• Ask about any page: the tracing paper now knows the whole note, not just what is on screen. • Faster answers, in about three seconds, written right under your question. • Only a question mark asks. Circles, arrows and underlines stay yours. • Sort is four times faster, and you can watch it match your folders, or stop it. • A nine o'clock note each morning about what you wrote the day before. • An answered question gets one thin orange underline. • Apple Pencil Pro taps on Trace, Page, Briefing and New worklog. • Swipe a worklog all the way across to delete it. • Fixes: questions written slowly or after an erase are found, the notice that the Companion closed goes away by itself, titles show plain words.

I made Pen Friend notice your week. Tap Your week on the home screen and you see how many words you actually wrote each day, counted from your own handwriting, which day was your busiest, and where the words went. Step back through weeks, months and years with the arrows or a swipe, tap a day and everything narrows to it. It catches spelling too, the words that came out a little wrong, tap one and the note opens with that word marked in yellow. To-dos in the reading sidebar now have a bell, tap it and the line goes into Reminders, in a list named after the note, with the date if you wrote one. The sidebar shows the due date back to you, and goes green when you tick it off on your phone. The reading sidebar reads more like your page: the boxes you drew around a note, your examples tucked under the to-do they belong to, the P1 you scribbled next to a line. Pen Friend also reads your pages less often and smarter now, a pause in writing no longer re-reads the whole note, so the sidebar is there the moment you open it. On the Mac, a PDF you sent over drags straight into Terminal now, and quitting the Companion tells the iPad. On iPhone, readings no longer start over every time you open a note.

Pen Friend got a bit of a personality in this one. Write a question on the page with Apple Pencil, end it with a question mark and pause, and a dotted line shows up under it. Tap it and the answer gets written right beside your question, by hand, like someone leaned over your shoulder. It works on tracing paper too if you'd rather keep the page clean. Pen Friend now runs on iPhone Duo. Write on it with Apple Pencil like on your iPad, with a layout made for it, folded or open. Your home is a wall of your pages now, whole first pages the way you wrote them, and the list is one tap away if you like it better. To do sits in the sidebar and gathers every page with a box still open, tick the last one and the page leaves on its own. A brand new notebook starts with a few doodles instead of an empty screen. The clean text version of a page got a lot better, it reads every page whole, numbers your pictures and keeps your headings and lists. You don't need the Companion to send a page to your Mac anymore, a flick copies it and you paste it there. If you do use the Companion, the iPad now asks before joining a Mac it hasn't seen before. And Pen Friend is on iPhone, as a reader, so the pages you wrote on your iPad come with you. Ink stays put while you move around the page, notes open smoother, search keeps up with your typing, and a pile of small bugs are gone.

• Drop a PDF on your Mac's notch, mark it up on the iPad, and send it back. It lands on the Mac's clipboard, ready to paste. • Marking up a screenshot can now end on your page, not only on the Mac. • Pictures turn with a handle and can be carried to another page. Writing around a picture can be left behind when it moves. • Sending a worklog no longer waits for the briefing, so it works with the AI switch off. • Icons line up on one scale, and dark mode reads better on the page.