Mostly apologies 1.4 added a line telling you which way to look for the Moon. It was confidently wrong. One evening it told me the Moon was in the west. The Moon was nineteen degrees off straight overhead, which is a long way from west. It now says "almost overhead" when that's true, and only names a compass point when one would actually help you. Then it did something worse. Driving with the Moon plainly visible through the windscreen, the app said it wouldn't be visible for another six minutes. It was checking whether the Moon was more than twelve degrees above the horizon. It was eleven. So the twelve-degree rule is gone, along with the two others sitting beside it. Where the app used to ask three separate questions — how high is it, how far from the Sun, how dark is the sky — it now asks one: is the Moon bright enough to pick out of the sky around it. That is the question you were asking anyway. The three old rules disagreed with each other, too: at dusk the app changed its mind twice inside eight minutes, and had been doing that quietly since the day it shipped. Sunset alerts are two minutes, not five A friend asked what five minutes of standing about does for someone with ADHD. I didn't have a good answer. Five minutes is a long time to wait for something to start. Smaller things The daylight Moon now tells you how long you've got, not only where to look. At the largest text sizes the readout no longer lies across the arc. And the About screen has a section on the Moon, because "up" and "visible" are not the same thing and nothing in the app admitted it.

A third page, and thirty years of cloud Swipe past This Year to This Place. Your latitude on a ruler of the whole planet, and how often your particular patch is properly overcast, properly clear, or neither. Sydney gets 61 grey days and 88 clear ones. The other 216 are neither, which explains a lot. Tap through for the sunniest and cloudiest towns in your country. Australia's sunniest is Karratha, on 229 clear days a year. The bleakest is New Norfolk in Tasmania, on eleven. The whole planet ships inside the app, so none of it touches the internet. It also made the download about fifteen times bigger — which is to say roughly 40 MB, or about a minute of video. I have decided that's fine. The Moon, drawn properly Lit from the correct side for where you are and what time it is, craters roughly where they fall, and dimmer in daylight instead of a bright coin stuck on a blue sky. And when it can't be seen at all, it no longer just leaves. You get a small mark in its own phase and the hour it comes back — "visible from 5:12 pm tomorrow" — plus, at night, which way to look. Knowing when is no use if you're facing the wrong wall. Weather, and four days of it Tap the weather line. A tester asked for it, and it has become one of my favourite things in here. Also: the Lock Screen widget stays put now. A clock that goes blank is not a clock.

Weather, at last Under the daylight total: what it's doing now, and today's high and low. Come evening it turns over and starts talking about tomorrow instead — though not before seven, on the principle that a forecast which gives up on your evening while you're still having one is no use to anybody. The year screen has stopped being a fat gold worm It draws the whole day against the clock now, with the light stacked over the night: astronomical twilight, then nautical, then civil, then daylight. Change place to Narvik, in northern Norway — it never gets properly dark there for 168 days of the year. The faint line through the middle is solar noon, the moment the Sun is genuinely highest, which is almost never twelve o'clock. It also answers a question it had never occurred to me to ask. In Sydney the Sun rises earliest on 5 December, the longest day is 22 December, and it doesn't set at its latest until 7 January. Three different dates, and only the middle one is the solstice. It gives you the most daylight. It has never given you the best evening. Widgets, and the Moon First and last light are on the widgets now, and the circular Lock Screen one has become a day clock — noon at the top, midnight at the bottom. The Home Screen ones take their colour from where the Sun actually is rather than sitting in permanent dusk. The Moon's next full and new are in the rotating fact at the bottom. Sunrise and sunset alerts arrive five minutes ahead instead of at the exact instant. The old sunset one turned up to report something that had already finished. Punctual and useless.

The Moon turns up It had been up there the whole time, frankly, and we finally got round to drawing it. After dark the Moon now rides the night sky above the Sun's trough — the real lunar face, seas and craters, lit to tonight's true phase. Beneath it: which phase, how much is lit, and when it rises and sets. South of the equator it arrives the right way up. Then there's the moment itself. When the Sun reaches the horizon the light blooms out from it — a warm swell, a soft ring, a few embers lifting — and you feel a gentle tap. It's easy to miss, so the arc now holds still for a couple of minutes afterwards instead of briskly getting on with the night. If you'd like to know when you're not watching, there's a new sunrise and sunset alert in the info sheet. Off until you say otherwise. Under the daylight total, one quiet fact now turns over as you watch: how much daylight you've banked since midwinter, the date on the far side of the solstice with exactly the same daylight as today, how long twilight lingers tonight. Tap it if you're impatient. First light and last light have moved onto the arc, under sunrise and sunset, where they always belonged. None of it needs the internet. The Sun, the Moon and every time on the screen are worked out on your phone, offline — the only thing that ever leaves it is a coordinate, handed to Apple Maps when you ask what a place is called. Also fixed: our Sun was an optimist. It appeared to clear the horizon up to a quarter of an hour before it actually managed it — worst near the equator. It now waits its turn. The daylight arc sits centred on solar noon rather than drifting off to one side, and "astronomical twilight" is no longer cut short, which was a poor look for a word of that length.

Favourite skies Checking on a city you love used to mean a search and a scroll. Now tap the place name on the Now screen and your favourite skies drop down — each with its local time and a dot the colour of the light it's in right now. One tap moves the whole sky. Star a saved sky on the Locations page to add it to the menu; five fit at a time. The place profile — latitude and seasons — now lives at the foot of that same menu. Also fixed: favouriting your current location no longer loses its star when you reopen the app.