A new icon: the sun and the tide. A calmer finish screen: the figure stays, one Close button. Just the sound is easier to find in Sleep. Practice no longer calls last night's session Today.

New: a Sleep tab. Wind down takes you through a few slow breaths, then lets rain, waves or fire play on while the screen dims, and fades the sound out after 15, 30 or 60 minutes. New: Learn. Every pattern has its own page, with one breath drawn out and how it works. Also new since the last update • A seventh pattern: the physiological sigh. • A Breathe shortcut for Siri, Spotlight, the Shortcuts app and the Action button. • Apple Health: switch it on in Settings and each finished session is saved as mindful minutes. Tide only writes; it reads nothing. • Pace in half seconds for Resonance, Box and Extended exhale. • Tide now speaks your phone's language, in twelve languages.

Setting a session is easier. The length is one big number between a minus and a plus: tap, hold, or drag across it, with a soft tick on each step. 4-7-8 now goes up to 30 breaths, and Box is set in minutes. Every protocol is one tap away on the Breathe screen, and Begin shows when your session will end. Sound • The tone now rings out into a hold instead of cutting off. • Rain, waves and fire fade out smoothly when you stop or switch them. Also • Settings uses clear switches: Guide tone, Haptics, Share usage. • Practice shows your last four weeks as a calendar. • Your own pattern uses the same easy dials. • The session controls fade sooner and come back with a tap. • Everything fits smaller iPhones without scrolling.

Sessions now keep playing with the screen locked. The guide is prepared before the first breath and plays like any other audio, so the phone can go face down. The app is now three tabs: • Breathe: pick a pattern, set the number of breaths, choose a soundscape, begin. • Protocols: every pattern with its timing. The one you pick explains how it works. • Practice: the last four weeks at a glance, and your recent sessions. Sound • Holds are silent. • On the phone's own speaker the low bed is left out. With headphones it is still there. Also • Begin no longer waits several seconds before a session starts. • Pause works while the guide is being prepared. • The Wim Hof safety screen's buttons can be reached on smaller screens. • Sliders can be dragged as well as tapped.

Build your own pattern — set any inhale, hold, exhale and hold you like. It saves as its own card, alongside the others. Sit: a timed sit with the bowl and the field recordings, and no pattern to follow. An optional rest after the out-breath on Resonance and Extended exhale. A quieter Practice tab, a clearer safety note, and a layout that stops crowding smaller screens.