NEW IN 1.5.2 • HOLD's App Store page now reads in French, in Spanish for Spain and in British English. Nothing in the app has changed. FIXED IN 1.5.1 • On iOS 26, extending a hold from the Lock Screen now moves its alarm too. Before, the alarm could still go off at the old end time, and HOLD could end the hold early. NEW IN 1.5 • Share a countdown. Send any countdown as a link: on an iPhone with HOLD it opens ready to save, and anywhere else it shows the days left in the browser. • Share when a hold ends. From a running hold, send "Parking ends at 3:40 PM." with one tap. • Birthdays from Contacts. Pick people, and their birthdays become countdowns that repeat every year. HOLD sees only the people you pick and never asks for access to your contacts. • A large Event Countdown widget, with up to four of your countdowns. • With Pro, each countdown can have its own colour. • Fewer ads, at better moments: at most one per hold, none within 2 minutes of the last one, and no more than 8 a day. And a free hold can run alongside another if you watch a short video. HOLD IS FREE TO KEEP USING. Your first 5 holds are ad-free; after that, each new hold plays at most one short ad, and HOLD Pro removes the ads.

FIXED IN 1.5.1 • On iOS 26, extending a hold from the Lock Screen now moves its alarm too. Before, the alarm could still go off at the old end time, and HOLD could end the hold early. NEW IN 1.5 • Share a countdown. Send any countdown as a link: on an iPhone with HOLD it opens ready to save, and anywhere else it shows the days left in the browser. • Share when a hold ends. From a running hold, send "Parking ends at 3:40 PM." with one tap. • Birthdays from Contacts. Pick people, and their birthdays become countdowns that repeat every year. HOLD sees only the people you pick and never asks for access to your contacts. • A large Event Countdown widget, with up to four of your countdowns. • With Pro, each countdown can have its own colour. • Fewer ads, at better moments: at most one per hold, none within 2 minutes of the last one, and no more than 8 a day. And a free hold can run alongside another if you watch a short video. HOLD IS FREE TO KEEP USING. Your first 5 holds are ad-free; after that, each new hold plays at most one short ad, and HOLD Pro removes the ads.

NEW IN 1.5 • Share a countdown. Send any countdown as a link: on an iPhone with HOLD it opens ready to save, and anywhere else it shows the days left in the browser. • Share when a hold ends. From a running hold, send "Parking ends at 3:40 PM." with one tap. • Birthdays from Contacts. Pick people, and their birthdays become countdowns that repeat every year. HOLD sees only the people you pick and never asks for access to your contacts. • A large Event Countdown widget, with up to four of your countdowns. • With Pro, each countdown can have its own colour. • Fewer ads, at better moments: at most one per hold, none within 2 minutes of the last one, and no more than 8 a day. And a free hold can run alongside another if you watch a short video. HOLD IS FREE TO KEEP USING. Your first 5 holds are ad-free; after that, each new hold plays at most one short ad, and HOLD Pro removes the ads.

NEW IN 1.4.1 • Links now open the right screen even when HOLD wasn't already running. Tap the Event Countdown widget and you land on your events; open a holiday event from the App Store and NEW EVENT opens already filled in. HOLD IS FREE TO KEEP USING. Your first 5 holds are ad-free; after that, each new hold plays a short ad once it has started, and HOLD Pro removes the ads.

NEW IN 1.4.0 • Start a hold without opening HOLD. Add the Start a Hold control to Control Center or the Lock Screen, or set it on the Action button, and pick its pad: PARKING in place of the flashlight. Controls need iOS 18. • Or ask Siri: "Start Parking in HOLD". Saved pads work too, and the same shortcut is in Spotlight and the Shortcuts app. • The Quick Start widget puts four pads on your Home Screen. Tap one and it starts. • Countdowns can come back every year. Switch on REPEATS EVERY YEAR for a birthday or an anniversary, and HOLD counts the years. • A new event can start from CHRISTMAS, NEW YEAR, VALENTINE'S, HALLOWEEN or THANKSGIVING, dated for you. ALSO IN THIS UPDATE • Below iOS 26, a hold's alert is now Time Sensitive, so it can break through a Focus. • Pro bought outside the app unlocks straight away: an offer code redeemed in the App Store, or a purchase approved later with Ask to Buy. • Adding a date countdown: once the date is in, HOLD tells you to tap TIME, instead of asking for the hour while the keypad is still on the date. • RATE HOLD ON THE APP STORE is in the menu. HOLD IS FREE TO KEEP USING. Your first 5 holds are ad-free; after that, each new hold plays a short ad once it has started, and HOLD Pro removes the ads.

HOLD IS FREE TO KEEP USING. Your first 5 holds are ad-free; after that, each new hold plays a short ad once it has started, and HOLD Pro removes the ads. NEW IN 1.3.1 • The ad on a free hold now loads in time to play as the hold starts, instead of being missed. An ad that has gone stale is replaced, never shown. IN CASE YOU MISSED 1.3.0 • Free holds no longer stop at 5. After your 5 ad-free holds, a short ad from Google plays after each hold starts — never before it, and never on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, in widgets or in notifications. • HOLD Pro removes every ad, and still runs up to 3 holds at once, saves your own pads and edits the 8 presets. • Using HOLD from before the free-hold limit arrived? Nothing changes for you: you never see an ad. • Ads are never personalized, and HOLD never asks to track you. • Menu has REPORT AN AD, and AD PRIVACY CHOICES where your region requires one. • Pro is recognised when you open HOLD with no signal, and Settings scrolls on smaller iPhones.

HOLD IS NOW FREE TO KEEP USING. The 5-hold limit is gone. Your first 5 holds are still ad-free; after that, each new hold plays a short ad once it has started, and HOLD Pro removes the ads. WHAT CHANGED • Free holds no longer stop at 5. After your 5 ad-free holds, a short ad from Google plays after each hold starts — never before it, and never on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, in widgets or in notifications. • HOLD Pro removes every ad, and still runs up to 3 holds at once, saves your own pads and edits the 8 presets. • Using HOLD from before the free-hold limit arrived? Nothing changes for you: you never see an ad. • Ads are never personalized, and HOLD never asks to track you. • Menu has REPORT AN AD, and AD PRIVACY CHOICES where your region requires one. FIXED • Pro is recognised when you open HOLD with no signal. • Settings scrolls on smaller iPhones.

HOLD PRO NOW RUNS THREE HOLDS AT ONCE. The laundry, the oven and the meter, each with its own Lock Screen controls and its own alarm. WHAT CHANGED • Pro runs up to 3 holds at once. Free runs one at a time, as before. • Saving your own pads and editing the 8 presets are now part of Pro. Pads and edits you already made stay yours to run, edit and delete. • The 5 free holds count every hold, however you start it, including from the keypad. A NEW LOOK • A new icon: bold amber, readable at any size, with dark and tinted versions for iOS 18 and later. • A real seven-segment display on the Home, running and expiry screens. • Your next countdown is a big glowing number of days, at the top of Events. • The Pro screen opens with the price, and says what Pro adds when something you tapped needs it. • The extend buttons are big and in the pad’s own colour, and the main buttons are solid. • The free-hold meter is five lights you can read at a glance. • The privacy policy and terms of use are one tap away, in Settings and on the Pro screen. FIXED • The keypad no longer sits under the clock on taller iPhones. • Tapping the Event Countdown widget opens Events. • "iOS WILL ASK NEXT" no longer comes back after you have allowed alerts. • On iOS 16, HOLD no longer starts a Lock Screen Live Activity it cannot draw. • When the App Store can’t be reached, the Pro screen says so and lets you try again. • VoiceOver reads the countdown as a time, and button labels meet WCAG AA contrast in every pad colour.

ALREADY USING HOLD? NOTHING CHANGES FOR YOU. This version adds a five-hold free trial for new installs. If you already have HOLD, you keep unlimited holds permanently, at no cost — you'll see UNMETERED HOLDS above the START button where the counter would be. Nothing you made is taken away. FIXED • The expanded Dynamic Island showed "1 hour..." instead of digits. It now reads 1:59:43, the same as the Lock Screen. • Compatibility with the latest iOS. EASIER TO READ • Every label in the app is brighter, including the small print you read at arm's length in daylight. • The ink and mark swatches in the keypad are bigger and easier to hit. • A running hold now shows its pad's note instead of empty space, and the progress bar is thick enough to see at a glance. • TEMPLATES and MY PADS are now simply PADS and YOUR PADS — one word for one thing. HOLD PRO, ONE PURCHASE Unlimited holds, 50 saved pads instead of 8, 10 date countdowns instead of 1, ending a hold at a clock time rather than after a duration, and your own colour and mark on every pad. No subscription.