More reliable Premium • Your Premium subscription is now confirmed directly with the App Store, so it stays in step for both of you • Renewals and restored purchases are picked up straight away

Us widget fix • The Us widget no longer shows 0 days together for a while after you open Soba. It keeps your real count until the latest one has loaded

How far apart you are, and a widget for the two of you • Distance between you: when you both turn it on, Soba shows roughly how far apart you are, or Nearby when you're close. It only updates while the app is open, your partner only ever sees the distance, never where you are, and it pauses during Need Space • Us widget: a home screen widget with the distance between you or your days together, plus a memory each day in the medium size. Tap the memory to open it in your Yearbook • Lock screen: add Us above the clock or below it to see the distance between you and your days together

Your year, your milestones, your anniversary • Our Year: on your anniversary morning, a story reel of your first year together unlocks for both of you at the same moment, with a countdown the week before. Revealed years stay in the Yearbook • Milestones: add your own moments to Our Story (moved in, adopted a pet, engaged) and see them on one timeline with 1 week, 1 month, 100 days, 6 months, 9 months and every year • Anniversary day: a full-screen celebration on first open that leads into your year, a hero Days Together card, and a home card with Watch your year and Send a note • Our Story now goes straight from Days Together into your timeline

Read the whole answer • On the conversation card screen, the previously answered card now shows both of your answers in full instead of cutting them off after two lines

Trip anniversaries, on-device suggestions, Siri and more • On the anniversary of a trip you took together, a conversation card about it arrives for both of you – and the memory of the day gets a caption • On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, get suggestions for Good Night replies and custom questions, written on your device – nothing leaves it. Turn it off any time in Settings • Siri and Shortcuts: send a Thinking of You, toggle Need Space, log a mood, add a gift, check your streak • Choose which stat the stats widget highlights • Need Space shows on Apple Watch while it is on • Redeem offer codes from the subscription screen • Smoother and faster everywhere, especially on ProMotion iPhones • Beat the Clock: when your partner's time runs out, the turn is yours the next time you open the game

Erasing is free • In a turn game the eraser no longer uses up one of your strokes — fix a slip and keep drawing • You can still erase once your strokes for the turn are spent • When the clock runs out in Beat the Clock, the turn passes by itself

Draw Together, in sync • Your partner's strokes and turns now arrive straight from the server, so nothing is missed if the other phone drops out mid-stroke • The drawing channel is private to the two of you

Take turns drawing • New in Play: Take turns — build one artwork together, one turn at a time. Pick a rule: one stroke each, three strokes each, beat the clock, or pass when you're ready • Your partner gets a nudge when it's their turn • Fixed: the home card now only says you're both feeling good when both of your moods really are

Fixes • Drawings save reliably again • Undo in Draw Together now only affects your own strokes • The match screen moves on automatically the moment your partner enters your code • Premium now says it plainly: one subscription covers you and your partner

Your yearbook, and a smoother canvas • New: the Yearbook — a month-by-month timeline of your story together. Tap the memory card or find it in Settings • Drawing together is much smoother, especially on long detailed drawings • Redo, and undo a cleared canvas — a slip no longer wipes your work • Very long strokes now always reach your partner, and undo right after a stroke works reliably • Share a finished drawing straight from the gallery • Partner conversation answers arrive instantly

Faster everywhere • The app opens noticeably quicker and animations stay silky — heavy lifting moved off the main thread • Coming back to the app is instant: soba now remembers what's fresh instead of re-fetching everything • Partner updates arrive faster and more reliably, and reconnect sooner after waking the app • Better behavior on flaky connections: requests wait for the network instead of failing instantly

Your drawings can light up the whole app • New in Settings: turn on "Drawings in the background" and your own drawings softly color the app behind every screen, slowly cycling through your gallery • Twice the colors: the drawing palette grows to 24, from earth tones to neon magenta • Clearer glass everywhere, with a frosted band keeping titles readable • The gallery shows a retry button when it can't load, and thumbnails no longer bleed past the canvas edge

Your gallery, your call • Either of you can now remove a drawing from the gallery — no admin needed, and nothing is lost • Fixed dots disappearing from drawings: fast taps are now captured reliably, and strokes that fail to sync retry automatically • Small polish across the drawing canvas

The glass gets real • Open any card and the home screen shows through — your wheel, your colors, right behind the glass • New pen-size slider in Draw Together: from fine details to bold strokes • A drawing you two left unfinished now shows up in Play — jump back in with one tap • The Play menu floats on a clear glass dock, and every screen is tuned for readability in light and dark • Mood got its own sunny yellow spot on the wheel

A whole new glass look • Soba now glows: a calm aurora of color drifts behind every screen • Cards and menus are real glass — light and color shine through as you move around the app • Redesigned Play space: see your latest drawing and Pong best scores at a glance, with Draw and the Gallery one tap away • The Good Night and Need Space buttons got a cleaner, quieter look • A fresh icon for Mood so it's easier to spot on the wheel

Soba comes to iPad! • Full native iPad support — draw, plan and check in together on the big screen • Draw Together, reimagined: 7 brushes — pen, marker, highlighter, neon, crayon, spray and eraser • Apple Pencil support — press harder for bolder strokes • A bigger palette with 12 colors and new stroke sizes • Everything stays perfectly in sync on both your devices, brush strokes included

Our Story now counts every day. • Fixed Our Story sometimes showing "Day 1" instead of the days you've really spent together • Our Story works offline now — your days together, milestone ring and anniversaries stay with you even without a connection • When we can't reach your story, we say so clearly and let you try again

A faster, snappier Soba - Your home screen and Our Story stats now load in a fraction of the time — and re-opening them is instant, with fresh numbers arriving quietly in the background - Coming back to the app is much quicker: live partner updates reconnect right away instead of waiting behind a queue of requests - Far fewer network requests throughout the app, which also means less battery and data use Fixes - Your partner's Good Night status now reliably refreshes when you return to the app - Live updates no longer silently stop after the app has spent a while in the background - Smoother home-screen animations

Draw together, live • New in Play: a shared canvas for the two of you — draw at the same time and watch each other's strokes appear as they happen • Get a nudge when your partner starts or resumes a drawing — tap it to land right on the canvas • Come back anytime: "Continue later" keeps the drawing open for both of you; save it to your shared gallery when it feels finished • A growing gallery of everything you've drawn together

Fixed a rare freeze that could lock up the app on launch, and made behind-the-scenes reliability improvements.

When your partner writes their reflection, the card shows the question they answered and the opening of their answer — not just a moon and a timestamp. If they also shared what's on their mind, you'll see the start of that too. • The Good Night spoke on the wheel now opens the reflection itself, so there's one evening prompt instead of two. • Your last completed conversation sits beneath today's question, so you can see what you last talked about without opening history. • Tap a spoke to spin it up and open it. • Relationship Stats is now reachable at any hour.

Your feature ring is now a wheel you can spin. Drag to turn it, tap an icon to bring it to the top, then press the centre to open it. Pong has its own spot on the wheel instead of hiding behind a long press, and sending a "thinking of you" is now a single tap next to your partner's name. We also fixed a wheel that ignored drags along its left edge, and a couple ranking that could show an impossible percentage.

A calmer home: • One gentle suggestion at a time — no more wall of cards • On busy days, Soba slims down to the essentials (the heartbeat stays) • Reminders now take you straight to your partner's good night

Getting your partner set up is now the easy part. • Send an invite in a tap — share your code straight from Soba, with a gentle reminder if your partner hasn't joined yet. • Tapped an invite link? It opens right into Soba, ready to connect — no codes to copy by hand. • Already copied a code? Soba spots it and fills it in for you. • Would You Rather cards feel smoother — just tap to pick your answer. Thanks for using Soba. If it's helped you stay close, a quick review helps other couples find us too.