Alerts for your own town: choose Gallup, Crownpoint, Tohatchi, Thoreau, Zuni or all of McKinley County under Account, and safety alerts and the morning briefing follow it. The choices you make when you first open the app now reach your alerts: obituary notices, the daily briefing and safety alerts each follow what you picked. Links to an agency's full alert open in your browser with a clear outbound-link mark.

Real maps: the map on every story is now a live map of the streets and terrain where it happened, with the road signs drawn the way they look on the highway. Live traffic on the Roads and weather map and on story maps: green where traffic is moving, amber where it is slow, red where it has stopped, updated every few minutes. Zoom like Apple Maps: double-tap to zoom in, or double-tap and hold, then drag up to zoom in and down to zoom out.

A map on every story that says where it happened: the street corner, the building, the chapter house or the mile marker on I-40. Roads and weather on the Alerts screen: a live map of closures, crashes and roadwork from Window Rock to Albuquerque, with National Weather Service warnings shaded where they apply. Tap a marker for the details. On Apple Watch, an active weather warning now has its own layout in the Smart Stack.

Made for bigger screens. On iPad and the new folding iPhone, stories, memorial pages and the tab bar fit the screen, upright or turned on its side, and a story's photos stay on screen with their captions. Events and business listings now read in Spanish or Gujarati when you choose that language. Memorial pages put the person first, with sharing at the foot of the page. The Obituaries tab lists each person once. A zoomed photo moves with one finger again. The open tab in the bar now changes colour only.

A redesigned Home Screen widget: the top story with its photo, and a large size with the latest headlines. Videos play right in the story, side by side with its photos. Search: pick a section under the box to narrow it, and your recent searches are kept on your phone. Smoother all round: switching tabs and pulling to refresh no longer redraw the page, photos open and close in one continuous motion with their corners rounding as they go, and swipe down to close follows your finger. Your account: change your email with a six-digit code, show your password while you type it, and sign-in messages now come in your language. Filing an obituary: the buttons float over the form, and after you file you can review a polished version of the notice. Nothing changes unless you approve it. Cleaner Language and Appearance settings. Diné bizaad is coming soon.

A new front page, with big photographs, a Top Stories carousel and a page for each section. Stories open full width, like a newspaper page. Tap a photo to see every picture in the story, and pinch to zoom. Read Gallup Today in Spanish or Gujarati. Choose your language in Settings. Obituaries, rebuilt: file a notice from your phone, see the week's services at the top, share a memorial card, and add a memorial fund. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. Severe weather warnings now follow your area, with a Live Activity while a warning is in effect. Text size control (Aa), a new first-launch tour, and pull down on any list to refresh. Fixes: Spanish and Gujarati headlines are no longer cut off at the top, and the app opens faster.

Photographs across the app now load smoothly instead of appearing as a blank frame, and they no longer shift position as a story opens. Tapping a photo opens the whole set — swipe between every picture in a story, and pinch to zoom in on any of them. Stories published since your last visit are marked as you scroll, with nothing to tap. Fixes: the last obituary and the next day's events are no longer hidden behind the tab bar, and a story with a video now shows its photographs too.

Faster pictures and a Back button that behaves. • Photos now start downloading the moment you open a story, and open as a whole picture instead of filling in from the top. • Photo galleries flick properly — a hard swipe travels several pictures instead of stopping dead at the next one. • Pictures open and close with a real transition rather than appearing and vanishing. • Back now leaves the story every time, however many you read in a row. • Video stories play in the app instead of sending you to Facebook. • When you come back, new stories since your last visit are marked. • Safety alerts read like sentences instead of shouting in capitals, and no longer repeat their own headline in the body.

Video stories: when the police or fire department post a video, it now runs in the paper — tap the play mark to watch. A story opened from a notification always has a Back button. Weather is out; the alerts you rely on are unchanged. Small fixes and polish.

Photos now open as a gallery you can swipe through, so a post with three or four pictures shows all of them instead of just one. Families can add a photograph to a death notice, and can edit or take down a notice they filed — from the app, at any time, without calling us. Business owners can claim their listing and keep their own hours, phone number and description current. Weather is back, with the National Weather Service forecast for Gallup and the surrounding communities. Plus search from any screen, and a pass over the small things: the app answers your finger faster, headlines are set better, and safety alerts arrive in the same order everywhere.