Starting an exam with the microphone turned off now points you to the fix. - If microphone access is off, the exam screen tells you the oral exam is voice-only and gives you an Open Settings button, so you can turn it on and tap Try Again. - If support has extended your 30-day pass, the app now honors the new end date, so you can keep starting exams.

Fixed the iOS 18 crash that could stop a practice exam from starting or resuming. - On iOS 18, the app no longer quits the moment you allow microphone access, whether you're starting or resuming an exam. - The exam screen now leads with your free attempt and its own time estimate, followed by the 30-day pass. - Full oral exams now run about 25% longer.

Fixes to keep your one free trial exam fair. - Quitting a practice exam right after starting no longer uses up your free trial attempt. - A completed trial exam now shows your actual pass or fail result instead of incorrectly reporting Discontinued.

A clearer, more accurate privacy disclosure for your exam audio. - The pre-exam consent screen now describes audio handling more precisely: your voice is never used by us to train AI, though the speech-to-text service may separately store it to improve its own service, and your transcript is kept up to 90 days.

Track your real checkride date, and pick a practice exam back up right where you left it. - Set the date of your upcoming FAA checkride from Home, a debrief, or Settings, and get reminders to practice as it gets closer. - After the date passes, the app checks in on how your oral went, with a plan either way it goes. - Step away mid-exam and reopen the app to resume the same session, instead of starting over. - Rate Checkride.bot directly from Settings, next to Contact Support. - Hitting today's practice-session limit now shows a clear message, including when you can try again. - Cleaned up stray symbols in shared debrief text and citation rows.

Voice answers now come through reliably, and every exam starts faster. - Background noise no longer cuts your answer short, and short answers sent with Done are no longer lost. - The first question in every exam now loads without the wait. - Ending an exam early now shows a plain message instead of an error, when there's nothing to score. - Airplane, helicopter, glider, instrument, and powered-lift checkrides all open in the sequential, area-by-area format the DPE uses to evaluate your teaching. - The exam detail screen's info badges now stay on one line at larger accessibility text sizes.

Every CFI oral exam now opens in the correct flow from the start. - Airplane, helicopter, glider, instrument, and powered-lift checkrides all open in the sequential, area-by-area format the DPE uses to evaluate your teaching. - The exam detail screen's info badges now stay on one line at larger accessibility text sizes.

A more reliable Restore Purchases: if your rating access lapses, Checkride now shows the right prompt to buy or restore instead of a generic error. - Refreshed app icon. - Clearer consent and privacy copy for how your voice and exam responses are used, with legal links added to the paywall. - Small stability improvements ahead of your next checkride.