Photo mode gets a darkroom pass. • Long exposure finally earns its name. Bodies now trace long luminous arcs along their orbits instead of short wisps — leave it running and your galaxy draws its own star trails. • The controls are labelled. Exposure, Capture and Done, so it's clear what each one does before you tap it. • Capturing confirms itself. The frame flashes and the shot is acknowledged, instead of silently opening a share sheet. • A first-time hint explains how to frame a shot with pinch and drag. Pinch, frame, shoot.

The Camera — your cosmos just got a lot bigger. • PINCH TO ZOOM: the world is now three and a half times the screen. Pinch, pan, and drag to explore it — pull out wide for sprawling systems, or dive in close on a single orbit. • PHOTO MODE: hide the controls, frame your shot, and switch on long exposure to paint light-streak trails. Then share the poster. • GALACTIC CORE: a new scenario — a supermassive black hole ringed by a hundred worlds, slowly devouring its own disk. Only possible with the new camera. • DEEP SPACE: layered nebula clouds now drift in parallax behind everything, so the depth is real. • FOLLOW MODE: lock the camera onto any object and ride along with it. • 2 NEW CHALLENGES: Galaxy Heart and Wide Cosmos — 23 in all. • Plus a redesigned dock that finally fits landscape and iPad. Tap any object to learn the real astrophysics behind it. Thanks for playing!

Stellar Nursery — watch stars being born. • NEW OBJECT: the Protoplanetary Nebula — a collapsing gas cloud that condenses planets and ignites a newborn star before your eyes. • TRAJECTORY PREVIEW: the new target toggle traces where your throw will orbit, before you let go. • YOUR COSMOS: the trophies panel now keeps your lifetime stats — suns ignited, black holes forged, biggest object ever, and more. • NEW CHALLENGE: Star Cradle — watch a nebula give birth to a star (a new Game Center achievement, too). Tap any object to learn the real astrophysics behind it. Thanks for playing!

Rings & Rivals — the biggest cosmos update yet. • NEW OBJECTS: fling out a Ringed Planet with its own dazzling ring system, or a world circled by its own orbiting Moons. • GAME CENTER: the 20 Cosmic Challenges are now Game Center achievements — chase them all and show off your cosmos. • HAPTICS: feel every merge, supernova, and black-hole collapse. • Smoother first run, a clearer "New Universe" button, and a new Remove button to clear a single object without resetting the scene. Tap any object to learn the real astrophysics behind it. Thanks for playing!

Deeper Cosmos — the biggest content update yet. NEW OBJECTS • Magnetar — a violently magnetized neutron star, wrapped in glowing dipole field lines. • Wormhole — fling anything into it and watch it teleport clear across space. NEW UNIVERSE Start from a hand-built scenario instead of an empty void: The Solar System, Binary Suns, a Rogue Black Hole, a Quasar Garden, or an Asteroid Storm. MORE CHALLENGES Eight new Cosmic Challenges to chase — forge a magnetar, walk the void, travel through a wormhole, build a grand solar system, and more. Thanks for playing! Keep the reviews and ideas coming.

Give your galaxy a purpose. • Cosmic Challenges — a dozen achievements to chase, from igniting your first star to forging twin black holes • Earn your way in — complete key challenges to unlock launches of premium objects like Black Holes and Quasars, no ads required • A new challenges panel tracks your progress, with a little fanfare for every milestone you reach

Keep and share your universe. • Saved Universes — three slots to store your finest creations, so a black hole you spent ages forging is always one tap away • Autosave — your galaxy is quietly saved when you leave, and waiting for you when you come back. Closing the app no longer wipes the board • Share Your Galaxy — turn any moment into a poster and send it anywhere with a single tap

The universe finally makes a sound. • A living procedural soundtrack — merges thump, supernovae roar, antimatter zaps, and black holes hum with gravity • Impacts scale from gentle knocks to seismic booms, with an ambient space pad breathing behind it all • New sound toggle in the HUD — and everything is synthesized live, no recordings, just physics • Black hole jets are now accretion-powered: feed your black hole to relight them, or let it starve into a silent dark lens

A big visual upgrade across the cosmos: • Stars now boil with living surface granulation, arcing solar prominences, and a glowing chromosphere rim • Asteroids are rugged 3D rock — real craters and a sunlit, shadowed terminator • Planets catch a sun-glint and a soft halo of scattered atmosphere • Mergers and supernovae erupt with white-hot flashes and lingering embers • Luminous orbit trails, plus the occasional shooting star drifting past Behind the scenes: reliability improvements so your stats and progress aren't lost when you switch apps.

Nine new objects to launch into the cosmos — Pulsars with sweeping beams, blazing Quasars, Antimatter that annihilates on contact, invisible Dark Matter, Star Clusters that scatter into swarms of baby stars, Black Holes, Gas Giants, and more, each with its own behavior. We've also relaxed the pace, so you can sit back and savor every collision, collapse, and supernova. Thanks for playing!

Galaxy Merge is now universal — it runs natively on iPad, full-screen and edge to edge, with a bigger, easier-to-tap layout for the larger canvas. Build your universe on every Apple device. Thanks for playing!

• Full-screen space background on all devices • Cleaner object dock with easier-to-read labels • Friendlier message when a reward video isn't available • Minor polish