The evening reminder no longer says the same thing every day. It led with the money you have kept, every single night. It now carries a different true figure each evening: what you have kept, how far into a run you are, what you have not had, and what it all saves you in a year. It only repeats when there is genuinely nothing else to say. Setting a reminder for one habit is now on the front of the form. It was there before, tucked under More options, so most people never found it. It sits with everything else now, as a switch you can see, and that habit is nudged by name at the time you pick. A habit can no longer show more days clean than it counts in total. If you stopped and slipped on the same day, the big number and the total underneath it could disagree. They now agree.

The button that records your day is now impossible to miss. On a habit you have started, recording today was a faint line of text at the bottom of the page. It is now a full width button, and it turns green and reads Done today once the day is in. Your habits can be shown as stopped, started, or all of them. The Habits tab used to list everything in one run with nothing to say which was which. It now carries the same three way switch that Today has. Setting a daily target is now a switch you can see. On the form for something you have started, the daily target was a line of small print that happened to be tappable. It is a proper switch now, and it is named for what it does. The top bar no longer follows you down the page. It used to stay fixed while you scrolled, which covered the name of whichever habit you had reached. It scrolls away with everything else now, so you see more of your days at once.

A quiet line of help, the first time you need it. The first time you add a habit, put right a day that has passed, mark a day you could not manage, set a money goal or open your wall of days, one short line tells you what that screen does. It shows once and then it is gone for good. The months above your wall now match the days underneath them. Scroll back through your history and the months travel with it, and the year appears once you go far enough back. They used to sit still and name the wrong dates on any habit older than about six months. Your days no longer flicker when the screen opens. The wall used to draw itself very small for an instant and then jump to size.

Choosing how a habit counts is where you would look for it. "Count every day" used to be tucked away under More options while you were adding a habit, and it went by a different name there than it does inside the habit itself. It sits on the main form now, for something you stopped and something you started, called the same thing in both places. You no longer have to save a habit and go back into it to find it. Moving a habit into a new order is smooth. Hold a habit, move it, let go. The list used to show the old order for a moment and then switch. It holds the new order from the moment you lift your finger.

Your habits have their own tab. Every habit, every day since you started, one under the other. You can see the one that is going wrong without opening anything, and you can tap any day to put it right. There is a button at the top if you would rather see them as cards. Today is just today again. It had grown into the day, every habit, your sleep, your money and your goals on one screen. The habits have their own place now, so it is shorter. Your year, in squares. Twelve months on one page, with the figures underneath. The things you started have caught up. They get a best ever record, an anniversary and a day one, which only the things you stopped used to have. They can save you money too, and pay into something you want. It counts the days you actually did it, never the days that went past. Your reason for stopping is finally shown to you. The app asked why you were stopping, saved your answer, and then showed it to nobody. It is on the habit page now, where you will see it. The update pop-up works. It had never once appeared for anybody who already had habits on their phone. It tells you when there is a newer version now, and looks again whenever you come back to the app. And some smaller ones. A habit you do a few times a week says where it is, so you get "2 of 3 this week. One more by Sunday." There is a quiet line when a habit starts to slip. Your sleep sits next to your habits on the week page. Your badges have a total. Nine single exercises were added, and the search box has room to type in.

Twelve weeks of days, under your counter. The habit page showed the current week, so on a Monday it was one mark and six blanks. It shows the last twelve weeks now, in rows, so the shape of the whole run is there at a glance. Your badges and your calendar come first. Both sat near the bottom, below everything about your body. They are the two things people open a habit to look at, so they are directly under the counter. How long until the next change, in months. "1216d 17h 18m" is not a number anybody can picture. It reads "3 years 4 months" now, and gets more precise as the day gets closer. The circle beside it is a bar, which is what a fraction should look like. And a smaller one. The note about stopping alcohol with a doctor shows for the first three days rather than the first two weeks. Those are the days it is about. Put a price on something you want. A thing on your list can carry what it costs, and it fills on its own from the money you are not spending on the habits you have stopped. It counts from the day you add the price, and it tells you the month it lands in. And more for free. Three habits and two goals, up from two and one.

Every reminder now carries a number that is yours. The evening nudge used to ask "how did today go?". It says what you have kept instead - the whole total, across everything you have stopped - and it counts in your own currency. There is a new one for the day you cross a round figure, and the milestone message carries the money and the count alongside the day. A habit page you can read. The counter is a plain figure now rather than a ring around one, with what you have kept, what you have avoided, your best run and your slips beside it. What your body is doing has come up from the bottom of the page to the top, where it is worth reading. The first screen offers the choice. Opening the app with nothing in it used to show a large picture of the app icon and one button. It offers the things people actually stop, and one tap starts the counter. The same on Goals. And a few smaller ones. The sleep card says which night each bar is. A slip now tells you what it has not cost you. The backup buttons no longer flicker when you press Save now.

Days Strong can tell you when there is a newer one. Everything here lives on your own device, which is the point of it - but it also means an update you never installed is a fix you never got. The app now asks the App Store once a day, and if something is waiting it says so and takes you straight there. One tap, or not now, and it will not nag. Units a day takes a decimal. Half a gram. A gram and a half. Two and a half units. The keypad would only offer whole numbers, which is fine for cigarettes and no use at all for anything measured properly. And nothing gets selected by accident any more. Holding a habit picks it up to move it, the way it should, with no copy menu appearing over the top and nothing lifting out of the page under your finger.

New widgets, and they finally have some colour in them. A ring that fills as the day goes by and closes when you have earned another one, in your habit's own colour, with the count inside it. Small, medium and large - and the large one adds up what all of it has saved you. Press and hold a habit to drag it into the order you want. Your list, in your order, on Today and in the grid. The one you check first can sit at the top where it belongs. Delete everything, if you ever want to. Under You, in Backup. It clears this device and removes the automatic backup from your iCloud, both at once - because deleting the app on its own never removed the second one. It asks you to type the word first, and there is no undo, which is the point. The rate button now actually opens the App Store. It said thank you and did nothing, and quietly stopped ever asking you again. If that happened to you, this update gives you back the ask you never spent. And a stubborn one: on some phones a strip of the page could show through the top of the screen while scrolling. Gone.

Backdate a habit and every day comes back green. Add something you stopped two years ago and the calendar now fills itself in, all the way back, on both kinds of habit. It was showing the counter and an empty month, which is the opposite of the promise this app makes. A hundred and eleven templates, up from sixty-seven. Prayer, scripture, a service, fasting, giving - none of them tied to one faith. Dinner together, calling your parents, playing with the kids. And the ones nobody else puts in a habit app: cocaine, ketamine, heroin, painkillers, sleeping pills, betting apps. And a search bar on every list, which understands the words you would actually type. Weed finds cannabis. Coke finds cocaine. Salah, namaz and rosary all find prayer. As always: forgetting to open the app can never cost you a streak, and a slip never erases your history.

One way of counting, for both kinds of habit. Something you have stopped and something you have started now work exactly the same way. Open any habit and there is one button: Count every day from today. Turn it on and the app keeps the run going for you. Leave it off and you mark each day yourself, which some people much prefer. Nothing is ever marked on your behalf unless you ask for it, and switching that button on or off never touches a single day you have already recorded. Also in this one: a day with nothing recorded is grey rather than red, so only a slip you actually wrote down is red. Goals open on the proper screen. Links in the app take you to the exact page rather than dropping you on a tab. And the bar at the bottom no longer sits over the last line of a page. As always: forgetting to open the app can never cost you a streak, and a slip never erases your history.