A PATTERN CAN NOW BE GOOD NEWS Until this update every pattern Ember could find was a thing that cost you a worse day. That is not what the research says about fibromyalgia, where movement has the strongest evidence of anything. If your own days show that something left you better the next day, Ember now says so. PATTERNS HAVE TO PASS A TEST BEFORE EMBER CALLS THEM PATTERNS Three days against three used to be enough. It is not. Every pattern now has to clear a significance test and a correction for the other rules being checked beside it, so what you read is what your log can actually support. Expect fewer patterns, and trust the ones that arrive. THINGS TO TICK THAT MIGHT HELP Gentle movement, stretching, strength work, heat, planned rest, time outside, breathing. Ember recommends none of them. They are there so you can test them against your own days, the same way you test anything else. FOOD AND DRINK Gluten, dairy, sugar, processed food, nightshades and large meals, alongside caffeine and alcohol. The evidence for diet in fibromyalgia is thin and mostly about individuals, which is exactly why these are something to tick rather than advice to follow. MOVE A DAY TO THE DAY IT BELONGS TO Filled in Tuesday on Wednesday? Open the day and move it. Your log, your tagged factors and your measurements move together. Weather and step counts stay on their real dates, because that is when they happened. SOMETHING BACK ON THE FIRST DAY, NOT THE FOURTEENTH Ember used to say nothing at all until your fourth log, while a pattern takes about a fortnight to earn. That is a long time to keep turning up for nothing. From your first log it now tells you what it has; from your second it compares today against yesterday; and instead of asking you to wait it says how many days are left before its rules can run. WHEN THERE IS STILL NO PATTERN, THE CARD IS NOT BLANK It tells you true things about your log instead, and says what Ember is missing. HOW MUCH, NOT JUST WHETHER Long-press a factor to rate it 1 to 10 and Ember now reads that rating. It compares your heavier days against your lighter ones, which is the only way it can tell you anything about something you have every day. Gluten, dairy and sugar are daily for plenty of people, and until now that made them the ones Ember could never answer. ALSO - A self-experiment now has to clear the same test as a pattern, so a difference that is really just a noisy fortnight reads as no change - Patterns in your factors are now corrected for how many factors you track, which was the intention before and not the behaviour

PATTERNS CAN NOW START FROM THE QUICK LOG Insights finds a pattern by comparing your pain against something else, and until this update that something had to be hours of sleep, the barometer, your step count or your cycle. Every one of those needs a permission or a second screen. The sleep rating you already give on an ordinary log now counts, so a first pattern can arrive without you doing anything more than you already do. WHEN THERE IS NO PATTERN YET, EMBER SAYS WHY The Patterns card used to tell everybody to wait a few more days. For a lot of people that was not what was missing. If Ember has nothing to compare your pain against, it now says so, and says what to tap. ALSO - Ember no longer retries an upload the server has already refused, which was spending your battery and data on nothing

MEDICATION REMINDERS THAT FIT REAL PRESCRIPTIONS Each medication now has its own times. Three times a day is three times a day, not three medications with the same name. Every day, certain days, every few days for the fortnightly and monthly ones, or only when needed. The reminder names the drug and the dose, and you log the dose from the notification itself, without opening Ember. LOG WITHOUT OPENING THE APP Pain, fatigue and a bad day are now Shortcuts, so they work from the Action button, Control Center, Spotlight and your own automations. The bad day one takes no input at all: on a day when choosing a number is too much, one press records it and your streak holds. PRESSURE, FIVE DAYS AHEAD A strip on Today showing how far the barometer falls over the next few days, with the roughest day named. Falling pressure runs ahead of harder days for a lot of people. GAD-7 AND PHQ-8 Two more standard questionnaires, free, next to FIQR and WPI/SSS. Anxiety and low mood travel with chronic pain and your doctor will ask about both. A CLEARER FIRST WEEK Today opens with one true sentence about your own data from your first log onward, and shows you an example of the forecast you are working towards instead of only promising one. Cards that have nothing to say yet stay out of the way. CHARTS YOU CAN READ Trends draws one symptom at a time, with the others one tap away. The clinical scores are two labelled blocks now, FIQR with its severity bands and WPI and SSS with their totals written out. WPI AND SSS, FRONT AND CENTRE The ACR fibromyalgia criteria check-ins sit at the top of the Brief tab, free, two taps from opening Ember. YOUR SETUP ANSWERS NOW COUNT The pain areas you choose when you first set up Ember appear as one-tap shortcuts on your body map. Before this update that step saved your answer and never used it. Sorry about that. ALSO - Medications you stop are kept, with their history, and can be restarted - Turn weather on from the Today tab, instead of going to Settings - Your dose count for today shows as "2 of 3", not a tick

WPI AND SSS, FRONT AND CENTRE The WPI and SSS check-ins, the ACR fibromyalgia criteria rheumatologists use, now sit at the top of the Brief tab. They are free and two taps from opening Ember. YOUR SETUP ANSWERS NOW COUNT The pain areas you choose when you first set up Ember now appear as one-tap shortcuts on your body map. Before this update that step saved your answer and never used it. Sorry about that. ALSO - Clearer check-in tiles, each with its own icon and a one-line description - The Ember Pro screen now lists only what Pro actually adds - Tidier wording throughout, and values you have not logged show as --

First, an apology. In the previous version the selectable chips did not respond to taps, which broke the factor list, the WPI/SSS check-in, first-run setup and several other screens. It is fixed, and there are now tests that fail if it ever comes back. Thank you to the person who reported it. The rest of this update is about Ember telling you things instead of waiting to be asked. FLARE RADAR Ember learns which of your own triggers run ahead of your hard days, then gives you tomorrow's outlook at 8pm, while there is still time to change it. Runs entirely on your device. EVERY FLARE, WRITTEN UP Open any flare to see how long it ran against your usual, how it built over the three days before it, how long it took to settle, and what you had tagged. Add a note about what helped, so next time you are not starting from memory. WHAT YOUR MEDICATION IS ACTUALLY DOING Each medication has its own page now: how often you have taken it, how your pain compares on days you did and days you did not, and an optional refill count that works off your real dosing rate rather than the label. PACING AND SPOONS Log your energy in one tap. If today is running far busier than your usual, and busy days have cost you before, Ember says so while the day can still be salvaged. BODY SIGNAL HRV, resting heart rate and steps from Apple Health, shown next to your own 30-day usual instead of a population average. ASK EMBER 19 questions about your own logs, answered instantly and offline. No typing, no chatbot, no invented numbers. Ember says "not enough data yet" rather than guessing. APPOINTMENT MODE Prepare, present, then record. Ember drafts your questions from the last 30 days, shows your key numbers in type your clinician can read across a desk, and captures what changed before you forget it. SHARE YOUR LAST 30 DAYS A one-page PDF built on your device, with no AI and no internet: your numbers, your regions, your medication and the patterns Ember has observed. GOALS AND YOUR OWN MEASUREMENTS Aim at one small thing and Ember counts the days you managed it. A day you were too unwell to log does not count against you. Track anything with a number beside it: water, weight, blood pressure. EXPERIMENTS Drop one factor for two weeks and Ember compares that stretch with the one before it, sample size and confounders included. UNDERSTANDING FIBRO 15 two-minute reads on pain science, pacing, sleep, weather, cycle and being heard at appointments. The one that matches what you have logged is offered first. ALSO NEW - Home and Lock Screen widgets - An Apple Watch app for two-tap logging - A morning check-in for stiffness, alongside the evening one - Text now follows your iPhone's text size setting - Today is reorganised: everything you tap first, everything Ember tells you second FIXED - Selectable chips ignored taps, on nine screens including the WPI/SSS check-in and first-run setup - Sleep quality was shaded as though a bad night were a good day - Scrolling over a rating band no longer changes what you already logged - The pain calendar was missing two of its weekday columns - Revisiting a day now shows the factors, mood, sleep and pain type you logged on it, not just pain - A medication streak no longer drops to zero each morning before you take the dose - Tap a medication for its page, or Log for today's dose. The two are no longer the same tap. - Long goal and measurement lists no longer bury the rest of Today - The plan you are buying states its price and trial on the button itself - Dismissed tab guides can be brought back from Settings - You can now erase everything you have logged, from Settings, in one place - A new install no longer offers to catch up days from before you installed Ember

First, an apology. In the previous version the selectable chips did not respond to taps, which broke the factor list, the WPI/SSS check-in, first-run setup and several other screens. It is fixed, and there are now tests that fail if it ever comes back. Thank you to the person who reported it. The rest of this update is about Ember telling you things instead of waiting to be asked. Flare Radar Ember learns which of your own triggers run ahead of your hard days, then gives you tomorrow's outlook at 8pm, while there is still time to change it. Runs entirely on your device. Pacing and spoons Log your energy in one tap. If today is running far busier than your usual, and busy days have cost you before, Ember says so while the day can still be salvaged. Body signal HRV, resting heart rate and steps from Apple Health, shown next to your own 30-day usual instead of a population average. Ask Ember 19 questions about your own logs, answered instantly and offline. No typing, no chatbot, no invented numbers. Ember says "not enough data yet" rather than guessing. Appointment mode Prepare, present, then record. Ember drafts your questions from the last 30 days, shows your key numbers in type your clinician can read across a desk, and captures what changed before you forget it. Experiments Drop one factor for two weeks and Ember compares that stretch with the one before it, sample size and confounders included. Understanding fibro 15 two-minute reads on pain science, pacing, sleep, weather, cycle and being heard at appointments. The one that matches what you have logged is offered first. Also new - Home and Lock Screen widgets - Morning check-in for stiffness, alongside the evening one - An Apple Watch app for two-tap logging - Today is reorganised: everything you tap first, everything Ember tells you second Fixed - Selectable chips ignored taps, on nine screens including the WPI/SSS check-in and first-run setup - Scrolling over a rating band no longer changes what you already logged - The pain calendar was missing two of its weekday columns - Revisiting a day now shows the factors, mood, sleep and pain type you logged on it, not just pain - A new install no longer offers to catch up days from before you installed Ember

Ember now tells you things instead of waiting to be asked. Flare Radar Ember learns which of your own triggers run ahead of your hard days, then gives you tomorrow's outlook at 8pm, while there is still time to change it. Runs entirely on your device. Pacing and spoons Log your energy in one tap. If today is running far busier than your usual, and busy days have cost you before, Ember says so while the day can still be salvaged. Body signal HRV, resting heart rate and steps from Apple Health, shown next to your own 30-day usual instead of a population average. Ask Ember 19 questions about your own logs, answered instantly and offline. No typing, no chatbot, no invented numbers. Ember says "not enough data yet" rather than guessing. Appointment mode Prepare, present, then record. Ember drafts your questions from the last 30 days, shows your key numbers in type your clinician can read across a desk, and captures what changed before you forget it. Experiments Drop one factor for two weeks and Ember compares that stretch with the one before it, sample size and confounders included. Understanding fibro 15 two-minute reads on pain science, pacing, sleep, weather, cycle and being heard at appointments. The one that matches what you have logged is offered first. Also new - Home and Lock Screen widgets - Morning check-in for stiffness, alongside the evening one - An Apple Watch app for two-tap logging - Today is reorganised: everything you tap first, everything Ember tells you second Fixed - Scrolling over a rating band no longer changes what you logged - The pain calendar was missing two weekday columns