A refreshed alarm screen and a clearer view of your morning. • A redesigned ringing screen with a larger clock, animated dawnr, and easy-to-reach scan control. • Compact Live Activities with the dawnr visual and a clear timer on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. • Accessibility refinements, including reduced-motion support and clearer spoken timer information.

Refreshed onboarding and settings, with improvements to nap alarms. • Nap alarms now arm before app lockdown starts, with clearer feedback if arming fails. • Improved nap recovery and dawnr-tap dismissal. • Saved app selections stay in place when managing alarms.

Three things that were quietly wrong are now right. • The alarm escalates the way it was always meant to. A second layer of sound now genuinely stacks on top of the alarm and keeps climbing until you're up. It had been silent. • Starting a break lands you on the break screen instantly, with the time left and one button to end it early. No more waiting or reopening the app. • Breaks and timed focus blocks now end exactly when you set them to, even if Dawnr was in the background the whole time.

Your morning and your breaks now live on the Tap screen. • The distraction-free morning is no longer a separate screen. It runs on Tap, with the countdown in front of you and your blocked apps right there. • Breaks are unmistakable. Open Dawnr during one and you land on a break screen with the time left and a single button to end it early. • New break-length picker: drag the slider up to 15 minutes and watch it run green to red. Longer breaks should look like what they cost you. • Taking a break from a focus session now waits like every other break does. The Break button was skipping the wait — that was a bug, not a shortcut. • AM and PM now carry their own colours when you set an alarm, so you can see at a glance which half of the day you picked. • Naps can start during a focus session. • Faster throughout: switching tabs is instant and keeps your place, and the app does far less work in the background.

Bug fixes and improvements. • Permission prompts now go straight to the system request. • Founder Edition welcome updated.

Breaks got easier. Unblocking got harder. • Taking a break no longer needs your dawnr — sit through the wait, pick how long, and your apps open. • Removing a blocked app now takes a walk to your dawnr. Loosening your blocks is the choice that actually costs you tomorrow morning, so that's what the puck guards. • Ending a session still takes a tap, and adding a block is still instant. • Fixed: while a lock-in was running, the session bar could sit on top of an alarm in your list and make both hard to read.

Change one morning without changing your schedule. • Drag the big alarm time up or down to move just the next morning — your recurring alarm stays exactly as it is. • New "This week": the next 7 mornings as they'll actually ring. Tap any day to re-time it or skip it. • Picking what to block is easier — a guided picker plus suggestions, instead of hunting through every app. • A cleaner lock screen when you open a blocked app, with a Close button that works. • Fixed: the blocked-app list could collapse every app into one.

A louder, harder-to-ignore alarm. • The alarm now forces your volume to maximum when it fires — turning it down no longer sticks. • Louder wake-ups: the wake sounds now stack on top of the alarm at full volume instead of quieting it. • A cleaner, more consistent look: one type system across every screen.

A cleaner, more reliable Dawnr. • New: when you take a break, the Tap screen now shows it — your dawnr with a live countdown and an "End break" button to lock back in early. • Redesigned Settings — tighter, clearer, everything where you'd expect it. • More reliable wake-ups: a quick double-tap to dismiss can no longer leave the alarm ringing, and morning app-locks hold right up to the alarm. • The alarm now plays through the speaker even with AirPods or a Bluetooth speaker connected. • On iPhones before iOS 26, wake-up alerts keep pinging for the full 15 minutes.

Your pre-blocked distraction list is back — Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and 30+ more lock from the moment you install, no setup required. • Heads up: those pre-blocked apps hide from your Home Screen while a lockdown is running, and come back when it ends. Apps you pick yourself stay in place and grey out instead. • Find them under "Pre-blocked distractions" in your blocked apps — remove any one and its icon returns right away. • Your apps lock an hour before your alarm. That wake window now shows a countdown and a Live Activity, and you can take a break or tap your dawnr to unlock it early. • The alarm now plays through the speaker even when AirPods or a Bluetooth speaker are connected. • On iPhones before iOS 26, wake-up alerts now keep pinging for the full 15 minutes. • Fixed: a focus block started from a suggestion can now be seen and stopped.

Louder, more relentless mornings — and your Home Screen stays yours. • The alarm now re-rings for a full 30 minutes until you tap your dawnr — stopping it only buys a moment of quiet. • Fixed: locked apps could disappear from the Home Screen and lose their placement. Apps now stay exactly where you put them — locked in place instead of hidden. • If apps went missing on an earlier version, this update restores them automatically on first launch. • New louder default alarm tone (change it anytime in alarm settings).

Dawnr now supports iOS 18 — older iPhones (like XS and XR) can join the morning. • Fixed a rare case where app icons stayed hidden from the Home Screen after a lockdown ended. • New in Settings → Protection: "Apps missing from your Home Screen?" brings hidden icons back instantly. • On iPhones before iOS 26, wake-ups ring as repeated alerts — keep your ringer on for sound.

A few fixes from early feedback: • "Take a break" now always lets you choose how long — no more instant breaks. • Ending a session shows the buttons in the right order. • Your blocked-apps list stays compact, so suggestions are easy to reach.

Small polish this release: • After a few mornings won, Dawnr may ask once how it's going — a quick tap, no nagging. • Reliability and stability fixes under the hood.

Dawnr 1.0.1 — wake-up missions and a calmer morning. • Missions: stop your alarm by proving you're up — retype a line, shake awake, or walk your first steps. Dawnr Pro adds Pantry Scan and QR Anchor: register a barcode or printed code across the room and scan it to end the morning. • One consistent wait screen everywhere — and when the timer ends, taking a break is always the easy choice. • Smarter Sleep Score with fairer consistency math for late-night schedules. • Privacy hardening, faster mornings, and a long list of small fixes and polish.