• We’ve made it clearer whether a message is read or unread.

• We’ve updated our brand identity to better reflect our growth. We hope you like our new style as much as we do! • Don’t worry – we’re still the same underneath and you’ll find everything in the same place. • Read our blog to find out more about why we’ve made this change.

We’ve updated the various bits of third-party software used in the app. This translates to improvements across the board. Yay!

• We’ve squash a bug that sometimes meant you couldn’t choose your child’s date of birth.

• We fixed an issue where the app might crash if you’re on iOS 16.

• You can now see which children your messages relate to.

• You can now see which children your messages relate to.

• If you're on iOS 13, your Studybugs app might've been confused and stopped push notifications from coming through to you. We've had a word with your Studybugs app to clear that up and push notifications are back.

• When moving to a new iPhone and restoring from an iTunes backup, push notifications might have stopped working properly in Studybugs. We’ve fixed that now. • When reporting an absence, sometimes you’d tap on a suggestion and nothing would happen. We’ve fixed that too.

• We’ve squashed a bug where those on older 32-bit iPhones (such as the iPhone 5 or 5C) would sometimes be unable to add their children to Studybugs.

• We’ve improved accessibility so apps like VoiceOver are now able to read the screen more easily. • In line with new EU data protection legislation, we’ll now ask for your consent to process certain data you provide to us.

• We’ve improved accessibility so apps like VoiceOver are now able to read the screen more easily. • In line with new EU data protection legislation, we’ll now ask for your consent to process certain data you provide to us.

• When adding twins to Studybugs, the app wouldn't accept the second twin’s date of birth. We’ve fixed that now. • Announcements, newsletters and notices from the school no longer show as being sent ‘To’ the school.

• Sometimes Public Health England absence guidance footnotes would be partially hidden. This is no longer the case.

• Public Health England absence guidance is now more prominent, so you don’t miss it.

• Now with support for the new iPhone X, for those lucky enough to have one already.

• If, like us, you recently updated to iOS 11, you may have been surprised to find you could no longer read your messages in Studybugs. We've fixed that now and normal service will resume presently. • When you receive newsletters, pictures, reports and other files, notifications will now include a small preview pic (depending on the kind of file, and provided you’re running iOS 10 or later).

3.4.1 • When you receive newsletters, pictures, reports and other files, notifications will now include a small preview pic (depending on the kind of file, and provided you’re running iOS 10 or later). 3.4 • You can now receive newsletters, reports, pictures and other files from your children’s schools directly through the Studybugs app. Enjoy!

3.4 • You can now receive newsletters, reports, pictures and other files from your children’s schools directly through the Studybugs app. Enjoy!

3.3 • If you report your child is ill with asthma, you can now help the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital and Brighton and Sussex Medical School improve treatment of asthma by answering four short (and optional!) questions. All answers passed on anonymously. See https://everychildisdifferent.org/inspire for background.

3.2 • You can now send any kind of message (not just absence reports!) to your children’s schools and receive replies and instant notifications via the app. • Schools will soon be able to use Studybugs to send out things like newsletters and announcements. In advance of this, we’ve added a page where you can toggle notifications on or off by category, so you don’t get overloaded. • We’ve also fixed a few obscure errors which have been reported (sorry!) and made various small usability improvements.

• You can now report absence for any school in the UK, and we’ll make sure they get the message. • There’s now a big green tick after reporting absence to make it even easier to see we’ve got your message (there’s also a big red cross when something’s gone wrong… but of course you’ll never see that). • We’ve made it simpler to register by removing the 'repeat password' field. After all, no one likes repeating themselves, and you can always use the 'forgot password' option if you forget, right?

Studybugs is the new name for Sickly! You’ll see our new name and logo now throughout the app. Also in this release: • Fixed: Sometimes you’d go back to view a message you’d sent and find it had been cut short. Although the full message had been sent, you’d’ve been forgiven for thinking otherwise. Now your full messages reliably appear in all their glory. • Fixed: When searching for your child’s school we now always show the town, so there’s no doubt about exactly which St Peter’s Primary you’re looking at. • Numerous other usability improvements which we hope you’ll like, or better still not even notice.

We’ve redesigned and simplified the app and added free instant messaging: • Receive instant messages from your children’s schools • Send instant replies free of charge • New main screen helps keep your conversations organised After updating, please open the Sickly app and enable push notifications when prompted.

• Now you can edit your details and your children’s details via the app • School search improved to handle the growing list of schools on Sickly