YardTime now speaks German. Every screen, the widgets, the Live Activity, the Apple Watch app and its complication, Siri, and every notification follow your iPhone's language. If you'd rather pick a language just for YardTime, the new Language row in Settings takes you straight there. Deutsch ist da!

If a neighbor's dogs are already out, YardTime now asks before letting yours join them — no matter how you tap. Siri, a Shortcuts automation on an NFC tag, the home-screen widget, your watch, and the buttons on notifications all check first. Where there's a screen, you get "Sarah is out until 3:40 PM — let Rex out anyway?"; the widget sends a notification with a one-tap "Let them out anyway" instead. Confirming always wins, and the ask goes away on its own the moment your status changes.

Everyone now sees the same recent activity. The feed of who let dogs out and when the yard cleared is shared with your group, so a new phone — or a neighbor who just joined — sees the last few comings and goings right away instead of an empty list. When the "Yard is clear" alert arrives, one tap lets your dogs out for 30 minutes, straight from the notification. If you share a household, the timer reminders reach everyone in it. Whoever let the dog out can walk off; the other phone still hears "still out?", the last call, and "time to head out" for a planned yard time — and answering on either phone clears it on both. A neighbor's upcoming yard time now shows on your widgets, your watch and the Live Activity, the same way the app shows it, so "Sarah's heading out at 9:30 PM" is there at a glance while your dogs are out.

A timer running out no longer clears the yard by itself. Now YardTime asks first: when the timer ends you get a nudge — extend or bring them in — and the yard stays marked occupied while it waits for your answer, with a last call before it finally clears itself half an hour later. Until then, neighbors see the honest "out past 3:30 PM" everywhere, instead of a yard that reads free while your dog is still sniffing the fence. That also means the "yard is clear" ping only arrives when it's actually true. Plus some polish: VoiceOver now speaks which day a planned yard time is for, and leaving a group says goodbye in words that fit who you are in it.

Plan your yard time. If you know you want the yard at 7:30, say so: pick a start time in the next 24 hours and how long you need, and your neighbors see it coming — "Heading out 7:30–8:00 AM" — instead of finding out at the fence. When your time arrives, YardTime nudges you and the dogs go out with one tap. It stays a heads-up, never a lock. If a neighbor already has that window you'll see it before you plan, and either of you can still go. A plan you don't use clears itself. The main screen reads easier too — a lighter roster, and a neighbor's plan shows up front when it's about to start.

This one's all about joining a group. If you tapped an invite and ended up waiting on a screen that never found your neighbors, that's fixed: tapping an invite link now gives the app a clean start, invites opened right after installing no longer vanish, and tapping your own link — or one for a group you're already in — now tells you so instead of doing nothing. The waiting screen is more patient too: it keeps checking for a good half hour while your neighbor finishes setting up, instead of giving up and blaming your iCloud sign-in.

Inviting your neighbors just got easier. Anyone in the group can now send the invite link — not just whoever created it — and invites arrive as a friendly card that says what they're for, instead of a bare link. We also fixed the cases where an invite link could go stale or get stuck. In Settings you can now set your own name separately from your household's, tell a friend about YardTime, or leave a rating if it's earned one.

YardTime got a fresh coat of paint — and a few new tricks. - A brand-new look: warmer colors, a playful sticker style, and the dot-grid yard everywhere — app, widgets, and Live Activity - Group owners can now remove a member who's moved away - Plain-language messages when iCloud is signed out, offline, or full - A heads-up in Settings if notifications are turned off - Smoother in/out animations, sharper photos in the Dynamic Island, and more dependable syncing to widgets, the Live Activity, and Apple Watch