Storylines are easier to follow: each story card now shows a stack of related pieces, and a tap expands the full history of the event. Cards scroll more smoothly, and the app is lighter on your phone. Each issue now skips events already covered in the past week. The podcast sounds more natural, and playback speeds now have clear names. Fixed an issue where swiping a card that started on a link would open the link.

Smoother swiping and a lighter animation. - News cards swipe more smoothly: a swipe no longer rebuilds the neighbouring cards, and the card follows your finger without lag. - The first-screen animation is now drawn by the GPU, so it takes less effort from the phone and keeps it cooler. - The background above the feed updates less often, so the news grid scrolls more smoothly. - When swiping back, the current card fades out only at the end of the motion. - Fixed: a swipe that starts on a link in primary sources or related stories no longer opens that link. What to test: swiping cards forward and back, pulling a card up or down to close it, the first-screen animation, and swipes that start on a link.

Podcast. While a new episode is being prepared, the player says so and switches to the fresh episode as soon as it is out. An episode you are already listening to will not be interrupted. In dark mode, the glass bar above the feed is now darker, so the cards stand out better. The card for each side of a story has more rounded corners. Fixed: when you pull a card down to close it after scrolling, a blur strip no longer appears above it. A story's mood marker can no longer show up broken.

Naia daily podcast. The player sits at the bottom of the feed, and you can scrub by dragging along the waveform. Morning reminders. A new card in the middle and at the end of each issue lets you turn on notifications and pick a time that suits you. The first notifications arrive quietly right after install. Links to stories on news.poliakov.co now open straight in the app. When you share a story, its link is now included with the image. The image shows why the story matters, and the Save button once again saves it to Photos. Pull to refresh now responds with a soft, even creak. Buttons shift slightly as you tilt your phone. The feed shows all of the day's stories, and the mood filter has been removed. All rounded corners use the smooth continuous curve found throughout iOS. In light mode, the source and date line on cards has more contrast.

A fresh look and more ways to share. The home screen has come alive: a living bronze background now sits under the header, and the header buttons are made of glass. A story opens by growing straight out of its tile, and swiping back lays the previous card over the current one. Sharing feels better too. On the share screen you can pick a dark or light card, and the bottom of the image now shows how many sides and primary sources a story has. In Instagram Stories the card sits on the same animated background, in the theme you picked. Pull the feed down to refresh it: each tile of the logo answers with a light tap, and the threshold ends in a crisp click. More variety: each issue now carries one story per publication. On an unfolded iPhone Duo the article sits on the left, with the source passport and the sides of the story on the right. Plus plenty of fixes: text no longer gets clipped or broken mid-word, the names of the sides line up with the text around them, white corners no longer flash between screens, and on iOS 27 the Ukrainian letters є and ґ are back in headlines.

The light theme is now warmer: a soft paper tone instead of pure white and black. News tiles in the light theme have no border, just a gentle shadow. The background behind an open card is slightly darker so the card stands out. The mood dot in the rubric badge is no longer darker than the badge itself. Fixed: the source list at the bottom of Settings no longer gets cut off above the screen edge.

A new first launch and more stories every day. Your first look at Naia now comes alive: signals from the sources flow as a fountain of light into a single point. Press and hold the Read button to draw the fountain back, then let go and it fires a beam into today's issue. The move to the news is now smoother. On iPhone with iOS 26 the Read button is now made of real Liquid Glass. Want to see the introduction again? Settings now has a Show onboarding button. Each issue now carries 20 stories instead of 16, drawn from a wider range of outlets. New sources include Kyiv Independent, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, Radio Svoboda, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, 404 Media, AIN.UA, Khmarochos, designboom, Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper and Literary Hub. A single outlet now appears less often several days in a row.

Deeper sides of the story. A side's card now explains who wins and who loses and why, where a statement came from and whom it serves. To find out, Naia looks beyond the article itself. The outlet a story comes from no longer appears among its sides. You can now page between sides: markers for every side sit at the bottom of the card, and you switch with a swipe or the arrows. If a card opens below the fold, it scrolls itself into view. The app is now fully in Ukrainian, including system dialogs such as the notification time picker and the share menu. UI/UX stories now come at the end of the issue.

Who is behind the news. A story's sides — the people and organisations it is about — are now marked right in its text. Tap the marker next to a name to see their part in the story and what they stand to gain or lose. Those the story touches without naming them get their own line. Below "Why it matters" you'll now find primary sources: statements, posts and documents from the people involved — where the story actually began. Also: filter your feed by mood. Press and hold the emoji and pick calm only, without the heaviest, or everything — it applies both in the grid and in cards. In light mode the controls below a card are no longer dark blotches.

Light appearance polish. The welcome screen now stays dark even in light mode: its animation is made of light, and light shows best against a dark background. The daily notification time in Settings is easy to read again, and the emoji circle on a news card no longer blends into the card.

Light appearance. Naia now follows your system setting: switch your iPhone to light mode and the app turns light too — cards, settings, the support and privacy pages. It changes straight away, no restart needed. The colours are tuned separately for a light background, so source names, links and buttons stay just as legible as they are in the dark theme.

Reading originals, and a new pull-to-refresh. • Articles now open the way the publisher laid them out — photos, charts, captions and all. Reader mode is still a tap away in Safari. • The publication passport now tells you which country a source comes from: "USA", "United Kingdom", "Ukraine". • Pull-to-refresh has a character of its own: the feed creaks under your finger, and instead of a spinner the logo itself grows with the gesture, clicks at the threshold, and reassembles while the fresh issue loads. • A shorter pull now brings in a new issue, and the page no longer jumps at the moment it refreshes.