On This Day Rewind

# On This Day 1.5 Release Notes Your photos can be displayed in a merged grid instead of a stack of years, your shared text (on the image) can carry any date you want, and some fixes for the widgets. Highlights - One merged grid: every year in a single grid, with a small badge where each year starts (Pro) - Custom share text can include the date in any format you like - Reordered Settings: All grid settings now live under one Image Grid entry - Widgets no longer come up blank, and they show video thumbnails Merged grid (Pro) - Turn on Merged Grid in Settings to see every year as one grid. The rows fill up across the year boundary. - A small badge marks the first photo of each year. - If you limit the rows per year, that year ends with a tile that shows how many photos are hidden. Tap it to see the rest. (Pro) - The per-year layout stays. Leave the setting off and nothing changes. Settings - Column count, rows per year, merged grid, current year and sorting are together merged into Image Grid to cleanup the settings page a bit Share text - Custom share text accepts a date. Write [date:MMMM yyyy] for December 2024, or [date:EEEE] for the weekday. - Write [date] on its own to use the format you already picked. - Tap a chip under the text field to insert a token. You do not have to type the patterns. - The new help button lists every token and every format letter, with an example beside each. - The example under the field shows the real result as you type. Widgets - Widgets set to one or two photos could come up blank. They now draw at every size and count. - Videos appear as a still frame with a play symbol. A day with only videos is no longer empty. - Widgets refresh much faster. - The photo count you pick is respected. Choosing 1 on a Medium widget showed 2 before. - The Extra Large widget on iPad honors your count instead of always showing 10, and goes up to 12. - Photos in the Large and Extra Large layouts are sharper. Fullscreen - Full screen photos are sharper. They were loaded below the screen's real pixel size. - Videos download faster, and a progress bar shows how far along they are. Fixes & polish - A Live Photo held you in full screen. Swiping down to close it did nothing until the motion finished. - An empty day now offers Previous and Next buttons. They jump to the closest day that has photos. - Days with many photos scroll better and use less memory.