InnerRipple: Know Your Health

Short nights now count against your day. Sleep between about 5 and 6.5 hours used to score as helping, even when Tonight's Action said you were below the recommended range. Now under 6.5 hours holds the day back and under 6 hours holds it back further, so the score and the advice agree. Net Today, Recovery and the days banked in Trends may read lower after short nights, including for past days in the last six months. Accessibility: small text has higher contrast and is easier to read. Reduce Motion is now respected throughout the app and on Apple Watch, where the breathing orb paces your breath by fading instead of growing. Good and typical readings now carry different words instead of differing only by colour. At larger text sizes, the places we found where words broke midway or labels cut off are fixed, on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Light mode text has higher contrast too. New: your screens float on slow water. Prefer a plain background? Switch to Regular in Settings, Appearance, where you can also choose how strong the water is, how it looks in light mode, and a matching app icon. It holds still with Reduce Motion or Low Power Mode, and stays plain with Increase Contrast or Reduce Transparency. Also new in Settings: glass cards, on either background. Tonight's Action asks for a plan now, not a tap. Mark Done counted as done the moment you tapped it, whether or not the night went that way. A sleep action now names a time to be asleep by; Plan it can set a wind-down reminder, and the next morning the app shows when you actually fell asleep, read from Apple Health, and whether that was within your plan. Step and exercise targets fill as you go and close themselves, Trends counts what happened rather than taps, and Siri takes "Plan tonight in InnerRipple". When last night was short, resting heart rate is up or HRV is down against your usual, the action is now about recovery before steps. Mark Done history from earlier versions is cleared. Today is calmer. Recovery now says which signals lifted or lowered this morning's number, instead of repeating its definition every day. Outside the Classic layout, the explanations under the ring now sit behind an (i), so the number comes first. Last night's plan sits on top of today's action, and in the Simplified layout a day with nothing standing out gets one line instead of a card. The Today's Investment breakdown now leads with the number, like Recovery's. Fitness Age shows a number again. Tap it to see how it is worked out: your VO₂ max, the typical value at your age, the gap between them and what that gap is worth in years, next to the readings it rests on. On iPad, the meditation button sits in its own space at the edge of the screen, on every tab, so it no longer covers what is underneath it. "Off your usual" is now "Standing out", because some readings stand out against a reference range rather than your usual. Fixes: the Recovery breakdown says which signals are scored against your usual and which against set ranges, the Today's Investment breakdown lists the weights the score actually uses, the watch Sleep Recap describes the current score and keeps its last line clear of the page dots, the small Today widget shows its whole line, the lock screen Today widget no longer shows its score as a percentage, the medium Today's Action widget hides its text on a locked iPhone, Siri's "Get today's score" now gives Today's Investment, the number the app shows, and VoiceOver says "1 minute" rather than "1 minutes".