Your round on the Lock Screen. Birdo now shows your round as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island: the current hole, par, distance to the center of the green, and your score to par. Adjust this hole's score or move to the next hole right from the Lock Screen, without unlocking your phone. Never lose a round. Birdo now backs up your rounds, shots, club distances, and settings to your own iCloud account, automatically. Reinstall Birdo or set up a new iPhone and your history is waiting for you. Only you can read the backup, and none of it is stored on Birdo's servers. Use more than one device and they stay in step. You need to be signed in to iCloud; without it, Birdo works exactly as before. Settings > iCloud Backup shows when you last synced, and Delete All My Data there erases your rounds, shots, and settings from your iPhone and your iCloud backup, including on your other devices. A fresh new look. Birdo is redesigned for iOS 26 with Liquid Glass. The tab bar, toolbars, and sheets now use the new glass design, and the tab bar tucks away as you scroll so your yardages get more of the screen. The app icon is rebuilt in Liquid Glass too, with dark, clear, and tinted looks for your Home Screen and a matching icon on Apple Watch. Made for iPhone Duo. Open your iPhone Duo and Birdo uses the whole display: the hole map fills one side while your yardages, the AI Caddie, and scoring sit beside it, and your scorecard shows the front nine and the back nine side by side, the way a paper card does. Folded, it's the Birdo you already know. Turn your phone. Birdo now works in landscape, not only portrait. Give it a wide enough screen — any iPhone on its side, or a Duo — and the Play tab and the scorecard move to two columns on their own. A smarter AI Caddie. The AI Caddie now chooses only between clubs close to your distance, and its explanation always agrees with your lie, so it no longer suggests a club that's a whole club too long. Better shot tracking. Log Shot now compares your carry with the club Birdo recommended and uses the lie you marked, and the lie is re-detected on every new hole. Birdo also waits until you're nearer the next tee than the green you just played before moving on, so a tee beside the green no longer advances you mid-putt. Easier to read. The full course name now shows on the Play screen instead of being cut off. Scores to par use one consistent set of colors. The hole map shows a single yardage label when it's zoomed out too far for three. More in Settings. Settings is now organized into sections: Player & Units, My Bag, Club Distances, Shot Stats, iCloud Backup, and Help & About. Support & Legal adds the Help Center, Contact Support with your app and device details filled in, the Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and Accessibility. Fixes. The hole map now frames the hole itself, instead of zooming out far enough to take in a GPS position a long way from it. The inline hole map now re-centers on each new hole instead of staying on the previous one. Leaving a group round now stops any pending par or stroke index changes from syncing afterward, and a host's edits are no longer lost when group updates arrive at the same time. Courses saved by older versions are recognized again, so they work offline without downloading twice.

Fixes. Fixed the hole map snapping back to your position while you were trying to pan or zoom it. Fixed a rare case where a host's par or stroke index edit could be dropped if two edits landed close together in a group round. Minor reliability fixes to tee-box detection and offline course caching.

Birdo is now on your wrist. Install the Apple Watch app for live GPS yardages, score entry, and hole navigation from your wrist — no need to pull out your phone. The watch computes distances from its own GPS and makes its own club call from your logged carry distances, and your phone's AI pick is pushed over automatically whenever it's nearby. Birdo taps your wrist when you reach the green, and again when it moves you to the next tee. Includes a watch face complication for at-a-glance distance. Import scorecards straight from the cart. Playing a course with GPS-equipped carts? Share or paste the scorecard email into Birdo to import your round automatically instead of entering scores by hand. More reliable GPS. Fixed a bug where distances could freeze during long stops — waiting on the group ahead, lining up a putt. Club recommendations are steadier now, and background tracking is restored so distances keep updating while your phone is locked in your pocket. Fixes. Fixed a crash when viewing the full scorecard in a group round, and a rare case where saved rounds and shot history could be lost. Group rounds can now be started before you've picked a course.