The biggest update since the app came out. Ten things, most of them asked for by people using it. A WIDGET ON YOUR HOME SCREEN saying when you next have them and what is planned, without opening anything. DID THEY ACTUALLY COME? One tap on a day that has passed says whether they were with you. Until now everything in the book was a plan; this is the only thing that knows what happened, and it is what makes the new overview a record rather than an arrangement multiplied. It asks once, about one day, and never nags. HOW IT HAS GONE. A new page counting the days you have had them, the days you missed and why, the changes to your usual days, and a month by month picture of the year. Every figure says what it counts and the date it counts from, and nothing is guessed. ARRANGEMENTS THAT ARE NOT A WEEK LONG. A week on and a week off, or two nights, two nights and a long weekend. If yours is one of those you had to type every single day in by hand. Not any more. MARK A DAY THEY ARE NOT COMING, and say why, and it stays on the calendar with the reason under it instead of quietly disappearing. A weekend can be marked in part, so the Saturday can be off and the Sunday still yours. REMINDERS THAT ACTUALLY ARRIVE. A nudge the evening before, with what is still unpacked. Everything is set by your phone, on your phone: no account, nothing sent anywhere. BRITISH SCHOOL HOLIDAYS on the calendar, with the bank holidays worked out exactly. The school breaks are the usual dates and the app says so, because term dates are set school by school. A TIME TO SPEAK on the days they are not with you. The app remembers when you agreed, reminds you both, and opens FaceTime or the phone. It never carries the call and it never records whether one happened. A MONTH ON ONE PAGE to send or print, for a grandparent, a childminder or a solicitor. They need no account and nothing to join. NOTES FOR ONE DAY, so the reading book left at school stops becoming a permanent fact about your child. WHAT CHANGED, AND WHEN, behind the changes figure on the overview. Nine bugs fixed too, including one that could quietly stop the app telling you about its own updates.

A new hand-drawn app icon, an update notice, and a round of fixes from real use on a phone. The app now tells you when a new version is waiting. Once a day at most it asks its own App Store page which version is current, and says so once if there is a newer one. Say not now and it will not ask again about that version. That request carries nothing about you or your child, and the privacy policy has a section describing exactly what is sent. Your usual days now show right across the calendar, not just the next one. You can put a photo of your child on their page instead of their initial. Anything you tap by mistake can be tapped again to undo it. All 164 pictures are there to choose from, with a search, and a cross on the one you picked takes it back off. The keyboard no longer covers what you are typing into. Photos you keep are stored somewhere they cannot be cleared away. Every screen has been gone over at the largest text size, so nothing runs into anything else. And the little character counters stay out of the way until you are near the limit.