Dear Ones: Family Memory Book

• Setting a cover photo in a multi-photo entry now works with one tap. • You can now delete an entry off one timeline without removing it from the others.

Dictation now adds to what you've already written instead of replacing it. Photos, videos, and voice notes now save to your phone right away, even when iCloud is taking a moment, and finish backing up on their own.

Dear Ones 2.0 brings family sharing. - Share timelines with the people you love. Create a code that unlocks the family timeline, one child's timeline, or several at once. - You choose what each code allows: view only, or view and add memories. - Memories your family adds wait for your approval before they join your keepsake. - Viewing and contrinbuting is free for code holders. They can even start a keepsake of their own in the same app (with their own subscription, or one shared through Apple Family Sharing). - Change or revoke any code anytime from the Family tab.

Family sharing just got better. • Family members who join with a code now see the same timeline you do, with search, a photo grid, and a filter for each child • They can add memories right from the timeline. You tap Accept and the memory is saved to your keepsake for everyone to see

Your keepsake now has a stronger iCloud backup. - Your whole timeline backs up to your private iCloud in a new way that keeps working even if Apple's automatic sync runs into trouble on a device. - New on the Family tab: an iCloud backup card that shows when your last backup finished, with a Back up now button and a detail screen, so you always know your memories are safe. - Setting up a new phone is clearer. If we find your backup, you can restore it with one tap.

A couple new things we think you'll love: A weekly question to help you remember. Once a week, Dear Ones offers a simple question to capture a moment, with an optional reminder you can turn on or off. A quick walk-through. New here? Dear Ones can now show you around and point at each part of the app as you go.

A simple refresh to make Dear Ones easier to find your way around. New Home screen. Open the app to this week's prompt and quick ways to get where you're going.

Preview video on welcome screen is now easier to play.

This update adds a few things families asked for: • A built-in photo editor to crop, zoom, and rotate any photo. • Delete a single photo from an entry that has several, instead of removing the whole entry. • Add letters, quotes, and notes directly inside an album. • Photos brought into an album from your library are no longer stamped with one shared caption, so you can caption each one on its own. • Add an optional date of death for a family member, which keeps their age from continuing to count up.

The printed book is here! Turn a timeline or an album into a real keepsake book, delivered to your door. Dear Ones lays out a first draft for you, one memory per page, and you make it yours: crop, caption, build collages, reorder pages, choose page colors. Letters print in the font you chose, cursive and all. Hardcover, premium layflat, or softcover. Ships in the US. What you see in the app is what comes home in the book. Also in this update: a smoother page-turn when you flip through your book, and small fixes throughout.