Global rank. Tap the globe on the Scoreboard to see where you stand among everyone on NIX Scoreboard. It counts your screen time over the last 14 days, updates once a day, and only you can see it. Also new: Your favorites stay in the order you picked them. A Race now leads with the average per day, the number that decides it. A new group's first round starts the day the group was made. If your phone stops blocking on its own during Phones down, your table keeps its bonus. If Screen Time setup doesn't go through, you can try again right away.

Open lobby. A lobby is a room you can walk into: make one from Focus, print its card or share its link, and anyone with the app who points their camera at the card sits down and their own Focus starts. No host, no start button, no notifications. While you sit, you see who is sitting with you and how long they have left; when you finish, you can add the people you sat with as friends. The maker sets the length, lets each person pick, or sets hours on the clock, so a study room can lock phones from 9 to 10 every weekday. Phones down and solo Focus are unchanged. One change to the boards: when two people tie, the one with fewer Focus minutes is listed first.

Your week vs your favorites now starts over every Sunday. Home shows your record against each favorite from Sunday through yesterday, with the week drawn under it. Once a favorite can't catch you, your record fills in yellow. On Sunday you see how last week ended. New Head to head widget. Put one favorite on your Home Screen: hold the widget, tap Edit Widget, and pick who. Add it again for another rival. The Favorites widget shows the same week.

Block or report. Tap anyone on a board, then Block or report. A report tells NIX what happened. A block removes them as a friend and stops their friend requests, group invites and jabs. They aren't told either way. Undo a block anytime in Settings > Blocked people. Two new jabs to send your friends. Notifications now live in Settings, and Open hours sits under Token categories on Profile. The screen over a blocked app now matches your theme.

Themes. Pick a look in Settings > Appearance: Scoreboard, Midnight, Daylight, Paper or Graphite. Your widgets and app icon change with it. Graphite. An almost all-gray theme, plus a tip for turning your whole phone gray. Keep apps open. Choose the apps that stay open during Focus and Phones down, like Messages or Maps. You can set it when you join a Phones down too. Competitions, redesigned. Every board now looks like All friends. Tap anyone for their day wins, streak and a chart of your days. Group members who aren't your friends now see your daily scores for the last month, the same as friends do. A new loading screen. Fixes. Open hours now locks apps on time even when Scoreboard stays closed. Phones down shows one Live Activity, not two. A Focus can no longer take off more than your score.

Fixes a bug where your phone could report Screen Time you never used, like a burst of Games minutes while you slept. Those false readings no longer count toward your score.

Deleting your account now asks you to confirm once more before it goes through.

If one of your category picks can't be read, Profile now shows a notice so you can request a reset. Reliability fixes for category setup.

Group invites. When a friend adds you to a group, you get an invite and join only if you accept. Reset your invite link. On the Add friend screen, Reset link turns off your old link and QR code. Friends you already have stay. Sign out ends Focus. Signing out during a Focus or Phones down now counts as ending it early.

Head to head. Tap a friend on Week, Month, 3 mo or Year for the score and a line chart of you against them. A new Home. Focus and your goal on one card, your week against your favorites, and your goal drawn on the chart. Simpler category setup. The app checks each pick, and you can request a reset right in the app. Calmer notifications. Race news up to three times a day, quiet hours from midnight to 6 AM, and optional Put-down nudges.

Phones down. Focus together at the table: one code, one end time for everyone. Pick up early and it's 0 NX. If everyone finishes, everyone gets a group bonus. One Scoreboard. All friends and your groups in one tab. Focus on the board. See friends' Focus and rank any board by minutes focused. Notifications per board. Everything, Important or Off, from Profile. How Scoreboard works. A 33 second story, anytime from Profile. Also: faster loading, and sorting apps into categories no longer gets stuck on older iPhones.

Fixes a crash that kept NIX Scoreboard from opening on iOS 27. Update to get back on the board.

Focus got a fix, and Screen Time access now does one more thing. - The Focus timer can no longer get stuck. It has a Close button, your session keeps running behind it, and the ring is lighter on your phone. - Screen Time access now also turns on Apple's adult website filter on your phone. A healthier default, built in. It runs on your device and we never see what you browse.

Focus mode. Block every app on your phone for 5 to 120 minutes. Every focused minute takes 1 NX off today's score; finish the session for a bonus. A new Home: today's score itemized by category, with a Focus row for what came off. Friends and the scoreboard now show who is focusing right now. Tighter layout on every screen, plus smaller fixes.

Competitions can now score a single category. A leader can set a board to race on social, games, or any mix, so a group can compete on least social media this week instead of total screen time. Streaks now follow your daily goal. Every day you finish under the goal you set adds to your streak. Home updates the moment you set or clear a goal.