Home is one page about today. At the top, the person you are with: how they are, what time it is where they are, and one thing worth doing about it, all on one card instead of three. Under it, what Pulse noticed, capped at two cards so the page cannot fill up again, and one ritual at a time. Everything you might reach for is now in one place. The wordless gestures, asking for something, and the thing you have not said yet. Some things are hard to say out loud. Unsaid is where you write one down for yourself first. It stays on your phone, private, for as long as you want. Later you can mark it ready to talk about, share it, or let it go. Most of what goes there is meant to stay there. Our Notes is a page the two of you write in together: the trip you are planning, the things the flat still needs. A mood can stay yours. Set one privately and nothing goes out, rather than something else going out in its place. And an evening reflection now travels in your own words. Four tabs: Home, Together, Chat and You. Together is your shared life, You is yours alone. Deleting your account now works in every language Pulse speaks. It did not before, and that was not acceptable. Two fixes worth naming. Pulse could decide a connection had ended when it had not. It watches for your partner's shared space, and a short gap where that space did not answer was enough. Ending it on this phone then removed what the other phone was watching for, so both of you could be disconnected within a minute, neither having asked. That now takes a full week of genuine silence, and anything the app cannot determine is no longer counted at all. And when the local database would not open, Pulse quietly kept everything in memory instead, so a restore appeared to work and was gone by the next launch. It now recovers onto real storage, and says so when it cannot.

Pulse now closes the loop. The morning after a cue about you crossed, Pulse asks you one question: did how they showed up help? One tap, four honest answers. Your partner sees only that, as one line the next morning, and it is what teaches Pulse which gestures actually land for the two of you. A suggestion that keeps not landing retires on its own; a partner who says space helps gets space offered first. The cue is the point of the app, so it now leads Home: right after anything your partner asked you for, above reactions and nudges. Know Us sits beside it, and the lists moved down. Home's header is the same bar every other screen has now, so nothing sits in a dark band at the top. If you are in different time zones, you can share your local time. Only the time zone crosses, never your location, and it stays off until you turn it on. And Pulse is built for the newest iPhone and Apple Watch software.

The watch app is new. Answer your messages from your wrist, with a quick reply or your voice. Tick things off the shared shopping list while you are still standing in the shop. Check in on your mood and your social battery, see what is coming up, and read back through your story. Complications, too, for the first time: how you are and how they are, right there on your watch face.

A small round of visual polish, including a couple of glass surfaces that now sit fully transparent like the rest of the app, plus stability improvements.

Know Us is the heart of this one. Write down what you love, what actually helps on a hard day, and what's better left alone. Your partner reads it in your own words, and Pulse leans on it so a nudge sounds like you instead of like an app. Nothing in there is ever guessed. There's a shared watchlist now, for the films, series, books and music you two keep meaning to get to. The shopping list grew up as well: clothes, beauty, health and tech have their own place, you can read the list in whatever order suits you, and pasting a product link shows the picture, so your partner knows exactly what you meant. Home opens with a quiet hello and a line about how their day is going, and everything you share sits one tap from their circle in the corner. A wordless gesture now leaves a small mark in the thread instead of a bubble. On iOS 26 the whole app picked up the new glass, so what passes behind a bar stays visible through it. And Pulse has spoken Arabic and Russian for a while, so the App Store finally says so too.

Cycle tracking goes further now, and it's entirely your choice how far. Log your period day by day right in Pulse, flow and symptoms included, instead of relying only on an Apple Watch, and it stays just as accurate without one. Want your partner to actually know instead of just sensing a gentler week? Turn on sharing your period and cycle calendar. They'll see your real phase, period days and predicted days on their own device, only if you turn it on. Turning it off clears their calendar right away, and whatever you log always stays on your device regardless. Logged days can sync back to Apple Health too, if you already use Sync from Apple Health for your cycle.

Fixed the chat opening blank, and going blank when the keyboard appears, with no way back until you touched the screen. The thread could end up at a position where it had nothing left to measure itself against, and once there, every mechanism meant to bring it back read the situation as "you scrolled away on purpose" and stood down. It now tells the difference between you going to read something and the layout losing its place.

Fixed the tab bar staying hidden after visiting the calendar and other pages, which also left their links unresponsive until you restarted the app. Notifications inside the app now take you to the right place when you tap them, and the panel marks everything read when you close it instead of asking for a tap on every row. Messages announced by a push no longer go missing from the in-app notification list. And if you keep notifications turned off for Pulse, that list now still collects what happened, so there is always one place to catch up. Fixed animations and the bottom tab bar feeling sluggish around Home. The bigger fix under that one: on a chat with real history behind it, the app was doing a third of a second of work every second and a half, which is what made animations stutter and made messages sit there before sending. That work now takes under a millisecond. Sending is steadier too. When iCloud asks Pulse to slow down, it now waits properly instead of pushing harder and making it worse, and a message that has to wait says so honestly instead of blaming your connection. Also fixed a background backup that had been quietly retrying the same failed upload over and over on accounts signed in on more than one device, which was stealing bandwidth from the things you were actually waiting for.

Pulse now works whether or not you wear an Apple Watch. No Watch? Just tell Pulse how you feel and it shares that with your partner, same as before. Ask for something. Say you'd like affection, a hug, a proper talk or some time together, instead of hoping it gets guessed. The notification never says what you asked for, so a lock screen stays private. A shared calendar. Plan things together, and let Pulse copy them into a calendar you already use on your phone, including a Google one. Insights got a lot more useful. Your sleep, heart and activity over time against what is normal for you, patterns Pulse has actually found in your own history, and how the two of you connect through the week. Where there is not enough data yet, it now shows you how close it is instead of just staying quiet. Send a photo straight into chat from the camera, and crop it properly. Drag the frame wherever you want it, and thumbnails finally keep the shape you chose. All your Pulse notifications in one place inside the app. Home is calmer. Things that need you are grouped and ranked instead of piling up, and everything the two of you share is one tap from the top of the screen. Fixed a reaction from your partner sending you the same notification over and over. Fixed a rare crash on launch. Messages now appear faster when you open the chat from a notification.

You can now copy, translate, or pin any message with a long press. Fixed the chat opening blank when you tapped a notification, and while you were typing a longer message. Fixed reactions on a message never actually letting your partner know you'd reacted.

You can now lock Pulse behind Face ID. Turn it on in Privacy & Safety, and your chat, your story and your readings stay yours when you hand your phone to someone. A broken heart joins the quick gestures. Tap it to send it quietly. Hold it, and the screen breaks for both of you. A kiss landing and the shower of hearts each have a sound of their own now. You can turn effect sounds off in Settings. Nearby date ideas show where they actually are, and you can open the full place details, photos included, before you suggest anything. Fixed the chat opening partway up the conversation instead of at your newest message, and a blank chat when the last thing either of you sent was a GIF. Photos and GIFs no longer slide over the title at the top of the screen.

You can now lock Pulse behind Face ID. Turn it on in Privacy & Safety, and your chat, your story and your readings stay yours when you hand your phone to someone. A broken heart joins the quick gestures. Tap it to send it quietly. Hold it, and the screen breaks for both of you. A kiss landing and the shower of hearts each have a sound of their own now. You can turn effect sounds off in Settings. Nearby date ideas show where they actually are, and you can open the full place details, photos included, before you suggest anything. Fixed the chat opening partway up the conversation instead of at your newest message, and a blank chat when the last thing either of you sent was a GIF. Photos and GIFs no longer slide over the title at the top of the screen.

A shared shopping list joins the Together tab. Add something you need, and your partner can approve, ignore, or mark it bought, right from chat or its own page. Plan a date now has its own page, suggesting real nearby spots pulled from your actual location instead of a fixed list. Tap a photo in Our Story to see it full size, without leaving Home. Daily reflection answers are now end to end encrypted, the same as your chat. Fixed a crash some people hit opening the shopping list or Plan a date, a blank chat after tapping a notification, and a few smaller navigation glitches.

Hold the heart and it now really reaches your partner. A ring fills as you hold, and once it closes they'll feel it whenever they next open your chat. If you both happen to be holding at the same moment, you'll still feel each other live. Your chat opens straight onto your messages and stays there. It used to go blank, or drift somewhere you couldn't scroll back from, whenever the thread resized underneath you. Opening it also clears the notifications you've just read rather than leaving them stacked up, and a rare crash that could happen right as it opened is fixed too. The quiet ways to reach out now say what they do. Send one and you'll see, in a line underneath, exactly what your partner will experience: no message, no alert, just something warm waiting for them. You can react to a moment in Our Story and leave a comment on it now, the same way you would in your chat. The Apple Watch no longer invents a reading when there isn't one, shows your recent messages, and setting your mood from your wrist actually sets it. And if there's no reading yet, Pulse tells you why instead of only saying it's still getting to know you. You can see exactly what it can read from Apple Health, and change what it's allowed to read whenever you like. Sending love now rains hearts and balloons across the screen — for both of you, whoever sent it. An unusual signal Pulse flags no longer disappears the moment you dismiss its notification. It stays right on your Home screen until you've reviewed it, and you can turn these prompts off entirely from Notification settings if you'd rather not be asked. You can now send a photo in chat, end-to-end encrypted the same way as everything else you send. Picking a photo now lets you move and scale it into frame before it sends, instead of going straight out. Fixed a bug where a sent photo could show up as a plain text bubble instead of the photo after reopening the app. Fixed your chat opening in the middle of a long conversation instead of at your newest message, and the jump-to-latest button not reliably working.

Hold the heart and it now really reaches your partner. A ring fills as you hold, and once it closes they'll feel it whenever they next open your chat. If you both happen to be holding at the same moment, you'll still feel each other live. Your chat opens straight onto your messages and stays there. It used to go blank, or drift somewhere you couldn't scroll back from, whenever the thread resized underneath you. Opening it also clears the notifications you've just read rather than leaving them stacked up, and a rare crash that could happen right as it opened is fixed too. The quiet ways to reach out now say what they do. Send one and you'll see, in a line underneath, exactly what your partner will experience: no message, no alert, just something warm waiting for them. You can react to a moment in Our Story and leave a comment on it now, the same way you would in your chat. The Apple Watch no longer invents a reading when there isn't one, shows your recent messages, and setting your mood from your wrist actually sets it. And if there's no reading yet, Pulse tells you why instead of only saying it's still getting to know you. You can see exactly what it can read from Apple Health, and change what it's allowed to read whenever you like.

Hold the heart and it now really reaches your partner. A ring fills as you hold, and once it closes they'll feel it whenever they next open your chat. If you both happen to be holding at the same moment, you'll still feel each other live. Your chat opens straight onto your messages and stays there. It used to go blank, or drift somewhere you couldn't scroll back from, whenever the thread resized underneath you. Opening it also clears the notifications you've just read rather than leaving them stacked up. The quiet ways to reach out now say what they do. Send one and you'll see, in a line underneath, exactly what your partner will experience: no message, no alert, just something warm waiting for them. You can react to a moment in Our Story and leave a comment on it now, the same way you would in your chat. The Apple Watch no longer invents a reading when there isn't one, shows your recent messages, and setting your mood from your wrist actually sets it. And if there's no reading yet, Pulse tells you why instead of only saying it's still getting to know you. You can see exactly what it can read from Apple Health, and change what it's allowed to read whenever you like.

Your daily reading now shows up right away, built from the history Apple Health already has, instead of asking you to wait a week for it. It keeps getting more accurate as the days go by. Your partner also hears from you on the days that matter most now. The gentler readings, the ones about a heavier or more tiring day, were quietly being held back before. And the wordless ways to reach out finally land properly on your partner's phone. A quiet "I'm here", an "I miss you", a little tap, or holding the heart together: they show up now, right when you send them.

Pairing with your partner is much faster and more reliable now, connections no longer drop and reconnect on their own right after you pair. Apple Watch got real attention this round: your partner's mood, messages, and gentle nudges actually reach your wrist now, and you can glance at your recent messages right there too. Also fixed a chat scrolling hiccup, and cleaned up how Health permissions are requested so you're only asked once.

Chat is noticeably faster now, especially with a long history, and messages arrive right away instead of lagging behind their notification. Also new: quiet, wordless ways to feel close without saying anything. A quick "I'm here" from the chat, a real-time "I miss you", and a live heart you can hold together the moment you're both in the app at once. Onboarding also got a cleaner, more accurate walk-through of what Pulse actually does.

This update smooths out a few rough edges behind the scenes. Chat should feel a touch snappier, especially when the keyboard is coming up or going down. We also started automatically catching and learning from crashes, so issues get found and fixed faster.

This update makes the little gestures land right on both sides. When you send a hug, a kiss, or a quick tap, your partner now sees exactly which one it was, and a kiss still lands with its full animation for them too. Setting your mood from anywhere on Home now always opens the same full check-in, with your social battery and a few gentle ideas included every time.

This update keeps your check-in and your social battery close at hand. Setting your mood now opens the full daily check-in, so in one place you can share how you feel, set your social battery, and find a few gentle ideas for the day. And the battery level you choose now shows right on your Home and Insights cards, so what you shared is always easy to see and to change.

This update makes Pulse quicker and the chat calmer. Your conversation now opens straight to the latest messages instead of coming up blank until you scroll. Replying while you're reading older messages drops you back to the newest one, and you can tap a quoted reply to jump right to the message it answered. The reaction bar is steadier too, so it stays put long enough to actually pick an emoji. We also gave the Dynamic Island moment a warmer, simpler look with an easy way to dismiss it, and smoothed out a background slowdown that had been holding things up, including your notifications. And text now follows your preferred size for easier reading.

This update is all about making the chat feel calmer. Your unread count stays honest now, so it no longer climbs while you're reading a conversation. GIFs send more reliably, even the big lively ones, and you can finally react to a GIF or reply to it just like any other message. We also fixed a moment where a notification could arrive with no message behind it, and smoothed out opening the chat and the keyboard along the way.

Pulse now understands your social battery. In your daily check-in, say how social you feel: full, okay, running low, or need quiet. If you mark it low, your partner sees it in your own words and can send some love or simply give you space. That counts too. Tell Pulse how to care for you: thirty seconds on what helps you on a hard day (quiet time, a short message, practical help) and what's better skipped. Your partner only ever gets gentle hints woven into care moments, never your answers. A moment before the day ends: one tap on what helped you feel connected today. When you both answer, the morning brings back one warm little echo. A good window: when you're both doing well and it's been a while since you planned something together, Pulse quietly points it out and helps you plan a little date. Links in chat now arrive as tidy preview cards, generated on the sender's phone so nothing about them ever touches a server. Also in this update: - Everything new speaks German too, including the Watch. - A mood you set yourself now stays for about six hours before your Health reading takes over again. - Suggestions learn from you: say when one landed well, or retire an idea for good. - Send love back from the Dynamic Island reliably reaches your partner now. - Lots of little polish: cards linger long enough to read, buttons and chips fit their words in every language, and the weekly numbers keep their shape however big your week was.