Fixes, ready for the new year. If Lamp & Light is left open overnight, it now moves on to the new day by itself. Before, it could open on New Year's morning still showing 31 December. A reading you check off, a highlight or a deletion made while the app is syncing is no longer lost. On iPad, Save on a prayer now works the first time, even with the formatting bar open. Your sign-in is now kept in the iPhone's Keychain, so it stays on this device and out of backups.

The first time you open Lamp & Light, it now starts with a short introduction: what the plan is, where you are in it, and whether you would like a reminder to read. If you have been reading along in print or in another app, you can mark the days you have already read in one go, and undo it straight afterwards. If you already use the app, nothing changes for you.

Ready for 2027. On New Year's Day the plan moves on to 2 Kings, with the Psalms from the beginning again. Your progress starts the year fresh; your notes stay exactly where they are. Your notes on iPad now sync across devices when signed in. In Notes, a book's highlights and notes are now grouped by chapter, on screen and in the export.

Writing in the margin on an iPad has been rebuilt. The pencil now writes with the iPad's own ink, so printed letters come out whole and the line keeps up with your hand. Everything you had already written is still there, on the same page beside the same passage. A prayer can now be set aside without losing it. Under Prayed there are two new choices: Answered, for a prayer that has been answered, and Archive, for one that is simply done. Either way it stops coming round — no reminder and no count on the tab — and keeps every word, its verse and the date you set it aside. Answered and archived prayers wait on their own shelves at the foot of the Prayers list, and search still finds them. Keep praying this puts one back exactly as it was.

### 1.5 Two widgets for your home screen. Today's Reading puts the day's two passages where you will see them before you open anything — with a check against whichever you have already read, and the year so far as twelve bars, one for each month. Prayer shows whatever you have asked to be reminded of, at the hour you asked for it. When nothing is waiting it shows the prayer list your church published on Sunday, so there is something to pray either way. Both are drawn on the phone itself. They are right at six in the morning with no signal and the app closed, and they change the moment you mark a reading read or a prayer prayed.

Your church's sermon notes are now in the app. On Sunday the Church screen carries that morning's notes: the passage it is preached from, the blanks to fill in as the sermon goes, the application questions your group works through afterwards, the prayer list and the books at the end. Write on it during the service. There is no Save button and nothing to remember to press — everything you type is kept as you write it. Every sheet you fill in is kept under Sermons in Notes, beside your highlights, notes and prayers. The same search finds them, and they come out with the export. A line from the sheet's prayer list becomes a prayer of your own in one tap, with a time for you to be reminded. The church publishes the sheet each week, so it is there on Sunday morning without the app needing an update.

### 1.3 The episode now has a screen of its own, between the day's last reading and the mark that finishes it. Nothing on it obliges you to listen — the button moves on whether you played it or not — and an episode you have started keeps playing while you carry on through the app. Playback speed goes up to 3x, and the speeds are a list you pick from rather than a button you tap through to reach the one you want. Whichever you choose is now kept: it holds from one episode to the next, instead of starting again at 1x with every new episode. In Notes, several prayers can be selected at once and tagged, untagged or deleted together. A tag shows whether it is on all of the prayers you have picked or only some of them, and one tap settles it either way.

On iPad, the margin beside the reading can now be typed on properly: bold, italic, underline, bulleted and numbered lists, and a choice of two faces. Pages you have already written open exactly as you left them. Prayers now appear under All in Notes, beside your highlights and notes, and the search there finds them too. A prayer's passage can be changed. Change, on the verse, swaps it for another or takes it off altogether, and what you have written stays as it is. An evening reminder can be turned on in Settings. It arrives only on days the reading has not been checked off. On iPad: a prayer opens full screen rather than a strip along the bottom, the reminder scheduler is no longer stretched across the width of the screen, and choosing a verse to pray lists the books you have marked rather than every verse at once. Typing in the margin no longer closes the keyboard.

### 1.1 On iPad, the day's reading now opens with a notepad beside it. Write on it with an Apple Pencil or type — ink and typing share the same page — with three pens, a highlighter and an eraser. What you write is filed under the passage rather than the date, so the next time the plan comes round to that reading, what you wrote last time is one tap away. Margin pages are kept on the iPad they were written on. They do not yet copy to an account the way notes and prayers do. Also in this release, and new since 1.0 went out: Settings reads shorter, the reading reminder says what it is rather than when it repeats, and the wheel for setting the reminder time no longer closes itself on the first turn.