This update brings bug fixes and behind-the-scenes improvements that make Horizon smoother and more reliable, so your day is ready the moment you open it.

Horizon is now Horizon Calendar on your Home Screen, ready for a new sister Horizon Spend on the way.

Bug fixes and reliability improvements.

What's New in 1.9 A polish release, plus two things that were waiting for it: invitations kept until you answer them, and categories of your own. All-day events step aside Birthdays, holidays and the middle days of a trip sit in a strip above each day's events, so what you have to get to comes first. Your dashboard, briefings, widgets and Apple Watch count only the events you go to. Keep invitations until you answer them Turn on Keep Until Answered in Settings › Invitations, and invitations you haven't answered wait in Invitations instead of filling your lists, briefings, widgets and Apple Watch. Accept or answer Maybe, and the event joins the rest of your calendar. Categories of your own Add one while setting up, or in Settings › Manage Categories. Horizon suggests words that come up often in your calendar, offers ideas to start from, and shows which events the category would get before you add it. Your own keywords now come before the built-in ones. Duplicates, merged better A stay booked through a travel app and the one you added yourself now show once. Open the event to see every copy under Merged Copies and why they merged, or show them separately. Screens that got a second look Find Free Time shows openings as soon as it opens. The Daily and Weekly Briefing share one layout, the new-event form and the category editor read top to bottom, and the Apple Watch home holds your whole day. The Today card is quieter, and each fact is said once. Plain words One name for each thing, everywhere. Recurring events ask the way Calendar does: This Event Only or All Future Events. iCloud, told straight Settings › iCloud says what follows you to your other devices and what stays on this one, and changes made on another device reach your widgets and Apple Watch at once. Fixes Deleting an event could close Horizon once Undo ran out. A cleared goal now stays cleared on every device, the banner says what to do when your calendar can't update, and Recently Passed starts with yesterday. If Horizon helps you plan your week, a rating on the App Store goes a long way. Thank you!

What's New in 1.8 Weekly goals, a clearer picture of your overlaps, and Horizon on iPhone Duo. Weekly goals Give a category a goal, like at least 3 workouts a week or at most 20 hours of Work. Set it in the category's settings, or tap Goal on the category's header. Your progress shows there, as a ring on the category's filter button, in your daily and weekly briefings and in Life Patterns, and says what's still to plan. Overlaps Events this week say "Overlaps …" when they clash with something you're going to. Long-press one, or open its details, to see the overlap on a timeline: the event, what it collides with, and what's around them. Calendars that don't block free time Keep a partner's calendar or a birthdays calendar in Horizon without it taking up your time: no blocked free time, no overlaps, no conflicts. Turn off Blocks Free Time on the calendar's page in Settings › Manage Calendars. Invitations A new Invitations list shows everything you haven't replied to, with a Reply button on each one. Choose how far ahead it looks, include the ones you answered Maybe, combine a recurring invitation into one row, and group by date or by who invited you. Each row says whether it overlaps something you're going to. Open it from your dashboard, the iPad sidebar, your briefings, Siri, the Daily Briefing widget and Apple Watch. Made for iPhone Duo Closed, your day fits the cover with Horizon's controls down the side. Open, your month or week sits beside your day, and an event's details beside those. A richer Live Activity A watched event's Lock Screen banner and Dynamic Island show its category and a progress bar, with a countdown that fits on one line. Clearer event details An event's details lead with what to decide: when Horizon isn't sure of the category, Looks Good and Change sit right under the title, then Watch, Share and Calendar. Everything else is grouped under headings, and the category button opens a menu, as touching and holding an event does. A tidier dashboard Invitations and triage share one card under the Today card, and the Siri tip in the daily briefing steps aside after a few visits. Tap a category's header to see its Life Patterns, and when Horizon isn't sure of an event's category, touch and hold the event to say it looks good. Easier on your battery Horizon does far less when nothing has changed: coming back from another app, a quiet iCloud sync, a reminder refresh or a Watch update now costs almost nothing, and the dashboard redraws only what moved. If Horizon helps you plan your week, a rating on the App Store goes a long way. Thank you!

What's New in 1.7.1 Answer invitations without leaving Horizon. Accept or Decline An invitation you haven't answered says so on its details, with who invited you and an Accept or Decline button that opens Calendar's reply screen. After you answer, the button changes to Change Reply. Your daily briefing lists the invitations still waiting for an answer, and you can reply right from the list. See your replies at a glance Events you declined say "Declined", and invitations waiting for you say "Invited", on the dashboard, in the week view and on the timeline. The color stripe beside each event shows your answer too: solid when you're going, an outline when you haven't answered, dashes for Maybe and slashes for Declined. Widgets use the same stripes, and Apple Watch shows your answer in its event dots, the event details and the rectangular complication. Unanswered invitations in free time Choose how invitations you haven't answered count in Settings › Free Time: let Horizon decide, as before, or always count them as busy or as free. Clearer settings Settings explain themselves in plainer words, and a few are renamed: Sync Window is now Date Range, and a calendar's category is Usually or Always. Fixes - Invitations that also appear on a calendar shared with you, common with Outlook and Exchange family calendars, now merge into one event, and your copy is the one shown, with Accept or Decline - Accept, Decline and Edit always open your own copy of an event - Hiding a calendar no longer brings back another calendar's copy of the same event - Moving an event to another calendar in Apple Calendar keeps its category, reminders and Watchlist countdown - Events opened from a briefing offer Edit again - Reviewing guesses from the weekly briefing no longer shows the dashboard through the cards - The merged-events badge shows in every section of the dashboard, not only this week and next - Apple Watch, its complications and the widgets now agree with the phone on what's left today, what's next and what needs a category - Uncategorized events show the same question mark everywhere, including widgets, Apple Watch and Siri - Tips appear once and no longer take the tap meant for a button - Half-height sheets are solid instead of see-through - Switching categories no longer slides the section headers into place - Undo stays available after you close an event's details, however long they were open - The first launch after updating shows its progress instead of a still screen - VoiceOver no longer reads icon names, and the + button is easier to reach with VoiceOver and Switch Control - The dashboard uses less battery while it sits open If Horizon helps you plan your week, a rating on the App Store goes a long way. Thank you!

What's New in 1.7 See your open time, and your week at a glance. Free time where you plan Tap the Free chip and Horizon shows the open time between your events, right in the list and the month view. Tap a gap to book it: the new event starts at the beginning of the gap, at the length you choose in Settings. Made for anyone who books appointments for a living. A week view Turn your iPhone sideways in the calendar to see the whole week on an hour grid. Choose a category and its events stand out in color while the rest of your week fades to grey, so you see where it fits. Tap an empty hour to add an event there. On iPad, switch between Week and Month in the calendar header. More room on your side In landscape the calendar takes the whole screen. New Event, Search, your Watchlist, briefings and Settings sit in the header. The month view now fills the screen too. Find Free Time, refreshed Results and search options have a cleaner look and follow your week's first day. On the timeline, the block follows your finger and snaps to the nearest 15 minutes, and the timeline has a side panel in landscape. Watchlist Countdowns to all-day events read in whole days. The trail lights up as you travel it, and a running event's card shows a sun crossing the sky. Suggestions favor trips and occasions over birthdays, and a Compact Rows option keeps a long list short. Smarter categorizing A calendar you've tagged with a category now counts for more: when an event's title could go either way, Horizon files it under the calendar's category and marks it for review instead of guessing. Apple Intelligence sorts uncategorized events faster and in larger batches, and skips the work in Low Power Mode. Quick Categorize shows one card per title. Life Patterns counts start times Beside Events and Hours there's now Times: how many different moments your day starts something. Six events at noon, noon, 1pm, 3pm, 6pm and 6pm make four. Everything on the screen follows the switch. Life Patterns, by time of day and by title New cards show when your day happens and what keeps coming back. Time of Day charts your starts by hour, how much of each hour is usually booked, or the minute of the hour you start on, and opens into a weekday grid. Most Often lists the titles you see again and again, with a week-by-week strip and their usual start. Days by Load, Day's Span, Between Starts and Mix round out the picture, and the Overview gains a week-by-week line. Filter by a category and every card follows, so a Meals category reads as a food log. Little touches Pull to refresh is centered and looks the same on the dashboard, the briefings and Life Patterns, and a pull on any of them syncs your calendars. While Horizon sorts your events for the first time, calendar facts keep you company. Fixes - Quick Categorize can change a whole series from an Outlook or Exchange calendar - The CarPlay Live Activity shows the event's title again - Recategorize All counts only events you can see as still uncategorized - The Watchlist badge no longer counts events that have ended - The landscape month view no longer stops two thirds of the way down the screen - Weekday names in Find Free Time follow your language - Choosing a long free slot opens the timeline on your event instead of above it - Life Patterns' lists and breakdowns no longer close on their own the first time you open one - Hide Declined Events now finds invitations you declined, wherever your address is known - Declined meetings no longer hold up your free time - On the days clocks change, the timeline puts events at the right hour - Widgets and the Watch say "Ended" once an event is over, instead of "Now" - Opening an event in another city no longer changes the weather on your Today card - Snoozing a reminder works when Horizon wasn't running - Editing a category's keywords keeps what Apple Intelligence filed If Horizon helps you plan your week, a rating on the App Store goes a long way. Thank you!

What's New in 1.6.1 A polish update: Undo where you need it, a smarter new-event form, and Life Patterns that measures your time as well as your events. Undo and clearer feedback Changing an event's category or unwatching an event now offers Undo, and Undo puts back exactly what was there before. Event details tell you when a change didn't save, and deleting a category asks first and tells you how many events it affects. Getting around - A Today pill takes you back to today when you've scrolled far down the list - Search also matches calendar names - The month view tells you when a search is filtering it, with a button to clear it - Once today's events are done, the Today card shows tomorrow's first event - iPhone: tap the briefing button to reopen the page you last viewed, or press and hold to choose Daily, Weekly or Life Patterns - iPad: Settings is in the toolbar, where it is on iPhone New events New events start on the next hour or half hour, and moving the start keeps the length. The calendar follows the category to the calendar you last used for it. After saving, tap View to open the new event. Life Patterns Switch between Events and Hours to see where your time goes. When there's enough history, Life Patterns compares the period with the one before it. A new Busy and Quiet card shows your busiest streak and quietest week, and you can tap them to see the events.

What's New in 1.6.0 Horizon's biggest update yet. It has a look of its own, it reaches you beyond the app, and it fixes a long list of things you told us about. A new look Horizon now opens on the sky. The dashboard leads with a Today card: the date, the weather, and what's happening now or next. Rows are calmer, headers stay put as you scroll, and events grow out of the list when tapped. Eight category colors moved apart so they're easier to tell apart. On iOS 26, controls use Liquid Glass. Siri and Shortcuts Ask "What's on my Horizon today", "When am I free this week in Horizon" or "Add an event to Horizon". Watch an event or change its category by voice. Eight actions are ready in Shortcuts. On your Lock Screen and Home Screen - Live Activity: a watched event counts down on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. - Controls for Control Center, the Lock Screen and the Action button. - Widgets: a small Briefing widget, an extra-large Event widget for iPad, and a Watchlist widget with a progress bar while an event runs. Widgets stay current without opening the app. - Spotlight finds your categories and watched-event countdowns. - Focus filters: choose which categories show during a Focus. Editing and creating Editing an event opens Apple's editor, so you can change its calendar, invitees, alerts and repeat. Horizon's new-event form gains alerts, a URL and Save and Invite People. Deleting shows Undo. More - Set the hours Find Free Time and briefings look at (Settings › Free Time) - A Conflicts list in the briefings showing every overlapping pair - The daily briefing now tells you the shape of your day, and its free slots start a new event with one tap - Life Patterns lets you change the period on the spot and opens any event you tap - A redesigned Quick Categorize with the event as a card and your best matches as buttons - A redesigned month view: each day shows a color bar of what's on it, and the grid folds to the current week as you scroll - Multi-day events appear on every day they cover, in the list, the briefings and widgets too - Change any event's category from its details, with suggestions right in the press-and-hold menu - Keywords show which events they'll match, and warn when another category already has them - A refreshed Watchlist: a spotlight card for what's happening now or next, a still "Now" pill, a progress bar instead of blinking dots, and a tap to open the event - Watch a recurring event every time it comes round, and the Watchlist suggests trips, birthdays and holidays to count down to - Milestones a month, a week and three days out, the day before and the morning of - Skip Horizon's reminder for events that already have a Calendar alert, and set reminders for a single event - Briefing notifications describe the day they arrive on, with your first event and the forecast; the weekly one previews the week ahead - Swipe between the Daily, Weekly and Patterns briefings - iPad: events open in a side column instead of a sheet - Apple Watch: a refreshed look that matches the iPhone app, with the Watchlist on your wrist - Better VoiceOver, Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion support Fixes - Importing your calendar is much faster and no longer freezes the screen - Duplicate categories after a reinstall are merged right away - Events a few weeks out were filed under "On the Horizon" instead of "Coming Up" - Editing a recurring event from the list could change the wrong occurrence - Editing an event no longer clears its URL - "Today" and the Briefing widget now roll over at midnight - Reminder notifications word their countdown correctly - Watched all-day events no longer read "Happening now" for an extra day - Re-watching an event you watched long ago works again - Weather appears on first launch; all-day events no longer count as "to go" - Moving one occurrence of a recurring event to another day no longer makes it vanish - Watchlist widgets and the Live Activity open the event you tap

What's New in 1.5.6 Life Patterns improvements Tap any stat card in Life Patterns to drill into a detailed breakdown — see your weekly event history charted over time or explore a full per-category count. A new Events list lets you browse every event on a selected day directly from the heatmap. The Insights section now surfaces richer analysis of your patterns. A new Life Patterns settings page (Settings → Life Patterns) lets you control exactly how much history is analyzed and whether upcoming events are included. Sync window control A new Sync Window settings page (Settings → Calendars → Sync Window) lets you choose how far back and how far forward Horizon stores events locally — helpful if you want more history or are managing storage on your device. Open event locations in Maps Events with a physical address now include an "Open in Maps" option in the long-press context menu. Performance & reliability Widget updates are now batched so bulk changes (like a full sync) trigger a single refresh instead of stacking them — this noticeably reduces background work after large syncs. Startup and app-foreground transitions are faster: calendar seeding, CloudKit import checks, and tracker maintenance now run off the main thread so the dashboard loads without waiting on them. Bug fixes - Fixed a bug where the animated dot on Journey Progress would cut straight across the trail instead of following the curve during progress updates - Fixed multi-account calendar display in the event editor — accounts now group correctly when you have more than one calendar provider connected - Several fixes to the data migration pipeline for reliability on first launch

What's New — v1.5.5 Widgets, redesigned • Countdown widgets feature a new winding-path visual that shows your journey toward what's next, now in a Large size that displays up to 5 tracked events at once. • Pick exactly which tracked event to feature in your Countdown widget, or let Horizon automatically feature the closest upcoming one. • Event widgets can now be filtered by category, and your choice sticks even if you rename the category later. • Refreshed typography, spacing, and color across every widget for a cleaner, more consistent look. • The Daily Briefing widget shows colored category icons in its summary so you can read the day at a glance. • Long event titles now scale gracefully at larger text sizes. • Briefing widgets refresh their weather automatically whenever you reopen Horizon. Apple Watch • Complications now carry your category color on every face style. • Fixed rendering of the large rectangular complication. Sync & reliability • Horizon now detects when you switch iCloud accounts and walks you through a clean restart so your data stays separated. • Faster sync between your iPhone and iPad for pinned events and manual category corrections. • Smarter background updates and improved sync stability throughout. Fixes & polish • Numerous stability and design-consistency improvements.

Bug Fixes: - 1.5.3 had a sync issue that could leave iCloud data duplicated across devices. 1.5.4 fixes the underlying race and automatically cleans up any duplicates on next launch. If iCloud still seems stuck after updating, open Settings → iCloud & Sync → Re-download from iCloud for a faster recovery.

What's New in v1.5.3 Smarter Notifications Horizon no longer duplicates your calendar app's reminders. Event notifications are now off by default for new users. You can still enable per-category reminders anytime in Settings > Notifications. Countdown Milestones for Watched Events Track events that matter most and get milestone updates as they approach. Horizon sends countdown notifications at various milestones, and a morning-of reminder. Toggle milestones on or off in Settings or during onboarding. Refreshed Onboarding A streamlined setup experience highlights Watched Events, lets you know you can create custom categories, and puts notification controls front and center.

Horizon v1.5.2 Release Notes Watchlist - Journey progress trail -- Watched event cards now show a winding path that visualizes how far along you are from when you started watching to the event date, with milestone markers at 25%, 50%, and 75%. The traveler dot glows with increasing intensity as the event approaches. - Redesigned empty state -- The Watchlist empty state is cleaner with a decorative animated trail and simplified messaging. Calendar Hints - Direct Mapping mode -- Calendar Hints now supports two modes. Hint (the default) influences categorization while still allowing AI to make the final call. Direct bypasses AI entirely and always assigns the chosen category at full confidence. Both modes are available from a new mode picker in the calendar hint sheet. - Recategorization on change -- When you change a calendar's hint or mapping, Horizon now asks whether to recategorize existing events from that calendar. Only affected events are processed, and manually categorized events are always preserved. General - Consistent terminology -- "Categorize" and "recurring" are now used consistently throughout the app, replacing the previous mix of "classify" and "repeating." - Accessibility improvements -- Animations throughout the app now respect the Reduce Motion accessibility setting. Confidence badges and countdown timers include VoiceOver labels. - Design consistency -- Spacing, navigation titles, and confirmation dialogs have been standardized across all settings pages. Bug Fixes - Fixed frozen countdown badges -- Time-relative badges (e.g., "in 5 hours", "3 days ago") were computed once and never refreshed, so they would display stale values until the view was fully reloaded. They now update every 60 seconds. - Fixed locale mismatch in timeline grid -- The midnight hour label was hardcoded as "12 AM" instead of using the system formatter, causing a format mismatch for users in 24-hour locales.

What's New in v1.5.1 Onboarding: - New reassurance banner on the calendar selection step clarifying that Horizon only reads your calendars and never creates, edits, moves, or deletes events without your direct action. Calendar selection (onboarding and Settings > Calendars): - Calendars within each account are now sorted alphabetically. - Added per-account Select All / Deselect All for quick bulk toggling when you have many calendars in one account. Event detail - Classification section: - The "Looks good" confirmation (previously "Looks right") no longer pops up a series scope dialog for recurring events. One tap now dismisses the review row, teaches Horizon that the current category is correct, and leaves the original source label (AI classifier, Apple Intelligence, etc.) intact instead of overwriting it with "You set this". - Simplified the classification info display so technical identifiers no longer leak into the UI. - Added mlModelRenormalized to the friendly-label mapping so it renders as "AI classifier" instead of falling back to "Auto-classified".

Whats New: - Support for iOS 18. This version works the same as the iOS26 version without the foundational model capabilities the iOS 26 introduces.

NEW FEATURES - Watchlist: Track your most anticipated events with live countdown timers that tick in real time, urgency-based visual effects, and milestone celebrations when the moment arrives - Countdown widgets: Add Watchlist countdowns to your Home Screen and Lock Screen in small, medium, circular, and rectangular sizes - Life Patterns: Explore a heatmap view of your schedule that reveals event density trends and category patterns over time, with daily detail breakdowns and insights - Calendar tagging: Assign a default category to any calendar so events are automatically sorted the way you expect - Quick confirm: Tap "Looks right" or "Change" directly on event details when Horizon is unsure about a category, without opening the full edit screen - iCloud Sync settings: New dedicated settings screen to manage iCloud sync, view sync status, and troubleshoot multi-device issues IMPROVEMENTS - Smarter event classification with a new multi-stage pipeline that combines keyword matching, on-device machine learning, and semantic understanding for more accurate categories - Weather forecasts now appear on more event types and show enhanced details including precipitation and wind - Participant acceptance status (accepted, declined, tentative) now displays on event cards, detail views, briefings, and widgets - Widgets now show category color stripes and improved spacing for better readability across all sizes - Onboarding now shows real-time progress as your events are being classified for the first time - Improved location detection with richer map previews in event details - Event detail view reorganized into clearer information cards for easier scanning BUG FIXES - Fixed keyword-based recategorization not applying correctly in some cases - Fixed various widget layout issues on smaller screen sizes - Fixed sync reliability issues with iCloud category and override data - General stability improvements and performance optimizations NOTE: Users upgrading from a previous version may notice some reclassification of events as the system adjusts to the new categorization pipeline.

What's New in Horizon 1.2 Life Patterns — A brand new way to reflect on your time. See how busy your weeks have been, track consistency across categories, and discover trends in how you spend your days. Redesigned iPad Layout — A cleaner, more unified experience on iPad that makes navigating your calendar intelligence feel seamless. Improved iPhone Landscape — Better use of screen space when you rotate your iPhone sideways. Smarter Event Classification — Our on-device AI is now even more accurate at understanding what your events are about, so categories land right the first time. Better Map Locations — Events at named places (restaurants, venues, parks) now show up more accurately on the map. Bug Fixes — Fixed an issue where adding new keywords wouldn't update events that were already categorized.