• The Rosary starts faster, and on the led rosaries you can skip the introduction. • The rosary guide follows you all the way: the crucifix, the Glory Be and the Fátima Prayer, and the closing prayers. • Your household: tap the candle to light it for someone new. • Siri: say "Pray the Rosary with AngelGuard". Siri also knows the app as "Angel Guard". • Holy Souls: your departed's names fit at every text size, and each night has one ending. • Softer candlelight and fixes in the vigil.

• The Brightest Candle: a Catholic trivia game, alone or with a friend. • Prayers pick up where you left off, and no longer repeat or stall. Long reading-plan days start faster. • Your household: adding someone works on every iPhone. Your household has one picture everywhere: Today, My Shield, the widget and the Lock Screen. Candle counts read more clearly. • Holy Souls: the event link opens tonight's night. The closing moment reads in full at every text size and on iPad. • Ask AngelGuard: clearing a conversation also deletes it from our servers. • Larger text and fixes in the course reader, sign-in and Trivia.

• Seven Nights for the Holy Souls: from All Souls, pray for those you've lost one night at a time, "Night 1 of 7". • In Holy Souls week the night is one vigil: every door in the app brings you to tonight's night. • Once you begin Holy Souls week, one evening reminder calls you to your own next night, and on All Souls the evening opens night 1. • One altar for your departed: carry the match from wick to wick to light each candle yourself, then pray one Eternal Rest for them all. • Your departed are named in the stone of your household altar on Today, all year round. • Your household altar on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island: one card for the whole house, also through the Holy Souls week. • Send a candle: choose a burning candle on your altar, sign it with your name and send it to the person you prayed for. • The Household Altar widget for your Home Screen: a candle for each person you pray for, burning down through the day, with your departed as quiet lights. • Today puts your household altar right under the day's prayer and follows the Church's seasons, so the season you are in comes first. • Advent is coming: light the wreath week by week, pray the O Antiphons, invite your household, and add the Advent wreath widget to your Home Screen. • The Daily Rosary prays the mysteries of the day, straight from Today. • Reading plans: each day at a glance, each plan with its own painting, and "Continue" always brings you back to the day you are on. • The player's controls stay within reach: they dim instead of disappearing. • Notifications can carry the painting of the moment, at most one a day; you choose which ones in Settings. • Long prayers on a weak connection: if streaming stalls, the prayer downloads and continues where you were. • The player has back 15 seconds, play and forward 15 seconds, and names the prayer that comes next. • Add a photo for each person in your household list. • VoiceOver: close buttons say what they do, you can move through a prayer 15 seconds at a time, and the full text shows if the read-along can't load. • Pray a plan day again straight from its page. • Sleep: a new collection, Saint Michael, Who Stands for His People, with two stories from Scripture. • When we ask whether your reminders may show the names of those you've lost, the question now names them and shows an example. • Sleep stories: titles and descriptions now match the story you hear. • Narration always matches the words on screen, and words and buttons stay whole at larger text sizes.

• A clearer tab bar at the bottom: easier to read, less crowded, and every label stays whole at larger text sizes.

• Two seven-day story plans, Seven Days of Protection and Seven Days for Grief, retold so you can simply listen: each day opens by telling you where the story comes from, everyone is called by name, and the day's prayer is now part of the narration — about seven minutes a day • Every prayer in the library now carries the same painted artwork: deep blue, one figure in gold light • Sleep stories open with a short spoken introduction before the story begins • A calmer Today: the week hero is quieter, and a finished day reads as one line • My Shield is your own chapel, and the Community compose sheet is a chapel too • Ask reads like a conversation and keeps the in-app artwork • iOS 26 Liquid Glass is now on throughout the app • Reading plans keep every started plan reachable from Today • The emergency button now offers your country's emergency number in Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Argentina • Portuguese and Spanish: more of the app now appears in your language • Small fixes across Me, Community, the welcome flow and the subscription screen

• A new Lifetime option: pay once, keep AngelGuard Premium forever — no subscription • The subscription screen reads more clearly: every plan is its own card, and your chosen intentions are named back to you • Have a promo code? Redeem it right on the subscription screen • The welcome screen opens instantly, prayer times show AM/PM, and the time you pick is marked as chosen • Small polish across the first-run screens

• Your first week: after onboarding, Today carries a seven-day plan built from what you chose — one prayer, one page and one evening piece a day, ticked off as you go • A reading-plan day counts as done when you have read it or heard it to the end; the tick shows on Today the moment you return • The subscription screen keeps its button in reach on every phone, with the cancel-by date right under it • The welcome flow is lighter: fewer taps, larger type stays readable on the smallest phones, and the candle you light on the pledge is tappable itself • Ratings and counts on the opening screens now show the store's own numbers

• The prayer's words now hold the screen: the controls fade a few seconds into playback and come back the moment you tap anywhere. Long prayer titles are shown in full instead of being cut off • The St Michael prayer now travels with the app — the Emergency screen has a button that starts it, and it plays even with no connection • Long recordings, like the Night Watch, start sooner: they begin playing while the rest is still downloading • When a purchase does not go through, the app now tells you what happened instead of showing the same message every time • Two tabs have new names: Pray is now Armory, and Me is now My Shield Thank you for praying with us.

• The screen no longer goes dark while you pray along — it stays awake while the player is open and playing • When a prayer ends, the app hands the sound back, so your music or podcast can carry on • Restore Purchases now tells you what happened: your subscription is back, nothing was found, or it failed • A prayer you finish still counts when the connection drops — it is sent as soon as you are online again Thank you for praying with us.

• Some prayers are always free — that set is now guaranteed, and any prayer that was locked by mistake is unlocked when you open the app • Today's Mysteries: the Rosary mystery for today's weekday, on the Home tab, named in your own language • The community wall stays legible at every hour, whether it is full or still empty • Trivia stops repeating questions you have already answered, and says plainly when its bank is running thin • Ask no longer freezes the app for a moment when you send a question • Favorite and share have real, full-size tap targets, and a Continue you cannot use now looks unavailable • Large text sizes fit: the intention composer, the intentions row and the vigil roster wrap instead of crowding • On iPad the plan card keeps its full layout instead of the small-phone one • Sleep collections with no stories in them are gone from the shelf • Your first days now suggest a sleep story and a round of trivia

• Your household vigil keeps its people — a roster that had drifted after a sign-in change is joined back together • Every reading plan you started stays reachable from Today, and My Plans shows what you finished • Today's Word sits on a calm backdrop again, and the verse no longer wears two sets of quotation marks • The community tile on Today shows what is being prayed now, not the all-time record • A payment that fails says so, in words, instead of leaving you on a blank paywall • The first session shows one paywall, once • The welcome blessing is a welcome, not a prayer — your first day starts at zero and counts what you actually pray • The daily rotation only offers prayers that can actually play • Signing out no longer locks you out of signing back in • Late at night the greeting knows it is still last night • Plan cards keep their full name, and their pill stays on the card, at every text size • Captions on the Pray tiles read clearly on light artwork • Nothing hides behind the Dynamic Island any more — the step rail and the heroes keep clear of it • One spelling throughout: armor, not armour

Candles stay lit. Tapping an intention on the wall now adds your candle and never takes one away — and if you were offline when you tapped, it lights as soon as you are back. Taking down your own prayer, and every answer the wall gives you, now speak your language. When signing in is needed first, the wall says so plainly instead of failing in silence. Putting out your own candle is still yours alone, on the intention page.

The Community tab is now a wall of candles. Light a candle for someone's intention right where it stands, open an intention to read its blessings, and mark your own prayer answered when it is. Larger text sizes now flow through onboarding, the paywall and the Today tab. Small fixes throughout.

• The Today header now speaks at the right hour — it no longer tells you the day is ending at half past four in the morning, the greeting above it agrees with it, and each time of day now has more than one thing to say. • Saints Who Were Attacked now opens — Padre Pio, the Curé of Ars, Antony and Benedict. These four stories were listed but would not play at all; now they do. • The twelve spiritual-warfare sleep stories have been rewritten and re-recorded from the beginning: easier to follow, and they no longer promise a breath they don't give you. • Minimise a prayer and it keeps a real player at the bottom of the screen — artwork, title, where you are in it, and one tap back in. Music and prayer now use the same one. • iPad in landscape is designed for rather than tolerated. • Sleep stories play through to the end instead of stopping partway. • Fixes: the player no longer stacks one dimmed layer over another, notifications arrive in your own language, and twelve scanning errors in the Douay-Rheims text have been corrected at the source.

• A prayer prayed to its end now ends in peace, not on an empty screen — with one quiet next step if you want it • The Continue row remembers your place, even after the app was closed • Subscribers are recognised again — paying members were being held to the free daily limit • Quiet hours follow your own clock, not a stranger's • The daily verse reaches everyone who asked for it, in the language they read • A link from an email or a message now opens the right page in the app • Ambient sound is on by default, with one honest way to turn it off • Long verses stay reachable while you read along • Your daily reminder is set even when you had already allowed notifications • The pledge step works at the largest text sizes • Two things fixed at the household vigil: a statement that is now an act, and a choice you can read • The sleep timer and the queue answer when you tap them — they were opening, but not listening • Telling us something instead of leaving a rating now works from anywhere on the button, not only on the words

• Your household altar is a place now — a mantel with real candles, one for each person you carry • Hang a photograph beside a candle, framed the way you want it before it hangs • Everyone you watch over has their own page: their intention, their light, the nights you kept watch • The Vesper Bell rings. It reaches you in the evening — and when it cannot, it says so instead of staying silent • The Lock Screen keeps watch with you instead of counting down • Walk the vigil as a procession, one person at a time, ending on the altar you have just lit • When someone is gone, their candle becomes a memorial flame that never burns down • The altar follows the hours — dawn, midday, dusk and night light it differently • Fixed: tapping one person's candle could open someone else's page • Fixed: the flame now catches on the wick you can actually see • Fixed: a candle you had just lit could go out in front of you • The altar holds together at the largest text sizes

• AngelGuard now speaks Spanish: the whole app, and more than 300 prayers narrated by Fray Miguel • Psalm 91 in 14 Days, the Armor of God and Spiritual Combat, day by day in Spanish • The Community chapel is rebuilt — the altar shows candles others are burning, and each round holds what arrived since you were last here • A candle you can send: tell someone in your household that one is burning for them • Reporting a post now actually files it, and tells you if it could not • One evening notification instead of two half an hour apart • Prayers you have not seen come first, newest asked first, and a round always ends where you can leave it

Brazil, in Portuguese. A new 30-day reading plan, Spiritual Combat, written for Brazilian readers rather than translated for them — every day opens in a scene from ordinary Brazilian life. Aparecida: a plan for the Patroness of Brazil, with no English edition. Fixes: the Rosary is honoured when you choose it in Routine Builder, Today's Word renders again, and the paywall shows the per-month price clearly.

• Reading plans now load their audio more reliably • The Welcome Blessing speaks at a calmer, more natural pace • Small fixes and polish throughout

A new way to walk your daily reading plans: open a day and let Brother Michael guide the whole journey — Scripture, reflection, and prayer — inside a beautiful immersive player with word-by-word read-along. • Guided sessions: one tap begins your day; the app carries you from opening to closing prayer • The Pilgrimage map: St. Michael's Lent unfolds in six movements, each with its own sacred artwork • Chapter markers: see where you are in the session — Scripture, Reflection, Prayer — and skip between them • A completion moment: finish your day and your candle is sealed, with tomorrow's theme waiting • A pinned day strip on your plan, so today's step is always one tap away • Continue listening now resumes right where you left off (rosaries no longer start over) • Reliability: prompts and invitations now always respond to your touch, and joining from a shared invite works smoothly on a fresh install • Daily prayer refinements and content corrections • Opening AngelGuard from a creator's or friend's link now works more reliably, on every device Aug 15: St. Michael's Lent begins — 46 days from the Assumption to Michaelmas.

A new way to walk your daily reading plans: open a day and let Brother Michael guide the whole journey — Scripture, reflection, and prayer — inside a beautiful immersive player with word-by-word read-along. • Guided sessions: one tap begins your day; the app carries you from opening to closing prayer • The Pilgrimage map: St. Michael's Lent unfolds in six movements, each with its own sacred artwork • Chapter markers: see where you are in the session — Scripture, Reflection, Prayer — and skip between them • A completion moment: finish your day and your candle is sealed, with tomorrow's theme waiting • Continue listening now resumes right where you left off (rosaries no longer start over) • Daily prayer refinements and content corrections Aug 15: St. Michael's Lent begins — 46 days from the Assumption to Michaelmas.

Meet The Brightest Candle — a new Scripture trivia game. Play a daily round, build your flame, and challenge a friend to a head-to-head duel with a simple invite link. Invite links now open straight into the app, landing you right where you should be — a friend's challenge, a duel, a prayer. The sound library has grown: a redesigned music rail with Gregorian chant and ambient collections to pray, focus, or rest with. Plus fixes and refinements throughout. Thank you for praying with us.

Reading plans now flow the way they were meant to: the day selector is always within reach, so moving from one day to the next — in Psalm 91 and every other plan — simply works. Your daily prayers now follow the rhythm of the week: Sunday brings Sunday Vespers instead of workplace prayers. Brother Michael's narrations load faster and more reliably, read-along highlighting stays word-perfect, and the prayer player now wears artwork matched to each prayer's theme. Plus fixes and refinements throughout. Thank you for praying with us.

Every prayer card on your Today screen now responds instantly to your touch, and "Your Plan" always picks up the reading plan you most recently started. Read-along highlighting stays perfectly in step with Brother Michael's voice, scripture passages now come from the beloved Douay-Rheims Catholic translation, and new artwork graces the prayers and sleep stories. The app is also a lighter download and starts faster. Plus fixes and refinements throughout. Thank you for praying with us.

Smoother, more peaceful Sleep Protection Stories. We refined Brother Michael's narration and the ambient sound throughout, so every word flows gently and you can rest easy. The app now opens to your Today screen - your daily word, prayer, and streak, right where you begin. Plus fixes and refinements throughout. Thank you for praying with us.