Now you can show off your progress. • Share your streak and lesson results as a card image. • Take on a 7, 14, or 30-day streak goal and see it on one calendar. • Tap a mission on the map, and get a review stop every five missions. • Change your name and avatar, and see stats and achievements. • Turn each kind of notification on or off; we suggest your usual hour. • Your character chimes in during lessons, and translations accept the keyboard. • Added a FAQ in Settings and slower playback.

Getting started is easier. • Try your first lesson before signing up, then pick a daily goal. • After a lesson, see your results, your streak, and today's goal one at a time. • Tap an underlined word to see what it means. • Mistakes are highlighted, and answers missing only an accent count as correct with a note. • Stuck in an AI chat? See example replies. • Settings are grouped to be easier to scan. • Fixed written-answer grading, Android notification setup, and an empty daily phrase.

Your own course in Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese too. • Learning Spanish, Chinese, or Japanese now builds a personal course from the figures you pick. • New figures are added to the end of your course automatically. • Switch between the sample course and your personal course in Settings. • Turn listening and speaking practice on or off in Settings. • Fixed settings changed on another device reverting. • Fixed sentence building accepting a wrong word.

Faster and smoother. • The audio for a lesson's first question and the word of the day is now loaded ahead of time, so you can listen as soon as the screen opens. • In daily conversations and AI calls, the figure's words and voice now arrive together, so there is less waiting. • The figure's word of the day now appears in library courses too. • Fixed hearts resetting to the starting amount when signing in before finishing a first lesson.

This update fixes issues introduced in 1.16.5. • The figure's word of the day and the three-day streak card now appear on Home in the default course too. • Fixed the same sentence showing up in both word of the day slots. • Fixed hearts resetting to the starting amount after reinstalling the app or signing in again. Your saved hearts now carry over.

Leave a lesson and come back to pick up right where you stopped. • If you leave a lesson and return within 24 hours, it resumes from the question you stopped at. If the app closes after you answer the last question, you go straight to the completion screen. • Home now has the figure's word of the day. Open the speech bubble to hear one of their sentences and see what it means. Now and then a golden word appears and is saved to your profile. • You can add a word of the day widget to your iPhone home screen. • After a lesson, see the figure's verdict on today and what to do next at a glance. Study three days in a row to talk with that figure one more time. • Your first lesson now opens with a short note on what to expect.

Spanish and Chinese learners can now build their own course too. • If you're learning Spanish or Chinese, you can now create your own course with a figure from Settings. • Conversations with figures now work like a phone call. Talk back and forth by voice, and open the transcript whenever you like. • Correct and wrong answer sounds are now real recordings. • The next sentence's audio is fetched ahead of time, so it plays sooner. • Polished the notification time picker and the Settings and Profile screens. • Fixed several lesson questions, including Show the answer being counted as a correct answer.

The notification prompt now shows the name of the figure you're learning with. • Fixed figure names appearing in Korean in the notification prompt title and the cast list on English, Japanese, Spanish and Chinese screens. They now follow your app language. • Figures in the Spanish, Chinese and Japanese courses now appear by name in the notification prompt title too. • Added a shortcut in Settings to write a review on the App Store.

Speaking works again in calls with historical figures, and you can tap a face to see the real portrait. • Fixed the microphone not recognizing your speech in figure calls. When the mic stops, we now tell you why: permission is off, it isn't available on this device, or the connection dropped. • More than 30 figures now have their own recognizable look, and tapping a face opens their real portrait. • Fixed the sign-up anniversary greeting appearing on the day you signed up. Celebrations now start at your first anniversary. • Fixed the order getting mixed up after you put a figure off for later. • Fixed wrong answers that didn't cost a heart showing up in your mistakes list. • Resetting or changing your password now also tells you why a new password wasn't accepted. • The AI consent screen now states more clearly which companies, in which countries, receive your conversations.

Change your password in Settings, and see mistake explanations in your app language. • If your password isn't accepted when you sign up, we now tell you exactly what to change — too common, found in a data breach, or too similar to your email. • Fixed content sliding under the clock when scrolling the Today tab, and tidied spacing in Settings. • You can now change your password in Settings after confirming the current one. Deleting your account asks for your password once more. • Settings > Edit my tastes lets you pick your tastes again without losing your progress. • The explanation after a wrong answer now appears in the language you chose for the app. • Picking the answer in a dialogue blank now shows the same result sheet as other questions, and word-building questions make it clearer what to tap next. • New sound effects. • Tap the friends on the Today tab to change how they look. • Tap the App info card in Settings to copy the version, build number and platform as one line — paste it when you report a problem. • English text fields now open with an English keyboard, plus fixes for dialogue-blank spacing and account settings that could be blocked on shared networks at work or school.

Fixed the bug where finishing a lesson didn't unlock the next one. • Completed missions weren't being saved, so the same lesson kept coming back. Fixed, and lost progress has been restored. • Dialogue questions now respond when you pick the right word — with sound. Tapping a wrong chip still costs no hearts. • Fixed audio getting quiet after saying a single word. • Fixed Spanish, Chinese and Japanese sentences being read with an American English accent. The app is now called **Learn Languages with Retriever** — it shows as "Retriever" under the home screen icon. You don't need to delete or reinstall anything; only the name changed and your progress is untouched. You can now see the app version in Settings, and we cleaned up a notice that appeared more than once.

The screens where a figure speaks now ask you to do something. • One word is missing from the sentence — tap one of three chips to fill it in. Getting it wrong costs no hearts and plays no buzzer; this is a moment in the conversation, so tap freely. • Fixed a bug where pressing Skip on those screens recorded a wrong answer. • The notice about where this app uses generative AI has been updated. Whenever it changes, we'll show it to you again. • Signing in and saving progress are faster.

· Context notes and sentence meanings now appear in your own language (English, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese). · The sentence on your Apple Watch face changes every hour, in the language you're learning. · The home screen widget now shows when today's streak is at risk — and turns blue on days a shield protects it. · Character faces are back on every question screen. · Polished the wording of the character notes.

• Every circle on the learning map now shows the face of the person you'll meet — and they smile once you finish. • 49 characters to talk with, each with their own voice and personality. • Lessons now include short English conversations with that day's character. Only for learners who opted in to AI. • The first time you hit your daily goal, your favorite fills the screen to celebrate. • The "Today's sentence" home screen widget now comes in a small size. • Fixed home screen widgets that kept showing old information.

• Widgets are simpler now — streak, today's sentence, and one that combines both. • Today's sentence shows a favorite figure's words in English up front, with the translation below. • The streak number is much bigger. • 12 new figures added to your learning course. • Fixed review questions being spoken in the wrong figure's voice. • Audio now uses a consistent American accent, and the volume-drop issue is fixed. • Fixed progress being misaligned after skipping levels. • The drop target now matches the size of the word you're dragging. • Fixed awkward Korean particles after names.