Breeding a queen now takes 20 Royal Jelly instead of 10 New setting: Auto-off consumables. Turn it on in Settings, General and a consumable switches itself off after each use, so every charge is your choice. Off by default, so nothing changes unless you want it to Fixed the loading spinner showing on the wrong button while deleting a child account

Upgrades are much cheaper for Honey, Nectar, Housing and Brood Cells. Upgrading a cell now always gets you more for your honey than building a new one Renewing a Brood Cell costs the same per bee at every level, so bigger brood cells are never a worse deal Forager and Worker Cells are now limited by hive tier: 1 of each at Tier 2, 2 at Tier 3 and 3 from Tier 4. Cells you already have stay yours Breeding a queen now costs 10,000 honey, since the cheaper upgrades get you to Tier 5 faster. No colony has swarmed yet, so this price may still change once the first keepers get there Nectar and honey challenges now scale with your own colony instead of your hive tier, so they stay a real challenge for big hives and get easier for young ones. Challenges you already started keep their goal New monthly challenge: earn nectar, rewards Pollen Cache New help button on Stats, Conversion Rates explains exactly how your bonuses combine, with your own numbers Fixed backup and Community stopping after moving to a new iPhone. If it happened to you, the app now asks you to sign in again and keeps all your progress

New: create an account for your child. Apple doesn't let children's Apple Accounts sign in to apps, so parents can now set one up in Settings, Family and hand over a one-time invite code Your child gets the full game - their own hive, steps, leaderboards and following Manage each account from the Family section: see how they're doing, send a new code when they change phones, rename them, or delete the account When Apple lets your child sign in on their own, they can switch to their own Apple Account and keep everything in their hive Every pollinated flower now has its own hand-drawn illustration Fixed new steps not counting for a while after moving to a new iPhone or after Apple Health data was deleted Fixed changing only the capital letters in your username, which failed with an error Fixed the hive skin preview buttons overlapping the active tasks banner Text fields in a fully expanded sheet no longer slide off the top of the screen when the keyboard opens

Seasons: the first season, Winter 2026, begins December 21. Every step you walk fills the Seasonal Pass reward track. Everyone earns rewards: booster consumables, two new bees at the finale, and rare new time-skips. Premium keepers also unlock the matching Winter set: hive skins for your bees, cells and background with falling snow, seasonal avatar parts, and an animated frost effect. Daily care: warm the cluster, break the ice off frozen cells, and earn bonus points. Weekend steps count double. Seasonal leaderboard: a fresh race every season, and the top beekeepers are remembered after it ends. A free gift for every beekeeper: a golden skin set for your bees, cells and hive background, plus a matching avatar color and hive icon. Preview any hive skin live on your own hive, and try every look in the avatar editor, now open to everyone. New icon and border colors for cosmetic cells and avatars. Seasons now follow the astronomical calendar, so winter starts with the solstice. Tap the season card on Home for a sneak peek before it begins.

Fixed Premium status being lost when the app was reopened.

Watch your nectar go home - tap Send Foragers and a bee now carries the drop from your step count all the way into nectar storage Unlocked a flower? A badge on the Pollinated Flower card now nudges you to activate it - plenty of you never spotted that flowers have to be switched on The leaderboard now shows how many players you're up against, under the top 50 New app icon Fixed another player's hive showing up completely empty when they hadn't built anything yet The uncollected steps card now shows a 0 when there is nothing to collect Animations now stay calm instead of jumping when iOS Reduce Motion is turned on