Here are some Halloween words in Cantonese.

Ready Time now works with Siri! Ask “When do I leave in Ready Time?” or “What’s my next step in Ready Time?” and Siri will give her (or its?) chirpy answer without you needing to pick up your phone. Because picking up your phone takes so much work, phew! This makes it easy to use Ready Time with a paired Apple Watch too.

When plans change, say “Change the deadline for Dinner in Ready Time” and give it a new time. Ready Time updates your start times without opening the app. This works on one-time Plans for now.

You can download Ready Time on the App Store. If you have feedback, we’d love to hear from you. Drop me a note.

Looks like Coinbase is also joining the native mobile app party too:

Were taking Coinbase’s consumer trading app fully native, migrating off React Native and rebuilding in Swift and Kotlin! Two things changed the math: AI coding agents have collapsed the cost of building a feature twice, and the end product is simply better when nothing sits between your code and the platform. Faster startup, fewer crashes, day-one access to new iOS and Android capabilities. For an app where millions of people trade real money, that matters a lot.

Re-iterating in bullets:

• nothing sits between your code and the platform
• faster startup
• fewer crashes
• day-one access to new iOS/Android capabilities

Also, the team can focus on more on the user experience rather than battling tooling.

Shopify’s move came recently too.

Little Memory 2.2 is out, and it’s been designed to work with wide screens! It’s hot off the tail of Ready Time’s Duo/iPad release.

iPhone Duo

Apple’s fancy new iPhone Duo opens up to a wide screen. I’ve been meaning to revisit iPad support for Little Memory, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to throw 2 rocks and hit a single bird. Open the iPhone Duo: when you select the Search option in the inner display, the Search view will now present on the side beside the main Diary. Tap a search result and the Diary moves to that day. When you close or open the phone, you’ll stay on the day you were looking at.

iPad

The iPad gets a layout of its own with the same Diary and Search side by side. If you’d rather just have the Diary, you can turn Search off from the Diary menu.

Tags on a new memory

Previously, you could only add tags to a memory when editing it. This made it pretty clunky to use, and probably made it easy for folks to ignore even tagging anything. I like tagging little things like #coffee or more recently, as I’ve been battling the insects coming into the house: #ants. It can be a fun way to spot trends or patterns in your own days. If you haven’t given it a try in a while, maybe give it a revisit. Tags are a Premium feature.

Fixes

Memory pushes only go out on a real anniversary now. This was a pretty bad bug I mentioned yesterday, where you’d get a random memory on days you didn’t have one. I think it mostly impacted newer users who have a sparser history of memories.

Text you haven’t saved also stays put when you leave the editor, and there are fixes for sync status, iCloud setup and the streak saver.

Onward

If you have feedback, I’d love to hear from you. Drop me a note.

I see what you did there, Apple.

The HomeView needs an iPhone for it to work with Siri AI because your phone and all its apps are where it gets all its context. With a multi-user device, it makes sense: how are you going to manage private data of each user on the same device while guaranteeing the data is up-to-date/synced all the time? Requiring the iPhone makes sense. To every app developing an iOS app: it’s time to build out those App Intents.

Ready Time has run on iPad for a while, but it was really just a stretched out version of the iPhone app, which was kind of lame. It really didn’t take advantage of the large display on the iPad, and you had to navigate around the app as if you had limited screen space. With iPhone Duo coming out, we wanted to make better use of the bigger screen. Now on iPhone Duo and iPad, your Plans stay in a list on the left while you can see a selected Plan on the right.

Editing on the bigger screen

Editing has also been updated to better suit the larger screen. On the iPhone, editing a Step’s duration, time lock, and travel options made sense where the keyboard is displayed. But with the larger screen, we have much more width on the screen to be able to show you these options on the side of the Plan Editor.

Closing iPhone Duo

If you close iPhone Duo, the Plan you had open stays running on the outer display. You can pack the night before with it open, close it on your way out the door, and your notifications and Live Activity keep going.

Spotlight and Shortcuts

3.10 was also recently released, and with it came support for Spotlight search, and the Shortcuts app has an Open Plan action. You can now search for your Plans in Spotlight so you can quickly get to them without needing to search for the app.

Picking a duration

The duration picker for Steps finally got a face lift. We’d been using the standard iOS spinner wheels for selecting durations, but oftentimes, you want to set something preset like 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, etc. Now, you can select one of the common durations right in the picker. This should speed you up when setting up your Plans.

We also made it quicker to start a new Plan from one of the built-in routines, tapping a Live Activity now takes you straight to that Plan, long Step titles wrap onto more lines, and we cleaned up the colors in every theme so Step times are easier to read.

Onward

You can download Ready Time on the App Store.

If you have feedback, we’d love to hear from you. Drop me a note.

He just smiled and handed me the origami crane (via):

Ten years later, as a high school student, Matsuda found herself thinking about that moment again. […]

“I started to think deeply about that time and tried to remember the details,” she said. “And I thought that maybe while I was on the phone with my grandfather, possibly [the man] wrote something on the paper.”

She hurried home from school and unfolded the crane to check. He had. Inside was a well-known Japanese expression about how every encounter is precious.

Roughly, it means “We should treasure each time we cross paths with someone because it might never happen again.” Or, more simply, “cherish the moment.”

Little Memory 2.1 is out. Most of the updates for it came from feedback on 2.0:

• Fixed the iOS 27 bug I mentioned a few days ago, where the paging dots under the diary didn’t match the top toolbar
• The import screen is clearer about the two toggles that need to be turned on to continue
• Opening a day in a large diary is faster
• When installing on a 2nd device, the app now knows you have memories in iCloud and welcomes you back; the old wording was confusing

Thanks to everyone who sent in bug reports and feedback.

We already knew ChatGPT was a huge snitch, so it’s not a surprise that Claude is a tattletale too:

According to the arrest report, Carli Michelle Heller, of Bonita Springs, Florida, wrote on September 26 that she would attack the Sheriff’s office. She later said that she uses Anthropic’s chatbot like a “diary.”

Claude’s safety systems flagged the entry and it was escalated to a human reviewer. After deciding it was a credible threat, the reviewer reported it to law enforcement.

We don’t know the full context of what she was writing, and she may have been totally serious or she may have been just venting. But having folks writing into Claude like it’s a diary does not sound like a good idea. People think they’re writing in a private space when chatting with AI, but they’re actually dumping their data into the AI provider’s databases.

Things like moving Little Memory’s data out of the cloud and into your own sovereignty is, in my opinion, the way to go. Keep this important private data… private.

Ready Time has always had push notifications when it’s time to start each Step. But in between each Step, you had to unlock your iPhone and open the app to see the status of your Plan. Now a running Plan stays on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island with Live Activities.

The whole idea of the app has always been to help you stay on time and to know what to do next, but keeping the Ready Time app open constantly doesn’t always make sense. You may be driving on your way to a meeting. You might be dealing with a screaming toddler during your morning routine, trying to juggle texting your babysitter or partner at the same time.

Being able to set your phone down and quickly glance on your Lock Screen to see the status of your Plan helps you make sure you’re on track to get to your meeting, your appointment, and any deadline you’ve set on time. It even shows up on your Apple Watch.

Turning it on

Live Activities are part of Premium. With Premium, every Plan shows up on its own when it starts. If there’s a Plan you’d rather keep off your Lock Screen, tap the Live Activity button on the Plan. And if you don’t want them at all, you can disable Live Activities in Settings.

Onward

You can download Ready Time on the App Store.

If you have feedback, we’d love to hear from you. Drop me a note.

We’ve had daily and weekly repeating Plans for Ready Time, but some things we only do on weekdays. Welp, now we’ve got Weekday repeating Plans (Plans that repeat only Monday through Friday). This is perfect for school drop-off, the commute, the walk to the bus.

Repeat is easier to find

Repeat used to live in the menu in the Plan Editor, and it was a bit hidden. It now sits at the top of the deadline section in the Plan Editor, next to the time it applies to. The time row also tells you which days it covers, like “Mon-Fri at 8:15 AM”.

While we were there, we made Buffer a bit easier to find too, so it’s right on the top toolbar.

Two new themes

• Kyoto. Sakura, wisteria and pale silk. It’s the softest theme in the app. Inspired by our recent travels to Japan.
• COOLMOVES. Synthwave purple with teal Steps. So 80’s. What, you don’t know COOLMOVES?

Both are now in Premium.

We also cleaned up some of the existing themes where the contrast would sometimes make it hard to read items in your Plans. Sedona and Countdown Classic should now read better in Dark Mode.

Onward

You can download Ready Time on the App Store.

If you have feedback, we’d love to hear from you. Drop me a note.