Ink 1.2 adds four things to every notebook: each page knows when it was written, tape to cover words, section tabs, and a proof that your notes are safe. Written On Every page remembers the day and hour it was written. Hold the page counter to see it. The page overview groups pages under day headers and shows the span of each sitting. Hold a finger on a word and a small caption in the ink's own colour tells you when it was written, with a play button when a recording covers it. Pages from before this version say "Before Ink kept time". Tape Pick Tape in the highlighter's popover and lay a paper-coloured strip over anything you want to learn. Tap a strip with a fingertip to lift it. Tape comes in three widths, hides the line it lies on, and behaves like any other stroke for undo and Time Travel. A page with tape on it becomes a Study card: Study lifts the strips one by one, and you grade once. Section tabs Choose Add Tab in the page overview and a small stub appears on the page's fore edge. Tap a stub to jump to that section. Tabs become chapters in exported PDFs and travel with the Ink Archive. Writing • Guided paper, a new paper whose lines appear under the pen as it touches the page and fade after it lifts. • Lift the Ink: hold a finger on empty paper and the ink fades so you can see the document beneath. It stays lifted while your finger rests. The export sheet offers Include my ink. • Write #word and it is a tag, listed beside links and exact in search. • Favourite pen presets: long-press to save colour-and-width slots in each pen's popover. Marker opacity comes in Light, Medium and Strong. • A notebook remembers which pen you used in it. • Following a [[link]] stays in place instead of reopening the editor. • Use any page as the notebook's cover. • A left-handed layout, in the toolbar's Customize popover. Finding and reading • When a search finds nothing, Ink shows up to three crops of handwriting that look close. Tap one to teach the page that word. • Page as Text: the page's words beside the page. Fix a misread line, then share the text. Recording • Record a Lecture in the New menu makes a dated notebook that starts recording on its first page. • Every page turn during a recording is a chapter. Each page has a Chapters list in the Recordings panel, and the transcript is grouped by page. • Recording cards take their title from the first phrase and show the pages they cover. Trim a recording by dragging the ends of its timeline; the file is never cut, so Undo is free. Playback controls appear on the lock screen. Study • Shuffle, Search, 20 at a time and Swap sides in the Study menu. Export cards as CSV for Anki. Shelf and overview • Choose Select in the shelf's sort menu to act on several notebooks at once. Long-press a page in the overview to select several, then Export, Move, Duplicate or Delete. • Quick Notes take their title from their first line. Trash rows show the days left and offer Delete Now. Keeping safe • Tap the Saved pill to see the proof: counters, the last backup and the last check, and what a clear or delete kept. • Once a week while charging, Ink can restore its newest backup into a separate copy and compare every stroke, so you know the backup can be restored. Turn it on in Settings › Storage, or choose Verify now. Accessibility and polish • Text size changes apply at once, without a relaunch. Bold Text and Increase Contrast are honoured. • Buttons look and behave the same everywhere, and every one is easy to hit. • The Early Access screen is shorter: three rows and Continue. • Settings says each fact once, and the support mail pre-fills your build number. • The New Notebook sheet fits the iPad mini in landscape, and the Couldn't save toast keeps its words together in a narrow window.

Here is what has changed in this version. Writing • The page holds still. Your palm never pans, zooms or turns a page, and a finger pan never leaves a stroke. • Turn pages with a finger slide. The next page peeks in as you drag, and the stack gives a gentle bounce at either end. • Hold the pen still at the end of a stroke and it straightens into a line, rectangle, ellipse or arrow. Undo brings back the freehand stroke. • The eraser takes highlighter first and ink on the next pass, so the note underneath is not lost by accident. • Tap to add typed text in three sizes, with bold. Add photos from your library, the clipboard, another app or the scanner, then crop, move and resize them. • New paper: Cornell with an adjustable column, lined with margin, isometric and music staff. Use any PDF as custom paper. Landscape notebooks. • Undo stays on the page you are looking at. A page flip never undoes something elsewhere. • Zoom presets under the page counter, and a two-finger double tap switches between fit and 2x. • Apple Pencil Pro squeeze does what you choose in Settings, and keyboard shortcuts work on the editor's buttons. • A notebook opens on the page you left. Importing • Import Word, PowerPoint, Excel, RTF, plain text and HTML documents as pages, not only PDF. • Insert PDF pages into an existing notebook. Password-protected PDFs ask for the password instead of arriving empty. • Imports keep their shape. A landscape page stays landscape. Filled-in forms and signatures look the way they did in the original. • A PDF's outline becomes section headers in the page overview, and its internal links work with a finger tap. • Scanned PDFs are read in the background so their words can be found. • Importing shows a progress bar and a Cancel button, and large files no longer strain memory. • PDF pages are readable at night, with a choice to keep the document's own colours. Finding • Search finds words in any order, supports exact phrases in quotes, and lands you on the exact line, highlighted for a moment. • Search also looks inside your recordings. A speech hit opens the page with the transcript at that phrase. • Every page appears in iPadOS search, and Shortcuts can open a notebook or start a quick note. Recording • Audio recorded on this iPad stays on this iPad. • Your ink replays as the audio plays. Strokes not yet written sit faint and fill in as the lecture reaches them. • A long scrub bar with stroke marks appears while you scrub, with fine control on a slow drag. • A recording still plays if the app is closed mid-session. • Transcripts say what they are: a partial transcript is marked as partial, and your chosen language is kept. Exporting and keeping safe • Export the notebook, the current page or a range as PDF, image, Markdown or Ink Archive. PDF export keeps the source document's own text and links under your ink, and your handwriting is searchable in the exported file. • The Ink Archive is an open, readable format. Back Up Now writes one beside each PDF, and a notebook restores from it with its full history. • Back Up Now is quicker, can be cancelled, and says what it did. • Lock a notebook with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode. Locked notebooks never appear in previews, search or Study. • Present on a connected display. The screen shows only the page, and a laser pointer trail follows your pen without leaving a stroke. • Open two notebooks side by side in separate windows. • If Ink cannot reach the shelf twice in a row, it opens in a safe mode so you can still get to your notebooks. Under the hood • Opens faster. Pages load their ink only when needed, a page flip comes from a cache, and covers come straight from disk. • Handwriting recognition runs in pauses and eases off when the iPad is warm or in Low Power Mode, and says so. • About shows how long Ink took to open and how much memory it is using. • Many fixes to saving, import, trash, Time Travel, the toolbar at narrow widths and the page overview.