More control over your iCloud backups: they are now dated and kept separately for each device, so you choose exactly which one to restore. On the monthly plan or its free trial? You can now upgrade to Lifetime from Settings. Forecasts stay steady if a weather provider has a hiccup, and refresh when you switch weather providers. Also: improved layouts on iPhone Duo and when you resize windows, a cleaner dashboard, and a one-time optional invitation to share your saved generation readings.

Improved layouts for iPhone Duo and changing window sizes. Forecasts refresh when you switch weather providers. A cleaner dashboard and a one-time invitation to optionally share your saved generation readings.

Seasonal guides with Sol: open the Halloween autumn guide or the shortest-days winter guide directly from their App Store events. Each guide includes a replayable seasonal Sol scene and practical help with daylight and solar forecasts.

Sun Hours 2.1 • Peak and off-peak tariffs in Energy Flow. On a time-of-use or EV plan? Add your peak and off-peak rates and hours from your bill, and your savings are worked out at the price you'd really have paid: daytime solar at the daytime rate, and your battery at the evening hours it covers. Presets for common tariffs make setup quick. • Solar Wars leaderboard, right on your dashboard. See the top counties with their badges, and where your county ranks. Tap any row for the full leaderboard. • Sol Insights now sticks to your real numbers. Every figure comes from your own history, and now and then Sol may check that your system's peak still looks right, so your forecasts stay true to your panels. • Sol celebrates the seasons: look out for Halloween, fireworks nights and a visit from Santa at Christmas. • A fresh look on iOS 26 and later, with Apple's Liquid Glass in the bottom bar. • Nicer to come back to: Sol's welcome plays once, pull to refresh updates your figures in place, and the moon is back if you open the app late at night. • Fixed the best-time notification sometimes showing more kWh than the whole day's forecast. • Loving Sun Hours? Pick the sun in Settings → Feedback to leave a review. Anything less than sunny? Tell us what to improve and it comes straight to the developer.

Sun Hours 2.0 • More accurate forecasts. Every release, we work to make your solar forecast and generation numbers more accurate, and this one takes a real step forward in how forecasts are checked against what your panels actually produce. • Fixed a blank grey screen that some people saw after moving to a new iPhone, particularly with the phone set to Cantonese or certain other languages. Sorry, and thank you for telling us. • Your currency now follows your region, so savings show in pounds, euros or dollars as you'd expect, whatever language your phone uses. • Smoother and more reliable: fixes for rare crashes when the app opens, and the 30-day outlook now stays complete when the clocks change. • If something ever does go wrong, you'll now see a clear message instead of a blank space. • Loving Sun Hours? Pick the sun in Settings → Feedback to leave a review. Anything less than sunny? Tell us what to improve and it comes straight to the developer.

Sun Hours now opens out on the big screen. IPAD AND MAC On iPad, the dashboard splits into two columns, so today and the week ahead sit side by side instead of stacked. A frosted glass toolbar replaces the bottom dock, which lets the animated sky run edge to edge behind your forecast — gulls and clouds by day, a starfield at night. Tap the logo in the corner to scroll straight back to the top. The forecast accuracy heatmap now uses the extra width and labels each month across the grid. The sun chart no longer paints over the card above it, and everything holds together at larger text sizes. It runs on an M-series Mac too. ENERGY FLOW Energy Flow now has its own button on the dashboard and an animated background behind it. There is also a new optional Solar hot water card for homes with a PV diverter and an immersion cylinder. It is off by default, and it only ever uses genuine solar surplus — your home's own demand is served first, so the immersion never creates grid demand. YOUR HISTORY The generation calendar has a stats shortcut, so your running totals are one tap away. A new help panel explains what your best-ever day figure actually does, and why it is the only number Sun Hours needs from you. Entering it is more forgiving about decimal points and stray characters. TRAVEL The travel location picker has been rebuilt, with search, your recent spots and a clearer pin on the map. THE FORECAST ITSELF The model now accounts for the season, so it no longer runs optimistic in spring and pessimistic in autumn. Forecast accuracy is tracked against what your panels really made, and you can see how it is doing. SUBSCRIPTIONS AND ADS Manage your subscription without leaving the app, using Apple's own sheet. Trial wording only appears when the App Store confirms you are actually eligible for one. Interstitial ads are capped and spaced out — at most one every twelve hours — and they never cover the forecast you opened the app to read. SOL Sol Insights can be generated by Apple Intelligence on supported devices, and there is an optional Sunday Digest notification for a quick look at the week ahead. Thank you for using Sun Hours. If something looks wrong, the support link in Settings reaches a real person.

Sol Insights can now be powered by Apple Intelligence (available in beta in Settings on supported devices). An optional Sunday Digest notification gives you a quick look at the week ahead for solar generation. The Home screen now includes a sun indicator for an at-a-glance view of the solar week.

Improvements keep coming! A new Sun Hours Heatmap - see at a glance when your panels were working their hardest for you. The Accuracy card shows you how accurate Sun Hours currently is compared to your actual generation numbers. The Energy flow screen visualises how your home set up is currently flowing. Please keep the feedback coming.

The weather model keeps improving, now you can help. In Beta, you can inout your actual generation data versus Sun Hours predictions to get a Forecast Accuracy scorecard. You can also see a visual representation of your Energy Flow. Any feedback gratefully received via Feedback in settings.

This update tidies and extends your solar forecast across iPhone, widgets and Apple Watch. - The 7-day forecast now shows today plus the next seven days. - The 30 Day Projection now follows on neatly after the weekly forecast. - Forecast card spacing on iPhone has been refined so final rows line up cleanly. - iPhone widgets and Apple Watch now have calmer sky backgrounds, with twinkling night stars and gently moving daylight gulls. - Sol Insights now includes panel-cleaning guidance to help spot when output could improve. - Apple Watch and home-screen widgets show clearer weather signals, especially around windy days. - Long-press the app icon on iPhone to jump straight into Appliance Timer. - Support emails now include your app version automatically. - Pixel Sol has new seasonal welcome animations, starting with Football.

- I've improved the weather model - the weather model improves with every release with my own data. Optionally, you can now help - Join Solar Wars! - New Apple Watch app, Sol lives on your wrist now. - Solar Insights - get the headlines from Sol for the coming week. - Now available in German and Spanish, Hola!

- I've improved the weather model - the weather model improves with every release with my own data. Optionally, you can now help - Join Solar Wars! - Solar Insights - get the headlines from Sol for the coming week. - Now available in German and Spanish, Hola!

Some behind the scenes fixes and improvements to the weather calculations.