The chat bubbles on the right side of the screen are HUGE! Is there a way to shrink the font size? On my MacBook they were about half the size.
Thanks in advance and Merry Christmas!