Auto-stop on silence now works the way the setting describes. With it on, recordings you start from the Record screen end themselves when you stop talking. With it off, they run until you tap stop. Siri and Shortcut captures always stop on their own, so hands-free capture behaves the same either way. The default silence window moved from 3 to 4 seconds. That leaves a little more room to pause mid-thought without cutting the recording short. Also: on iOS 26, Rapture's speech and formatting models now arrive with the App Store install. New installs open straight into recording instead of waiting on a 1.4 GB download. On earlier iOS versions that download still happens once on first launch, but it no longer restarts when your screen locks. Rapture keeps the display awake until it finishes, so you can set the phone down and walk away. Longer recordings also produce cleaner notes. Occasionally a long capture would pick up a stray to-do or detail that was never said — those no longer make it into your notes.

Rapture has a new look. Every screen was redesigned: • Record: a calmer home screen with a daily greeting and one big button • History: your notes as cards, with filters, delivery status, and task counts at a glance • Note view: a new audio player, cleaner formatted notes, and chips that show where each note landed • Tasks: open to-dos grouped by note, with a progress bar • Settings: reorganized around capture and delivery, with guided setup for every destination • Plus a restyled Siri capture card, refreshed onboarding, and dark mode polish throughout How Rapture works hasn't changed: capture stays hands-free, and everything still happens on your iPhone.