- Swiping right from Today more reliably opens your last written entry. Empty or unavailable entries no longer block access to an earlier readable page, and returning to Today refreshes the previous entry without disturbing your current writing. - Short, quick swipes now turn the journal page more reliably, including on larger iPads. Swipe left to return to Today.

An important fix if you use iCloud Backup. If you finished writing and turned your iPad's screen off, the last few lines of that entry could be missing the next time you looked. Everything you wrote was always saved on your iPad — the problem was that turning the screen off cut the backup short, and the next morning the app treated the older backup as the truth. It now keeps whichever copy is newer, which is the one you were writing on, and backing up finishes before your iPad sleeps.

A fix for iCloud Backup. The last update briefly showed an error the first time you opened it, while it brought your existing entries up to date — it tried to upload them all in one go. Uploads are now sent in smaller batches, and if one ever does fail, the status message explains the real reason instead of pointing at an unrelated entry. Nothing was ever at risk: the entries on your iPad are the originals.

Your entries now keep the paper they were written on across iCloud. Previously that was only remembered on the iPad that wrote it, so an entry that arrived on another device — or came back after reinstalling — was redrawn on whatever paper you were currently using, and its prompt went missing. If you have iCloud Backup switched on, your existing entries are brought up to date automatically the first time you open this version.

Look back without losing your place. Swipe right on today's page and your previous entry slides in beside it; swipe back to carry on writing. Handy if you use a prompt that sets an intention for tomorrow — you can check what you promised yourself before you answer it again. It shows your most recent entry rather than strictly yesterday, so a day off doesn't hand you a blank page, and it shows that entry on the paper it was written on. Today's page is left exactly as you had it, down to your zoom and anything you were part-way through writing.

Writing prompts, if you want them. Turn one on in Settings and a short question is printed faintly on your page to write against — four templates, each drawn from published research, with the source named so you can judge it for yourself. The prompt is printed on the paper rather than written on it, so it never becomes part of your entry. Entries also remember the page they were written on. Change your paper or page shape and your older entries keep the one they had, along with the prompt you answered — so looking back shows you the page as it was, not as you'd set it up today.

Your streak, on your Home Screen. iReflection now has a widget in every size: the small one shows your current streak and whether today's entry is written, the medium one adds your best streak and your total entries, and the two large sizes lay out the last several weeks so you can see your writing habit at a glance. Tap any of them to go straight to today's page. The widget keeps itself up to date as you write, and rolls over at midnight on its own.

Move through the Calendar by feel. Swipe left and right anywhere on the Calendar tab to page through the months you've written in, with the grid following your finger. Tap the month and year title to open a picker and jump straight to any month in your journal — no more tapping the arrows over and over to reach last spring. The Calendar now spans the month of your first entry through today, so browsing stays inside your own history instead of wandering into months that were never part of your journal.

Daily reminders no longer fire later in the day after you've already finished today's journal entry. Previously, a reminder set for, say, 9 PM would still fire even if you wrote your entry at 3 PM. Today's reminder is now cancelled the moment you save an entry with at least one stroke, and the rolling 7-day reminder schedule rebuilt on app foreground or after a reminder-time change skips today when today's entry is already done. Tomorrow through six days out are scheduled normally so the reminder cadence stays unbroken.

iCloud Backup for your journal — free, optional, and fully local-first. When you enable it in Settings → iCloud Backup, every entry you write is backed up to your iCloud and syncs across every iPad signed into the same Apple ID, with full offline support (writes queue and sync on reconnect). On a new iPad, the app offers to restore your journal on first launch. Disabling backup never touches your local entries. The App Lock PIN remains device-local by design and does not sync.

The App Lock unlock screen now shows an "Enter your PIN" instruction above the keypad, matching the prompt style used on the Set / Change / Disable PIN screens. No functional change to the lock, the PIN, or the throttling policy.

Optional 4-digit PIN to lock the app. When enabled in Settings → App Lock, iReflection asks for the PIN every time you open it or switch back to it, and the multitasking switcher hides your journal behind the lock screen. The PIN is hashed and stored in the iOS Keychain — never synced, never backed up, never sent off-device. After 15 failed attempts, you can erase all journal data and start over (there is no other recovery path).

This release polishes the first-run and notification experience: • Reminder notifications now display the iReflection icon on the Lock Screen and in Notification Center. • The "Start your first entry today" hint fades the moment you touch the canvas with Apple Pencil, instead of lingering on top of your first letter. • The onboarding hint now appears only before your very first entry — once you've written a journal entry, it's gone for good.