Stepping back one day is the most ordinary thing you can ask of today’s board, and it used to be the longest way round. This version puts yesterday and the day after a single tap away, and it lets the background you choose stay chosen. Around those two, writing on the board holds its shape at larger text sizes, every step of the first walk can be passed, and if part of the app ever fails, a calm page says so plainly.
A day at a time, from the board itself
Today’s board now carries two arrows at the bottom right. Yesterday is one tap, the day after is one tap, and you stay on the board the whole time. Until now, moving back even a single day meant opening the calendar and finding the date on a month grid, which is a lot of work for the most ordinary move there is.
Stepping is the frequent gesture and reaching a particular date is the rare one, so the calendar moved up into a new ”…” button at the top right of the board. It opens Options, which holds “Choose a day” and “Share your day”. Both are still one tap from the board, and the calendar is still the way to reach a particular date.
When you are already on today, the forward arrow dims, because there is no day past it to look at yet. It keeps its place rather than disappearing, so the pair stays exactly where your thumb left it, and a screen reader is told why it is dimmed instead of only that it is.
The background you choose stays chosen
A background used to be a decision about one day. Dress today in kraft, and tomorrow opened on cork again, waiting to be picked a second time. It is a setting now, not something you re-enter each morning.
A new day opens on the background you last chose by hand, and so does a past day you walk back to that you have not put anything on yet. A day you have already filled in keeps the background it has, so nothing you arranged gets redressed behind your back. Choosing a background for a day that is still empty holds too, and it is still there when you come back to that day.
If the background you last chose is one of the Premium materials and your subscription has ended, new and empty days open on cork rather than showing you something you no longer have. The days you already filled in keep their material, because a day you made should stay the way you made it.
Larger text sizes, and the day still arranged
With a large text size chosen in your phone’s own settings, today’s board now holds its shape. Writing on the board grows with your text size up to a comfortable point and stops there, so the day stays arranged, and opening any piece still shows its words at the full size you chose.
A handful of smaller places came along in the same pass. The settings button stays on screen on the home page at every text size. The “Personalize” label along the bottom of the board reads in full, and changing your text size while the app is open no longer leaves labels cut short either. The line naming the day a chapter began now wraps onto a second line instead of losing the date, so “Chapter started on September 25, 2026” arrives whole. And on a narrower phone, an iPhone 12 mini, SE or X, the app name at the top of the home page makes room for your profile picture on one side and the settings button on the other.
Every step of the first walk can be passed
The first walk through your board now offers “Not now” beside Continue on every step, the same size and the same weight, so passing a step is as easy a choice as taking it.
When you choose a photo during the walk, you see it before it is placed, with a way to change it. Tapping a piece on your board answers you now: the piece you touched gives a small nudge, and a line explains that arranging and changing everything comes soon. The question about adding someone is open to anyone who has been part of your life, including someone you only thought about. And Niravah speaks to what is actually on your page, rather than to a step you may have chosen to pass.
A calm page when something goes wrong
If part of the app ever fails, a calm page now says so, tells you that everything you have written is safe on this device, and offers to try again. Only the page that failed steps aside, so where you were in the app is still there when you come back, and you can copy the details if you would like to send them to us.
The small extras around the edges, the floating buttons at the bottom of the home page or the passcode suggestion, step quietly out of the way on their own if one of them fails, instead of taking the whole app with them, so the page you were reading stays exactly as it was. And on iPhone, a fault now stays a fault: the app opens again as it should.
None of this asks anything new of you. It shortens the moves you make most often, and it leaves your choices where you put them.