The guided and bedtime devotions now play without a break when your phone is locked and the screen is off. Set it down, close your eyes, and the audio carries all the way through.

The guided and bedtime devotions now keep playing when your phone screen is locked, so you can set it down and rest without the audio stopping.

A fix for quiet moments in the guided and bedtime devotions: they now keep playing through the silences even when your phone screen is locked.

Shared verse links now open right in the app when it's installed. Plus a fix for the guided devotion: the background music and voice stay steady from start to finish, with no gaps.

Keep any devotion on your phone. Into His Hands and the daily devotions can now be saved to your Library, alongside programme days and guided devotions, to listen offline wherever you are.

Small refinements under the hood.

Into His Hands — a bedtime devotion to end the day: breathe, give everything back to God, and fall asleep held. Choose your length and nudge the voice slightly slower or faster. Keep days and devotions on your phone to listen offline. Daily Bread now lets you gather verses as you read and meet them again at day's end. Plus: verse links open reliably, guided devotions recover gracefully on a weak connection, and your listening speed is remembered.

Daily Bread now lets you gather verses as you read — tap a verse to keep it for the day, add a note, and meet everything you gathered at day's end, then bring it into the conversation. Also in this update: verse links open reliably, and guided devotions recover gracefully on a weak connection.