New in this release: - New Story Card experience and improved story navigation. - Improved History navigation, removing duplicated comment reply entries. - Fixed a Home feed freeze that could happen after backing out of a story's details. - Fixed story card label overlap and improved feed scroll performance. - Improved onboarding performance for longer personalization sessions. - Improved question reliability on weak network connections/backgrounding. - Improved podcast voices and playback.

• The For You feed scrolls with less stuttering and jank. • On iPad, viewing a list of a grouping of stories from your feed, Explore or Search use more available width. • Playing a single podcast segment plays on the first tap of the button, rather than taking two taps. • Reduced battery consumption, especially when backgrounding the app after scrolling for some time. INTRODUCING PODCASTS IN PARTICLE News isn't just about articles and breaking alerts. Analyses, deep dives, and debates happen on podcasts. But who has time to listen to everything? We do. And we've been doing a lot of listening. Just like how Particle reads articles for you, we're now listening to podcasts, too. We identify the key moments, clip them, and place them right inside the stories you're already interested in. • Relevant Clips: No scrubbing required. We serve up the specific audio segments that matter to the story. • Read or Listen: Can't play audio right now? Follow along with the transcript, or tap to listen. • Search: Find specific podcasts directly in Particle. • Full Episodes: Listen to (or read) the whole episode right here, or tap one link to hear it on your favorite player.

• Fixed a crash when listening to a text-to-speech podcast and unmuting a podcast clip within a story. INTRODUCING PODCASTS IN PARTICLE News isn't just about articles and breaking alerts. Analyses, deep dives, and debates happen on podcasts. But who has time to listen to everything? We do. And we've been doing a lot of listening. Just like how Particle reads articles for you, we're now listening to podcasts, too. We identify the key moments, clip them, and place them right inside the stories you're already interested in. • Relevant Clips: No scrubbing required. We serve up the specific audio segments that matter to the story. • Read or Listen: Can't play audio right now? Follow along with the transcript, or tap to listen. • Search: Find specific podcasts directly in Particle. • Full Episodes: Listen to (or read) the whole episode right here, or tap one link to hear it on your favorite player.

INTRODUCING PODCASTS IN PARTICLE News isn't just about articles and breaking alerts. Analyses, deep dives, and debates happen on podcasts. But who has time to listen to everything? We do. And we've been doing a lot of listening. Just like how Particle reads articles for you, we're now listening to podcasts, too. We identify the key moments, clip them, and place them right inside the stories you're already interested in. • Relevant Clips: No scrubbing required. We serve up the specific audio segments that matter to the story. • Read or Listen: Can't play audio right now? Follow along with the transcript, or tap to listen. • Search: Find specific podcasts directly in Particle. • Full Episodes: Listen to (or read) the whole episode right here, or tap one link to hear it on your favorite player.

What's new: - We've addressed some errors with asking Questions, so your Q&A experience should be much smoother. - Fixed issues with Send Feedback, thanks for the reports! - Other bug fixes and performance improvements

UPGRADE YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH PARTICLE+ Get access to premium features to make Particle even more powerful: - Custom Summary Styles: Want to see how a story impacts your industry? Or summarize it with a Haiku? You're in control. - Voice Choice: Choose between 8 different voices, including a variety of accents and genders, when listening to the news. - Unlimited Crosswords: Go back and do any puzzle you may have missed, ever. - Private Questions: Feeling shy? Get answers to questions that only you can see. - Change Your App Icon: Make the Particle app a little more you. Choose from one of 14 new icons and even more color variations.

UPGRADE YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH PARTICLE+ Get access to premium features to make Particle even more powerful: - Custom Summary Styles: Want to see how a story impacts your industry? Or summarize it with a Haiku? You're in control. - Voice Choice: Choose between 8 different voices, including a variety of accents and genders, when listening to the news. - Unlimited Crosswords: Go back and do any puzzle you may have missed, ever. - Private Questions: Feeling shy? Get answers to questions that only you can see. - Change Your App Icon: Make the Particle app a little more you. Choose from one of 14 new icons and even more color variations.

• Introducing a new look for stories! Jump or swipe straight to your favorite summary styles with the new picker, and rearrange them in your preferred order. View all images and videos for a story in their own dedicated section. • Fixed a bug on iOS 18 where toolbar buttons in the in-app article reader were malformed.

• Fixed invisible text on the audio player on iOS 18. • Mini Crossword puzzles no longer crash when playing sounds as the app goes to the background. • Political spectrums display without a black bar on iOS 26. • It is now easier to ask follow up questions.

• Translate questions and answers on stories. • Disable spoiler warnings across the app from Settings. • Descriptions for groups of stories load quickly again. • Addressed a few instances of high CPU usage.

• Introducing the story headline widget for StandBy and CarPlay! Get the latest headline from your feed on your nightstand or on your drive to work. • Buttons on iOS 26 are more responsive.

• Introducing an updated design for iOS 26, crafted with Liquid Glass! • We've added localization in German. Use Particle in your device's preferred language now in French, Spanish, and German. • Translate quotes within stories in your preferred language by tapping the translation icon next to each quote. • We've made some performance improvements to make browsing your feed feel more responsive. • The feed's scroll position is now aligned to the top at first login (Thanks for all the bug reports on this one!) • Returning users can skip onboarding with a new "Skip" button when logging back in.

• Breaking News appears at the top of your feed, keeping you informed of breaking stories as they develop. • In Settings > Notifications, customize Breaking News notifications. Choose All, or select notifications tailored to your Interests or your Locations, to stay up to date with what matters most to you. • The tab bar on newer versions of iOS follows the system style.

• Introducing localizations for French and Spanish! Send us your feedback on the quality of these translations to help us improve. • Read groups of stories about people, places or things focused around a specific topic right in your feed. • Fixed a bug where sometimes questions were posted twice.

• Continue listening to currently playing audio while playing Mini Crossword. Disable game sounds completely via the ••• on the Games tab. • Review the difficulty rating of completed Mini Crossword games in past games. • Feature Spotlight cards in the For You feed adapt to different device and Dynamic Type sizes. • Fixed a few background crashes, improving stability.

• Introducing Featured Articles! Read long form articles relevant to your interests, right from your For You feed. • Track your Mini Crossword streak as you complete daily puzzles. • Play Mini Crossword on your iPad, now optimized for larger devices.

DAILY CROSSWORD • Feeling tired? Concede a puzzle to see the answers right away. Tap the 3 dots in the top right, then choose "Reveal Grid". • Many bug fixes and improvements

• Introducing Daily Crossword! Stay connected to today's events while playing mini crossword puzzles themed on recent news. Access the Daily Crossword from the Puzzle Tab. • Choose your preferred color scheme in Settings to always read your news in light or dark mode. • Fixed crash during onboarding tuning topic preferences. • Not receiving push notifications from Particle? Enable notifications within Settings in the app.

New in this release: - Performance improvements and bug fixes.

New in this release: - Performance improvements and bug fixes.

New in this release: - Performance improvements and bug fixes.

New in this release: - Performance improvements and bug fixes.

New in this release: - Performance improvements and bug fixes.

New in this release: Turkish & Brazilian Portuguese have been added as Translated Summary options. Performance updates and bug fixes. - Resolves issues related to disappearing and duplicated questions. - Search entries can now be deleted.

New in this release: Spoilers suck! By popular demand, Particle will now warn you about and hide big content spoilers. You can feel safe catching up on the news. From the previous release: - Support for Hindi and German translated overviews.