A warmer look, and Ask is ready before you press play. EPISODES • Ask about an episode before you start playing it. • Play, Ask and Take sit together at the top of every episode. • Episodes now have four tabs: Notes, Moments, Transcript and Discussion. NOW PLAYING • Pause appears the moment you tap Play. • A timeline you can drag replaces the waveform. • Ask and Take share one row under the controls, and Discuss opens the episode's full discussion. • Ask and Take switch on as soon as an episode is ready, without closing the player. A NEW LOOK • Warm paper backgrounds, with TalkPod orange in place of purple. • A new Take icon. TAKES • Tap a line outside your selection to start a new Take there. • The selection handles follow your finger. CARPLAY • Resuming, browsing and playback are more reliable, and all your followed shows are listed. • The first time you connect, CarPlay shows you how to Ask. ALSO • Browse categories with "&" in the name, such as Society & Culture, show their shows again. • Account → Support → Replay the tour shows the welcome tour again. • The early-access Premium offer now runs until 31 October 2026. Something not right? Account → Support → Help & feedback.

Small fixes that make Ask easier to find and sign-up less disruptive. ASK • The Ask tip on Now Playing shows even after you've used your free Ask time, so you can still find it. • When your free Ask time runs out, the upgrade screen says so plainly: Premium gives you more Ask. • The note in the Ask sheet about the spoken voice is shorter and clearer. SIGNING UP • Create an account in the middle of a search and you come back to your results, not the home screen. TAKES • Opening a shared clip lands on the clip's own line in the transcript. ACCESSIBILITY • With Reduce Transparency or Increase Contrast on, the player controls and artwork backgrounds are solid instead of see-through. Something not right? Account → Support → Help & feedback.

Sign in faster, keep notes that follow you between devices, reply with a Take, and reach a show's whole back catalogue. SIGNING IN • Sign in with Apple or Google comes first. Email is one tap away under Continue with email. • Creating an account with email sets a password your password manager can save and fill. • If sign-in asks for an emailed code, that step now works instead of dead-ending. NOTES • Notes are saved to your account, so they follow you between devices. Find them as a third tab in Chapters & Transcript. • A note stays pinned to the moment you were annotating. Tap the pin to follow playback instead. LISTENING • Chapters and the transcript are back in the full player, and long transcripts scroll smoothly. • Show pages no longer stop at the newest 50 episodes: load more, and search a show's episodes by title. • Ask from CarPlay: ask about what's playing, hear the answer, and playback picks up where it left off. • If a stream stalls you get a retry instead of an endless spinner, and play shows a spinner straight away while audio buffers. • Now Playing always shows the show's artwork and title, and the speed picker shows 1.25x and 1.75x exactly. • Play next and Add to queue confirm with a short banner. • Show pages and artwork load faster and use less memory. TAKES • Reply with a Take: answer someone's Take with a moment from the same show. Both play from a shared link. • Choose whether your name appears on a Take you share. • Sharing a Take to Messages lands on the Take, not a blank page. When a thread is locked, the share says why. • A Take pauses when you leave the app and resumes when you come back. LINKS • talkpod.io links open in the right place: shows and episodes in the app, Premium links on the upgrade screen, and anything else in Safari. ACCOUNT • A cancelled subscription that is still running says "Ends on" the date. • Your free Ask time, and when it resets, are shown where you use Ask. • Delete account describes exactly what happens to your data, and the Ask sheet says the voice you hear is synthesized. ACCESSIBILITY • Clearer VoiceOver labels on the star button, feed refresh and seek-to-reaction. Also fixes a crash at launch on iOS 27. Something not right? Account → Support → Help & feedback.

Takes, steadier playback, and error messages that tell the truth. TAKES • A new look: gradient backdrop, floating artwork card, and captions that reveal line by line in time with the audio. • Sharing is more dependable. Exporting shows real progress and finishes with a clear result; a Take link from a friend retries a slow server instead of quietly failing; your own caption is the one that travels with the clip. • Take links open from any TalkPod web address. • Tap the backdrop to dismiss a finished Take. • Shows that can't make Takes no longer offer the button, and if a Take can't be made or exported the message says why instead of blaming your connection. PLAYBACK • Phone calls, alarms and other interruptions pause and resume cleanly. • If an episode fails to start, you see that instead of a "playing" state that isn't. • After an Ask, your episode resumes without inviting other apps' audio back in. • Onboarding no longer takes over the audio session. • Resume rows show how many minutes are left. CARPLAY • Up Next resumes episodes where you left off, restores your position when you reconnect, and shows artwork in lists. ACCOUNT AND INBOX • The inbox bell shows a dot when there is something new since you last looked. • Notification permission is requested when you first follow a show, not at launch. • Signing out shows progress and recovers if the server is slow. • Refreshed app icon. FIXES • Opening the app with no connection could freeze it a few seconds after the connection came back. Fixed. • Ask captions no longer drift from what is spoken. • Show pages keep the publisher's description and TalkPod's notes as separate sections. Something not right? Account → Support → Help & feedback.