• New Shortcut action to retrieve all bookmarks from a video. • Smart Search now supports the * wildcard in the Notes field, allowing you to filter items that have notes. • Channel thumbnails that fail to load are now automatically refreshed from YouTube. • Fixed an issue where deleting videos from search results would show blank cells instead of removing them from the list.

• Fixed an issue that could sometimes prevent the player from saving the current playback position and marking as watched on iPad. • When importing a YouTube playlist, videos that already exist in your database will no longer be skipped. Instead, they will be automatically tagged with the tag you selected for the import. • You can now choose from 26 new icons to customize your tags, Smart Search, and folders, with new categories such as food and electronic equipment. • Added a top-left navigation bar button to manage tags when adding items from the Share Sheet.

• Restored the ‘Play All’ button for the ‘New’ list. • Fixed an issue that could sometimes prevent the player from saving the current playback position.

This update includes several improvements and features based on user feedback from the past weeks: • New setting to include a Quick Actions section in video details for faster access to key features. Go to Settings → Video Details to configure. • Videos now automatically pause when you create a new bookmark, allowing you to focus on writing. Playback resumes as soon as you finish typing your bookmark. • Ability to edit the video duration in Edit Metadata. • Ability to filter duplicate videos in Manage Videos. • Shared video links now include the point you’re currently watching. • Ability to share a video at a specific moment from chapters, transcripts, and bookmarks. • Actions that previously opened a random video in its source app will now show the item details in Play by default. • App Intent: The Find Video action now lets you find videos that don’t have a specific title, channel, description, URL, or notes. • App Intent: New Open Video action to open the specified video in Play. • Minor UI adjustments in Channels Inbox.

• Channels Inbox now supports Nebula creators, letting you receive new videos from both YouTube, Vimeo, and Nebula in a unified feed. • Added a new “Sync to Video” button in Transcripts to scroll and highlight the part of the transcript matching the current video playback. • Added the ability to save bookmarks straight from video chapters for quicker access to key moments. • When creating new tags, Play now remembers your last selected color, making it easier to keep related tags visually consistent.

• Introducing Bookmarks: Save and easily access key moments in a video — add notes, jump back instantly, and keep all your insights organized. • Ability to copy video summaries or append it to the video’s notes. • Improved reliability when importing videos from YouTube playlists. • The Notes text field is now larger on bigger phones, making better use of the available screen space.

• Videos will now play their original audio track by default, preventing automatic dubbing. Go to Settings → Video Player to customize. • Tinted widgets now display images in full color. • Fixed a performance issue where Channels Inbox could freeze on launch. • Fixed button style when adding videos via the share sheet. Version 2.6.0: Play now features a modernized UI that adopts Liquid Glass, updated app icons, and Apple Intelligence features that help you throughout the app. FRESH DESIGN - Deeper separation between content and navigation controls, buttons that animate and shift shape as you move between different views, and playful navigation transitions for a polished user experience. Video lists now include a subtitle with relevant metadata, and the search bar has been relocated to the bottom for easier access. Modal sheets throughout the app have been redesigned to only take up the space they actually need, making them less likely to get in the way of other content you’re viewing. UPDATED APP ICONS - Play now supports every icon appearance for customizing your Home Screen. VIDEO SUMMARIES - On supported devices, tap “Generate Summary” in the Information tab of a video for a concise, AI-generated overview. TAG AND ICON SUGGESTIONS - On supported devices, you can now get AI-generated tag and icon ideas for your content.

Play now features a modernized UI that adopts the new design language, updated app icons, and intelligent features that help you throughout the app. FRESH DESIGN - Deeper separation between content and navigation controls, buttons that animate and shift shape as you move between different views, and playful navigation transitions for a polished user experience. Video lists now include a subtitle with relevant metadata, and the search bar has been relocated to the bottom for easier access. Modal sheets throughout the app have been redesigned to only take up the space they actually need, making them less likely to get in the way of other content you’re viewing. UPDATED APP ICONS - Play now supports every icon appearance for customizing your Home Screen. VIDEO SUMMARIES - On supported devices, tap “Generate Summary” in the Information tab of a video for a concise, AI-generated overview. TAG AND ICON SUGGESTIONS - On supported devices, you can now get AI-generated tag and icon ideas for your content.

Fixed an issue that could cause the in-app player to not load.

• Videos from Home Screen widgets now open directly in the app. • Improved performance for calculating complex Smart Searches. • Fixed an issue where Channels Inbox wouldn’t hide shorts by default. • Fixed an issue where the confirmation dialog would appear twice when deleting all videos in Channels Inbox. • Fixed an issue that prevented “Play All” from working with pinned Tags and Smart Searches.

This update brings a fresh new start screen and sidebar design, a streamlined way to add videos, smoother animations, and more: • Redesigned start screen and sidebar on iPhone and iPad. • Ability to customize which default lists are visible. • Adding from playlists and multiple items is now centralized in the Add Video sheet. • Pasting video URLs from the clipboard no longer requires permission. • Zoom animation when opening video details. • Two-column layout on iPad for easier navigation. • Context menus for videos now display a large artwork preview. • Ability to retrieve videos by tag in Shortcuts. • Ability to retrieve a video by its identifier in Shortcuts.

• Ability to include/exclude watched videos from search results. • Support for tinted widgets. • Fixed an animation glitch when adding/removing videos in Channels Inbox.

• Fixed an issue preventing interactive transcripts from loading on certain videos. • Support for tinted app icons.

• You can now setup Channels Inbox filters with multiple keywords, separated by commas (e.g., tutorial, review). • Redesigned the video details view with separate tabs for each section: attributes, chapters, transcript, recommendations, and actions. • Tag folders now display correctly in the Share Sheet when adding videos from other apps. • The video details view now shows the highest-quality artwork available. • Fixed an issue in Channels Inbox where swiping to delete a video removed the last video tapped, instead of the one being swiped.

• Search now finds videos across the whole app, not just in the selected list—and it’s blazing fast! • Search now also lets you choose which video attributes to match. • Improved scrolling performance in list view mode. • UI refinements across the app.

• Ability to set your favorite channels to automatically save new videos for later when refreshing Channels Inbox. • Customize Tags, Smart Search, and folders with colors and icons of your choice. • New “Scheduled for Date” attribute indicating when upcoming video broadcasts are scheduled to begin. • Smart Search now supports filtering by Date Watched. • Smart Search now supports filtering by Date Scheduled. • Smart Search now supports filtering videos with no ratings.

• Channels Inbox now supports Vimeo creators, letting you receive new videos from both YouTube and Vimeo in a unified feed. • New “Get Video Transcript” action to retrieve the transcript of any YouTube video for your automated workflows in Shortcuts. • Transitions throughout the app now animate more smoothly. • Performance improvement when selecting a Tag folder. • Fixed an issue where videos from playlists remained in Channels Inbox after saving for later. • Fixed an issue where the share sheet was unexpectedly dismissed when sharing a video to an app that requires text input, like Messages or Mail.

• Introducing Transcripts: Play now provides interactive transcripts, letting us navigate the video by tapping any phrase. Transcripts are also searchable, making it easy to find and jump to specific parts of the video. • In addition to syncing data with iCloud, Play now also automatically backs up daily to iCloud Drive for extra protection. • Fixed an issue where Smart Search in some cases could filter items incorrectly based on tags.

• Channels Inbox now updates 2x to 4x faster. • Performance improvements when selecting a Tag or Smart Search folder. • Fixed a rare issue that prevented signing-in with a YouTube account. • Stability improvements.

Fixed an issue where a small number of specific videos could be incorrectly categorized as YouTube Shorts. They are now correctly classified and will appear in your Channels Inbox.

• Channels Inbox can now hide all shorts, including those without #shorts in the title. Go to Settings → Channels Inbox → General Filters to configure. • Improved performance when refreshing the Channels Inbox, especially for users following many channels. • You can now select a custom color for Tags using the system color picker. • Ability to configure the video player size on the iPad, available in Settings → Video Player. • Ability to choose if Play should remember your playback position automatically. Go to Settings → Video Player to configure. • Ability to play/pause videos using the space bar on connected keyboards. • Fixed an issue preventing Play from following a channel shared through the Share Sheet from other apps.

• Polished Recap animations. • Polished app text in several areas for greater clarity. • Users who previously enabled the Delete Watched parameter now can view and adjust it in Settings → Video Player. • Fixed an issue where updates to an auto-tagging condition would not be reflected in the UI. • Fixed support for Apple TV content.

• Time to look back at the year’s highlights! Go to Settings → Annual Recap to view your 2024 Recap. • Redesigned the Manage Tags view to support folders and search. • Redesigned Tag menus throughout the app to support folders.

• By default, Play will now open the video when adding via the Share button from other apps. You can configure the default behavior in Settings → General. • Small and medium widgets can now use the system background color. • Ability to customise the “Show Video” shortcut action to either open the item in its source app or view it in Play. • New shortcut action to add or edit notes for a video. • Pinned items will no longer appear in both the Pinned section and the corresponding Tags or Smart Searches section in the Start Screen.

• Support for playback speeds faster than 2x. To configure, go to Settings → Video Player. • Better chapter extraction from video descriptions with some specific formats. • New button for moving a channel to a folder from within the context menu. • Ability to unfollow a channel without exiting the search results in Channels Inbox. • Temporarily remove support for widget accented mode due to a system issue that stops links from opening their associated items. • Editing an Auto-Tagging condition and changing the 'When' attribute no longer unnecessarily clears the 'Contains' field. • Fixed an issue that caused videos marked as watched through Shortcuts to not update the Date Watched attribute correctly.