• When a new version of Jersey Beach App is out, the app now tells you once, with a button straight to the App Store — no more missing out on new tide and forecast features. Thanks for the reviews and suggestions — keep them coming.

Two small behind-the-scenes fixes. • On an iPhone's first launch after installing, the app now proves it is the genuine Jersey Beach app straight away, instead of making one failed attempt first. • If your location is not available to the app, the map's location button now switches itself off instead of staying lit with no dot. Thanks for the reviews and suggestions — keep them coming.

Small improvements, several of them asked for by you. • Tide heights in feet — switch between metres and feet at the top of the Tides page. Your choice is remembered, and every tide height in the app follows it. • Rain bars now fill all the way up — a 100% chance of rain fills the whole bar. • Your location on the map is darker and pulses, so it is easy to spot. • Clearer map buttons — a button that is on is filled dark, and one that is off is white. The island button lights up while the map shows the whole island. • The map key now runs across the bottom of the map and no longer overlaps the map credits. Thanks for the reviews and suggestions — keep them coming.

Tides, much further ahead. Jersey's official St Helier tide predictions are now in the app — the same times and heights published by Jersey Met, produced by the National Oceanography Centre. They are what the tide card, the curve and the causeway times read from. Also in this update: • Coming days — a week of high and low water at a glance, with the fortnight's springs and neaps named, so a reef walk or a big low is easy to spot. • Pick a day — any day in the next three months, from a strip of days you scroll. • Add tides to your calendar — subscribe once and every high and low water for the year ahead sits in your own calendar, refreshed daily. Works with Apple Calendar, Google Calendar and Outlook. • Tides now work with no signal at all. The coming days are computed on your phone, so they are there on a beach, on a boat, or in a lane with no bars. Every prediction says where it came from. As always, this is a guide and not a substitute for the official tide tables — never cross a causeway or the reef on a prediction alone.

A new look. The cards are translucent now, so the sky behind them shows through the whole app — and that sky still follows the real sun, from dawn through golden hour to night. Also in this update: • Beach pages open as a card lifted over the list, and close with a flick down. You can see where you came from behind them. • The map button is the shape of Jersey, drawn from the real coastline. • The island map is light again, which reads far better against the sky. • Causeways and marina gates now tell you what they are doing and when that changes, instead of saying both in one sentence. Six crossings are readable at a glance. • Tap the top of the forecast card on Today to open the full week. • The scrolling strips of hours now dissolve at both ends rather than cutting off, whatever the weather or the hour. Every screen was checked at dawn, midday, golden hour and night, on both an iPhone and an Android phone, because the app looks different at each.

The forecast now leads the Today screen, and every hour carries its own chance of rain — with the kind of weather beside it, so a drizzly hour looks different from a thundery one at a glance. Also in this update: • Today's forecast runs to the end of the day, rather than stopping twelve hours out. • When it is actually raining, the app now says so — and when it eases. It used to offer you the odds on rain later while you stood in it. • Wind on a beach page is coloured by the same calm-to-hurricane scale as the dial above it, so the hours and the scale finally agree. • Cards that looked faded or see-through are solid, and the strips of hours scroll properly with soft edges instead of cutting off mid-word. Thank you to everyone sending feedback — the rain card in this update exists because someone told us it was raining on them while the app discussed the chances.

Adverts from local Jersey businesses can now be short, silent videos — and they keep their place as you move around the app, instead of starting from the beginning on every screen. Also in this update: • The app opens with one clean logo moment, then gets straight to the weather. • Groundwork so each advertiser's time on screen can be set individually. • New screenshots on this page — the app has grown a lot since the last set. Thank you to everyone sending feedback — the tide and wind corrections in the last update came straight from a Jersey boat operator, and this app is better for every message.

Tide heights are more accurate. Our high-water figures were reading around half a metre low against Jersey's published tide table — enough to matter if you're near a causeway or a drying rock. They now match it closely. Always check official tide tables before going out on the water. Also in this update: • The rain radar plays smoothly instead of flickering between frames. • Wind now shows knots alongside mph, with the Beaufort force number — and the wind description no longer disagrees with the speed beside it. • Adverts from local businesses appear as soon as they go live, instead of waiting for the next time you opened the app fresh. • The app now asks, once, whether you'd like to rate it — only after it's actually been useful. Thank you to the Jersey boat operator who spotted the tide readings, and to everyone who sends feedback. It's how the app gets better.

Fixed a crash: opening the last day of the forecast could close the app. The forecast doesn't always reach the end of that day, and the beach ratings now simply leave out the hours it hasn't reached instead of trying to score them. Also in this update: • The rain outlook now sits above the best-beach card on Today, so you see whether it's going to rain before you see where to go. • Adverts open only from their button now — no more leaving the app by tapping the picture. Plus everything from the last update, if you haven't seen it yet: the sky fading gently between dawn, day, golden hour and night, rain radar on the map, live wind arrows across the island, bathing water quality on beach pages, and a photo competition — send us a photo of your beach and it could win the spot on that page.

The sky now fades gently between dawn, day, golden hour and night instead of switching in one step — and dawn finally has its own colours. Also in this update: • Fixed: the alert switches on the More page were nearly invisible when turned off. • Fixed: the rain radar's timeline was hard to see and hard to drag. • Fixed: on some phones the best-times window overlapped the activity name. Plus everything from the last update, if you haven't seen it yet: rain radar on the map, live wind arrows across the island, bathing water quality on beach pages, and a photo competition — send us a photo of your beach and it could win the spot on that page.

Tide-safe causeways, moon phases and real Jersey photos. • Causeway and marina gate times — see at a glance whether Elizabeth Castle, St Aubin's Fort, Corbière or the Havre des Pas walkway is open, and exactly when it floods. Warns you when there isn't time to get out and back. • Moon phase and the spring–neap outlook on the Tides page, for anglers and rock-poolers. • Spring tide alerts a couple of days ahead of the biggest tides. • Corbière Lighthouse now has its own page. • Real photographs of Jersey beaches are starting to arrive. • The whole app now takes its colour from the sky — dawn, day, golden hour and night. • Better beach ranking: the calmest beach now genuinely wins, and every "best beach" says which hours it means.

Fairer trader listings: the order of businesses on each beach now changes daily, so no one keeps a permanent top spot. Businesses with a Beach Boost appear first, with a star. Trader accounts and listings are now managed at jerseybeachapp.com - the app stays focused on your day at the beach. Accessibility improvements.

Now designed for iPad — the app runs full-screen on iPad rather than in a scaled-up iPhone window, with the layout tuned so it reads properly on a larger display. Also in this update: • Traders can add a logo and photos from the app, uploaded properly rather than embedded in the listing, so listings load faster. • The listing editor now warns you before you leave with unsaved changes, and shows a live preview of your listing as you type. • Improved security checks on app requests. • Various fixes and refinements.

Beach safety fix: a missing wind reading could make an exposed beach look sheltered. Wind is now checked properly, and we'd rather show nothing than guess. Daily beach notifications — a morning briefing when it's a good beach day, plus tide-safety, activity-window and rain-clearing alerts. Turn them on in More. Easier to read in bright sunlight: text and colour contrast reworked throughout for light mode. Food trucks and traders can now set their pitch on a full-screen map, and listings update the moment they change them.