Menus, the pause screen and the end-of-run report now read out properly with VoiceOver.

After a new best depth, the game may occasionally ask if you'd like to rate it. It asks rarely and stops for good after a couple of times. If you enjoy Blind Drop, a rating really helps other players find it.

Small update so the game opens straight from App Store event links.

This update fills the trench with things that move, adds sound, and changes how the walls look. The sliding spikes are gone. In their place are deep-sea creatures. Eels lunge out of burrows in the walls, jellyfish drift through the open water, and further down there are anglerfish and long siphonophore chains hanging off the rock. Sonar works differently on them than on the walls: a ping shows where a creature was at the moment the wave reached it, and the creature keeps moving after that. The only way to see one move is in your probe's own light. Ping an eel up close and it flinches back into its burrow for a moment. Ping an anglerfish up close and it strikes. The anglerfish's lure glows in the dark on its own, and it looks a lot like a battery cache. The game has sound now. Every ping makes a tone, and each wall, spike, cache or creature the wave reaches answers with a click at the moment it lights up, from the side it's on, so you can hear a wall coming before you see it. There's a low ambient hum that gets heavier as you go deeper, and the probe crackles when the battery is nearly empty. Sound follows the silent switch, plays alongside your own music, and can be turned off from the main menu or the pause screen. A few other changes: - There's a sound switch on the main menu, and a small pause button in the top-right corner during a run. From the pause screen you can turn sound off, or leave the run and go back to the menu (a run you leave isn't recorded). - Spikes are now part of the rock instead of separate triangles stuck to the walls, and come in a few shapes: jagged crags, clusters of teeth and overhanging ledges. Pillars are now rough rock columns. - The short ping now travels with the probe, so the lit area stays around you as you fall. The long ping still stays where you sent it. - The trench is split into four depth zones (twilight, midnight, abyssal and hadal), each marked by a band across the shaft. The rock looks different in each one, and so do the creatures you meet. - Long pings faintly light the far walls of the shaft behind the trench, and every so often something lying back there: a wreck, a whale skeleton, a vent field, an old probe. - Particles drift past the probe's light, which makes it easier to feel how fast you're falling. The view follows the probe a little to the side, and the probe tilts and leaves bubbles when you steer. - Slipping past an obstacle without touching it gives a small glint and a light tap. Hitting something throws off chips of rock and leaves a crack that later pings will show. - When the battery runs out, the last sonar picture freezes and the screen cracks before the end-of-run screen appears. - The game is lighter to draw: parts of the trench that are off screen are no longer redrawn every frame. If something looks or sounds wrong after updating, I'd appreciate hearing about it.

This update changes how the sonar works and removes the on-screen interface. The ping used to be centred on wherever you tapped: a soft circle widened out from your fingertip and faded after a second and a half. Now the pulse comes from the probe itself. A tap sends out a wave that travels down the shaft and lights up walls, spikes and caches as it reaches them. They stay lit for a couple of seconds and dim out gradually, so you're always working from a slightly out-of-date picture of the trench. If you hold your finger down for about a quarter of a second instead of tapping, the wave goes much further (roughly the full height of the screen) and costs about three times as much battery. Since there's no battery bar anymore, the probe itself shows how much power is left. It's a bright lamp at full charge and gets dimmer as the battery runs down. Below 20% it starts flickering and throwing sparks, which is your cue to find a cache quickly. The depth readout is also gone from the corner of the screen. Depth markers are now carved into the trench walls every 100 metres, and you see them whenever a ping passes over them. A few other changes: - Caches you've already pinged leave a dim outline behind, so you can still tell where one is after the glow has faded. There are no caches in the first 250 metres, since you start with a full battery anyway. - Walls are drawn as layered contour lines instead of solid shapes. Spikes are more angular, and pillars are taller and take longer to get past. - Running into something now shakes the screen and distorts the picture for a moment, on top of the battery penalty. - The end-of-run screen shows your depth and best depth, how long the run lasted, and how many caches, impacts and pings it had. - You can switch between the green, amber and blue colour schemes from the main menu. The game remembers which one you picked. - A few diagnostic readouts (descent speed, time since your last ping, battery percentage) sit in small text along the bottom edge. They're deliberately faint. If something looks wrong after updating, I'd appreciate hearing about it.