Direct-Hit Mobile by Identifix1.12.0 - App Store

Direct-Hit(R) Mobile brings trusted repair guidance right to the vehicle, eliminating wasted steps and driving technician efficiency and satisfaction. By combining Official OEM manuals directly from the manufacturer, technician-validated fixes, and mobile-first intelligent search, DHM delivers a complete repair experience in the palm of a technician’s hand. Search for information on your mobile device to diagnose challenging issues and repair vehicles faster on the first attempt. Access key repair information directly from your phone or tablet. Forget about remembering detailed procedures or waiting for lengthy printouts-everything you need is on your mobile device.

Scan VINs using your device’s camera to quickly load vehicle information and get started on the repair. Only Direct Hit(R) has more than 3 million confirmed fixes developed with insights from master technicians.

Key Features of Direct-Hit Mobile by Identifix:

- Official OEM Shop Manuals straight from the manufacturer, including Pin-Out & Connector Views, Exploded View Diagrams, links to Locations & Connector Face, expanded Procedures and Specifications coverage
- Hotline Archives & Confirmed Fixes: Easy access to Identifix’s Hotline Archives, including confirmed and potential fixes, test procedures, technician comments, and easy navigation to relevant content
- Quick-Hits: View consolidated lists of key Specifications content for particular types of repairs, including Quick Service, Fluid Capacity, A/C, Brakes, Drivetrain, and Tightening Torque
- Wiring Diagrams: Visualize wiring diagrams
- Diagnostic Trouble Codes (DTCs): Access comprehensive DTC information and troubleshooting
- Body Shop repair content
- Parts and Labor Times: Get detailed labor times and OEM parts for specific repair procedures
- Related Part Numbers: Find related part numbers for efficient repairs
- Recall Notices: Stay updated with recall notices from NHTSA
- Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs): Access TSBs from manufacturers
- Symptom troubleshooting
- YouTube Videos: Watch informative YouTube videos for repair guidance
- Innovative Carousel: Quick access to all vehicle information in an intuitive carousel
- Printable Pages: Print pages for reference in the workshop
- Save Vehicles: Save an unlimited number of vehicles for easy access

Version History New & Improved Existing Features
– Enhanced VIN Capture image decoding and processing
– Enabled rendering of very large tables
– Optimized how images are processed and served, improving load times
– Added 2027 vehicles that have content, mainly Specifications and TSBs 1.12.0 1d ago New & Improved Existing Features

– Enabled native pinch and zoom on multiple views, including content, Figures, Wiring Diagrams, and Quick-Hits
– New General Tips video in Help, reflecting the inclusion of OEM content
– Major improvements to platform and infrastructure, resulting in improved performance
– Added support for updated authentication method 1.11.0 Aug 12 – Enabled copy & paste of VIN from Vehicle Info, Part Numbers from P&L
– Improvements to OEM PDF handling
– Updated how vehicle database changes are processed 1.10.0 Jul 1 New & Improved Existing Features
– New Official OEM Shop Manuals: Pin-Out & Connector Views, Exploded View Diagrams, Expanded Procedure & Specs coverage, DTC & Symptom Troubleshooting, Body Shop Repair content
– Major navigation updates to accommodate additional OEM content
– Major UI refactor and enhancements throughout the app, including enhancements to content titles: display search terms in blue, bold font, all caps
– Quick-Hits: New icon, added qualifiers to specifications, stricter results for Brake Hydraulic System Bleed
– Specs: Added notes where available
– Refined search for TSBs
– Additional caching to speed up response and load times
– Improved performance of content APIs
– Improved timeout and error handling
– Data quality and Reporting improvements
– Authentication and logging enhancements 1.9.0 May 5 New & Improved Existing Features
– Added 2026 model year to Select a Vehicle
– Added Engine to Vehicle Card & Header
– Quick-Hits new stricter search buttons
– Additional Parking Brake Maintenance Mode search buttons
– Reporting improvements
– Updated endpoints for all environments

Bug Fixes
– Fixed minor bug related to duplicate vehicle IDs
– Improved performance by fixing memory leak
– Adjusted Filters UI 1.8.0 11/25/2025 Bug Fix
- Removed toggle from the sign in view that aided in troubleshooting login issues 1.7.1 08/12/2025 New / Improved Features
- Improved VIN Capture help
- New content search buttons in Brakes and Drivetrain Quick-Hits
- Better color contrast for subcategories in the Hotline Archives carousel
- Improved security in images being served from the CDN
- Upgraded major services in the underlying platform
- Improved search endpoints for app stability

Bug Fixes
- Major improvements to app performance, especially when using it over a long period of time
- Critical bug fixes that addressed random crashes
- Tooltip improvements
- Content: removed duplicates from P&L items and figures
- Improvements to the ETL relative to vehicle descriptions 1.7.0 08/09/2025 Critical Fixes and User Experience Improvements

- Proactive handling of non-ascii characters in the Authentication session, which, until this fix, affected the response and prevented successful logins from proceeding into the app
- Error logging added for when the Authentication response is invalid, thusly preventing a user from signing into the app
- Friendly dialog for helping users when the apps don’t receive what is expected and cannot sign a user into the app 1.6.1 07/08/2025 New & Improved Existing Features

- All Quick-Hits have a new Related Searches drawer
- New direct-to-Procedure content buttons added to various Quick-Hits
- Turned on In-App Messaging and Push Notifications
- New videos and better interface in Help
- Quick-Hit improvements to Quick Service Summary, Brakes and Tightening Torque summaries
- Revamped Tooltips for a better UX
- Improved spacing on the Dashboard
- P&L: better styling of Optional Procedures
- Data Quality improvements to the Vehicle database and better data modeling for query parameters
- Reporting improvements

Bug Fixes
- Critical fix to low frequency integration issue
- Fixed bottom of Drivetrain Quick-Hit from being obscured by the footer
- Engine descriptions are now required
- Removed model year 2026 from Select a Vehicle
- Fixed duplicate engine descriptions in Select a Vehicle
- Fixed VIN Scan issue erroneously not matching vehicles that exist in the database
- Fixed Quick Service Summary Reset Procedures header copy
- Fixed problem with synonyms search process 1.6.0 05/16/2025 Bug Fixes
- Fixed app crashing related to the sign in token expiring and 2 near simultaneous login events happening using the background refresh process.
- Fixed Duplicate Login Events from happening
- Added authorization (login/logout) reason to troubleshooting 1.5.2 04/01/2025 Improvements to Current Features
- Added key information to understand why a session might be terminated either manually or automatically

Bug fixes
- Fixed Forced Logouts bug after an hour relative to authentication method saved
- Fixed issue with Hotline Archives token parameters (non-fatal)
- Fixed Vehicle creation bug related to pagination on the Vehicle List view
- Fixed Sign in View not centered on iPads 1.5.1 03/31/2025 New Features & Improvements

- New Authorization platform
- Added Logs for auth method
- New Quick-View: Drivetrain
- Improvements to the Quick Service Summary
- Updated Help Section with 4 New Videos
- Added flag to hide vehicles with no data
- Hid Unsupported Vehicles from User Vehicle Lists
- Added Help to Gear menu in Vehicle List
- Updated EKS clusters, RDS, and Elastic
- Added a maintenance window lock out option

Bug Fixes

- Fixed App Crashing When Sliding to Return from Help Videos Back to Dashboard
- Trim Drop-Down Bottom Choice Not Actionable on Smaller Screens
- Removed invalid (v1) existing vehicles
- Fixed Title Highlights Related to Pagination After Error Processing Command
- Fixed empty Engine Descriptions 1.5.0 03/13/2025 Features & Improvements
- Friendly alert that there is a new version available
- Content grouping in Wiring, Component Locations, and Procedures
- Added manufacturer logos and additional Engine details to Vehicle Info View
- New pop-up pinch and zoom content in Quick-Hits and Parts & Labor
- Improved handling of “ABS” as a synonym so it generalizes to Brakes when searching
- Updated the name of the app when it downloads to your phone to “Identifix” instead of “DHM”
- Improved Sorting in P&L
- Security, performance, scalability, and alerting improvements

Bug Fixes
- Removed Vehicle List tooltips because of inconsistencies
- Removed Print feature from Procedures View (for now)
- Removed ellipses in Hotline Archives Tech Comments headers when filtered so you can see the complete title
- Fixed figures hyperlinks in Procedures not linking to correct figure
- Fix Crashes and errors when a vehicle has no VCDB id
- Fixed problematic server configuration that lead to undue memory consumption 1.4.0 02/06/2025 Features
- Added tools for managing various features in the app without needing to release a new app version
- Additional Tooltips for better onboarding

Improvements & Fixes
- Platform improvements for continued app stability and reliability
- Improvements to error handling messaging
- Improved padding for better viewing of drop down menu items in the Select a Vehicle feature
- Some improvements to ToolTips sequencing
- Additional CDN security feature
- Added user feedback to content cards when tapping so you can tell what you tap
- Fixed the Dashboard visibly resizing when there’s a Top Searches drawer
- Delete All Vehicles now works properly
- Fixed too strict validation of phone # when submitting feedback via the Help form
- Normalized dashboard count bubbles
- Removed unnecessary lines from Quick-Hits 1.3.0 12/16/2024 New Features
- New Top (5) Searches drawer
- Multiple DTC codes search support in OEM content

Feature Improvements
- New Content Card design
- New Select a Vehicle design
- Quick-Hits UI improvements
- TSBs now respond like the other OEM categories to no search results

Key Bug Fixes
- Print button no longer obscures the bottom drawer action feature
- Better error handling when OEM content times out
- Fixed obscured helper text in Search bar
- Filtered out YouTube videos that are configured not to show on sites other than youtube.com
- Fixed direction of arrows in the Related Items drawer in Hotline Archives to be logical
- Added missing qualifiers to some Specification content 1.2.0 11/12/2024 Feature Improvements & Bug Fixes
- Updated essential services to support asynchronous requests across the platform
- Search improvements with stop words, misspellings, and irrelevant responses from OEM sources
- Fix to synonyms automated update process
- Additional improvements to token auto-refresh
- Improved error handling in PDFs and when creating vehicles so the app can deliver helpful messaging
- Fixed issue with the back button and pagination so the user lands at the same scroll spot they were at on the previous screen
- In the Hotline Archives, the Related Items drawer no longer appears if there is no data to show
- Fixed a problem with the sequencing of Figures in procedures so they show in the proper order
- Fixed problems with Engine Speed Min/Max results so they display better in specs
- Fixed Torque stages so they display in the proper order
- Improved misspelling of Alternator and removed irrelevant references to NSS/NR/No Content in Quick-Hits and Specifications from OEM data
- Removed empty "Value" section in a Specification when the content is a diagram 1.1.0 10/03/2024 Feature Improvements

- Improvements to search relevance by decreasing fuzziness and adding tokenizing on terms with “/” in them
- Results list pagination in all OEM categories, except for Procedures (coming soon!)
- Support Form adds fields and device information
- Identifix help and training videos added to Help section
- Improved logging

Bug Fixes

- Fixes to Tooltips placement and Rules
- Removal of the History navigation item until we have that section ready
- Improved app response to a vehicle not being found
- Fix to auto-logout when an error message is displayed
- Fixed last piece of the HVA spawning windows and not closing them 1.0.0 09/05/2024 Feature Improvements

- New, more user-friendly transition screen from the Hotline Archives to the Search Dashboard
- New, more user-friendly experience when no search results are found in a specific category

Scalability Improvements

- Vehicle creation (Select a Vehicle, VIN Capture, and Type a VIN) optimizations for faster vehicle creation
- Added asynchronous requests to search and database services to handle load
- Optimizations to search indices for scaling
- Added infinite scroll to the Vehicle List

Bug Fixes

- Added additional observability logging
- Recall notes field marked optional to avoid an error message
- Tooltips ship disabled for the moment 0.3.12 08/17/2024 Feature Improvements

- Updated Help view with video, FAQ, and Support Email
- Cursor position is now retained on a Category List View when using the Back Button
- Hotline Archives: Related Items Drawer no longer shows if there is no data to display
- Hotline Archives: Related Items Drawer: TSBs and Recalls are now under the same header

PDF Viewer Improvements

- Page numbers
- Physical zoom toggle as well as pinch and zoom capabilities
- Seamless pagination
- Active links inside the PDF now work properly

Bug Fixes

- Select a Vehicle feature no longer inaccurately reports engine options after going back and changing the trim
- YouTube video no longer continues to play in the background when tapping into the Settings or Help menus
- Carousel movement has been smoothed out
- Internal endpoint cleanup and stability improvements
- Parts endpoint is now properly filtering out "NSS", "NR", "NA" results 0.3.11 08/08/2024 Improvements in 0.3.10:
- Hotline Archive links from Confirmed Fixes and Potential Causes now redirect the user to the Search Results Dashboard, rather than to the Procedures category
- Bug reporting software now initializes after logging in instead of on download
- YouTube mini-EULA agreement now requires users to agree to the message before videos will be played 0.3.10 07/03/2024 * More informative instruction when a user is unable to log in.
* We improved the experience when there are no YouTube results. 0.3.9 06/20/2024 General Improvements to the YouTube queries and some bug fixes:
- Added “Top Repairs” to the YouTube query and Activated the YouTube icon in the Browse Dashboard and Carousel when no search term is used
- Improved the YouTube query sent with Search and in Procedures so more relevant videos are returned
- Improved YouTube API filtering
- Fixed greyed out icons in the Hotline Archives carousel when using the back button from Recalls
- Fixed iPad YouTube video issue from continuing to play in the background
- Fixed Browse Dashboard count labels when using the back button from in settings 0.3.8 05/24/2024 New in version 0.3.7:
- Better handling of Recall experience when no recall documents are found for the vehicle
- Updated the help section to be more helpful
- Improved our ability to organize issues that come into our logs 0.3.7 05/17/2024 0.3.6 05/10/2024