On a Calculation field if you set the Result Type to Markdown, the result will be rendered as simple markdown, such as a word in the results being in italics or bolded if the content contains markdown formatting commands. Continued improvements for Japanese searches. Fixed issue with sync progress not displaying if the document was encrypted. Sync will now start only after the document is displayed. Work on Cloud+ Sync. Shows a countdown timer when the server is busy and requires a pause before re-sending the batch of records. Fixed issue with checkmark buttons on the Universal Layout not reflecting the toggle state when clicked on or off. Fixed cell height issue when there was only 1 item in a Table field. Report record details now prints grand totals for Link to Form and Table fields. Map will now show a pin on Google Maps when the location is opened with Google Maps.

Improved Japanese text ordering and section headings on records list view. Improved AI Form Generation Performance: Updated to use the latest GPT 5 model for generating form fields. This will improve the performance of the form generation process. Report Section Page Breaks: You can now have reports add a page break when the section heading changes. Reports are created in Tap Forms Pro for macOS but can be generated, printed, and shared in Tap Forms Pro for iOS. Universal Layout Date & Time Field: The Universal Layout now uses the same popover view for Date, Time, and Date & Time fields as on the Default Layout. Fixed crash when adding new records on the Multi-Column List view. And some bug fixes.

• This is primarily a bug fix release with a few smaller new features included for good measure. • You can now take a photo in the Photo field on the Universal Layout using the Photo field's menu button. • If you have an image on the clipboard, you can paste it into a Photo field on the Universal Layout using the Photo field's menu button. • The Multi-Column List View will now display a color bar next to the value for fields with a Pick List assigned. This color bar will correspond to the colors assigned to the Pick List values. • Apple Watch app will now respect the form’s List View Fields number and the View settings to determine which fields to display on the watch records list.

Fixed an issue where swiping between records on a universal layout could cause Note field values to be copied and saved to other records. Fixed an issue where too many items could get sent to iCloud at once causing the Cloud+ Sync to end before it was finished uploading everything the first time. Added support for document scripts when using the tfpro://script/docID:/scriptName: route. Fixed an issue where the App Lock feature didn’t work properly and caused some people not to be able to access Tap Forms who had enabled the lock on the main screen. Adjusted the background colour of the forms and records list table views in dark mode on iPadOS.

New: Universal Layouts! • You can now group fields and other layout items within a single Section Heading field area. Tap Forms will let you choose how many fields you want grouped and it will draw a border around all of the fields in that grouping. • The background and border colour of the Section Heading field will be used for the entire grouping of fields. • You can now specify a Row Span for fields. This lets you place a large field, such as a Photo field, on one side and have multiple smaller fields to the right or left of that field. • Added ability to change the font and colour of the field titles on the universal layout. • You can now multi-select items on the universal layout and change their properties all at once on iOS. You could always do this on Mac. • Added ability to set the universal layout’s background colour. • Added ability to delete layout items from the Layout Items reordering screen. Fixes and other changes: • When a new layout is created, automatically go into layout edit mode. • Fixed button not letting you select a script while in layout edit mode. • Fixed light/dark mode switching of records list view. Wasn’t updating text colour until you backed out and re-entered the form. • Fixed light/dark mode for Note fields on universal layout. Was still showing black text in Dark mode. • Fixed Dropbox logo size on Sync Services screen. Was causing the Dropbox Sync service name to be indented too much. • Photo field view on iOS uses the accessory button now to display the photo selection options. • Fixed crash when using Send Document function from Documents list view.

New: Universal Layouts! • Now you can design fully customized form layouts for Mac, iPhone, and iPad with effortless drag-and-drop simplicity. Create layouts optimized for each platform’s unique screen size, or use a single unified layout across all your devices for a seamless, consistent experience. You’re no longer limited to just one layout on iOS. Create as many layouts as you like even with fields laid out side-by-side! Cloud+ Sync: • A new, more optimized sync service for Tap Forms Pro on all your devices. Sync is faster and more efficient. Uses far less disk space as the previous iCloud sync service. Still syncs with your iCloud account, enabling sharing of documents with different Apple ID accounts. Documents and other things: • Added a search function to the main Database Documents view. • Added ability to lock and unlock records so they can’t or can be edited or deleted. • Changed all the menus to use the new iOS menu look and feel. • Added Display As options for Pick Lists on the Field Options screen so you can now choose radio buttons, checkboxes, or popup buttons (for use on Universal Layouts) • Added Display As options instead of only the Multi-Select switch on the Pick List edit screen. • Added layout tools for iOS. Add a text block, a photo, or a script button to your Universal Layout. • Cloud Documents view now shows a checkmark next to documents that have already been downloaded from iCloud. • Added Favourite Scripts button to the record details view toolbar if you’ve marked any scripts as being a favourite. • You can now control whether or not Tap Forms Pro asks you for confirmation before running a script. You can control that on the script edit screen. • New photo browser view when viewing a photo from a Universal Layout. • Support full screen records list mode on Photo Grid View and Multi-Column List View on iPadOS. • Added support for Sync Delay to iOS app Fixes: • Fixed big gap in layout when adding a header image to your report (edit report on Mac, run report on iOS) • Fixed refresh issue syncing tags. • Fixed row colour issue during search. • Fixed issue accepting Cloud+ Sync & iCloud Sync share requests. • Fixed the Duplicate Field function. It wasn’t assigning a unique name and the sort order of the newly duplicated field was wrong. • Fixed issue selecting a Pick List value when setting up a Saved Search for a field that has a Pick List assigned to it. • Moved the Show/Hide Empty Forms button to left side menu instead of in the Add menu on the main Forms list screen. • Note field on iPhone now behaves same as on iPad with the save changes confirmation if you close the Note editor. • Rewrote the Scripts list view so re-ordering of scripts works again. • Fixed alignment of large navigation title on Documents and Forms lists screens on iOS 18 and below. • Fixed issue with PDF files displaying with the Image browser instead of the PDF Viewer. • Tags will now sort their records according to the form’s sort order. • Switch AI form building to use gpt-5-nano model. • Use larger default font size when no font set for Note fields. Various other user interface refinements.

Added new Cloud+ sync service which syncs with iCloud in a much more performant way and also uses way less storage space. Fixed potential crash when displaying the sync progress banner view. Record colour bars now show again on the records list view. Also added record colour bars on the multi-column list view. Fixed issue with last option on Pick List not tappable because the toolbar gets in the way. The list of Pick List values will now scroll up higher than the bottom toolbar so you can tap the last option. When file downloaded from iCloud is encrypted, display the lock icon next to the document name on the Documents list view. Fixed hierarchical export of Pick List Values that have sub-values. Added new Documents List view with a toggle to switch between grid and list views. Added VoiceOver notifications when switching between list and grid view on the Documents screen. Changed Date field to use 12:00 PM as the time. Helps to alleviate time zone shifts for dates. Added Drop Pin function to map view. Now sorts properly by location title and address. Added pull to sync function to forms list screen. Added Sync Now menu item to forms list screen. Changed the way the Pick List Select Values view is displayed when editing the selected saved search. Fixes the issue with black bars appearing instead of the values. Fixed crash when you’ve enabled Auto Complete on Table field sub-fields. Adjusted colours of the Form record count badges in light and dark modes. Fixed bullets not showing on Note fields

Added Swedish localization. Added Reports function to record details view action menu. Fixed an issue running scripts and presenting the JavaScript Prompter. Fixed issue with running the openURL JavaScript function. Added title to view controller so that it shows up in the long-press back button menu. Fixed black background on multi-column list view footer. If a search term has double-quotes around it, the entire term will be treated as a single phrase search instead of breaking up each word into a separate search term. Changed Database List view’s document icons to PNGs from PDFs for performance reasons. Added Liquid Glass effect on iOS 26 to calculation view at the bottom of records list view. Fixed report Pinned issue. It was displaying !PINNED! Instead of “Pinned” on the section of pinned records in the report. Fixed issue searching when the search term has a space at the end. It wasn’t finding all records it should. Fixed issue with location field not finding the coordinates. Fixed bug when searching linked records. If you had records already linked, the search wasn’t working. It wasn’t filtering the records down. Changed search fields list sorting to be case insensitive. Added support for Highlight Negative Number for Calculation and Script fields Negative numbers will be highlighted on the Multi-Column list view too. Not all photo scaling sizes were being shown. Fixed. Added delete confirmation to swipe to delete function on records list view. Fixed issue with unlinking a record from a Link To/From field. It was deleting all links to that record instead of just the one. Fixed issue with changing search types not refreshing the search results after. Fixed issue with the default date value including the current time in the date instead of the start of day time for the Date field type.

This version of Tap Forms Pro removes the tab bar control to better utilize the amount of space available on your iOS devices. Specifically the iPad version would display a tab bar at the top of the screen taking up a lot of space. That space is now reclaimed. The Tools tab has been moved to a Settings view that can be displayed by tapping on the menu buttons at the top of the screens. The Search tab has been moved to a magnifying glass button displayed on the main Forms list screen. Fixed issue with records list section index displaying entire string when form is grouped by a Text type field. Fixed issue with Note field editor not respecting the default font setting. Fixed issue with masked Number fields not displaying the number value when you tapped on the masked dots. It was displaying smaller dots. Tap Forms Pro was creating record links with tapformz instead of tfpro on the script editor and Date field entry screen when adding an event to the calendar or reminders. When a form is grouped by a number field, the index list will now show the numbers on the right to make it easy to swipe through the records quickly. Fixed issue with Edit form function not working from Forms List screen. Fixed issue with location info screen not displaying the coordinates. All it displayed was 0, 0. Fixed issue with emailing a record that has a Table field in it. It wasn’t sorting Table fields in the email the same as it was on screen. Fixed crash when tapping on the All button when selecting records to link to another record in a Link to Form field.

Support for iOS 26 Liquid Glass. Fixed issue with some photos on the records list view not scaling to the proper thumbnail size initially. Fixed bug migrating location coordinates from Tap Forms 5. Coordinates weren’t migrating. Fixed. Fixed issue with migrating Tap Forms 5 archives when the filename contains special characters. Increased WebDAV timeouts to prevent timeout errors during WebDAV sync.

Added support for choosing how many photos to display on a report per Photo field. Needs Mac version to create the report. Added support for providing a size for the Photo field on the report so you can control how big or small you want the photos to appear in the report. Needs Mac version to create the report. Added border above section sub-totals on Tabular report style. Configure report with Mac version. Records list view supports custom fonts again. Fixed issue with search terms that contain OR operator. They were treating the OR as AND. Fixed issue with exporting TFF files for forms that contained Table fields. The Table fields’ sub-fields weren’t being exported. Form can now select Count calculation type for non-numeric values such as Text fields. Fixed issue with searching words with accented characters using the “does not contain” operator. Fixed issue with date searches not searching from the beginning or end of the day. Instead it was using whatever the time was when the search was saved. This could cause Tap Forms to miss records. Fixed bug detecting missing photos on a Photo field. If there was a missing photo, viewing one of the non-missing photos could show you a blank screen. Fixed. You can now sort and group records by a Contact field. It will use the contact’s full name for the sorting. Fixed issue with encrypting documents that contain apostrophes in the filename. Fixed issue with deleting a record on the record details view. It wasn’t returning to the records list view after the deletion.

Fixed issue with filtering on Calculation or Script fields which return a Date value. Added AVGZ function to Calculation field help list. Fixed issue with grouping by Contact field. Will now display the name instead of the raw JSON encoded content. Fixed issue with searching for empty dates when you also had other search rules. It wasn’t fetching all the records. Set default number of lines to display to be 0 for new Note Fields. Fixed issue with search field background on search field on map view making the white text invisible against a white background, but only in Dark Mode. Fixed issue with .tff files not being imported using the Import File function. Fixed issue with parsing Pick List values. It was stripping out the tabs at the beginning of the values, so cascading Pick Lists weren’t being parsed properly.

Added ability to re-index the search engine and to enable or disable indexing of PDF files for File Attachment and Photo fields. Fixed multi-threading crash when syncing with Nearby devices. Fixed issue with crash when long-pressing backup file on the Backup & Restore screen. Fixed issue with ‘does not contain’ query operator not including NULL records in the result set.

Fixed issue with Contact fields not syncing. Location field will now display the geo coordinates on the map and record details view. Added ability to edit the geo coordinates on the Location Details screen. Fixed issue with Favourite Form Scripts not displaying the results after the script was run. Fixed issue syncing where new values did not sync for new fields that are added to a form. Fixed bug with duplicating records where it wasn’t duplicating Number fields. Added support for scanning documents into File Attachment and Photo fields. OCR will be used to find an appropriate filename for the PDF. Added function to let you rename file attachments. The Email File function on the files list wasn’t working. Fixed. Added code to remove the background colour from pasted text to solve a problem when copying and pasting data from a website to a Note field. It would turn the background white and then you’d only see white bars on iOS in dark mode after a sync from the Mac. Fixed incorrect link type icon for Link From Form one-to-many links. Fixed issue with Link From Form field text for inverse one-to-many link types not displaying its content.

Barcode scanner now uses macro lens on supported devices to scan tiny barcodes. Changed the “was in the last” and “is in the next” Saved Search comparison operators to allow you to specify an “after, before, or within” option. For example, find all records where the birthdate was before the last 8 weeks. Or find all records where the birthdate is after the next 4 months. Or find all records where the birthdate is within the next or last 3 years. Fixed issue with Console Log not displaying output after running a script from outside the Script Editor. Fixed issue with the Photo field where portrait images could come in rotated if you were also scaling the images. Fixed issue with Number fields not accepting number values from Pick Lists that use non-North American decimal number formats. Fixed issue with field sort order when exporting records as CSV or XLSX. It wasn’t respecting the Form’s field order. Handle Default Value on Number fields that have the Percentage formatter applied to them so you don’t have to put a decimal fraction of 1 to represent the percentage. You can just put 50 or 50%. Fixed issue with UTF-16 encoded CSV files importing. Wasn’t importing all the records. Ignore blank lines when adding multiple values to a Pick List. Saved Searches will now ignore diacritics if the search terms themselves contain diacritics.

Added a Default AI service you can use to generate forms without you having to have your own ChatGPT or DeepSeek API keys. Limited to 5 form generations per day. Adding a new value to a Pick List from the Select Values Pick List view will now refresh the list of values to show the newly added value. Fixed issue with massive Rating field values causing performance issues and search indexing bloat. Added back getCalendarNames and getReminderNames JavaScript functions that existed in Tap Forms 5 but were not in Tap Forms Pro. Fixed issue with selecting Live photos and WebP images not showing when selected in Tap Forms Pro. Fixed issue with external app URL confirmation not being displayed when you tap the globe button on a Website field. Fixed issue with Saved Search that has only a search term in it causing all records to be fetched on iOS instead of just the ones with that search term in them. Fixed incorrect record count for searches that have only tags in the search rules. Fixed issue with Table field editing where the field type tapped on was not what was actually selected. Fixed issue with referencing “record” within a JavaScript loop when adding records to a Table field would cause the “record” property to be updated with each new record being added instead of being consistently the parent record of the Table field. Fix for potential hang when running scripts and calling saveAllChanges(). Duplicating a record will set the modified by device to the current device It will also set the dateCreated and dateModified values to the current date/time. Fixed performance issue fetching records when every record has a record colour assigned. Fixed issue with default values not being set when creating a new record. Localized the Note text editor into all the Tap Forms Pro supported languages. Fixed a bug with the indent / outdent buttons on the Note text formatter panel that wasn’t working for all supported languages. Added tab button to Note editor window to insert a tab into the content at the insertion point. Fixed issue with text against different light or dark row colours not adapting properly, including light and dark mode switching. Pick List colour values now showing on record details view next to field. Switched to the Apple colour picker for changing the record’s background colour.

Fixed an issue where the Documents screen wasn't showing when the iPad was in portrait orientation. Fix for calculation totals not printing on reports Fix for Date field dismissing date selector view when you choose a part of the date but aren’t finished selecting all the parts of the date. Fix issue with JavaScript API calling form.selectRecord(someRecord) not always selecting the specified record after a save. Added Utils.gptApiKey() and Utils.deepSeekApiKey() functions. Fixed a crash when tapping the select records button on a Link to Form field. Fixed crash running Scripts that return Date values on the Script Editor. Fixed crash when changing a value on the record details screen that would affect the ordering of records on the records list view. Fixed issue with setting default values overriding existing values when Set Field’s default auto-caps setting to Sentences. Form icons selected from the photo library now support transparency Select form icon chooser now supports full dark mode. Searching for multiple words in the general search field doesn’t find results if the words are not consecutive in the content. If you switch to the “Contains word” search setting, you will now be able to search words even if they’re not consecutive. This is how Tap Forms 5 worked.

Fixed issue with Mask Field function not toggling between the masked value and the original value. Added Video Tutorials link to the About Tap Forms Pro screen. Fix for aggregate calculation when no records and no search provided. Should return 0 in that case. Fixed issue with empty record details view displaying when navigating from a Join field. Fixed issue where if Tags category is first in the list, new forms would go into the Tags category. Now they’ll go into the Uncategorized category. Fixed issue with date fields not working right with Join link to form fields. Default values weren’t being set when duplicating a record. Now pauses syncing when iOS app goes to the background. Image wasn’t being updated on records list view when editing a photo field on the record details view. When selecting the parts of a Time or Date field, the date or time selector component was being dismissed after every choice. Now it stays open until you dismiss it so you can enter all the components of the Date or Time field. Fixed issue with reports on iOS not printing if the selection.selectedRecords wasn’t set, but selection.record was set. Better support for slide-over and split view modes on iPadOS. Added version number to About screen. Can now import transparent images from the Photo library. Fixed an issue with Calculation fields not updating for Table fields. Fixed issue with editing Table fields. Fixed issue with Fields list not showing on the Formula editor for Table fields.

First public global release of Tap Forms Pro! - Fixed an issue with dragging and dropping photos within a Photo field. - Added refreshCalculations() function to the JavaScript API to re-evaluate all the calculation and script fields for the specified record. - Fixed issue with Done button disappearing when record details view displayed modally and you navigate into a linked record and then back. Many more updates and new features will become available as I complete them. Stay tuned!

Fixed an issue with pick lists on iPadOS not pointing to the button that was tapped on. Fixed a VoiceOver issue for Date fields on the record details view. It was reading some other random field’s name instead of the Date field’s name. Fixed an issue where the Share function was putting the wrong file extension when generating a Tap Forms Pro Archive. Fixed Tap Forms 5 archive importer wasn’t importing modified by device data. Note Editor no longer dims the text editor view when the formatter sheet is displayed.