Snore Timeline: Sleep Tracker

- Smarter Sleep Detection for Quiet Sleepers: Improved how the app adapts to changes in your snoring throughout the night. If you snore early on but sleep quietly for the rest of the night, the app now recognizes this shift within about 15 minutes and adjusts its sensitivity accordingly, resulting in more accurate sleep stages and sleep scores for users with variable snoring patterns.

- Faster App Launch: Background data processing now waits for the interface to fully load before starting, so the app feels snappier when you open it. - Medium Widget Improvements: The medium home screen widget now shows the date alongside "Last night" or "Tonight," so you always know which night you're looking at. New stat rows for breathing disruptions, snore signals, and sleep talking signals give you more detail at a glance. - Smoother Day Navigation: Swiping between days in the nightly summary is faster and more responsive. - Improved Breathing Detection: Refined the sensitivity threshold for detecting breathing patterns during sleep, capturing a wider range of normal breathing sounds. - Stability Improvements: Fixed an issue where background database operations could occasionally conflict with each other. Resolved unwanted animations when loading the nightly summary.

- Keep History Mode: New storage cleanup option that preserves your sleep data when the storage limit is reached. When enabled, only audio files are removed from your oldest nights. Your episodes, sleep analysis, timeline, and all historical data stay intact. Toggle it on in Settings under Storage Limit. - Widget Date Accuracy: The home screen widget now correctly labels older recordings with their actual date instead of always showing "Last night." If your most recent recording was two nights ago, the widget shows the date rather than a misleading label.

- Siri & Shortcuts Reliability: App Intents no longer access the database directly, eliminating crashes that could occur when Siri or a Shortcut automation triggered a recording. Start, stop, and episode count queries all work through a lightweight cache now. - Storage Warnings: A persistent status bar warning appears when your device is running low on storage or the database can't load. The app also checks storage more frequently during recording, so you'll know before a write failure interrupts your session. - Smarter App Launch on Low Storage: The app previously required 500MB free to open at all. It now opens with as little as 100MB, reserving the higher threshold for starting new recordings. You can still browse past data and free up space without force-quitting. - Background Stability: Fixed a class of crashes (0xdead10cc) that could occur when iOS suspended the app while the database was still writing. The app now requests background time during database setup and batches cleanup work to avoid holding file locks. - Open Date Shortcut: The "Open Date" Shortcuts action now works on cold launch. Previously it required the app to already be running. - New Languages: Added full localization for Chinese, German, and Turkish. All Siri responses, error messages, and intent dialogs are now localizable too.

- Improved Battery Efficiency: Optimized how snoring episodes are tracked during recording to dramatically reduce database activity. Previously, every detected sound triggered a database lookup — now the app intelligently caches the active episode in memory, cutting unnecessary operations by over 99% and reducing background power consumption during long overnight recordings. - Better Sleep Stage Detection for Quiet Sleepers: Improved sleep stage accuracy for quiet sleepers whose breathing is too soft for AI sound classification to pick up. When the app falls back to amplitude-based breathing analysis during these quieter periods, the thresholds for detecting deep sleep and REM transitions have been retuned to better reflect the nuances of amplitude data, resulting in more natural sleep stage patterns.

- Swipe Page Previews: Swiping between days and weeks now shows a live preview of the page you're navigating to, sliding in from the side for a smoother, more intuitive transition between your nightly and weekly summaries. - Long Press to Jump to Episode: Long press anywhere on the timeline to instantly scroll the episode list to the nearest episode. Makes it easy to find details about a specific moment you're looking at in your recording. - Playback Episode Tracking: During audio playback, the episode list now follows along automatically, scrolling to the currently playing episode and showing a "Playing Next" badge on the upcoming episode so you always know where you are in the night. - Loud Sound Badges: Episode cards now display a dedicated badge showing the number of loud sound detections, giving you a clearer breakdown of what was captured during each episode. - Faster Weekly Summary Loading: Weekly and sleep trend data is now cached both in memory and on disk, with adjacent weeks pre-fetched in the background. Swiping between weeks is now instant, even with months of recording history. - Improved Playback Accuracy: Tapping play now finds the exact recording segment for the selected time, resulting in more precise playback that starts right where you expect. - Faster Recording Start & Stop: Removed unnecessary delays when starting and stopping recordings, so the app responds immediately when you tap the record button. --- Thank you to Arno for suggesting the jump to episode feature - your feedback helps make Snore Timeline better for everyone!

- Apple Watch Companion App: Snore Timeline now lives on your wrist. A free watch app bundles with this update so you can check last night's sleep summary, scroll through past nights, and see live biometrics while a recording is running. Stop a recording from the watch when you wake up without reaching for your phone. - Watch & Wearable Sleep Data: Pull sleep stages, heart rate, heart rate variability, respiratory rate, blood oxygen, and wrist temperature straight from Apple Watch. - Watch-Only Sleep Insights: Nights when you skipped phone recording but wore your watch now get their own insights card. See sleep stages, biometrics, and a full hypnogram from your wearable, with no audio required. - Hypnogram Source Picker: Switch the nightly sleep stage chart between the app's audio-based analysis and your Apple Watch's stage data. Compare the two views to understand your night from different angles. - Biometric Summary Card: When you pick the Apple Watch source for a night, a new card breaks down heart rate, HRV, respiratory rate, SpO2, and wrist temperature with small charts and a rating on each metric. - Sleep Score Watch Complication: Add the Snore Timeline complication to a watch face to glance at last night's sleep score the moment you raise your wrist. - Custom Range Export: A new export flow lets you pick a date range (last 7 days, last 30, custom) and choose what to include: nightly summaries, sleep stages, episode events, biometric data, and audio. Audio can ship per-episode or as the full night. - Apple Watch Settings Section: A dedicated Apple Watch panel in Settings walks you through pairing, installing the companion app, and enabling watch-side features. Setup steps appear when something's missing so you're never stranded on an empty screen.

- Tap to Play: The snoring activity chart ticks on your nightly summary now responds to taps. Touch any point to start playback from that moment, and a vertical scrubber line follows the audio across the night. Taps near an episode snap to the episode start so playback begins on real sound instead of silence. - Now Playing Card: A card appears above the timeline during playback showing the current episode's start time, duration, and headline. Tap it to jump the waveform to that moment for a closer look. - Loud Sound Episode Length: Loud sound episodes now follow the audio through to the end of the noise instead of cutting at the last detected peak, capturing up to 5 extra seconds of trailing sound. - 24-Hour Time Support: Time labels across the nightly summary, weekly view, sleep insights, biometric sparklines, watch hypnogram, and watch activity chart respect your device's 12 or 24-hour clock setting.

- Watch Sleep Timeline: Nights tracked by your Apple Watch or wearable now appear on the waveform even without an audio recording. A colored ribbon shows each sleep stage, and scrolling the timeline reads out the stage plus heart rate, breathing rate, and SpO₂ at that moment. - Full History Import: Connecting Apple Health imports up to two years of wearable sleep history instead of the last 30 days. A status message shows when the import starts and how many nights arrived. - Calendar Dots: Days with wearable sleep data get their own dot in the calendar, next to the recording dot, so you can spot watch-only nights while browsing past dates. - Sleep Stage Details: Tapping the hypnogram shows the full start and end time of the selected stage block. Taps on the hypnogram and vitals charts land the waveform on one-minute bars, keeping the stage visible in context. - Faster Morning Sync: Sleep stages sync the moment your watch finishes processing them, so your score and stage charts are current when you open the app. The home-screen widget also refreshes from these background syncs. - Stability: Fixed a crash when swiping between weekly summary pages and a rare crash when opening the nightly summary.

- Snore Nudge: When the app detects sustained snoring during a recording, your Apple Watch taps your wrist so you shift position, without waking you. Every nudge is saved to the nightly summary in a new Snore Nudges card that shows when each one fired and how your snoring changed in the minutes around it. Requires a paired Apple Watch. - Smart Wake Up Alarm: Set a window before your alarm time and the app wakes you during a light-sleep moment inside it, so you start the day less groggy. The alarm fades in from quiet, and a backstop still rings at your set time if a light-sleep window never comes. Requires Sleep Insights. - Wake by Wrist Tap: Wake to silent taps on your Apple Watch instead of a sound, so you can get up without disturbing a partner. Turn it on in the wake-up settings and test the pattern from the app. Requires a paired Apple Watch. - Snores Per Minute: The Snoring insight now charts your snore rate across the whole night against your personal baseline, and the waveform status bar reads out the rate at any moment you scrub to. A per-awakening breakdown shows how your snoring built up and settled around each time you woke. - Episode Breakdown Guide: The info page now explains how individual sounds group into episodes and what each episode type means. - Fixes and Polish: Fixed several nightly-summary crashes, resolved scroll glitches when expanding and collapsing Sleep Insights, made the wake-up alarm ring at full volume when it fires mid-recording, sharpened snoring-rate copy, and sped up the Apple Watch app.

- Smoother Card Expansion: Sleep Insights, Breathing Disruptions, and Snore Nudges grow and shrink in place when you open and close them, so the card resizes around content that stays where you left it. - Fixes and Polish: Fixed a crash on iOS 17 that could appear when opening a night's summary. Fixed a crash when reopening the app from the background. The playback marker on an episode's waveform now stays inside the card.

- Recovery Status in Every Language: Sleep status labels like "Fully Recovered" and "Still Recovering" are now translated into all 22 supported languages, across iPhone, Apple Watch, and watch widgets. - Sharper Timeline Labels: Hour markers on the waveform timeline now use compact numbers that stay readable at every zoom level in every language, including German, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. - Layouts That Fit Your Language: Episode stats and sleep summary cards now adapt to longer translations such as German and French, keeping text at full size instead of shrinking or cutting it off.

- Cleaner Nightly Layout: Replaced the stats row above the timeline chart with inline counts on the chart itself. The chart now shows your total snoring or sleep talking signals at a glance without a separate stats strip. - Blood Oxygen Breakdown: The Breathing Disruptions breakdown now shows how much of your night your SpO₂ dropped below 95% and your single lowest reading. Both come with severity ratings so you can tell a normal night from one with noticeable desaturation. Requires an Apple Watch (Series 6 or later) or another wearable that writes blood oxygen to Apple Health. - SpO₂ Reference Line: The blood oxygen sparkline in the biometrics card now draws a dashed line at 95%. Dips below the healthy range stand out without needing to read the numbers. - More Filter Presets: Added 3-second, 5-second, 10-second, and 20-second minimum-duration options to the episode filter. Drill into shorter episodes without jumping straight from Off to 30 seconds. - Disruption Count in Header: The Breathing Disruptions section title now shows the total count, so you can see how many were detected before scrolling the list.

- Tappable Sleep Hypnogram: Tap any point on the sleep stage timeline to see which stage you were in at that moment and the exact time. The waveform jumps to that point so you can hear what was happening. - Tappable Biometric Charts: Tap the heart rate, blood oxygen, or breathing rate sparklines to read the value at any point during the night. The selected time stays in sync across every chart on the page. - Watch Widget Stability: Fixed an issue where the Watch widget could lose its summary history after storing roughly 90 nights of data. History now persists across app launches regardless of size.

- Snore Detection Sensitivity: A new slider in Settings lets you tune how readily the app flags a snore. Turn it up to catch milder snores that a running fan or other background noise would otherwise mask, or down to ignore faint sounds. The default keeps the same detection as before, so nothing changes until you move it. - Silence Sleep Stage: When your breathing can't be heard for a long stretch, whether a fan or AC is covering it up or you're simply a very quiet sleeper, the app now marks that time as Silence. Silence counts as restful sleep and appears as its own calm band on your sleep stage chart, so a quiet night reads as a good night. - Fan and Air Conditioner Awareness: The app now recognizes steady mechanical noise during the night and tells you when it ran. If a fan covered up your breathing for part of the night, a note explains why some of that time shows as Silence. - Tap to See Your Snoring: Tapping a moment on your sleep stage chart now also marks that same moment on the snoring timeline, so you can see what you were snoring during light, deep, or REM sleep. - More Accurate Sleep Stages: A retuned breath detection and sleep staging pipeline improves how the app reads light, deep, and REM sleep from your recordings. - Re-import Health History: A new Settings option re-pulls your available sleep history from Apple Health and connected wearables, so past nights from your watch fill in. - Quality and Stability: Added a scroll-to-top button in the nightly summary, smoothed the Sleep Insights expand animation so the page no longer jumps, sped up episode deletion, and fixed launch crashes tied to background data access.

- Uninterrupted Background Audio: Music, podcasts, and other audio now keep playing at full volume while you record. The app used to quiet whatever you were listening to as you fell asleep. It now detects when another app is playing and steps aside, then returns to its most accurate microphone setup once that audio stops. - Recording Delay Reliability: Fixed a bug where the fall-asleep delay timer could restart after a phone call or other interruption, silently dropping audio for the length of the delay. Resuming after an interruption now continues recording right away instead of waiting through the delay again. - Tap to Find an Episode: Tapping or long-pressing an episode marker on the timeline now reliably jumps to that episode in the list below, even when the list needs to expand to reveal it. The destination card briefly glows so you can see exactly where it landed. - Scrolling Polish: The back-to-top button on the nightly summary now lands precisely at the top every time.

- Weekly Insights: Your weekly summary now includes a highlighted insight for each section, including trends, personal records, streaks, and correlations with your tagged sleep factors. Each insight is selected to ensure there is always something new to notice. ­- Illustrated Empty States: Nights with no recording now show the real lunar phase for that date. The phase automatically updates and sweeps into the correct position as you swipe between days. ­- Helpful Tips Redesign: The tip card now features custom illustrations for each tip, such as sleep stage hypnograms or a sleep score gauge. Tips are now grouped by category with color accents and will persist across app launches. ­- Nine New Languages: The app is now available in Japanese, Korean, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, Arabic, and Hindi, bringing the total to 15 languages. ­- Playback Fix: Tapping the sleep stage hypnogram or a biometric chart while audio is playing now stops playback before navigating the timeline, so the indicators no longer fight each other.

- Recurring Sleep Factors: Mark any sleep factor as recurring and it applies to every new recording automatically, so you stop re-tagging the same things every night. Tap "Every night" right on the factor pill to pin it, tap again to stop. Skip a night anytime by untagging it, the factor returns on your next recording. - Interrupted Night Alerts: When a phone call, Siri, or another app interrupts recording overnight, the night's summary now explains exactly what happened and when. Recovered gaps and nights cut short are shown separately, with the interruption times listed and a guide to setting up a Sleep Focus so it doesn't happen again. - Low Battery Auto-Stop: Recording now stops on its own when your battery drops to 10% and the phone is unplugged, leaving enough charge for your morning alarm. The night's summary shows when and why it stopped, with a tip on charging overnight. Plugged in? Recording keeps going. - Redesigned Apple Watch Recording Screen: The live recording view on Apple Watch is rebuilt around the night's progress. See time asleep, your countdown to a full night, live heart rate and HRV tiles, and a "Signals found" card that names the sounds detected so far. Time asleep now stays accurate across stop-and-restart through the night. - 8 New Languages: Added Thai, Indonesian, Filipino, Malay, Polish, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian. Snore Timeline is now fully translated into 23 languages.

- Recovery Score: A new score reads how well your body recovered overnight, built from your heart rate variability, resting heart rate, and overnight heart rate dip, all measured against your own baseline from recent nights. It shows as a verdict from Poor to Excellent on the night's summary and blends into your sleep score, so a night that ran your system down reads lower. Works with Apple Watch, Garmin, Oura, Whoop, and any tracker that syncs to Apple Health. - Works With More Wearables: Sleep stages, heart rate, HRV, blood oxygen, and wrist temperature now flow in from whatever you wear to bed. Apple Watch, Garmin, Oura, Whoop, and other trackers that write to Apple Health all feed your nightly and weekly insights, with each device kept separate. - Redesigned Apple Watch App: Open the watch app to a night dashboard with your sleep score, then swipe through full-screen vitals pages for heart rate, HRV, breathing rate, blood oxygen, wrist temperature, and recovery, each with its own trend. Your watch tracks the whole night on its own. No phone needed. - Live Vitals While You Sleep: During recording, the Live Activity now shows your live heart rate, breathing rate, and time asleep next to the sounds detected so far, refreshed through the night as your watch syncs. Check the lock screen without waking the app. - Redesigned Widgets: The Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets are rebuilt around your sleep score and recovery, with a cleaner layout and a color that shifts with the quality of your night. Add the small score widget or drop it in your Smart Stack to see last night at a glance. - New Sleep Tips: The tips card now covers sleep hygiene, what each sleep stage means, and how your tagged factors affect your rest, drawn from your own nights. Tips are grouped by topic and rotate so there's always something new to learn. - See Your Health Data Sources: Settings now shows which metrics the app reads from Apple Health, with a badge for each source. Confirm your heart rate, sleep stages, blood oxygen, and more are syncing from your watch or tracker.

- Sleep Factors Redesign: The factor picker has a cleaner layout with a short description for each factor, and a Repeat Nightly option auto-fills the ones you log every night. What Affected Your Sleep leads with a plain-language finding, backed by bars showing how your numbers shift on nights you log each factor. - Live Lock Screen Updates: Recording time and time asleep tick forward in real time on your lock screen, and heart rate and blood oxygen from Apple Watch update all night long. Recording carries on seamlessly through calls and interruptions. - Lower Battery Use: Smarter background batching cuts overnight power use roughly in half, so you wake up with more charge. - Plus faster loading, smoother swiping, and improved Apple Health syncing.