• Nearby Events: with DayBoard Plus monthly or yearly (or DayBoard Host), turn on TV Settings › Nearby Events to show what's on near home this week on your TV. Choose the Apple TV's location or a town, how far to look and family-friendly only, and hide anything you'd rather not see. • Plans now says when a TV has Plus Lifetime, which doesn't include Nearby Events, and how to add it. • Needs DayBoard 1.9.7 on Apple TV, or 1.9.8 on iPad.

• Calendar Colours: in Settings › You, change the colour of each calendar, reminder list, subscribed calendar and your imported work events on the TV. • Tap the colour next to your name to change how the TV shows your name. • The Gallery comes first in the TV's album menu. • The Sync DayBoard Automatically shortcut now finishes reliably in the background instead of stopping with an error.

• Two buttons at the top of Home: the note button posts a note to your TV, and the cart button adds to the shopping list. • Settings › Sync Automatically now shows when the background sync shortcut last ran, so you can see it's working. • When two of the shortcut's automations run at once, or DayBoard is already syncing, the shortcut waits for that sync instead of reporting "could not sync right now".

A new look, and DayBoard Companion now runs on iPad. • A fresh home screen: your TV as a big card with its own wallpaper and this week's numbers, a This Week view, and a floating bar for Home, TVs, Calendars and Settings. • On iPad, your TVs and setup sit on the left and the TV you pick opens on the right. • Your iPhone and iPad work together: devices signed into the same Apple Account show on the TV as one person, without doubled events, and TVs you pair on one appear on the other. • Your calendar choices, subscribed calendars and imported work events follow you to your other devices through iCloud. • Saving TV settings now shows when it's saving, when it's waiting for the TV, and when the TV has it. • Nearby This Week shows how far each event is from your place.

Turn On TV Automatically is simpler: add one shortcut and it wakes your Apple TV and opens DayBoard every morning at the time you pick. Change the time or the days in the Shortcuts app. If you added the shortcut from DayBoard 1.9.4, delete it and add it again. Nearby This Week (DayBoard Host): each event shows how far it is from your place. When you search around your own address, DayBoard names your address, and it says when the TV will look again.

A big update for DayBoard Companion. • Turn On TV Automatically: one shortcut wakes your Apple TV and opens DayBoard on the days you choose. Change the days any time in DayBoard. • Host Mode: Nearby This Week shows guests local events; plus Guest Preview, per-stay arrival greetings and instructions, readiness checklists, setup templates and a multi-property overview. • Backups & Restore: each TV's setup is backed up to iCloud, so you can undo a change or set up a replacement Apple TV. • Sync you can see: each TV shows whether it received your latest update, with Send Again, and a setup checklist ticks off each step as it works. • Faster syncing: after the first sync, only new or changed events and reminders are uploaded. • Show any calendar as Busy on the TV. • DayBoard Plus: personalized household views and highlight colors, and daily routines with step timers and stars. • Work Calendar Import: imported work events get their own calendar, and Outlook's tab bar is no longer read as meetings. • A refreshed design with better dark mode and large text. Update DayBoard on your Apple TV too.

Updated App Store screenshots showcase DayBoard's calendars, photo wall, family features and guest experience. This release keeps the app experience you already know.

- DayBoard Plus and DayBoard Host on iPhone: start a free trial right in the app. One plan unlocks every Apple TV paired with your iPhone. - Already a member? The top of the main screen lists everything your plan includes and exactly where to find it. Plans can be shared with your family through Family Sharing. - Chore stars: give each chore 1 to 5 stars. Ticking it off adds to the week's leaderboard, with streaks, on your phone and the TV. - Add to DayBoard from anywhere: ask Siri ("Add to my DayBoard shopping list", "Post a DayBoard note"), or use the new Lock Screen and Control Center control. - New Settings screen: your membership, calendars, sync and the rest of setup, in one place, keeping the main screen to your TVs. - Host Mode, redesigned: a live preview of your guests' welcome screen, a setup checklist, and a simple screen for each part, with suggestions for checkout steps and your house guide. New: directions codes for your favorite places, a house manual link, and a review request on checkout morning. - Shopping List widget: the Family Board's shopping list on your Home Screen. Tick items off in the store and they update on the TV. - Today widget: the day's events at a glance, in your calendars' colors. - A cleaner Family Board editor: quick entry for groceries and notes, and clear Add buttons for countdowns and chores.

- Sync Automatically: add a shortcut that keeps your TV's schedule up to date in the background, without opening DayBoard: when you close Calendar or Reminders, when you plug in your iPhone, and every morning. - Sync DayBoard control: one tap from Control Center, the Lock Screen or the Action button. - Sync Button: a small round Lock Screen widget that shows when DayBoard last synced. - The DayBoard widget's sync button is lighter on iCloud: one upload per tap.

- Host Mode setup for vacation rentals: property, Wi-Fi, check-in and checkout, your booking calendar, guest names, checkout steps, house guide, local favorites and a host PIN. - The Family Board: notes, countdowns, chores, dinners and the shopping list, shown on the TV with DayBoard Plus. - Dashboard View: choose what each TV shows from your phone. - Turn On TV Automatically: pick days and times, and add a shortcut that wakes your Apple TV and opens DayBoard, with the days already set. - Name each TV, so two Apple TVs are easy to tell apart in the list. - Photos from iPhone follows the TV's plan: 12 photos per TV, or 50 with DayBoard Plus. TVs that had DayBoard before 1.9 keep 50.

Keeps DayBoard Companion in step with DayBoard 1.8.2 for Apple TV, which adds Adaptive Lighting and Wall Depth.

• Photos from iPhone: choose up to 50 photos for any paired Apple TV in its TV Settings. They're resized for the TV, stripped of location data and encrypted before upload. • Automatic sync now waits 30 seconds after you open the app, so it's ready to use straight away. • Importing a calendar screenshot works even while a sync is running.

Match My Wall: photograph the wall behind an Apple TV and DayBoard measures its paint colour and surface texture, divides out your room's lighting, and finds any repeating wallpaper pattern — then rebuilds it on the TV so the picture frame looks like it is hanging on your wall. Set a schedule for each TV: the days and hours its dashboard should be up. Find the Apple TVs on your network to confirm which dashboard is which, and adjust the Liquid Glass opacity and typeface from your phone.

Removed the Google Calendar connection. The work calendar screenshot import is more reliable: every meeting block is found and timed from the calendar itself, names the first pass cannot read are re-read at higher magnification, and the date comes from the day view header so meetings land on the day in the screenshot.

Improves multi-TV synchronization and delivery status, expands sync health and calendar controls, and enhances work-calendar screenshot review. The direct Google Calendar connection has been removed for now while private iCloud, subscribed calendar, and screenshot-import options remain available.

Importing a work calendar from a screenshot is far more reliable. Every meeting block on the day is now found and timed from the calendar itself, and any meeting name the first pass cannot read is re-read at higher magnification. The date is taken from the day view header, so imported meetings land on the day shown in the screenshot rather than today. A Copy Diagnostics button reports exactly what was read if a result still looks wrong.

Each calendar now publishes in its own color, so every calendar you turn on stays distinguishable on the dashboard. A shared calendar synced from two phones no longer appears twice. Faster syncing when several Apple TVs are paired, and reminder lists remain individually selectable.

Improves calendar sync coverage, work calendar imports, calendar selection, and sync performance.

Reminder lists are now selectable, just like calendars — choose exactly which lists appear on your dashboard. Fixed reminders failing to reach the TV, which could stop an entire sync from going through, including events imported from a work-calendar screenshot. Sync errors now say what actually went wrong instead of a generic failure.

Maintenance update. Includes reliability and performance fixes.

Improved background calendar and reminder syncing, dashboard pairing, and calendar screenshot import reliability. Includes performance and stability fixes.

Compatibility update for the latest DayBoard dashboard release.

More reliable calendar and reminder syncing to your DayBoard, support for multiple phones in one household, work-calendar scanning with the camera, and duplicate-event cleanup.

Improves dashboard sync reliability and prepares companion syncing for the latest DayBoard TV update.

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