• The signing screen's typing card now draws its own big-key keyboard, so it is there however a guest taps the field, with a finger or an Apple Pencil, and nothing slides in and out. • On the phone's iPad remote, "On its own" now brings the iPad all the way home: the services list, with the service still selected. • A funeral home with more than one chapel can add its other locations while setting up, before it ever signs in.

• On your phone, each iPad's screen is a remote for that iPad: the active service with its portrait, and 4 places to show — the guestbook, the person's page, Paused, or On its own. The page is the step back from the guestbook. • Choosing a service for an iPad opens a full sheet with portraits and a search. The one already on that iPad leads the list. • The iPad's line on your phone says where it is: "Home screen", "Eleanor Calloway's page", "Signing · Eleanor Calloway", "Paused". • Highlight an iPad from your phone: a brief ochre frame lights up the one you're controlling, so 5 unlabeled iPads are easy to tell apart. • Customize the signing screen from your phone, with the same options the iPad has. A change on either one shows on the other within a moment. • The iPad's name, its location, the lock and Remove live behind the gear at the top right of its screen. • 3 new covers behind the person: Linen, Morning light and Still water, in Customize › Cover. • The family's own line under the name and dates can be typed in "Edit name & dates". • "I've signed here before" fills the page for a returning guest. • The 4 ruled lines show their placeholder words again.

• The signing screen reads as 2 panes: the person on the left, the signing on the right. Pen / Keyboard and the English / Español choice sit at the top of the signing side, on the same row as Submit, with a flag on each language. • New in Customize: "Start with the keyboard instead of the pen", under "Let guests type instead of writing". Every service then opens in Keyboard, with the Keyboard button first. • The typing card sits above the keyboard the moment it opens, with no animation to catch up on. • The typing card's buttons say where they go: "Continue to your email address", "Back to your name". On a mailing address, the button first takes you to the city, state, ZIP line. • Turning "Let guests type instead of writing" off while a guest is on the keyboard puts the page back on the pen instead of leaving it stuck. • The portrait is larger by default. "Use a smaller portrait" in Appearance brings back the smaller one. • The dates under the name are bigger: 1 line, sized to the name. • In portrait, a cover runs edge to edge. • "Let guests switch the screen to Spanish" is on the first screen of Customize. In Fields, the options follow the order of the lines on the page. • The text fields in Customize keep their words in the middle of the box. • If the keyboard fails to appear while a line is open for typing (an Apple Pencil touch, or a Bluetooth keyboard nearby, can hide it), the app brings it back. • Fits every iPad, including the mini, with everything turned on.

• Guests can sign with a pen or type. A Pen / Keyboard choice sits under the decedent on every signing screen. Tap Keyboard and each empty line offers "Tap here to type"; what a guest types is set on the page in script, and in the keepsake. The page still opens in pen, and Customize can turn the choice off. • The typing card is 1 button: Next line until the last line, then Done. A phone number gets its own keypad. A mailing address gets 2 lines, and a whole address typed on 1 line lands as street, then city. • Customize opens on the 4 settings you reach for in a demo — typing, the QR code, your logo, Español — with everything else 1 tap behind "More customizations". Reset covers all of it. • The line under the dates is now called the tribute line, sits in Appearance, and says where it shows. • Subscribe is on the first screen of the iPad's menu. • A funeral home can rename itself from the app. • Every button and switch in the app is at least 44pt, so a tap lands where you meant it. • Signing in on the phone: a retired device no longer hides a live session, and the sign-in screen's exit says what it does. • "Service tomorrow" asks the calendar, not the clock, so it is right late at night. • A funeral home lookup that is still running says so, instead of "nothing found".

• 3 plans on Subscribe, sized by the services you hold a year: up to 125, 250, or 500, with 1 monthly/yearly switch over all of them. More than 500 opens a conversation with us, not another price. • Every service carries its date: "Service today at 2:00 PM", "Service tomorrow", "Service was Aug 12". On the Services list and on Home, the soonest stand out. • Recent searches on Find your funeral home: homes you picked before wait under the field, 1 tap to reopen. Kept on this device only. • Tap a name to open their page: portrait, the guests' code, then Open the signing screen, View Signatures, Share. Pinning the iPad to a family is a button now, not a confirmation dialog. • Both lists lead with a search field once they outgrow the screen. No match? Start a service for that name right from the field. • The Signatures row in the menu opens every signature your home has collected, matching its count. • From your phone: tap a name and open it for signing, and the iPad opens that family's book. Change who's signing while a book is already open, and the iPad switches right away. Ending a service on the iPad tells the phone at once. • Switching signing on from the phone with no service open asks who's signing, instead of refusing. • "Is this your funeral home?" names the building you picked, with its street address, and says when it's part of a larger company. • Sign out signs out, every time. On iPhone, Subscribe and Help are on the first screen of Settings. • Every on/off toggle shows its off state clearly, and the buttons on the iPad home are larger and farther apart, so Share no longer opens Print.

• Find your funeral home, watch your recent services fill in from your website, and tap "Open your guestbook" — you're in. No account and no card needed. Add your email or start a subscription whenever you're ready, from inside. • A cover behind the portrait on the signing screen — 4 treatments to choose from in Customize's new Cover tab, or none. • Sign out now truly signs out on a paired iPad. • Share the guestbook right from the iPad, with a link a family's phone can open. • The Customize panel stays open while you make changes, saving a default keeps it open too, every text field has a quick clear, and the old "line beside the portrait" is now "A line in their memory." • Strokes stay on the signing surface, never across the portrait, and the language switcher is reachable again. • More than 1 location? Tap your home's name to switch. The book follows, and a switch from your phone reaches the iPad live. • Searching for your home no longer jumps when the keyboard opens.

• The demo signing screen can now show your home's logo, with portrait sizing steps and cleaner type in the Customize panel. • Setting up? Search results get more room, and adding your funeral home by hand is one clear tap. • Clearer wording across the operator screens.

• Yearly billing has arrived — choose monthly or annual right on the Subscribe screen. • Your signature book now goes all the way back: older entries load as you reach them. • Sign-in shows it's verifying the moment your code is complete. • Picking up where you left off is smoother — the app remembers your funeral home through sign-up. • Steadier signing on Android, and polish across the signing screen.

• Joining your funeral home's account now signs you in the moment the home's door is open — no more waiting for an approval that already happened. • The guest language switcher is now a choice you make: turn it on in Customize for families who want Spanish, and it stays tucked away otherwise. • Signing out on your phone now asks before it acts. • Clearer multi-location pricing when you subscribe — what's covered, and what each additional location costs. • Polish throughout the signing screen and demo.

• One simple plan: $149 a month for unlimited services — and families hosting a single service can still buy just one. The app now matches our pricing everywhere. • Scan the iPad's sign-in code with your phone's camera and it just works — no more staying signed out. • Two iPads, two services — assigning the second no longer interrupts the service already running. • The Signatures tab now shows every book at your home, newest first, updating live as guests sign. • Your custom signing-screen labels now appear exactly as you wrote them. • "Not now" always moves you forward — never back to the screen you just left. • Demo polish: signatures replay at true speed, and preview switches explain what they need.

• 2 iPads, 2 services — each iPad can now be assigned its own service, so two signing stands work side by side. • Signing responds instantly: the Submit button answers the tap, even while the signature is still saving. • On the signing screen: clear a single field without starting over, switch to Spanish for just one guest's signature, and put your home's own words on the labels. • A locked, paused iPad now opens with a staff PIN. • Error screens now offer a way back, a held QR scan explains itself, and the email field can be cleared with one tap. • From the phone: add the decedent's photo, and tap any signature to see the handwritten ink.

• Scanning a "Link another device" code now opens the pairing screen. If you already had the app installed, it used to open and do nothing at all. • Choosing a funeral home that already has an account now offers to add you to that account, instead of starting a second, empty one alongside it. If you do want a separate account, that choice is still there. • Reliability improvements and smaller fixes throughout.

• The signing screen now asks guests to "Please print your name," and the customizations you make are saved as your funeral home's defaults — set them once, and every service starts that way. • Your funeral home's logo now heads the full-screen thank-you a guest sees after signing. Add or replace it under Account, from the iPad or your phone. • More of a Spanish service is now in Spanish: the guestbook screens a family opens on their own phone, the terms a guest agrees to when they sign, and the phone's own sign-here screen. • Moving the iPad to another service is clearer and easier to find. The guestbook you move away from stays open, so late signatures still arrive and every name is kept. • Fixed a problem that could stop setup after subscribing when an Apple ID already carried a subscription. • Signatures now submit dependably on slow venue networks — a stalled connection can no longer leave an entry hanging. • Reliability improvements and smaller fixes throughout.

• Signing keeps working when the internet doesn't — every entry is saved safely on the iPad and delivered automatically once the connection returns, so services in venues without wifi never miss a signature. • The app opens with your funeral home front and center, and the demo now signs exactly like a real guestbook. • Reliability improvements and smaller fixes throughout.

• Signatures in the printable keepsake book are now captured at twice the detail, so ink prints sharper. • Reliability improvements throughout, and behind-the-scenes work that helps us measure how new funeral homes find the app.

For funeral homes: • Your phone does the whole job now. Find your funeral home, claim it, subscribe, and set up a service without opening an iPad — and close the service out from your phone once the last guest has signed. • Address labels — print the addresses guests left onto Avery sheets, so nobody hand-addresses thank-you envelopes. You can start partway down a sheet you've already used. • The keepsake guestbook downloads properly now — the printable book of every signature, beside Share and Export. • Correct the name that goes on an envelope when the handwriting was read wrong. What the guest signed is kept exactly as they wrote it. • Ask to join a home a colleague already claimed, then see that request on your account and withdraw it. And if you go on to claim a home you'd already asked about, the app says so instead of starting you over. For families: • When a loved one has passed, you can open a guestbook for their service from your own phone — one service, one price, no subscription. For guests: • Every printed placard now carries a short code beneath the QR — a guest whose camera won't scan can type it in instead. Behind the scenes: a demo you can sign yourself, on your phone, before you sign in; clearer help when Sign in with Apple doesn't take the first time; deleting your account now disconnects it from Apple too; the Privacy link opens Funeral Guestbook's own policy; the home you choose before signing in is remembered; and reliability improvements throughout.

For families: • The welcome and the first screens now read right for whoever opens the app — a funeral home, or a family on their own. • Add their photo when you begin a guestbook — their face on the cover, where a stock image used to sit. Or choose one of the three covers with a tap. • The payment step is clearer and kinder — it asks by name, and if the app is interrupted right after a payment, everything completes on its own the next time it opens. No error over the buy button, no lost purchase. • Sign in with Apple now keeps your name — you won't be asked to type what Apple already shared. Behind the scenes: reliability and measurement improvements throughout the app.

Your phone now sets you up: • Sign in on iPhone and the app walks you through finding and claiming your funeral home — then pairing iPads just works • Your account page grows Terms, Privacy, account deletion, and a visible version number • Clearer wording throughout

Two refinements: • Backing out of Apple sign-in now returns quietly to the sign-in screen — a changed mind is not an error • More accurate usage insights behind the scenes

Your iPhone joins the guestbook. The same app on your phone is now the remote control for every iPad you own: • Pair an iPad by scanning the code on its screen — it signs itself in • See every iPad live: online, signing, paused • Open signing, pause to a quiet branded screen, and lock the iPad from anywhere • Release the staff-code gate for someone stuck at the iPad • Create services, watch signatures arrive, and publish memorial pages from your pocket