Shwssh: Sleep Sounds

SPOOKY TIME Through October the pasture can dress up for Halloween: grey hills, pumpkins in the pines, bats on the mobile and the sheep in costume, each with a trick-or-treat bucket. It only happens if you say yes, and a tap on the sign at the top of Sounds or Settings puts it away again. ELEVEN NEW SONGS Six hummed lullabies, and five cosy-spooky ones for October. Wordless and slow, and made to loop all night without a seam. ASK SIRI "Start Shwssh", "Play Light Rain on Shwssh", or any of your own recordings by name. Shortcuts and Spotlight know them too. CONTROL CENTER, STANDBY AND FOCUS A Control Center button for your last mix. On the charger in StandBy, the pasture sits behind the controls and dims at night. A Bedtime Focus filter can have your mix ready when you open the app. RECORD YOUR WAY Hold the mic, or tap once to start and again to stop. A new take plays as soon as you save it and waits at the top of My Sounds. NURSERY VOLUME LIMIT A new setting keeps every sound at half its full volume, however high the slider goes. Softer is kinder for small ears: keep the phone across the room, never in the cot. EVERY SHEEP COUNTED Settings now keeps count of every sheep that has jumped the fence on your phone. The train, the boat, the whales and the sirens arrive and leave with their sounds instead of appearing out of nowhere. EASIER ON THE BATTERY The pasture slows down in Low Power Mode and when the phone is warm, and rests sooner once the sounds are on. A new Battery saver setting keeps it that way all night. Left alone, the pasture now winds down a piece at a time, the last sheep jumps, and it goes to sleep with the night's count on the gate until you tap. FOR EVERYONE VoiceOver reads the widgets, the lock screen, the watch and the volume sliders. Increase Contrast and Reduce Transparency are respected. Every screen, widget and Siri phrase is now in all seven languages.