# On This Day 1.5 Release Notes Your photos can be displayed in a merged grid instead of a stack of years, your shared text (on the image) can carry any date you want, and some fixes for the widgets. Highlights - One merged grid: every year in a single grid, with a small badge where each year starts (Pro) - Custom share text can include the date in any format you like - Reordered Settings: All grid settings now live under one Image Grid entry - Widgets no longer come up blank, and they show video thumbnails Merged grid (Pro) - Turn on Merged Grid in Settings to see every year as one grid. The rows fill up across the year boundary. - A small badge marks the first photo of each year. - If you limit the rows per year, that year ends with a tile that shows how many photos are hidden. Tap it to see the rest. (Pro) - The per-year layout stays. Leave the setting off and nothing changes. Settings - Column count, rows per year, merged grid, current year and sorting are together merged into Image Grid to cleanup the settings page a bit Share text - Custom share text accepts a date. Write [date:MMMM yyyy] for December 2024, or [date:EEEE] for the weekday. - Write [date] on its own to use the format you already picked. - Tap a chip under the text field to insert a token. You do not have to type the patterns. - The new help button lists every token and every format letter, with an example beside each. - The example under the field shows the real result as you type. Widgets - Widgets set to one or two photos could come up blank. They now draw at every size and count. - Videos appear as a still frame with a play symbol. A day with only videos is no longer empty. - Widgets refresh much faster. - The photo count you pick is respected. Choosing 1 on a Medium widget showed 2 before. - The Extra Large widget on iPad honors your count instead of always showing 10, and goes up to 12. - Photos in the Large and Extra Large layouts are sharper. Fullscreen - Full screen photos are sharper. They were loaded below the screen's real pixel size. - Videos download faster, and a progress bar shows how far along they are. Fixes & polish - A Live Photo held you in full screen. Swiping down to close it did nothing until the motion finished. - An empty day now offers Previous and Next buttons. They jump to the closest day that has photos. - Days with many photos scroll better and use less memory.

Live Photos play when you open them, the background takes on the colors of your photos, and you can finally tell the app which albums to leave alone -- all wrapped in a new look. ## Highlights - Live Photos play in fullscreen, with zoom while they play - Backgrounds pick up the colors of the photos on screen - Add photos to albums, or (Pro) skip albums you'd rather not see - A fresh look: tap a photo and it zooms open ## Live Photos - Live Photos play in the fullscreen viewer. - Pinch or double-tap to zoom while one is playing. - Audio follows your device's silent switch. - New "Live Photos" section in Settings to control playback. ## Ambient backgrounds - In the grid, the background follows the colors of the year you're viewing and updates as you scroll. - In fullscreen, it follows the photo you're looking at and shifts as you swipe. - Both can be turned off in Settings under Ambient Backgrounds. They hold still if you use Reduce Motion. ## Albums - Add a photo to an album from the fullscreen menu, or select several in the grid and add them together. - New (Pro): exclude albums in Photo Selection settings. Those photos are skipped in the grid and in your widgets. ## A new look - Tapping a tile zooms it open into fullscreen, and it shrinks back to the photo you swiped to. - The date navigator is now one glass capsule that morphs into the date picker, instead of three separate buttons. - The date, streak, and photo counters roll when they change. - Small touches: the favorite heart bounces, the streak bolt reacts when your streak grows. ## Grid and fullscreen - RAW and JPEG versions of the same shot share one tile instead of showing up twice. - Tap a video in fullscreen to show or hide the map and toolbar, the way photos already worked. - The "See more" button is easier to spot. - The grid loads faster and no longer double-loads on a cold start. ## Widgets - New option to open the app itself instead of the tapped photo. - Widgets skip any albums you've excluded. ## Fixes & polish - Videos deeper in the grid no longer get stuck on a loading placeholder -- this covers the cases that survived the 1.3 fix. - Clearer VoiceOver labels on the day switcher, photo tiles, and toolbars, and better behavior at large text sizes. - The loyalty unlock is now described correctly: 10 months of subscription unlocks Pro for good. - Deleting a batch of selected photos asks once instead of twice.

On This Day now understands time zones, can burn the date right onto shared photos, and gives you more control over how years are shown. Thanks to everyone who tested the betas — this one took a while. ## Highlights - Photos show the time zone they were actually taken in and can be "moved" to the correct days if time zones overlap - New (Pro): share a photo with the date drawn onto the image - Tidier years and relative dates ("3 years ago") ## Time zones - Photos can display in their original capture time zone, with a caption for foreign zones (e.g. "Los Angeles · PDT"). New "Time Zones" section under Fullscreen Date Format. - Optional banner offers to fix grid grouping when a photo landed on the wrong calendar day because of a time-zone difference. - New FAQ entry explaining how this works. ## Sharing - New (Pro): share a photo with the date drawn on as a Liquid Glass capsule, instead of or alongside the caption text (Settings → Image Share Setting). - The share sheet now previews the image. - Shared text includes the App Store link. - Cleaner sharing to Threema (text left off where it doesn't belong). ## Viewing - New: relative dates in fullscreen ("3 years ago"), via the new Fullscreen Date Format setting. - New (Pro): cap how many rows show per year, with a "See more" button. - Photos load faster and at higher resolution. ## Fixes & polish - Updated app icon. - Fixed a wrong time zone for photos taken at the same clock time in different zones. - Smoother fullscreen swipes; fixed stuck video placeholders. - FAQ: added a note on personal / shared library filtering.

This update brings major performance improvements and a bunch of fixes based on your feedback. Thanks to everyone who helped test along the way! ## Highlights - Massive performance boost: loading and scrolling images is now 3 to 10 times faster - Improved video player controls and proper video sharing (no more screenshots when sharing videos) - Many smaller fixes for a smoother, more polished experience ## What's New ### Performance & Polish - 3–10× faster image loading and scrolling - Numerous additional performance improvements with minor visual refinements - Faster loading of the Pro unlock - Improved thumbnail sizes when using fewer than 3 columns ### Video & Sharing - Improved video player controls - Sharing a video now actually shares the video (previously only a screenshot) - Updated filenames when sharing ### Fixes - Fixed duplicated images from shared albums - Locally synced images that previously didn't show up are now displayed correctly - Deleting images on other dates no longer jumps back to today - Favorite state now displays properly when returning from full screen to grid view - Widget no longer duplicates an image when too few are available - Companion Shortcut now uses your local timezone instead of UTC for search ### Other - Added URL scheme documentation to the FAQ

# On This Day 1.1 Release Notes Thank you for the great feedback on version 1.0 — it means a lot! Keep your feedback coming and keep sharing the app with your family and friends :) **What's New** - You can now open a search in the Photos app directly from the full screen view using a companion shortcut - New option to hide screenshots from your memories (off by default — find it in Settings) - Buttons on locked images now show a helpful hint about On This Day Pro **Improvements** - Photos from further back in time (before ~2010) now show up properly - Images should load faster - Your preferred map & toolbar display settings in full screen view are now remembered between sessions - Selection mode automatically turns off after performing an action **Fixes** - Fixed an issue where the last image of a day couldn't be deleted - Fixed a rare crash when removing multiple images at once - Widgets now properly open tapped images (note: this doesn't work on clear/tinted home screens — see the FAQ in Settings for details) - The app no longer shows yesterday's photos after midnight when returning from the background