Faster starts when you pick a book in CarPlay, and the car screen shows your choice right away. Downloaded books start without waiting on the network. Much lower battery use while listening with the screen locked. Plus fixes for playback and your dragon companion.

• Change your email right in the app: enter your password, then type the code we email you. • Ebooks open on their cover, even when the book tucks the cover away. • Small fixes and polish.

- Roost Defense and Harbor Raid now have loot you can see: a treasure chest on the raiders' paths and crates floating in the harbor. Hit them with your breath to collect them. - Dragons in the games are back to full size, and young dragons fly level in Roost Defense. - Roost Defense uses much less memory, and 3D scenes use less battery when nothing is moving. - The "ready to hatch" message no longer appears for an egg that is still warming. - Small fixes and improvements.

- Playback keeps going into the next chapter after you pause and resume with your phone locked. - Search this book can now search the whole book. Turn it on once, and a book you have finished is always searched in full. - Small fixes and improvements.

- New accounts: setting up your character and dragons works again, and if you never chose, a one-time card on Home lets you add dragons. - Signing out no longer leaves a black screen. - Read Along shows italic text in italics. - Small fixes and improvements.

- Ebooks are back: an ebook's page loads again, shows its price, and can be bought. - Small fixes and improvements.

- Choose how far the skip buttons jump: 10, 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds. Find it in the Player's ••• menu (Skip times) or in Settings. It works on the lock screen, with headphones and in the car too. - The Read Along highlight follows the narration more smoothly, at any speed. - AirPods and headphone play/pause now always do what you meant, even right after a pause. - A book that reaches the end of a chapter while your phone is locked keeps playing into the next one. - Ebooks are easy to spot: an Ebook label on every ebook cover, with the cover shown whole. - Report a bug works without the Mail app, and it's now in Settings > About too. - Fixed a dark band that could show under the Player.

- Ebooks you buy on Crit now open right in the app: the author's own file, yours to keep, with no DRM. - Search inside a book, add bookmarks, highlights and private notes, and share short passages. - Ask Rami finds people, places and passages in what you've already read, so nothing gets spoiled. - When an author includes them, audiobook owners can read the book's own pages along with the audio. - Authors can publish and price ebooks from Studio. - Long text boxes now scroll properly when you paste.

What's new in 1.1.3 - Now in more countries: Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. - Download my data: get a copy of your account data from Settings. - Signed up with Apple or Google? You can now add a password and turn on two-step verification. - Cleaner screens: the book page, player, library and profile are easier to read. - Fixed: CarPlay and the lock screen no longer lose the book after you view a moving cover. - Fixed: a chapter you just bought unlocks right away in the player. - Smaller fixes, including ebook covers and long balances on the character sheet.

- Read your own ebooks: add DRM-free EPUB files and read them in Crit's new reader, with page turns, five page colors and fonts including OpenDyslexic. Your files stay on your phone. - Link an ebook to its audiobook and switch between reading and listening at the same spot. - Your Library now has All, Listen and Read, and Home has a Keep reading row. - New Now Listening widget: play and pause your book from the Home Screen. - Signed up with Google or Apple? Settings > Security now explains how your sign-in is protected. - Other fixes and improvements.

- Reviews now post reliably on the first try. - For authors: Studio now asks you to review content warnings and choose an audience rating before a new book goes live. - New report options for serious problems, including child safety and illegal content. - Clearer messages when a book isn't available in your country. - More privacy for child and teen profiles: no sale countdowns or day streaks, suggestions from finished books are off by default, and a new "About your information" page in Settings explains what Crit keeps. - The playback, speed and sleep timer sliders are smoother and easier to drag. - Other fixes and improvements.

- CarPlay: if a book stops on a weak signal, pressing Play in the car starts it again, and the car tells you when a book can't start. - Player: speed and sleep timer side by side, with sliders for your own values. - A paused book stays paused after a call or Siri, and other apps get their sound back when your book ends. - Notes from authors on book and series pages. - Pick your profile portrait in the app. Portraits chosen on crit.audio show here too. - Settings shows how you sign in and explains Apple's Hide My Email. - Tap your portrait to open your character sheet. Attached items show their progress to the next tier. - Author Studio: every edition of a book in one place, replace one chapter of a finished book, shorter long lists and clearer voice-change messages. - Tower Climb: no more getting stuck. Abandon a climb, or resume it after a relaunch. - Clearer password rules when you sign up, and many smaller fixes.