Alerts: Sextant can now tell you when to look up. • Pass alerts: star a satellite on its card and you'll get a heads-up a few minutes before every pass you can actually see, with when, from where to where, how high and how bright. Five minutes by default; you choose. Star the ISS and never miss it again. • Tonight's highlights: one line at sunset, only on the nights with something worth going out for. A meteor shower at its peak, the Moon sitting beside a planet, two planets at their closest, a comet bright enough to find, a brilliant space station pass. • Favourites: anything you star is at the top of search. • Private, like everything else here: alerts are worked out on your phone. Nothing is sent anywhere, and there's still no account. And a long list of things that just work better: • Visible tonight knows what time it is. What's already been and gone is dimmed and moved out of the way, and satellites show their next pass rather than one you've missed. • The detail card no longer covers the thing it's describing: it sits along the bottom, or down the side when your phone is turned, and the sky moves over to keep its object in view. • The name pill has an X to let go and an i for details. • Fewer satellite names crowding the sky: the famous ones, the one you're looking at and the brightest few. The rest keep their trails. • Tap the place or the satellite readout at the top to see what it means, and to type in a location if you'd rather not share yours. • Times follow your phone's 12- or 24-hour setting everywhere. • Visible tonight leads with what's up right now. • A satellite you've picked is always on screen, even before it rises or while it's in Earth's shadow, and the app says when you'll next see it. • Flick the sky and it glides to a stop. A small tap under your finger when you pick something. • Names no longer run off the edge of the screen or hide under the name pill. • Search has the room it should when the keyboard is up. • Bigger buttons, for cold hands in the dark.

Fixes a bug in 1.1 where turning the phone between portrait and landscape left half the screen black. Sextant fills the screen in both orientations again, and the controls stay clear of the Dynamic Island.

Comets, meteor showers, and a much better search. • Comets: orbits from the Minor Planet Center, refreshed weekly. Bright ones appear on the sky with a tail pointing away from the Sun, and every comet's card says when it will be at its brightest. • Meteor showers: all 37 on the International Meteor Organization's calendar. Radiants are marked while a shower is on, and near a good peak Visible tonight tells you how many an hour, how much the Moon will get in the way, and when the radiant is up. • Search: browse by kind, results grouped, sort by brightness or by how high things are, show only what's up now or what you can see without binoculars. Recent searches, and a button back to your results. Every row says when it next rises, sets or passes over. • Next chance: anything that isn't up tonight tells you the next night it is, and takes you there. • A clearer top bar that stays out of the Dynamic Island, a wider view in point mode, and a slider for how faint the stars go.