What’s new

A new focus on privacy and security.

• More control over your data: App Lock with Face ID and Touch ID, protected app-switcher previews, local access logging, automatic redaction of sensitive details in context you provide, and an option to exclude SignPrep data from iCloud backups.
• Smarter, safer sync: assignment sync is faster and less disruptive, with better duplicate prevention and more reliable open assignment pages during calendar refreshes.
• Clearer setup: refreshed onboarding walks you through calendars, notifications, privacy, and optional App Lock, so you can choose the protections that fit your workflow.
• Reliability & performance: Apple Watch sync fixes, glossary import/export and reflection PDF export improvements, AI suggestion refinements, plus accessibility, visual, and performance polish across the app.

• New Ongoing Assignment page — a dedicated full-screen view designed to stay open while you work, keeping timing, active interpreter, and assignment progress together.
• Ambient Mode: a set-it-down live-session view with large text and colours that pulse at swap time, so you can read the swap timer at a glance without picking up the phone.
• New Swap Clock for flexible, clock-based turn-taking alongside the existing interval-based Swap Timer — both with A/B interpreter roles.
• Better Apple Watch, widgets, Live Activity, and Dynamic Island behaviour, plus stronger accessibility polish across the app.

• Tap Add More Context on any assignment to describe topics, relationships, or goals — SignPrep uses it to generate more relevant prep items, research prompts, and keywords.
• Briefings, monthly summaries, research prompts, and post-reflection encouragement now stream word by word, and your AI work is remembered across calendar refreshes.
• Siri learns when you usually open SignPrep and which shortcuts you use most, surfacing the right thing at the right time.
• Search any assignment, glossary entry, reflection, or CPD log entry straight from Spotlight.

• Fixed a bug where the time picker in the new assignment editor was not displaying correctly.

• Add your own assignments: log jobs that live outside your calendar from the Assignments tab, with a familiar Calendar-style editor to create, edit, and delete.
• Briefing: a concise, on-device Apple Intelligence briefing now appears on your Assignments greeting card to help you prepare for your next assignment.
• CPD tracking: country-aware defaults (ASL/RID, BSL/NRCPD, Auslan/NAATI) or a single toggle to turn it off, renewal alerts within 30 days, log hours in one tap, and export your full record as PDF or CSV.
• Plus bug fixes, accessibility improvements, and visual enhancements.

• Sign language support expanded to 14 languages — including BSL, Auslan, NZSL, and ISL — with automatic detection by region and an “Other” option for unlisted languages.
• Prep checklists are now generated automatically when you open an assignment, using on-device AI tailored to the domain, title, and location.
• CPD/CEU tracking with country-specific defaults for RID, NRCPD, and NAATI, a dashboard progress card, Home Screen and Watch widgets, and quarterly reminders if you’re behind pace.
• Single-page reflection flow, exports moved to Settings with a date-range picker, region-specific Resources and Self-Care links, and a reorganised Settings flow.

• Swap Timer: set your swap interval and warning time and let SignPrep run a 3-phase auto-cycling countdown — Running, Swap Soon, Swap Now — with haptic alerts and automatic interpreter toggling.
• Apple Watch app: view assignments on your wrist, start the timer from watch or iPhone with automatic sync, and jump to an assignment from any complication or Smart Stack card.
• Live Activity controls: a Lock Screen and Dynamic Island timer with countdown, phase status, interpreter dots, and interactive Swap, Restart, Pause, and Stop buttons.
• iOS 26 design refresh with Liquid Glass effects, a scroll-minimising tab bar, an iPad sidebar, 15-minute assignment notifications, new Siri swap-timer shortcuts, and full VoiceOver across all new surfaces.

• Guided reflections using the Demand-Control Schema — a step-by-step flow for identifying demands, noting your controls, and capturing what you’d do differently.
• An interactive DC-S quiz to test your ability to identify demand categories in real interpreting scenarios.
• Personalised self-care insights that analyse your mood, reflection, and assignment data to surface patterns.
• Redesigned tab layouts, updated domain icons, improved contrast and font sizes, and a smoother Live Activity transition, plus bug fixes and stability improvements.

• Redesigned Live Activity with a circular progress ring in the Dynamic Island, plus batch reflection export with date-range filtering.
• Quick glossary lookup from the assignment detail view.
• On-device AI rewritten with the modern Foundation Models API for faster, more reliable prep suggestions.
• Merged VRS and VRI into a single VRS/VRI domain, an iPad sidebar layout, app-wide haptics, and over 120 UI, accessibility, and stability improvements.

• Siri Shortcuts now work correctly in the Shortcuts app, glossary entries are searchable in Spotlight, and Live Activity countdowns update in real time.
• Calendar sync no longer resets your notes, prep checklist progress, or reflections when assignments are refreshed.
• Fixed several potential crashes, added confirmation dialogs for bulk actions, and improved VoiceOver support.
• Resolved concurrency issues with video recording, plus general stability improvements throughout.

• Widgets: Home Screen widgets with a personalised greeting and upcoming assignments, dedicated New Sign and Reflect shortcuts, and a Lock Screen countdown gauge.
• Control Centre controls for logging reflections, adding glossary signs, and viewing your next assignment.
• Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island showing title, domain, location, countdown, and progress, plus ten new Siri shortcuts.
• Share glossary entries as visual cards, save sign images to Photos, weekly reflection streaks, improved VoiceOver and haptics, an updated app icon, and the minimum OS lowered to 26.0.

• New domain categories: Police and Other.
• Save glossary videos directly to your Photo Library.
• More personalised motivational messages.
• Updated the About section and links in Settings, plus general stability improvements and bug fixes.

• Bug fixes plus UI updates for accessibility and visual enhancements.
• Updated the app information on the App Store.