Introducing the Art Clock: Lotus Pond, Starry Night and Auspicious Cranes share one place and switch with a tap. Animated brushstrokes and flying cranes form the time. Numerals and motion have been refined for clearer reading.

This release gives time new places to live. Birds settle on wires and fish descend beneath the water. They are no longer pictures simply following paths: birds beat their wings, look around, take off and land; a fish sends a wave from head to tail and truly swims through a curve when it turns. Each form and colour keeps its own digit. Shade Clock is new. Paper is cut into squares that turn on different axes; cubes roll through light and dark faces; complete figures rotate in from the side. Three structures share one light, and each uses its shadow to reveal the time. Block Clock now wears darker industrial titanium, with narrow highlights, cool side faces, fine joints and contact shadows that set every piece down in space. You can now take a minute with you. Tap Share and Needless Clock waits for the change, records the part worth seeing, and makes it into a film ready to save or send. This release also brings the clock to Mac and Apple TV, with type, composition, controls and pacing remade for larger screens. Animation now draws only when something truly moves, and fish returning home, clock-to-clock transitions, shadows and long-running performance are all calmer and more natural.

The ants, drawn again. All thirty-two pieces of them are new artwork — rounder, softer, and drawn a fifth larger, so you can see what they are doing. They wear the colour they were painted in now, rather than a darkened copy of it, and the biscuit they carry is a plain butter finger. A bar gets half a minute to be carried, which is what one ant pulling on its own actually needs. It used to get fifteen seconds, and the last few bars were still in the air when the minute turned — they arrived in their slots by appearing there. An ant leans into a bend and slows for it. It walks up to the bar it means to lift rather than sliding into place sideways, and it stands with the front of its head against the bar instead of inside it. Two teams that want the same patch of paper no longer both stand on it and wait; one of them sends a single ant to drag from the far end. Ten ants now rather than eight, and one arriving to replace a worker comes in along the left, the top or the bottom rather than filing in from one side. Also: Lattice Clock opens on iOS 17 again, and a car reversing out of its bay signals which way it is going.

Two new clocks, and a time zone of your own. Block Clock — the time is built out of falling tetrominoes, four wells of them, each three blocks square and six high, in an arcade cabinet that also shows the next piece, the date and the seconds. Tap it to change what the blocks are made of: moulded plastic, wood or milled steel. Lattice Clock — strips slide across a perforated panel behind glass, and where two cross you can see the overlap. Tap it and the same time is told another way: forty-eight rods hinged between caps in four lit panels. The ants have been drawn again from above, with legs you can see. They turn on the spot instead of sliding, and the next team sets off while the last is still setting its bar down. Time zone — follow the device, or hold the clock at any offset from GMT, for a room that keeps another city's time. Eleven clocks, thirty-six designs.

The car park works out its own dusk from where the sun actually is, so it darkens when your sky does — early in December, late in June. Turn on the location setting and it follows the sunset where you are. It stays off unless you ask for it, and nothing leaves your device. The ants' biscuits and rock sugar stand a little off the paper, and a bar being carried casts a lighter shadow than one lying on the ground. Nine clocks, thirty-one designs.

Three new clocks, a settings panel, and the app in 22 languages. NEW CLOCKS Sundial Clock - a gnomon's shadow crosses a paper dial in the dappled light under a tree. Clock Wall - a wall of small clock faces turns its hands until the digits appear. Word Clock - a lit glass panel spells the time out in words. Ten clocks in all, up from seven. SETTINGS Dim at night, with your own hours and dimming depth. Rotate through the clocks you choose, from every minute to every hour. Keep the screen on. Show or hide the title, date and time zone. LANGUAGES Now 22, adding German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai, Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish. ARTWORK Every backdrop redrawn at full resolution: asphalt, warehouse floor, the kinetic wall, the sundial's paper. Five different cars in the car park instead of one, parked differently on every device. Crates in four materials, and a crate keeps its material when a forklift moves it. The worker clock rebuilt as a warehouse floor seen from above. The word clock's lit letters now give off light. MOTION AND FIXES The calligraphy brush paces itself the way running script is written. The kinetic array's hands land the way a geared motor puts them down. Ants carrying neighbouring biscuits take separate routes instead of bunching up, and a biscuit fetched from outside sets off straight away rather than waiting. A carried crate no longer blinks out, and crates sit properly on the floor. A carried parcel turns with the courier carrying it. The time stays readable on an iPad held upright.