Fair play on SHIFT: this update adds new protections for daily leaderboards and trophies, a clear one-time notice, and updated privacy and fair-play information. Potentially coordinated attempts are reviewed manually; results are never removed automatically.

This maintenance release updates SHIFT’s support and privacy information.

Meet the Sunday Six. Every Sunday, SHIFT turns the difficulty all the way up: six moves, zero mercy and no room for a wrong step. Complete the hardest puzzle of the week and you’re officially playing with the pros. Also in this update: • Thousands more valid five-letter words are recognised, including plurals and other obvious everyday words. • Future puzzles have been carefully re-audited so their stated minimum solutions remain accurate with the expanded word list. • The Trophy Cabinet now keeps Recent Wins focused on your latest three victories. • Reliability and polish improvements across the game. Good luck with the Six. You’ll need it.

The votes are in — and your thumbs have spoken. Submit now lives on the left and Delete on the right, as chosen by 56.1% of players in our keyboard poll. You’ll see the result in-app, then it’s straight back to shifting. Also in this update: • More valid five-letter words are accepted. • Leaderboard rankings and Champion times are sharper and more precise. • Notifications are more reliable, helping you stay on top of daily puzzles, leaderboard moves and new trophies. • Leagues, results, account recovery and puzzle screens have received another round of thoughtful polish. • Performance and reliability improvements throughout the game. Thanks to everyone who voted, suggested words and helped shape SHIFT. Thumb democracy works. Apparently.

This update makes SHIFT feel sharper, fairer and a little more opinionated: • A refreshed in-game keyboard makes entering moves faster and more reliable. • Help us settle the great Delete-button debate with a one-time in-app vote. • More valid five-letter words are now accepted. • Leaderboard rankings and Champion times are more precise. • Notifications, leagues, results and puzzle screens have received another round of polish. Thanks for playing SHIFT — and choose your side wisely. Apparently button placement is serious business.

What’s New in Version 1.5.1: • Leaderboards now rank tied scores consistently using exact solve times down to the millisecond. • Corrected daily Champion selection and trophy allocation. • Improved leaderboard refresh and result consistency across daily, weekly, monthly and private league views. • General interface, keyboard, notification and reliability improvements.

What’s New in Version 1.5.0: • Introducing a custom SHIFT keyboard for faster, more focused gameplay. • Improved gameplay layouts across different screen sizes. • Refined result screens, buttons and visual alignment. • Improved notification reliability and settings. • Fixed account recovery email validation. • General interface polish and reliability improvements.

This update improves notifications, account recovery, results screens, leaderboards and UI consistency throughout SHIFT, alongside general reliability fixes.

What’s New • Cleaner leaderboard averages — global and league rankings now only show decimal places for solve times under one minute. • Fixed an issue where the Progress Protected account sheet could appear clipped or partially hidden in Settings. • Expanded the accepted word list with more common five-letter words, including everyday plurals and word forms reported by players. • Improved word validation consistency across Daily puzzles, Puzzle Vault, and backend scoring.

This update includes a few fixes, refinements, and new accepted words: Fixed an issue where the Progress Protected pop-up could appear partially hidden in Settings. Improved the reliability of the account protection flow when managing recovery email settings. Added more accepted words: bangs, bongs, shuts, spork, and stile. Polished weekly and monthly leaderboards so average solve times now show decimal precision, making close rankings easier to compare. Plus a few small stability and consistency improvements across the app.

Global Leaderboards now celebrate recent winners, with new banners for Yesterday’s Champion, Last Week’s Champion, and Last Month’s Champion. These match the League champion banners, making it easier to spot who’s currently setting the pace across SHIFT.

What’s New Fixed an iOS issue where the keyboard could stay open and cover popups during the Daily Puzzle, including the I’m Stuck prompt. Popups now appear cleanly when needed, with smoother keyboard handling across the puzzle experience.

This update polishes the league and path experiences: - League pages now keep the league name, member count, champion card, and ranking notes fixed while member leaderboard cards scroll separately. - League invite codes now open from the share button as a centered pop-up instead of taking up space on the league page. - League headers now stay the same size across Today, This Week, and This Month. - Path and Best Path sheets have more comfortable top spacing.

This update makes finishing a SHIFT puzzle feel better. The completion screen now reacts to how well you played, with sharper result messages, smoother animations, a cleaner Best Path badge, and more polished stats when your score appears. Sharing your result, checking the leaderboard, reviewing your path, and heading home should all feel clearer and more satisfying too. We’ve also fixed a keyboard issue where pop-ups could appear in the wrong place during gameplay, improved leaderboard notifications so they’re easier to read at a glance, and made a handful of minor UI fixes across the app. Same clean SHIFT feel — just with a better payoff when you nail the solve.

What’s New League screens are now cleaner and easier to scan. Leaderboards appear higher on the page, and champion highlights now match the selected tab, so Today, This Week, and This Month each show the most relevant winner.

Leagues are now free for everyone! Create a private league, invite friends, and compete together on the daily SHIFT puzzle. League screens now include recent champions for yesterday, last week, and last month, plus improved invite sharing. This update also refreshes the How to Play flow, adds a Practice Puzzle, improves trophy and sharing visuals, expands the accepted words list, and includes polish across leaderboards, notifications, and Puzzle Vault.

What's New Private Leagues are now free. Create a league, invite friends, share your league code, and compete on private daily, weekly, and monthly leaderboards — without needing SHIFT+. SHIFT+ now gives you more ways to play, with Puzzle Packs and the Daily Archive. We’ve also rebuilt How to Play with a clearer tutorial, better examples, a new practice puzzle, improved league invite sharing, leave/delete league options, and plenty of visual polish throughout the app.

Fixed an issue where the keyboard could dismiss immediately when entering an email for progress protection. Progress protection setup should now feel smoother and more reliable.

This update fixes an issue that prevented some users from submitting an email address for progress protection. We’ve also made a few small UI improvements to keep things running smoothly.

This update helps keep your SHIFT progress safer and makes the game clearer and smoother to play. You can now add and verify an email address to protect your progress. If you ever change or lose your phone, you’ll be able to restore your username, scores and trophies using a secure six-digit code. We’ve also improved the How to Play guide with a clearer explanation of daily starting scores, move penalties and five-second time deductions. This version includes cleaner end-of-game screens, larger buttons, improved spacing across iPhone sizes, clearer weekly and monthly leaderboard rankings, optional alerts when you lose the #1 spot, and an expanded accepted-word list.

This update tightens up leaderboards, results, and daily attempt handling. Leaderboard rankings now use moves first, then solve time, then fewest guesses. Exact ties now share the same rank. Champion trophy rankings now include clearer guidance on how players are ordered. Offline handling has been improved so completed attempts can be saved and submitted when connection returns. Result and leaderboard screens have had another polish pass for better spacing, safer layouts, and clearer messaging.

This update brings clearer leaderboards, smoother notifications, and a better gameplay experience. We’ve added a compact information section above leaderboard entries, making it easier to understand how rankings work across both global and league leaderboards. The accepted word list has also been expanded with more valid 5-letter words, helping reduce frustrating rejections during play. We’ve improved text layout across Settings, Notifications, and the Trophy Cabinet for a cleaner, more consistent look. Leaderboard alerts are now grouped together too, so if you lose #1 in multiple places at once, SHIFT will send one clear notification instead of several separate alerts.

This update adds a new Notifications screen with separate controls for Daily Puzzle Reminders, Leaderboard Alerts, and Badge Alerts. Leaderboard Alerts can now let you know when someone knocks you off #1, and Badge Alerts can notify you when you earn a Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Champion trophy. Also in this release: League leaderboards now show the same stats as global leaderboards. Leaderboard tie ordering is more consistent and reliable. Trophy share cards are cleaner, larger, and easier to read. How to Play now includes the Trophy Cabinet. Word entry guidance now makes it clearer that rude or inappropriate words are not accepted. Small fixes and polish across trophies, leaderboards, reminders, and results.

Champion trophies are here. Earn Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Champion trophies for finishing #1 on global leaderboards. View your trophies in the new Trophy Cabinet. See top trophy winners on the new Champions leaderboard. Share trophy wins with a new SHIFT share card. Leaderboards now show subtle trophy counts for players. Visual polish, copy updates, and performance improvements across the app.

New in this version: • Added a new This Month leaderboard, replacing All Time with a fresh calendar-month ranking. • Improved leaderboard clarity: if your score sits outside the top 10, your personal position now appears under a clear Your Rank divider. • Added a small trophy icon for the #1 player across global and league leaderboards. • Fixed a visual issue where the iOS scroll indicator could appear as a white bar on scrollable screens, including the leaderboard.