The first beaches are livelier and less chatty, and iPad gets five fixes. - Every shore's margins now carry half again as much scenery, and Sunny Shore gains seaweed tufts, so the first crawls no longer cross bare sand. - Special offers wait until level 5, when upgrades exist to spend on. Nothing is for sale on your first beaches. - Run hints such as "Rolling driftwood - dodge it!" now appear once per player, not on every run. - The beach shows at most one coach mark per visit. Anything else waits until you come back. On iPad: - Menus, the Collection Book and the level map now fill the screen. They were drawn in a narrow column with flat colour down either side. - The level map no longer clips level markers, star chests or your turtle where the trail runs wide. - The Collection Book fits its grid to the screen, so shells and hatchlings are no longer squeezed. - Pausing or finishing a run dims the whole screen. Bright sand used to sit either side of the panel. - Turning the iPad while a panel is open no longer leaves part of the beach blank. Also fixed: - Purchased pearl packs no longer miss a credit or credit the same purchase twice. - When a store price is unavailable, purchase buttons show "Check price" instead of a fallback USD price. - Runs keep their beach across daily and weekly resets. High Tide bonuses use the day the run started. - Leaving the app during Second Chance now saves unbanked Endless and Weekly Challenge progress for recovery on the next launch. - Run music no longer starts late after you have left the run. - Improved in-game message rendering.

The first beaches are livelier and less chatty, and iPad gets five fixes. - Every shore's margins now carry half again as much scenery, and Sunny Shore gains seaweed tufts, so the first crawls no longer cross bare sand. - Special offers wait until level 5, when upgrades exist to spend on. Nothing is for sale on your first beaches. - Run hints such as "Rolling driftwood - dodge it!" now appear once per player, not on every run. - The beach shows at most one coach mark per visit. Anything else waits until you come back. On iPad: - Menus, the Collection Book and the level map now fill the screen. They were drawn in a narrow column with flat colour down either side. - The level map no longer clips level markers, star chests or your turtle where the trail runs wide. - The Collection Book fits its grid to the screen, so shells and hatchlings are no longer squeezed. - Pausing or finishing a run dims the whole screen. Bright sand used to sit either side of the panel. - Turning the iPad while a panel is open no longer leaves part of the beach blank. Also fixed: - Purchased pearl packs no longer miss a credit or credit the same purchase twice. - When a store price is unavailable, purchase buttons show "Check price" instead of a fallback USD price. - Runs keep their beach across daily and weekly resets. High Tide bonuses use the day the run started. - Leaving the app during Second Chance now saves unbanked Endless and Weekly Challenge progress for recovery on the next launch. - Run music no longer starts late after you have left the run. - Improved in-game message rendering.

• The Shop's shell, aura and skin shelves now lead with your own collection. Whatever you are wearing comes first and is marked Equipped, so you no longer scroll a rarity list hunting for the one you already own. • The Collection Book works both ways now. Open anything you own to equip shells, auras, turtle colours, avatars or frames right there, or pack Beach Gear for your next run. • When a new batch of upgrades opens up, the beach tells you: a small note appears over the Shop until you have had a look. The Upgrades tab also counts how many upgrade levels you can afford right now. • In the Lagoon, upgrading your den is a proper button again, with its price on it, and the sheet says what the next tier grants before you pay. • The daily gift and welcome-back cards no longer blink to +0 as they close. They now hold the amount you just collected for the whole closing animation. • An Endless or Weekly run cut short by the phone shutting the game down is banked on your next launch instead of vanishing. Your distance, your coins and your best are all kept. • If a purchase is ever charged without the Starfish Pearls arriving, the game now spots it and credits them on your next launch. Payments that take a while to clear are covered too. • Today's Deals counts down to the moment the shelf actually changes. The timer used to run on your phone's own clock, so a device set fast or slow disagreed with the deals above it. • Run music now belongs to the beach you are on. Each region plays its own two themes instead of mixing in a pair of general ones. • The interface tap is softer. Buttons now alternate between two quiet, recorded bubble pops, so a long stretch in the menus is easier on the ears. • Your app icon now follows your Home Screen too: iOS 18 has its own dark and tinted hatchling artwork.

Turtle Cleanup rinses first, and tablets get the whole screen. - The Rinse wand comes before the Sponge: sweep the mud away with water, then lift the film with the damp sponge. The tutorial and tool tray follow. - Cleaning takes the same number of passes as before. - On a tablet the game fills the screen, held either way, with text and buttons sized for it. The course is unchanged. - Turtle Escape now speaks Russian, its sixth language. - New lettering; the old one had no Cyrillic.