Share a moment, not just a show. Links to a guest's sit-in or a single song now open the show page with that moment highlighted, and you can share them from the show page yourself. Nothing plays until you tap. Shared playlists open in the app. A playlist link from a friend or from deadgraph.com now opens right in DeadGraph, ready to play. Smarter search. Type a date the way you'd say it, like October 5, 1970. If we don't have a show from that night, search tells you what the setlist record lists and offers the nearest nights we do have. Searching just a month suggests adding a year.

Take shows offline. Pro members can now download any recording and play it with no signal: on a plane, underground, or out of range. The button shows the size before you start, downloads keep going in the background, and the Library has a Downloads section to manage the space they use. A fixed sign-in screen. The email updates option no longer crowds the Google button, and ticking it no longer starts Google sign-in. Smoother sheets. Swipe the upgrade sheet down, or tap above it, to close it. Sign-in and upgrade prompts now appear correctly from every screen, including show pages.

Search the archive. A new search box at the top of the Library finds shows by date, venue, city or song. Type 5/8/77, Cornell, Buckeye Lake or Dark Star and jump straight to the show. Searching is free and never uses one of your daily questions. Easier to read. Buttons, badges and the year tiles in the Library now use deeper colors behind white text, so everything reads clearly in dark mode and on paper. Back to the latest. Scrolled up in a long chat? A down arrow takes you straight back to the newest message. Cleaner chat header. The floating controls at the top of the chat are now solid enough that nothing shows through them.

Email updates, your call. When you sign in you can choose whether to get the occasional DeadGraph update by email, and change your mind anytime under Settings, Account. The choice is shared with deadgraph.com, so turning it off in one place turns it off in both.

Ask with one thumb. The button under your thumb is always the next step: tap it to talk, tap the same spot to send, and tap it again to stop an answer. No reaching across the screen, even on the move. More room for the conversation. The header bar is gone. Your chat now fills the screen and scrolls under two small floating controls, and the questions you have left today are always in view. A clearer chat box. It has its own colour, sits clear of the player, and suggestions now live right inside it. Siri understands more. Requests like "play Brent's first show on DeadGraph" now go straight to the music instead of coming back empty.

Ask Siri in one sentence. Say "Hey Siri, play Cornell 77 on DeadGraph" or "play the Veneta Dark Star on DeadGraph" and the show starts playing. A new icon. DeadGraph now wears a mandala drawn from the whole archive, and the launch screen shows it floating on its own. Sign-in fix. Opening the app from Siri or a link right after launch no longer asks you to sign in when you already are. Clearer show cards. A show only says it has no known recording when there is truly nothing to play.

A new look. Light mode now uses the same warm paper palette as deadgraph.com, headings are set in the site's Cinzel typeface, and every era of the band has colours tuned to read clearly in both light and dark. Links open in the app. Tap a show or playlist link from deadgraph.com in Messages, Mail or Notes and it opens right in DeadGraph. Safer links. A link can fill in a question for you, but you always choose when to send it.

The Vault comes alive. Every time you open Home, the rings light up from 1965 at the centre out to 1995 at the rim, then a beam sweeps once around the year from January. Then it settles and stays still. Best-rated means best-rated. "Best-rated show of the year" now ranks each show by the average rating across its tapes, counting only shows with at least three rated recordings, so one perfect score from one listener no longer wins. 1977's pick is now June 9 at Winterland. Playback that doesn't get stuck. If a track stalls, DeadGraph now notices within seconds, shows that it's buffering instead of a frozen clock, and recovers on its own. Settings > Playback issues keeps a short record of anything that went wrong, so it can be reported and fixed. Faster start. Home appears instantly after the first launch instead of waiting on spinners, and the few loading moments left get a light-show spinner. New to the chat? Try the hint: ask "play Keith's first show" and it starts playing.

Ask out loud, right in the chat. The microphone now lives inside Chat instead of on its own tab. Tap it and a live meter shows that you're being heard, your words appear as you speak so you can catch a misheard venue before sending, and you can send, stop, or throw it away. Spin the Vault. The circle on Home now answers six different questions depending on where your finger is: best-rated show, most-taped show, opening night, closing night, most-played venue, and busiest month. Slide outward to change the year and around to change the question. Each answer shows up right on the button. Pick the version you want. When a recording exists in more than one format, such as 16-bit, 24-bit, or a corrected transfer, the versions now sit in their own row and each one is labelled clearly. Smaller fixes: setlists number from 1, venues no longer repeat their city, the Playing tab sits in the middle of the tab bar, and the app is updated for the latest iOS.

Fixes a heat and battery issue. If you leave Now Playing open without touching it, the screen is now allowed to sleep after 15 minutes instead of staying awake indefinitely. Audio keeps playing with the screen off.