One navigator, notifications and trips

Choose your homes once

Home, Threads and the Bobby page share one control at the top for choosing which homes are in view. Tick several, select all, or clear them all; with nothing selected, each tab asks you to pick a home. Settings keeps its own choice of the one home it changes.

Creating a home and joining one with an invite code live in Settings. If your personal home is your only home, the control offers both too.

Home, more compact

Weather takes one line per home, with the Apple Weather link beside it; tap the line for the observation time and the address editor. The calendar and open lists show their counts in their headings. Tap an event to open it, or a list to see its items.

The microphone on Home opens My Personal Space with dictation started. It appears only where your phone can recognise speech on the device. Speak is no longer a separate tab.

Threads across homes

With several homes in view, Threads lists the homes first, each with its unread count. Open a home to see its threads. Every conversation has a microphone beside its name.

Managers organise a home's thread categories from that home's settings: create, rename, reorder or delete. New homes start with a General thread, and new threads answer only when you mention Bobby.

Notifications in one place

The Bobby page is now a list. Notifications shows, for each home in view, its unread alerts, its upcoming reminders and your delivery preferences. The bell on Home opens it when several homes are in view.

Lists that say who added what

Open an item to see when it was added and by whom. Create, rename or remove a list by tapping. A home's list types and their fields are in its settings, and items show their field values; a private field shows as withheld.

Plan a grocery run from the grocery list: Bobby answers with what is open and grocery stores nearby. It uses the home's saved address unless you share your current location for that question; with a shared location, results carry no distances.

Trips

Plan a trip with its dates, time zone and who is going, including guests and pets. The plan reads the way a road trip does: the road there a day at a time, with the drive and the stops to pick from, the base camp, the road home, where to stay each night, a packing list and notes. A stay says whether it suits your party from what you recorded about the place, and says when it does not know.

Ask Bobby to plan it with you from the trip, and he records what he plans on the trip itself. Share plan sends it as plain text. Nothing here books anything; a booking reference is only what you typed.

Faces, invitations and calendar links

Add a picture to your details in a home, and it appears beside your messages. Managers see the invitations a home has sent and can take back one that has not been used.

Subscribe to a home's calendar from Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook. The link is the key: anyone holding it can read that calendar until you rotate it, the other app refreshes on its own schedule, and changes made there do not come back.

When something goes wrong

When Bobby needs your location, tap Share current location; if permission is off, a Settings button opens it. If your location arrives after Bobby has already answered, the app says so. If the app stops unexpectedly, Settings shows what it recorded on the next launch, with a Copy control; the report stays on your phone.

Where the information goes

Subscribing a calendar app sends that calendar's event titles, times and locations to the app's provider, on your choice. Grocery-run store searches go to Apple Maps like other nearby searches. Profile pictures are stored with the home's other files and are not shown in the photo library. Forgetting your record removes your picture as well as its link.

Get the build

iPhone builds arrive through TestFlight. Android, macOS and Linux downloads are on the home page. The desktop app in this release carries the updated wording; its new screens come in a later release.