This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.

We have added the liturgical calendar for Portugal.

We have added the liturgical calendar for Portugal.

Happy Lent! On every day in Lent, the top of the About Day page has a special Lenten prayer for the day.

We have added some explanatory texts about the liturgical celebration of the Vietnamese New Year.

We have updated the local calendar for Liverpool and added a local calendar for Trinidad & Tobago.

The app now checks for updated audio a little more often.

You can now have coloured backgrounds (instead of white) in day mode and coloured text (instead of white) in night mode. Tap the rightmost button in the toolbar to open the Fonts screen, and you will see a colour-selection slider on top of the sample text.

The Universalis widgets now work in light, dark, clear and tinted modes. Plus some small corrections.

The Universalis widgets now work in light, dark, clear and tinted modes.

Bug corrections and minor updates.

You can now play the podcasts, and review old ones, directly from within the app. The Podcasts command is in the Information menu in the toolbar.

On Memorials, you can now more easily choose between the available texts for the Hours.

The Rosary page now contains the Litany of Loreto for you to read or listen to. You can select it by pressing the button to the right of the big heading at the top of the Rosary page.

As well as reading or listening to the Rosary in English, you can now read it in Latin or Danish.

We have made some minor corrections to the Mass texts.

We have updated some of the texts and calendars, notably the one for Scotland.

There is now a Podcasts page in the “circled-i” information menu, and the app checks more often to see if there are new podcasts.

Minor updates and corrections.

The Universalis widget now works correctly again.

We have sorted out a bug which affected people whose phones use the Thai Buddhist calendar.

Some improvements to the highlighting of text while the spoken audio is being played.

We have improved the layout of the Passion narratives.

We have polished the experience when playing spoken audio.

We have improved the CarPlay experience for users of iOS 18.
We have made a change to the ESV Responsorial Psalm for Sunday 9 February.

Podcasts are now easily reachable from the “circled-I” menu on the left-hand side of the toolbar.

Optional readings are now provided for Waitangi Day in New Zealand.

Podcasts are now easily reachable from the “circled-I” menu on the left-hand side of the toolbar.

When you scan a Universalis QR code, it once more opens the exact page the code refers to.