A slower, calmer opening: the crow takes its time again. Home and Search lists start at the top when you switch. Plus small improvements and fixes.

Small improvements and fixes.

• Read-along now stays in step with every story. • Fewer interruptions: tapping stories no longer brings up a full-screen offer every time. • Preview a story's best moment before you listen. • Pick up where you stopped, from For You or the story page. • A cleaner tab bar. • Rain, wind and settling-house sounds are louder, to match the rest. • If a payment doesn't go through, we show you how to fix it. • A faster start, and small fixes.

• Sleep: one tap under play, and the story fades out at a good stopping point with nothing playing after it. Tomorrow, pick up where you drifted off. • Thumbs up or down when a story ends, so we can find you better stories. • A 10-second countdown before the next story starts, so you can stop it. • Downloads now save at higher quality. • 13 Nights of Horror: a new story every night from October 19 to Halloween. • Fixes for audio on iOS 27, and smoother playback.

A refreshed subscription screen, plus small fixes and improvements.

Improvements to subscriptions and restoring purchases. Plus small fixes.

Sleep Stories now holds every sleep-safe story, longest first. New listeners start with a story they can finish tonight, picked from their answers. Plus small fixes.

New listeners now start with a quick quiz that picks their first stories, and those picks wait at the top of Home. Starting a free trial now shows exactly when it ends and takes you straight into a story. Plus small fixes.

Stories now pick back up properly after AirPods disconnect, a call comes in or Siri interrupts — no more silent "playing" screen. Fall asleep mid-story and we can nudge you back to the exact second you stopped. Plus sleep timer and rain fixes.

A refreshed subscription screen, plus behind-the-scenes stability and performance improvements.

Behind-the-scenes improvements that help us measure how people find Horror Hours. Nothing changes about how you listen: no ads, no tracking prompt.

Fixes: • Notifications open the right story, even when the app was closed. • Subscription status stays correct after refunds, upgrades and restores. • Signing in or out keeps your notifications with the right account.

Fixes and reliability: • Restore Purchases is now in Settings, and it tells you clearly whether your subscription was found. • Your saved list and listening progress stay in sync across your devices, including stories you remove. • Playback recovers on its own when headphones connect or disconnect. • A download that fails partway no longer leaves a broken story behind. It clears itself so you can download it again. • Google sign-in now explains what went wrong if it fails.

Restoring a subscription used to mean finding your way back to the checkout screen. It now lives in Settings, under Account, where you would look for it. Underneath: steadier sign-in, and the app can now tell you when a new version is waiting.

Fixes and polish. - Signing in with email now completes on every account. - The offer screen loads reliably on iPad. - Smoother Sleep tab and evenly sized ambience tiles. - Refined icons throughout.