Tonight's sky can follow your iPhone. Choose "Follow my iPhone" and the sky faces wherever the back of your phone points, with the horizon kept level. It uses no camera and asks for no new permission. A drag or a direction hands the sky back to you. Closures are harder to miss. Turn your iPhone sideways and a closure stays on the first screen, with the dial whole beside it. The Tonight control in Control Center names what is closed, in the Park Service's words, and stays current after background refreshes. On Apple Watch, a closure kept from an earlier update says so, and the watch says when closures are not being checked. Clearer rankings. When two nights tie, the one with more Moon-free darkness ranks first. A night with no clouds to count says "Moon and darkness only" wherever its score stands alone, ranks after nights that count clouds, and is never offered as the better choice. Clouds where you stand. Denali and Kenai Fjords now take their cloud forecast at the visitor centers, not deep in the wilderness. Past its summit cloud layers, Haleakalā says "Moon and darkness only" rather than count cloud below the summit. On Apple Watch, the Crown steps through nights on every Tonight face. Tonight also shows the usual clouds and the forecast models' range, and says when a night has no true darkness. Countdowns stay whole on small screens. The Live Activity countdown ticks on its own and can no longer be mistaken for a clock time. The Moon widget shows the night's Moon with the same figure as the Tonight widget, moves on at sunrise, and names the park's time zone. The journal reads a photo only when you reach it, so opening a long journal no longer loads every picture. Your entries and photos move over by themselves, on your device. Also: a tap anywhere on a park row opens it; cancelled days no longer appear in ranger programs, and program times follow your format; reminders and cloud times name the park's time zone; VoiceOver and the largest text sizes work better across every device; iPad windows keep their place when resized; and many small corrections in Spanish, German, French and Japanese.

Closures first, on every device. A park closure sits right under the score on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Vision Pro, and widgets and complications now say what is closed, in the park's own words, instead of a bare "Closure alert". Best nights checks park alerts every time, so a closed park ranks below an open one, as it does on Tonight. One meaning for dark. "Truly dark now" means the Moon is down as well as the Sun. When the Moon rises during the night, Nyx says "Moon-free until" its rise, and on Apple Watch a moonlit night counts down as "Moonlit in", never "Dark in". A Moon under 5% lit is too thin to matter on every device. Night vision reaches further. Onboarding, and park pages opened from a widget, a link, Spotlight or a reminder, now turn red too. Faint text in widgets, the Live Activity, Siri and Apple Watch is easier to read in red, for red-blind eyes as well. With At dusk, iPhone and Apple Watch turn red at the same minute, and under the midnight Sun or polar night both keep the switch as you set it. Siri says what matters first: a closure, then the score, the clouds and the smoke. It always says when smoke limits the score, and when smoke is not being checked. Also: a clearer first launch, with permission explainers that keep their buttons in view on smaller iPhones and one tip at a time; shared journal images in starlight that update when you edit an entry; Stop in Listen and Feel always stops; no second reminder for the same park a few nights later; each widget size keeps its own next saved place; Open in Nyx on Siri's best-night card opens that night; on iPhone Duo, the week grid stays clear of the fold and a park opened in a sheet keeps its close button.

The dial now shows the night itself: it runs from sunset to sunrise, with true darkness and the best hours drawn brightest, and the score in the middle. When the best hours fall under a bright Moon, Nyx says so rather than drawing them as dark sky. One best night everywhere: a park's page, Tonight, Best nights and the calendar now name the same best night and the same score. Lists that look only at the next seven nights say "Best this week". The answer comes first: a closure sits right under the score, and "I'm going" is on a park's first screen. Tap a night in the calendar to keep it or open it. Past weeks in the month fold away. When moonlight caps a score, the page says so in plain words. Night vision's red is now readable for red-blind and green-blind eyes too, and still deep red. Settings › Red light for the whole iPhone shows how to turn every screen red with iOS's Color Filters, menus and keyboard included. Motion, refined: pull down on Tonight and a star gathers under your finger before a meteor carries it away. The Moon above the 30 nights changes phase as you scrub, the score starts counting as the app opens, and its four parts fill in under it. With Reduce Motion on, changes now fade instead of cutting. On Apple Watch, the score rolls as you turn the Crown, and the dial keeps its size. New in 2.10: drag sideways across Tonight's dial to step through the next two weeks; the darkest place in reach and its score follow your finger, and VoiceOver can step night by night. Night vision can now turn on at dusk where you plan from and off at dawn, at the same minute on iPhone and Apple Watch. And each park in the list shows how many of the Little Dipper's seven stars you would likely see, an estimate from its sky glow and the Moon. Also: the sky chart steps hour by hour with VoiceOver, larger buttons step through the 30 nights at the largest text sizes, the journal editor is calmer, and on iPad a journal entry uses two columns.

Smoke and haze now count around the world. At the parks and dark-sky places Nyx lists beyond the US national parks, thick smoke, dust or haze caps the score, as it already did in the US. The forecast is asked for by the same large regions as the clouds, never one place, with its own switch in Your privacy. Saved spots are not included. Smoke now shows on a park's page as soon as its forecast arrives. Closures are kept until a road has truly reopened: a notice that a road "reopens" on a later date stays beside the score as a closure. Sunset, sunrise and planet times are right in the far north, where some winter nights showed the next day's sunset and some planets rose after they set. Places with no usual clouds on record now count an early forecast as it stands, and say so. Siri can stop following a night at a saved spot or a place abroad. Parks stay in Spotlight. On iPad, reminders open in the window you are using, and a park's own window has the night-vision switch. On Apple Watch, a place on a complication, or one you pin while your iPhone is away, now gets its clouds from Nyx on iPhone. Long closure notices are shown whole. Large journals export without strain, and Feel tonight keeps moonrise and moonset taps strong at dusk.

Aurora. When NOAA's forecast says the northern lights may reach your sky, Nyx says so beside the night, on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro. It is one worldwide file that names no place, with its own switch in Your privacy. More of the sky, named. What's up now tells you when planets meet, when the Full Moon is at its nearest, when Mercury and Venus are at their best, the solstices and the gegenschein, and suggests up to three sights for binoculars. The large Moon names its best-known seas and craters. The night itself. Rain, snow, thunderstorms and fog lead when they are forecast, and very dry, clean air is called out. Past the forecast's hours, each place shows its usual temperatures after dark and before dawn. Where mountains hide the Milky Way's core for a while, a park's page says when it clears the skyline at the main viewing spot. For 53 parks, the Park Service's own sky measurements appear beside the Bortle estimate. Parks show their busy and quiet months, and the Park Service's rules for being there after dark where they have them. The nearest dark sky. When nothing dark is within reach, Tonight points to the nearest dark land on the satellite light map, with its direction and distance. Save it as a spot, or see it in Maps. Great Basin's viewing spots are corrected.

The same night now reads the same everywhere. Your iPhone, iPad, widgets, Live Activities, Siri and Apple Watch share one forecast, one smoke reading and one closure list, so a park's score matches on every screen. With nothing saved, Apple Watch follows the park Tonight shows on iPhone. A widget set to any park shows that park's score at once, and reminders name a closure first. Every score says what it rests on: the cloud forecast, the park's usual clouds, or the Moon and darkness only. When smoke or haze holds a night down, it says so. "Darkest" always means the darkest sky, with any closure shown beside it. "Best" weighs closures, and says when it has. On iPhone Duo opened flat, Parks sits beside the park. Layouts are steadier in landscape, in narrow iPad windows and at the largest text sizes, and VoiceOver reads the sky arc and closures more clearly.

Nyx is ready for iPhone Duo. Closed, its tabs and buttons sit in the side bar. Open, Tonight, a park and the Journal spread across two columns, and Parks shows the list beside the park. Half open like a book, the columns meet at the fold. iPhone now turns to landscape. Field mode sets the night beside Where to look, and the keyboard stays clear of what you are writing. Plan from the town at the park's gate. Starting point now finds 85 gateway towns, such as Moab, Springdale, Estes Park and West Yellowstone. A new icon, drawn for Liquid Glass: the score dial at 90, with a single star. On iPad, Parks opens with its list beside the park, and Learn shows one card to a row at the largest text sizes. Siri gives journal dates in the park's time zone.

Step through the week from your Home Screen: the medium and large Tonight widgets now have previous and next night buttons, and a tap opens the night you chose. On iPad, drag a night from the calendar onto the Journal to record it. Record this night is also in every night's menu and is a VoiceOver action. Smoother everywhere. Scrubbing the nights keeps the sky steady under your finger, the score counts up with the display, and on launch Nyx waits for your saved forecasts instead of showing a score that would change. Search finds places typed without their special letters, such as Tromso or Lodz, and Japanese as you type. Coordinates accept local compass words and full-width digits. Weekends, years and numbers follow your settings. A journal file asks before it is imported and removes photo location data. Copied coordinates stay on this device. On Apple Watch, complications follow Increase Contrast and the brighter red, and closures are never cut off.

Nyx 2.0 brings together everything since 1.1, and now looks for the darkest nights wherever you are. The 63 US national parks stay at its heart, checked by hand as before. Around the world. About 3,400 national parks and certified dark-sky places in 172 countries, each scored night by night, and about 31,500 towns and cities to start from. Save a spot of your own, where you stand, a pair of coordinates or a town, and it is scored like a park. Almost anywhere on land, sky brightness comes from NASA's satellite night lights and usual clouds from ten years of weather records, both labeled as estimates. A place abroad says plainly that Nyx cannot check its closures, and links its official site where it has one. A world map, too. A more honest score. Clouds, city light and, at the US national parks, heavy smoke now cap a night instead of only subtracting, so an overcast night never reads Good. Beyond the forecast, nights use each place's usual clouds for the month. When the forecast models disagree, the dial draws their range and says so. Plan your nights. A Plan tab with a month for one place and a trip planner for your free nights. Follow a night and its countdown appears on your Lock Screen at dusk. Add a night to Calendar. The sky itself. A Moon with craters along its terminator, from NASA elevation data. Tonight's sky names its brightest stars. Touch and hold the shape of the night to read any hour. A park's sky can be shown as a city would see it. For more people. Assistive Access, a brighter red, Feel tonight through the Taptic Engine, where to look by sound with AirPods, photo descriptions in your journal, and better VoiceOver throughout. In more languages. Nyx now speaks German, French and Japanese. Native speakers will review each translation, and their corrections will follow in updates. On every device. Widgets set to a place, a Moon widget, closures on every widget, and Siri answers for when it gets dark and what's up tonight. On Apple Watch, a dark-adaptation clock, What's up tonight, and complications. On Apple Vision Pro, named stars, the Moon on your table and the darkest of the next 14 nights. On iPad, places in their own windows, drag and drop, and keyboard shortcuts. Private by region. Forecasts for places abroad are asked for by whole regions, about the size of a country, and a spot you save is sent only rounded to about 11 km, behind its own switch. Still no account, no ads, no tracking.

Nyx 1.3 looks more closely at the sky itself, and at how the app tells you what it knows. A Moon you could print. On the large Moons, craters now catch the light along the terminator, drawn from NASA's LOLA elevation data, and a small Moon near new keeps a faint edge instead of reading as a hole. The share card leads with the night: the Moon, the score, the park, the date and the reason. It is always sent in full color, even from night vision. An honest dial. The score counts up with no word beside it, and the band word arrives only when the number lands in its band, so the two never disagree. When the forecast models disagree, the dial draws their range and says it in words. The four parts of a score's breakdown now always add up to the score it names. Tonight's sky, named. The full-screen sky arrives as your eyes would adapt, brightest stars first, then names up to six of the brightest stars in view and draws faint constellation figures. Fling it and it coasts to a stop. On a night without true darkness, the sky behind the app shows that night's twilight, with no stars under the midnight sun. What city light takes. A park's Sky glow panel can switch its own sky to the same sky seen from a city, as an illustration. The line naming the towns on its horizon now says how much of the city light around the park lies in each direction. The essay "A sky worth protecting" quotes its sources and links to Globe at Night. Under your finger. Touch and hold the shape of the night on a park's page to read any hour; on iPhone, feel it hum through the night under your finger. With VoiceOver, double-tap it and slide a finger to feel the same night. The time river's loupe shows the night and score under your finger, and Plan's month follows your finger as you swipe. A Directions row opens Maps at a step-free viewing spot first, where the park has one. Tonight, in order. The answer comes first, then other skies within reach, then your starting point. The tab bar shrinks as you scroll. The night vision switch is now a flashlight, and the screen dips to black before it turns red. A followed night follows the forecast. Its Live Activity updates the score and any closure, and says when the score is old. Also new: a night you record arrives in your journal's constellation as a new star; field mode says each fact once; outlines and marks grow heavier with Bold Text and Increase Contrast; Assistive Access gains a Red light switch; pull to refresh says what happened; widgets and Apple Watch show closures for any park; watch complications open their own park and night. On devices with Apple Intelligence, Ask Nyx shows only words whose numbers appear in its records, lists each lookup as it happens and shows the records it cites first. Still no account, no ads, no tracking.

Nyx 1.2 is a large update, shaped by a careful look at every part of the app. A more honest score. Clouds, smoke and city light now cap a night's score instead of only subtracting from it, so an overcast desert night no longer reads Good, and a park beside a city can no longer read Pristine. Beyond the forecast, nights use each park's usual clouds for that month, and a score never rises when you go offline. The park page says what limits tonight and shows the best clear window. Plan your nights. A new Plan tab holds the month for one park and My free nights for a trip. Start from your city, not only from a park. Follow a night and its countdown appears on your Lock Screen at dusk by itself. Add any night to Calendar, and keep it in your journal at dawn. Park pages in three parts: Tonight; The sky, with the Moon at full size and tonight's sky full screen; and The place, with sky glow, viewing spots, campgrounds and ranger programs. For more people. Assistive Access, a brighter red for color-blind eyes, Feel tonight through the Taptic Engine, where to look by sound with AirPods, photo descriptions in your journal, and better VoiceOver throughout. On every device. Widgets you can set to a park, a Moon widget, an inline Lock Screen widget, Siri answers with the gauge, and Handoff. On Apple Watch, a dark-adaptation clock, Moon and Next dark complications, and the Crown through the week. On Apple Vision Pro, named stars and constellations, turning the night by hand, the Moon on your table, and tonight's clouds. On iPad, parks in their own windows and drag and drop. Also new: a map of every park tonight, four Learn essays, and From home tonight. Still no account, no ads, no tracking.