Listen works properly now. IT WAS SILENT ON A PHONE KEPT ON SILENT The app read the news into a muted audio session. The counter moved, the highlight travelled down the page, and nothing came out — which from the outside is indistinguishable from a broken app. It plays through the ring switch now, the way a podcast does. BANGLA WAS READ IN ENGLISH On a phone with no Bengali voice installed, the app set the language, found no voice to apply, kept the English one and handed it Bengali text. It now treats a language as available only when the phone can actually show a voice for it. AND THE VOICE WAS CHOSEN BADLY Apple ships twenty English voices and twelve of them are jokes. Nothing stopped one of those reading the news. A downloaded Enhanced or Premium voice is now preferred, and the app offers once to help you install one — it is free, and it is the difference between a robot and a person. ALSO The back arrow in a newspaper leaves the paper instead of walking back through its own pages. And after a briefing finishes, the app may ask what you think of it.

A bigger update than the version number suggests. EPAPER A new tab: today's printed edition, opened on the paper's own site, exactly as they print it. TOP NEWS AND FOLLOWING The first tab used to be one list that quietly topped itself up with papers you had never followed. It is two now. Top News is everything; Following is only your papers, and says so when it is empty. YOUR DISTRICT, PROPERLY It offered the divisions and called them districts. Every district is there now, grouped by its division. A NEW NAME ABN is now All Bangla Newspapers, which is what it always was. ALSO The privacy policy, terms and takedown pages are text in the app instead of a web page that is blank with no signal. Contact us sends the email itself. The newspaper list refreshes in the background instead of being up to a day old. And a Bangla headline is no longer read aloud in a Hindi voice.

A bigger update than the version number suggests. READING • Stories that several papers are carrying are grouped, and the front page shows which papers ran each one • Headlines are set in a Bangla serif, so the app reads like a newspaper rather than a feed • Save a story and read it later with no connection LISTEN • The paragraph being read aloud is highlighted, and the page follows the voice • English papers are now read in an English voice instead of a Bengali one • Numbers read properly: "20-30" is a range, not a subtraction NEWSPAPERS • Follow the papers you read and their stories move to the front of your feed • See which papers have published in the last few minutes • Sections can be reordered, and any you never read can be switched off ALSO • A Contact us page, so reaching us no longer means hunting through the disclaimer • Faster first load, and pictures that arrive without the page jumping