- New Home Screen walkman widget: the tape label shows what's playing, both reels turn with their drive spindles, and you can play, stop or swap to a random tape from your rack without opening the app. - New StandBy widgets: your tape's cover and track list while charging on its side, switching to line art at night, plus a counter clock. - Send a friend a tape in Messages: pick one and they get its cover; one tap adds it to their own rack. Share links last 7 days, and interrupted uploads pick up where they left off. - The built-in Instructions tape has a fresh cover. - Also updated for iPhone Duo.

Unfold another side of your music. Time Player now brings a complete outer and inner display experience to iPhone Duo. Made for iPhone Duo • Keep your cassette player on the outer display, then unfold to reveal a companion view that matches your theme. • Serene reveals a moving drive mechanism. Time 1988 adds glowing tubes, responsive VU meters and a clock. Classic opens a poetry page. Jimboy shows lyrics or a tape timeline. • Refined theme layouts, settings, file pickers and transitions when folding, unfolding or changing themes. Make a tape of your own • New tapes hold up to eight tracks per side, sixteen in total. Existing tapes keep their tracks. • Drag and pinch your cover image, or use the zoom slider and buttons for finer control. Preview the crop before confirming. • Refined cassette labels and an iPhone portrait editor that shows all sixteen track slots together. A little more to listen with • Poetry follows the current track. Original poems can be generated where Apple Intelligence is available; built-in verse and manual editing remain available otherwise. • Tapes with lyrics can display them in Jimboy's companion view. Tapes without lyrics show the timeline. - The tape shelf remembers where you left off again: close it, open it, and the same tape is waiting in the middle. - While making a tape, tap "Side A" or "Side B" to preview that side's track list on the cover. On iPhone Duo, folding or unfolding no longer jumps back to Side A. - Fixed the shelf showing a different tape from the one selected when returning from the tape maker.

Unfold another side of your music. Time Player now brings a complete outer and inner display experience to iPhone Duo. Made for iPhone Duo • Keep your cassette player on the outer display, then unfold to reveal a companion view that matches your theme. • Serene reveals a moving drive mechanism. Time 1988 adds glowing tubes, responsive VU meters and a clock. Classic opens a poetry page. Jimboy shows lyrics or a tape timeline. • Refined theme layouts, settings, file pickers and transitions when folding, unfolding or changing themes. Make a tape of your own • New tapes hold up to eight tracks per side, sixteen in total. Existing tapes keep their tracks. • Drag and pinch your cover image, or use the zoom slider and buttons for finer control. Preview the crop before confirming. • Refined cassette labels and an iPhone portrait editor that shows all sixteen track slots together. A little more to listen with • Poetry follows the current track. Original poems can be generated where Apple Intelligence is available; built-in verse and manual editing remain available otherwise. • Tapes with lyrics can display them in Jimboy's companion view. Tapes without lyrics show the timeline. Also includes fixes to settings layouts, dialogs and cover selection.

VoiceOver support. • Every button in the built-in themes can now be found and used with VoiceOver: Play, Stop, Fast Forward, Rewind, Flip Side, Change Tape, Auto Reverse and Settings are all labeled. • Swipe up or down on Rewind, Fast Forward or Stop to choose Previous Track, Next Track or the touch guard — no need to hold for three seconds. • Adjust the volume by swiping up or down; the cassette window announces the tape, side, track and what it's doing. • On the tape shelf, double-tap to load a tape or swipe up or down to delete it; scrub with two fingers to step back out. • Notices such as the touch guard turning on are now announced.

Bug fixes. • Swiping left and right on the tape shelf no longer closes it by accident. • The tape shelf now opens on the tape you were last looking at. • Fixed an issue where, after an update, Settings and the tape shelf could appear sideways in portrait themes.

The app now works in portrait. • Two new portrait themes. Pick one and the whole app stands up with it — the tape shelf and the tape maker have proper portrait layouts, so there's no need to turn your phone sideways. • Updated for iOS 27. • Updated for the iPhone 18 Pro lineup. • Various fixes.

This update adds search to the cassette shelf, letting you quickly find local tapes by cassette title, song title, or artist. When creating a cassette, cover images can now be cropped with drag and zoom controls, with a direct preview of the final cassette label artwork. The player now includes a touch guard mode: long-press the Stop button for 3 seconds to lock touch controls, and long-press again to unlock. This version also improves localized text and several interface details.

Full English throughout. • The app name, the labels on the machine's body, and the transport keys now follow your language — including what VoiceOver reads out. • Stronger, more mechanical button haptics. • The volume knob no longer vibrates as you turn it. • Added a link to the support site under About. • Various small fixes to English text.