Practice is one tap away. Open a track and a Practice button is waiting in the header, on iPhone, iPad and Mac alike, where it used to be tucked away in the ⋯ menu. Give it a loop and it plays the passage over and over while the speed climbs, from slow to tempo. Start a ramp and the button becomes a live readout: which repetition you are on, the speed you are hearing, filling up as you go, with a stop button right beside it. Put the Practice panel away and keep your eyes on the waveform; the header still tells you where you are. The header's buttons now share one shape and size, so the top of the screen reads as one set of controls. Mark a passage and it loops straight away; playback no longer runs on past the passage you just marked. Tap the loop button if you only wanted to mark it. Scrub through a track by dragging the handle on the playhead, halfway down the waveform beside the loop's handles; with a video open, the picture changes as your finger moves. To move a loop, drag it from anywhere inside it; it keeps its length. Drag its edges to resize it, and drag outside it to mark a new passage, as before. A click or tap inside the loop still just moves the playhead. The transport buttons are bigger and easier to hit on iPhone and iPad, and the readouts beneath them now sit on one line, so the controls you press most get the room. On iPhone the buttons stretch across the bar, and the zoom buttons make way for them; pinch to zoom. On iPhone and iPad, every panel (Practice, Settings, the shortcut reference and About) now has a close button in its top corner, so the way back to your track is always in sight. Fixed: tapping one of Practice's number fields on iPhone could freeze the app instead of bringing up the keyboard. Fixed: stopping a ramp now stops playback too, rather than leaving the passage playing.

See the hands as well as hear them. Open a video — a lesson or a performance you have on your device — and its picture now sits beside the waveform, always showing the moment you are hearing: slow it down and the picture slows with it, loop a passage and it jumps back with the sound, pause and it shows the exact frame at the playhead, so you can step through a fast run and see every chord shape. Drag the handle between the video and the waveform to give the picture more room once your loop is set. Prefer it above the waveform? Settings ▸ Video. Tap the film button to hide it. Switch to another app while a video plays and it carries on in Picture in Picture, with play and pause right there.

Looping in one step. Drag across the waveform to mark a passage, then tap Loop — that is the whole of it. Drag a new passage while looping and it loops straight away. Loop edges carry grip handles and are easier to catch with a finger, and a tap only moves the playhead, so a loop you set is never cleared by accident. On iPhone and iPad, Clear Loop is in the ⋯ menu and on a long press of the Loop button. Tap the overview strip at the top to jump the playhead there. Fixed: after switching to another music app and back, pressing play could fail with "Playback did not start". It now plays.

Open videos. MP4, MOV and M4V files now open directly. Artscripture uses the soundtrack, so a lesson filmed on your phone or a clip you saved loops and slows down like any other track. Fixed: some AAC audio, including many Instagram and YouTube soundtracks, played at half speed and an octave low. It now plays at its real speed and pitch.