• Ability to search YouTube directly from the Add Video screen and add videos to Play without leaving the app. • AI Assistant now responds using your preferred app language and regional conventions. • Channels imported from OPML files will now properly load their thumbnails.

• Added OPML import for Channels Inbox, making it easy to bring your followed channels back into Play from an exported OPML file. • Your Play library is now reliably indexed in Spotlight, making it easier to find and access from anywhere. • Improved the Add Video shortcut so its completion message shows the title of the video that was added instead of a generic confirmation. • Fixed an issue where the Add Video shortcut couldn’t ask which tags to apply when running from Shortcuts.

THIS VERSION: • Fixed an issue where some changes made through Shortcuts might not be saved after restarting Play. GENERAL: • The “Unwatched Only” filter is now always visible in the top-right corner of the navigation bar for easier access. • Added support for copying and pasting tags between items. • Added support for copying and pasting custom colors when creating or editing tag, smart search, and folders. • Added support for duplicating auto-tagging conditions. • Added 187 new icons to customize your tags, smart search, and folders. SHORTCUTS AND WIDGETS: • Expanded Shortcuts support so you can add, edit, open, tag, and delete videos more easily. • Added better tag support in Shortcuts, including finding tags and applying them to videos. • Improved Shortcuts reliability across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. • Cleaned up outdated shortcut and widget options for a simpler experience. FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS: • Channels Inbox now waits for iCloud sync before refreshing, helping prevent outdated items from reappearing. • Fixed a crash when importing large Google Takeout subscription files. • Fixed an issue where creator counts in “New by Creator” could stay outdated after watching a video. • Also made smaller improvements and fixes to keep Play running more smoothly.

GENERAL: • The “Unwatched Only” filter is now always visible in the top-right corner of the navigation bar for easier access. • Added support for copying and pasting tags between items. • Added support for copying and pasting custom colors when creating or editing tag, smart search, and folders. • Added support for duplicating auto-tagging conditions. • Added 187 new icons to customize your tags, smart search, and folders. SHORTCUTS AND WIDGETS: • Expanded Shortcuts support so you can add, edit, open, tag, and delete videos more easily. • Added better tag support in Shortcuts, including finding tags and applying them to videos. • Improved Shortcuts reliability across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. • Cleaned up outdated shortcut and widget options for a simpler experience. FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS: • Channels Inbox now waits for iCloud sync before refreshing, helping prevent outdated items from reappearing. • Fixed a crash when importing large Google Takeout subscription files. • Fixed an issue where creator counts in “New by Creator” could stay outdated after watching a video. • Also made smaller improvements and fixes to keep Play running more smoothly.

• The Play Safari extension now takes you straight to the video’s details after adding it, so you can tag it, add notes, or start watching right away. • New URL Scheme: Add and View. Use play://add-and-open?url= to add a video to your library and immediately open its details — perfect for Shortcuts and other automation workflows. Check Settings → User Guide for all supported URL schemes. • Resolved some issues that could cause the app to crash on startup. • Improved performance when loading sidebar items.

• You can now customize Channel Inbox folders with your own colors and icons. • Several performance improvements for large libraries. • Bug fixes.

• The notes editor is now much more capable for detailed video notes: - It now fully utilizes the entire screen height for better content visibility. - Editing tools now appear directly above the keyboard for faster writing. - You can format text with Markdown and add links more easily. - New tool for quickly referencing tags and other videos. - Ability to preview your Markdown document and export it as a Markdown file. • Ability to create a new tag directly while adding tags to a Tag Folder.

• Added a new option in Channels Inbox to hide folders with no new videos, making it easier to focus on folders that currently need your attention. • Fixed an issue in Channels Inbox where deleting a video from its context menu while in Edit mode could delete the selected videos instead of the video you pressed.

Enhanced and expanded localization support for additional languages.

• 搜索现在会在你正在查看的列表中开始，结果更快更贴合你的需求，并可切换回搜索全站。搜索筛选器也已重新设计，更易浏览与调整。 • 已修复问题：Play 无法获取 TED 演讲的元数据。

• Play now appears in more places in the iOS share sheet, making it easier to save videos and links from other apps. • Fixed an issue on iOS 18 where creating a bookmark during video playback could fail.

• New gesture! Swipe up on the currently playing YouTube video to enter full screen. • Search results can now be narrowed to a specific tag, making it easier to find the exact saved videos you’re looking for. • The Manage Videos view in Settings can now also filter results by a specific tag. • Shortcuts: Ability to choose a tag folder when creating a tag via the Create Tag action, and it also returns a deep link to the new tag.

• All video lists now support continuous in-app playback, so you can watch videos in sequence without leaving Play. • Transcripts can now be kept in sync with video. • Added the ability to copy a channel’s “all uploads” playlist URL, which you can use to import every video from that channel. • Added YouTube account connection status in Settings, so you can immediately see whether your YouTube account is signed in or not.

• You can now reorder sections on your start screen/sidebar. Tap the Edit button in the top-right to customize. • Fixed an issue where the keyboard did not show the space key in the text field used for entering a URL or searching for a channel. • Fixed an issue where videos added from the Share Sheet could fail to immediately appear in Play after returning to the app.

• You can now reorder sections on your start screen/sidebar. Tap the Edit button in the top-right to customize. • Fixed an issue where the keyboard did not show the space key in the text field used for entering a URL or searching for a channel.

• 现在可通过“+”按钮将视频拖到 Play，已集中入口以防误触。 • 修复了部分情况下从“分享”面板或“快捷指令”添加视频可能失败的问题。

• You can now touch and hold the + button to reveal a menu with options to quickly create a Tag, Smart Search, Auto-Tagging rule, or follow a channel. • Improved channel suggestions when creating Auto-Tagging conditions. It now suggests both channels found in your saved videos and channels you follow in Channels Inbox.

• Play 现在可免费下载，所有用户都可以开始使用核心体验。所有付费功能现已归入 Play Premium，使购买更加清晰、也更易于管理。 • 新增将视频字幕导出为 .txt 文件的功能。

滚动视频列表时的性能改进。

• Managing Channels Inbox filters is now simpler, with a new easy-to-use editor replacing the previous inline text fields for filtering by title and description. • Fixed an issue where Show Full Title in Settings → Video List wasn’t applied consistently.

• New Safari extension for quickly adding the current page to Play. Tip: use the Control-Option-P keyboard shortcut for even faster access! • Support for TikTok videos. • You can now navigate between videos in the Channels Inbox directly from the player, without exiting the player view. • Fixed an issue where the video count in the list subtitle did not update after adding or removing videos.

• Play now fully supports landscape orientation on iPhone, allowing you to browse your video list without switching back to portrait mode. • Added the ability to randomize a list, making it easier to get a fresh perspective when choosing the next video to watch.

VIDEO PLAYER: • Rotating iPhone to landscape now automatically enters fullscreen when a video is playing (configure in Settings → Video Player). • Fix VoiceOver Magic Tap not resuming video playback. VIDEO METADATA: • Scheduled videos that didn’t have a duration available when they were added will now automatically update their metadata. • Added the ability to manually refresh video metadata. • Option to hide the AI Assistant menu in Settings → Video Details. CHANNELS INBOX: • Improved VoiceOver accessibility in Channels Inbox. • Fixed an issue where shorts were not properly hidden for some channels in Channels Inbox. PERFORMANCE: • Improved app launch speed and faster switching between lists. • Improved performance when importing channels from a Google Takeout file.

NEW: AI ASSISTANT Generate concise, detailed, or simplified video summaries, ask questions about the video, and find exactly what you need: • Concise Summary: Get a quick overview of the video, perfect for understanding the core idea in seconds. • Detailed Summary: Dive deeper with a structured breakdown of the video’s main topics, key points, and important details. • Simple Explanation: A plain-language explanation that makes even complex topics easy to understand, designed for viewers with little or no prior knowledge. • Ask a Question: Ask anything about the video and get accurate answers. AI Assistant is available to Play Premium subscribers on devices that support Apple Intelligence. IMPROVED • Ability to sort the New by Creator section by name or video count. • Tag folders now display the total video count as a badge in the sidebar. • Play now remembers the last selected color when creating Smart Searches, making it easier to create multiple items with the same color. APP SHORTCUTS • New Shortcuts action to retrieve the currently playing item (Get Currently Playing Video). BUG FIXES • Fixed an issue where deleting a video from the detail view while searching would leave a blank item in the search results.

• New Shortcut action to retrieve all bookmarks from a video. • Smart Search now supports the * wildcard in the Notes field, allowing you to filter items that have notes. • Channel thumbnails that fail to load are now automatically refreshed from YouTube. • Fixed an issue where deleting videos from search results would show blank cells instead of removing them from the list.