Groundwork release. Nothing changes on screen in this version. It prepares the app for a new service — a sitter who comes to your home — which stays switched off until it is ready. Along the way: the app now handles service types it does not yet recognise instead of failing on them, so later additions can arrive without another update.

Two fixes. On Android the sign-in sheet no longer sits behind the keyboard — you can see the phone number as you type it. In the Academy, lessons are numbered from 1 rather than 0, the reader shows one heading instead of two, and marking a lesson as read now opens the next one instead of closing the reader.

The bag now shows how much more you need to add to get free delivery, and tells you when it is unlocked — instead of leaving you to find out by crossing the threshold. Fixed the Armenian wording for the amount due: the bag and checkout now label it as the total, not the subtotal.

Providers could not finish identity verification: tapping the selfie step turned it red straight away, with no camera and no request for permission, so verification could never be started. The app now asks for camera access properly, and tells you what to do if you have blocked it. Provider cards in the browse rows no longer show empty grey boxes where photos would go.

Signing in is clearer, and providers can now use iPet as pet owners too. • Sign in or sign up — one door. The sign-in screen no longer sounds like you must already have an account. If you are new, your account is created automatically when you confirm the code. • Already a provider? You can now use iPet as a pet owner as well, straight from your Profile. One tap, and you can book care for your own pet — then switch back to provider mode whenever you like. Your provider profile and verification status are untouched.

Two changes in one update: becoming a provider from your own profile, and choosing how you use iPet when you create an account. BECOMING A PROVIDER FROM YOUR PROFILE If you signed up as a Pet owner and later decide you want to work with iPet, Profile then Work with iPet now upgrades your account on the spot. That button used to open an email to us and leave you waiting on a reply. Now you switch into provider mode straight away and go on to choose your services, the area you work in and your prices. Verification is unchanged: you confirm your identity and submit a photo of yourself for manual review before any owner can book you. CHOOSING YOUR ROLE AT SIGN-UP Creating an account now asks whether you are a Pet owner or a Provider, right after you enter your code. Owners come to find verified care nearby; providers come to work on their own schedule. Until now a provider had to write to us to be set up by hand — they can sign themselves up. A provider gives a name at sign-up, because that name is what owners see when they browse and book. Pet owners can still skip the name and add it later from their profile. Choosing Provider still puts you in front of our team: a provider confirms their identity and submits a photo of themselves for manual review before anyone can book them. THREE SERVICES, OFFERED EQUALLY Setting up as a provider now presents Walking, Boarding and Day-sitting as three equal choices in one list. Boarding and day-sitting used to sit below walking as extras; they are peers now, and the step no longer introduces iPet as a dog-walking marketplace. Offer any one of them, or all three.

Staying signed in, plus the groundwork from the version before this one. STAYING SIGNED IN You should no longer be signed out unexpectedly while using the app. Sessions were ending far sooner than intended — sometimes after only a few minutes of use — and an expiring session could sign you out on every device at once. Signing in now keeps you signed in. ALSO INCLUDED The previous version was not released, so this one also carries its change: the part of the app that lets us adjust which identity documents a walker is asked to provide, without requiring another update from you. Walkers still confirm their identity before they can be booked, and still submit a photo of themselves for our team to review by hand.

This release is a round of fixes from a full test pass. WALKING A walk report opens again when the GPS signal was interrupted during the walk; before, the report failed to load at all. A dropped signal also stops adding distance the walker never covered — implausible jumps are now excluded both from the distance shown while the walk is running and from the one stored in the finished report. PETS A cat's indoor and special-needs details are kept when the pet is added, instead of being quietly dropped. A cat's page no longer shows a dog's species label. MESSAGES The message box stays above the keyboard, so Send is reachable while you type, and a message you send appears once instead of twice. PHOTOS Adding a photo works again — profile picture, portfolio, pet documents, verification documents. Uploads were failing for most photos taken from the iPhone library, and a picked photo could be dropped with no message at all. ELSEWHERE The system permission prompts for location, camera, photos and notifications now appear in Armenian and Russian rather than English. A walker's public profile says completed walks, which is what the number counts. Four labels VoiceOver read out in English are translated. "Work with iPet" now opens an email to our team instead of leading nowhere.

New: after you pay a deposit, the booking opens a “What happens next” screen. It names your provider, gives you one tap to message them, and lays out what has to happen before the service starts — including the meet and greet, which a stay cannot begin without. It states the money plainly too: the deposit is iPet’s commission, and the balance is paid directly to your provider, in person. Providers see the same screen written from their side. Verification: documents you have already uploaded now show a preview instead of an empty row, and the selfie step opens the camera. Sign-in: entering your code could show an error even when the sign-in had actually worked.

Notifications now arrive on iPhone. If you never got a notification when a walker or sitter accepted your booking, or when a message came in, that is fixed — it affected iPhone only. After you pay a deposit, the booking now shows that your payment is being confirmed instead of still offering a Pay button, so the same deposit cannot be paid twice. The meet-and-greet screen now speaks to the right person: pet owners were being shown wording written for the provider.

Improvements and bug fixes