Recurring tasks, patterns in your own entries, and a new tab bar. RECURRING TASKS A new kind of field for the things you do on a schedule. Give each task its own repeat — every day, certain days of the week, or every few days — and only what's actually due turns up on the day. Each task keeps its own streak, and today never counts against you until the day has happened. PATTERNS — OPTIONAL, AND OFF UNTIL YOU TURN IT ON Switch it on and the app compares numbers you have already written — sleep, mood, steps, habits — and tells you when two of them tend to move together. All of it is worked out on this device from your own journal. Nothing is sent anywhere, no account is involved, and it asks for no new permissions. It needs at least 14 days where both things were filled in, and when nothing stands out it says so rather than inventing something. It can tell you what happened together — never why. A NEW TAB BAR Today, History, Insights and Settings now sit along the bottom of the screen. Settings used to be hidden behind the wordmark at the top, which nothing on screen hinted at. BRING BACK A FIELD YOU REMOVED Removing a prompt never deleted the answers behind it, and now there is a way back to it: Edit my questions → Removed fields. Each one shows how many answers it is still holding, so you can tell what you are bringing back. SMALLER THINGS • History opens on Over time when there is something to chart. • Settings is tidier — Journal health has moved to the bottom and starts closed. • Sharing the app, and finding the other Plain and Simple apps, are easier. • A faster Settings screen, and a fix so an exported copy of your journal is never left behind on the device.

A fix for iCloud sync, and a way out if it has already stopped If you have ever used "Re-save oversized photos at a smaller size" in Troubleshooting, this is the important update. That button could stop iCloud sync on your device for good, with nothing left in the app to press. It re-saved every oversized photo in one go, and iCloud refuses an upload that large in a way it does not recover from on its own. It now works through them a few at a time, waiting for each upload to finish, and tells you how many are still to come. If your device is already stuck Journal health now offers "Set aside the photos blocking upload". It lifts the photos iCloud will not accept out of the way so the rest of your writing can get through, then puts them back one at a time as uploads recover. The photos stay on your device — nothing is deleted — but the days they belong to will look blank until they return. You will now be told when sync stops The app has always had a "Sync stopped — reopen app" warning, and because of a fault in how it recognised the failure, it had never once appeared. It does now. If you see it, closing the app completely and reopening it really is the fix. It can occasionally show up when sync was only briefly interrupted; it clears itself as soon as anything uploads. Nothing about your journal changes in this update, and there is nothing to set up.

A timer you can run from the home screen Any timer prompt now has a home screen widget with Start and Stop, plus Reset and the week's total on the larger size. It keeps counting without opening the app, and a run left going overnight is banked against the right day. Your streak, a goal and a running timer on the Lock Screen The streak, goal and timer widgets now come in Lock Screen sizes. They're read-only there — tap one and it opens the app. A gentler first day First run now asks how much journal you want: just the essentials, a balanced day, or the full picture. "A balanced day" is exactly the set the app has always started with, so nothing changes unless you choose otherwise — and you can add or retire prompts at any time in Edit my questions. You can speak instead of typing A one-time tip pointing out the microphone already on your keyboard. The printable book works again The PDF book was saving as a file nothing could open, and a photo-heavy journal could run out of memory part-way through. Both fixed. Opening the date range no longer crashes on a journal that contains an oddly dated day. Photos are safer On an account with more than one device, a photo still waiting to sync could be deleted instead of saved. That is fixed. "Delete everything" now clears waiting photos off the disk as well, instead of leaving them behind. Easier to read, easier to tap The app now holds its light palette in Dark Mode, so the sleep and reminder time pickers are legible again instead of near-white on near-white. The to-do widget's checkbox has a full-size tap target, so a near miss no longer yanks you out of the home screen. The first-run screens scroll, so nothing is silently cut off at large text sizes.

iCloud syncing, properly fixed Some journals stopped uploading to iCloud and stayed stuck until the app was reopened. The cause was photos: too many photo bytes in a single upload would be rejected, and that one rejection quietly stopped every upload after it. • Photos now upload one at a time. Add as many as you like — each one appears in your journal straight away, and any still waiting show a quiet "Saving…" badge. Nothing is lost if you close the app part-way through. • The sync status now tells the truth. If syncing has stopped, it says so and tells you to reopen the app, instead of showing a reassuring "last upload" time while nothing is actually going up. • Restoring a backup no longer re-breaks syncing. Export your journal as a printable PDF book In Settings, choose "Export as a PDF book". Pick a date range or your whole journal and it builds a real book: a cover, then one spread per day, with Morning on the left page and Evening on the right. Choose exactly which fields print, or switch to photos only for a photo album. History opens where you'd expect • If you keep a photo of the day, History now opens straight to your photo history. • "One field" is now called "Over time", and the field you were last looking at is remembered between visits. Text size now works everywhere Changing your device's text size updates the whole app straight away, instead of being ignored until the next launch. Also in this update • Settings → Journal health can check what iCloud actually holds and compare it against this device. • Find and fix photos that are too large, or days pointing at a photo that is no longer on the device, in one tap. • Time fields and the in-app counter buttons now record their changes like every other field.