What's newin version 1.7.1
Bug fixes
- Sorting by name. Some countdowns landed in the wrong place, because spaces were ignored when sorting: "Gold" before "Go to Rome". A name now always comes before longer ones that start the same way, apostrophes are ignored, and a hyphen counts as a space. This also applies to Shortcuts.
The new order is applied automatically the first time you open the app after updating.
What's new in the latest update
- Wider Siri and Shortcuts integration. You can find and filter your countdowns more precisely, for example by name, by date range, by type (count down or count up), or by repeat, and sort them by date or name.
- Statistics with Siri and Shortcuts. You can ask for a summary of your countdowns: how many you have, how many are coming up and how many have already passed, how many count ups you have, which one is next, and how long your longest count up has been running. You can limit the summary to a period, for example this week, this month, or this year. The result is read out and shown on a card.
- Next countdown with Siri and Shortcuts. You can ask what your next countdown is and how long is left, with a spoken reply and a card.
- Tag suggestions. From a countdown's menu, the app can suggest existing tags that fit it, based on its name and notes. Suggestions are never applied on their own: you decide. This feature uses Apple Intelligence.
- Apple Intelligence setting. Settings now includes a switch to turn the Apple Intelligence features on or off. It only appears on compatible devices.
- Spotlight search. Your countdowns appear in the system Spotlight search, with icon and details, so you can find and open them quickly from outside the app.
- Siri and Shortcuts understand what is on screen. You can use Siri or a shortcut to act on the countdown, note, category, or tag you are currently viewing.
- Sharing. You can share a countdown as an image card showing its icon, name, date, and how long is left, or as text or rich text. You can also share a note as an image or as text.
- More forgiving search in your countdowns. When you search your countdowns, the search now ignores case, accents, and punctuation and also looks through your categories and tags, so you can find a countdown even when you type only part of its name or leave out accents.
- Improved name sorting. Alphabetical order is more consistent and ignores case and accents. If anything ever looks out of order, a new "Repair search and sorting" option in Settings rebuilds the data used to search and sort.
Some of these features require a device compatible with Apple Intelligence and a recent version of iOS.
Countdown Widget is crafted by an indie developer. Your feedback and suggestions help shape future updates. If you find the app useful, a review would mean a lot. For any support, contact me at support@countdown-widget.app.
Simone