What’s New in Halves 4.0 This is our biggest update yet: smarter task creation, real subtasks, richer widgets, and a faster way to stay in sync. Smarter task capture • New chat-style Add flow. Type or speak naturally, preview what Halves understood, edit it, then save when it looks right. • Create multiple tasks from one message, including dates, reminders, owners, privacy, notes, categories, and recurring details. • Break tasks into ordered subtasks with AI suggestions. Keep, edit, or discard each step. • Real subtasks now track parent progress and can auto-complete the parent when the last step is done. • Halves can expand list ideas too, turning things like “pasta night” or “weekend groceries” into editable checklist items. More useful tasks • Add multiple custom reminders to a single task. • Attach up to two end-to-end encrypted photos to any task. • Start a built-in 25-minute Pomodoro focus session from task details. • Swipe overdue tasks to Today in one move. • Stale tasks now understand recurring schedules, so missed weekly routines surface even when the due date has drifted. Voice, AI, and Apple Intelligence • Dictation keeps listening through natural pauses and leaves the transcript editable before saving. • Writing Tools now work in task titles and notes on supported devices. • Tasks now appear in iPhone Spotlight search. • Siri Shortcuts and task intents are smarter, with better task references and privacy handling. • Personal avatars can be created with Image Playground on supported iOS versions. Widgets, notifications, and navigation • The Lists widget now shows real list contents, not just counts, and lets you check items off from the Home Screen. • Medium and large widgets can add tasks inline. • Widgets, Live Activities, and Watch complications got smarter relevance and display polish. • React to partner completions directly from notifications. • Notification settings are reorganized around what triggers them. Cleaner app experience • Redesigned Lists screen with a floating add bar, tap-to-rename rows, search, and finished lists that tidy themselves away. • Cleaner top bar with group name up front and settings where you expect them. • My Groups now lives in Settings, and solo groups can invite a partner from the group card. • Redesigned first-run welcome experience and feature tour. • Many visual, accessibility, localization, sync, and reliability fixes across the app, widgets, and watch app.

Weekly Recap now shows each group in its own section, with stats and top categories. Switch groups from a new pill in the header. Categories appear inline before each task title. The Completed list shows the last 7 days. Older completions stay in Activity. Performance, security, and stability improvements.

Performance optimizations and stability improvements for a smoother, more reliable experience.

Improved Apple Watch app: Tap tasks complete from your wrist, dictate new ones, or glance at your next task on the watch face. Tonight's Plan in Dynamic Island: See today's tasks on the Lock Screen. Tap any row to tick it off without opening the app. Edit profile in Settings: Tap your avatar or name to change it right there, no separate profile page. Medium widget: Now shows three tasks instead of two. Faster partner sync: Edits land instantly, and the app reconnects itself if your connection drops. Offline edits survive everything: Force-quit, crash, restart - nothing gets lost. Smaller app: 14MB instead of 20MB. Plus many small fixes and polish.

Shared lists: Tap Lists next to + for any checklist. Items sync as you tick them. Hold the mic inside a list and dictate "milk, eggs, two loaves of bread, apples". Each lands as its own item. Clear Items keeps the list but wipes the checks. Finished lists auto-archive to Recent Lists. Lists widget: Tap items on your Home Screen to check them off. Add Task: Dictate or type. Halves parses title, date, priority, and assignee in many languages. Shorter onboarding. Long-press a completed task to react. Group Settings: Real avatars, tidier layout. Medium priority is now orange, so it doesn't blend into completed tasks. Empty list says you're caught up. Cleaner activity log. Eight illustrated avatars if you skip the profile photo. New icon, logo, refined typography. Plus small polish and fixes.

We update the app regularly to fix bugs, optimise performance and improve the experience. Thanks for using Halves!

- Lock Screen widgets: Check your tasks without opening the app. Small, medium, and text widgets sit right on your Lock Screen. Tap any to jump in. - Shared tasks: Assign a task to Both and it shows up on both your lists. Complete it from either side. - Task-level reminders: Set a custom reminder time on any individual task, separate from your global reminder. - Redesigned group switcher: Switching between groups now feels smooth and spacious, with Activity and Settings right where you'd expect them. - Better notifications: We rewrote every notification for better clarity. You'll see who a task belongs to at a glance, and weekly recaps no longer run off the edge of your screen. - New app icon: Fresh new look. - Accessibility: Improved color contrast and translated every last string we'd missed. - Reliability: Fixed an issue where push notifications could silently stop working after sign-in, and squashed several bugs with multi-group sync.

What's New in Halves 1.2 Sign-in & Account - Sign out and sign back in — your groups and tasks come right back - Your data backs up the moment you sign in with Apple, so nothing's ever lost - Switching between accounts is seamless now. No orphaned tasks, no weird gaps Sync & Reliability - Tasks sync instantly when you check them off from the Home Screen widget - Improved recovery when your connection drops mid-sync — picks up right where it left off - Partner invites are more reliable, especially when upgrading from a solo account - Behind the scenes: completely overhauled how we handle offline changes so nothing slips through the cracks Live Activity - Lock Screen and Dynamic Island now update in real-time as tasks get completed - Live Activity is opt-in — turn it on in Settings > Notifications Performance - Dragging to reorder tasks feels noticeably faster - Scrolling through long task lists is smoother - The app launches a little quicker too Accessibility - Fonts scale properly with your system text size - Added helpful descriptions for VoiceOver on key actions throughout the app Privacy - Tightened up how we handle your data during sign-out and account deletion - Stronger encryption for task data across all your groups Polish - Task counts animate smoothly when they change - Keyboard tucks away when you scroll the task list - Haptics feel snappier throughout - "All Set" checkmark now uses your identity color - The widget setup card sticks around until you're actually set up

What's New in v1.1 - Dark mode by default - app now follows your system theme - Faster onboarding - no sign-in required to start using Halves - Smarter invite sharing - share link opens the app directly for your partner - Bug fixes - resolved invite code generation errors and improved sign-in reliability