What’s new (version history)

This is the running history of what changed in CareHaven, newest build first. The current version is 1.0, and it lives in the TestFlight beta today. Each build adds a little more — most of it builds on what came before, and your existing data carries forward every time.

A few things to know as you read:

• Most updates are additive. Your profiles and everything you have logged should open exactly as before after you update. The first thing to check after any update is simply that all your data is still there.
• When an update is mostly content or behind-the-scenes work, you may not see much change on screen — that is expected.
• Newly added wording usually leads with English first; Spanish and French follow in a later build.
• If you want the short version, the Full feature catalog lists everything the app does today.

Build 69 (current)

Sharing and calendar handoff are clearer. Build 69 keeps the Build 68 visual polish and focuses on trust-critical Apple technology hardening.

• Handoff is more robust. Handoff links route to the right place, QR sharing is clearer, nearby handoff confirms the receiving device or falls back to the share sheet, and you can print or share a Handoff PDF with the brief, issue time, and expiration time. See Create a handoff for a sitter.
• Apple Calendar sync is clearer. Calendar settings now explain sync health and issues in plain language, and appointment review/edit flows make it clearer what will happen before anything changes. See Appointments & calendar.
• Watch and widget quick logging are hardened. Quick logs sent from Apple Watch or widgets are less likely to duplicate or disappear.
• Subscriptions use Apple's native purchase sheet. The paywall now uses the standard Apple subscription UI.

No schema change from Build 67. Your profiles, Schedule data, Memory Care episode details, visual preferences, and custom themes should carry forward.

Build 68

CareHaven should feel easier to read and easier to use one-handed.

• Less wasted space. Home, Schedule, the bottom controls, and menus were tightened so the interface does not leave large blank panels where controls should be.
• Clearer controls. The week-strip chevrons, compact quick-log button, menu back/forward controls, and quick-log customization were polished.
• Schedule is denser. Day, Week, Month, and Agenda views keep their controls visible and reduce the empty space that could appear in Build 67.
• Behavior Insights reads more clearly. Titles use clearer language, and chart descriptions explain what is being counted.
• More flexible visual choices. Profile colors and custom themes are easier to edit, and saved themes stay readable in light and dark mode.

No schema change from Build 67. This build changes presentation and local preferences only.

Build 67

Memory Care episodes now help you close the loop.

• What Helped. When you log agitation, sundowning, wandering, or another dementia behavior episode, you can mark likely triggers, what you tried, and whether it helped. Free text still stays available. See Dementia & elder care.
• Follow-up nudges. If an episode is still open, CareHaven can remind you later to answer whether it passed and what helped. These are local care nudges.
• Pattern insights. After several structured episodes, CareHaven can surface simple, honest patterns such as common triggers or what usually helped, with the counts behind the statement.
• A 60-second reset after a hard episode. After a high-intensity moment, CareHaven can offer a short calm timer for you.
• Additional hardening. This build also included iPad logging parity, lock-screen emergency-info access, App Intent privacy hardening, recurring schedule counts, and App Store URL updates.

Build 67 added an additive Memory Care schema change. Existing profiles, calendar data, logs, and older Memory Care episodes migrate forward.

Build 66

Schedule is now a full calendar.

• Day, Week, Month, and Agenda. Open Schedule to see appointments, medication times, routines, coverage shifts, fasting windows, and recent care history in one place. See Appointments & calendar.
• The old appointment list is still reachable. If you prefer the list, it lives under Schedule tools.
• Calendar-file sharing. Share one appointment as a calendar file using the iOS share sheet.
• Review-gated imports. Import events from a calendar file or Apple Calendar source, review the list, and save only when you confirm.
• Reference database auto-updates. CareHaven can now check a small public manifest and download only changed reference JSON files, such as state resources, help topics, crisis resources, and tips. Care data is not part of this system. See Privacy & security.

Build 66 added additive calendar/schedule schema changes. Profiles, appointments, dose times, routines, logs, and shared care data migrate forward.

Build 65

Memory Care, real crisis numbers, and honest paywalls.

• Community is now real support. The old simulated Community area was replaced with a support directory of real helplines and verified organizations. Older local Community posts move into your private journal with a one-time notice.
• Memory Care capture improved. You can log dementia behavior moments more directly, including by voice through Siri or quick-log paths, and add a familiar face with a photo.
• Crisis resources match your region better. Crisis lines, first-aid steps, and emergency numbers were updated for region and language, including Spanish and French.
• Navigation is easier to back out of. Swipe-back and the back chevron better remember where you came from.
• Subscription wording is more precise. Critical dementia assessments and trust-sensitive surfaces are described more honestly across tiers.

No schema change from Build 64.

Build 64

The headline is a new guided onboarding. Setting up a person is now a warm, step-by-step flow instead of one long form — one calm screen at a time, with only the name required. Birthday, sex, and diagnoses are each optional, each has a Back button, and skipping one writes nothing.

• The app teaches itself as you go. A self-teaching coach tour points out the + button, the menus, and search the first time each one matters, then ends back on Home. See Setting up for the first time.
• Choose your path. After the basics, the app asks what you would like help with next — a guided tour of the app, or filling out more profile detail in a walked-through editor.
• A recovery card. Anything you skip during setup quietly shows up on a card on the Home screen, so you can finish it later.
• Replay the walkthrough anytime. From Settings, then Help, then Walkthrough, you can re-run the live coach tour, re-watch the basics (read-only), or step through Choose your path again. Replaying never changes anything you have saved.

No change to your data this build. Clean builds also got much faster, but that is a behind-the-scenes change with nothing for you to see.

Build 63

This update is mostly about how the app feels. Scrolling and the menu should be noticeably smoother, with the same look you already know.

• Smoother Home, quicker menu. The Home screen now scrolls cleanly, and the soft, frosted menu background snaps into place instead of slowly animating. The translucent look is fully preserved.
• Smaller speed-ups under the hood. Search waits a beat while you type instead of re-searching on every keystroke, food and recipe calorie lookups remember their work, and a calendar sync hiccup for some iCloud accounts is cleared up.
• New, secondary: plain-language Parkinson’s and swallowing (dysphagia) lenses, plus a Mobility & Swallowing guide that can be raised in attention and then carries into the handoff brief so a sitter knows. A new Body Care card and Search both point you to them. See Support tailored to a diagnosis.

No change to your data this build.

Build 62

This update makes three things the app already tracks a little wiser. It reads what you already log and gently points out what matters — all on your device.

• What to watch for, for epilepsy. A new card in the Medical area gathers gentle, cited signs a care team keeps an eye on, with practical tips on tracking, everyday triggers, and keeping rescue meds ready. It links straight to the seizure first-aid steps and never diagnoses. See Medical.
• Skill Routine coaching. When you teach a skill step by step, the app now reads the practice history and offers a gentle nudge at the right moment — ready to ease up, one step needs a new angle, or more help than usual. Skill routines now also ride along in the handoff brief, a new developmental/therapy visit brief, and your backups.
• Behavior and sensory. Behavior Insights now shows quiet, observational notes from your own logs, and the sensory profile (what calms, what overwhelms) now actually rides along in the handoff sheet so a sitter knows.

No change to your data this build.

Build 61

This update adds five things that all do the same job: pull in trustworthy, free, public information so you do not have to look it up — and keep it on your device.

• Plain-language explainers for meds and conditions. Tap a medication or a diagnosis for an everyday-language explainer. Only a standard code is looked up (never a name or personal detail), and the answer is saved for offline use.
• Add a doctor or therapist from the directory. Search the free U.S. provider directory by name (plus an optional city or state) and pre-fill a verified name, phone, address, and specialty.
• Growth percentiles. From measurements you already track, see percentiles and z-scores worked out right on the device, fully offline, with an honest note that some conditions track differently.
• Allergen warnings plus nutrition. Set a person’s food allergens once (there is a quick-add for the common nine), and a barcode scan that matches shows a clear warning. A food’s detail also shows a per-serving nutrient readout.
• Health Signals from Apple Health. A read-only readout — for the phone owner’s profile only — of last night’s sleep, heart-rate variability, resting heart rate, blood oxygen, breathing rate, and cycle day. It stays on the device. See Medical.

Your existing profiles, appointments, and medications are untouched.

Build 60

This update adds two things.

• Care Nudges. Gentle notification versions of the four Home cards — Time for a break, a little time with a sibling, Mealtime worth a closer look, and Someone seems off baseline — so a worth-a-look moment can reach you even when the app is closed. Each fires only if its feature is set up, shares the same per-person snooze as the Home cards, and cancels itself when the situation clears. You can turn it off in Settings. See Caregiver tools.
• Two-way Apple Calendar sync. Keep CareHaven appointments and your calendars in step both ways. You pick which calendars to sync, edit appointments from CareHaven, and the most recent edit wins. Google and Outlook calendars work too, through the accounts already on your iPhone — CareHaven never holds those passwords. See Appointments & calendar.

Your existing appointments are untouched.

Build 59

This update brings four features you already have up to the top of your Home screen as gentle “worth a look” cards, in the same briefing area you use now.

They appear only when something needs your eyes, you see at most two at a time (most important first), and tapping one opens that feature: Mealtime worth a closer look, Off baseline, Time for a break, and a little time with a sibling. A small x snoozes a card for that one profile. See The Home screen.

This was a content and look-and-feel update, so your data opens exactly as before.

Build 58

This update adds two features that build on Baseline & Change Watch.

• Could it be medical? When someone who can’t easily say “I hurt” acts different, this walks you through hidden physical causes — a tooth, an ear, constipation, an infection — and makes a doctor note. Check the body first. See Medical.
• Mealtime Watch. A quick meal log (ate well / picked / refused) plus swallowing-trouble signs that quietly flag “worth mentioning to the doctor” when patterns build up. See Daily tracking.

Your data is untouched.

Build 57

This update adds Take a break — a Break Plan that names a trusted backup, briefs them with your Handoff so they actually know what to do, and tracks the break time you take against a small goal. Respite is one of the most protective things a caregiver can do, and the hard part is often “no one’s briefed enough,” which the Handoff already solves. See Caregiver tools.

Your data is untouched.

Build 56

This update adds Baseline & Change Watch — write down what’s typical for the person you care for, do a quick daily “vs usual” check, and the app builds a doctor-ready summary of what changed from normal. It’s the antidote to a new symptom being missed or waved off as “just the disability.” It includes a pain signature and optional pain cues; two or more signals off at once flags worth a closer look. See Medical.

Your data is untouched.

Build 55

This update adds the Mealtime Safety Card and a gentle “back in your window?” check after a breathing reset.

• Mealtime Safety Card. A pull-up-before-serving check anyone can read: the safe textures in plain words, an at-home thickness and texture test for this person’s exact levels, and the stop-the-meal warning signs. It reads the diet order you already set. See Daily tracking.
• “How are you now?” in Calm Tools. After a breathing cycle, a gentle button offers three honest options — steadier, still stretched (which opens Share the Load), or not okay (which reaches 988). See Caregiver tools.

This was a content update, with no change to your data.

Build 54

This update adds Sibling Spotlight — a gentle way to care for the siblings of the child you care for (the “glass children”), who are easy to overlook. Add a light profile for each sibling, keep a one-on-one-time nudge and a feelings check on the radar, and find plain-language words for the hard questions. See Support tailored to a diagnosis.

Your data is untouched.

Build 53

This update adds the Letter of Intent — a gentle, guided way to answer the hardest caregiving question: “what happens to them if something happens to me?” It’s a fill-over-time document with eight guided sections plus a prioritized list of who should step in, with a plain-text export that carries a clear note that it is not a legal document. It’s kept private, like the Passport and crisis plans. See Safety & crisis plans.

Your data is untouched.

Build 52

This update adds Share the Load — a private place to get the invisible mental load out of your head and, with one tap, hand a single task off to someone who can help. List the recurring jobs you carry, then tap share on any one and the app writes a warm, specific, ready-to-send ask for that task. It’s private to you and never syncs to a sitter or co-caregiver. See Caregiver tools.

Your data is untouched.

Build 51

This update adds Health Watch — the recommended recurring health checks for the person you care for, kept in one calm place so nothing quietly lapses. The list is matched to their age and recorded needs, and it nudges what’s coming up rather than showing a red overdue wall. You can mark a check done, snooze it, mark one not relevant, or add your own. These are plain-language reminders, not medical advice — your own clinician sets the right schedule. See Medical.

Your data is untouched.

Build 50

This update brought two new feature sets — Skill Routines and Crisis Plans. (Crisis Plans had been in the previous build, which never reached testers, so it arrived new here.)

• Skill Routines. Teach a skill or therapy step by step, run it together in a calm full-screen mode with each step read aloud, and watch how much help fades over time. A quick, private check-in after each run tracks how much help each step needed. See Care plans and routines.
• Crisis Plans. Calm “do this now” plans you build ahead of time for the highest-stakes moments. Five kinds: a seizure plan with a live timer that speaks and buzzes the next step, if-they-go-missing, calm-down, a safety plan, and a crisis card. They are kept off the iPhone’s own search so a sensitive plan stays private. See Safety & crisis plans.

Both were additive, so your data is untouched.

Build 49

Crisis Plans were first introduced here — typed action plans for wandering, a seizure-rescue plan with a live timer, calm-down, a safety plan, and a crisis card. This build never reached testers because it failed to build, so its Crisis Plans shipped folded into Build 50 instead.

Build 48

This update adds the Passport — one durable place that explains how to care for a person, that you build once and hand to anyone new. It pulls together what you’ve already entered (diagnoses, cues, medications, and the emergency contacts you’ve linked to this person) and adds the things only you know. It has a turn-the-phone reader mode with big text, and when you share it you pick exactly which sections to include first. See Caregiver tools.

This build also restored the Developer section at the bottom of Settings. Your data is untouched.

Build 47 (hotfix)

A quick hotfix that restored the Developer section at the bottom of Settings, which had gone missing on TestFlight builds. That section is where you switch tier and reach a connection test; the beta still defaults to the tier with every feature unlocked. Everything from Build 46 was unchanged.

Build 46

This update added in-app support for the hard moments, organized by what you’re actually facing. Everything here reads your own data or is on-device reference — nothing new syncs, and nothing leaves the phone.

• What to say. Calm say-this / skip-this / why cards for meltdowns, a loved one with dementia asking to go home or repeating a question, a panic attack, an OCD reassurance demand, and how to be specific on a 911 or 988 call.
• Kind words. Self-compassion and guilt-reframe cards for when the voice in your head gets harsh.
• First aid. Calm steps for choking (child and infant), aspiration, and the recovery position after a seizure — each leads with when to call 911.
• Where to start. A steadying companion for a new diagnosis, with one tap to turn on the app sections that help most for that diagnosis.
• Down syndrome milestones. Developmental ranges specific to Down syndrome, shown next to the general-population ranges.
• Visit briefs. One-tap, read-aloud summaries built from what you’ve logged — Neurology, Psychiatry, What’s changed, and Mealtime wins.

See Caregiver tools and Advocacy & goals. No change to your data’s format from Build 45.

Build 45

This update built on the Build 44 sharing fix with a nicer way to add caregivers and quieter background sync.

• Add a caregiver from your Contacts. When you invite a caregiver, you now pick them from your iPhone Contacts, pulling their name, phone, email, and address into a linked entry. Caregivers added on an earlier build need to be revoked and re-invited to get a linked contact.
• More reliable background updates, so a co-caregiver’s later edits keep arriving in the background.

See Sharing care with others (sync).

Build 44 (hotfix)

A hotfix for multi-caregiver sharing, which was broken in Build 43. Inviting, accepting, and receiving a shared profile now work end to end — including when the receiving app was fully closed before tapping the link — and the receiver gets the full history on first sync. This build also added an “invite sent” confirmation, stopped a profile shared to you from showing as its own caregiver, and let real names fill in on their own. See Sharing care with others (sync).

Build 43

The headline was multi-caregiver sync plus a new Team hub. Several caregivers can now keep the same care log in sync even when they never see each other.

• Team hub. The new home for everyone involved in a person’s care — Handoff, Caregivers, and co-caregiver activity all live here now.
• Faster invites. Tap Invite Caregiver, tap a role, and send the link by Messages or Mail; when the other person accepts, the shared profile pulls in and opens by itself.
• On-device smart help (on a supported device): a Handoff Brief drafted from your logs, Quick Capture that turns one sentence into a structured note, and a Check-in Companion that reflects your wellbeing entry back. All on-device. See Smart help (Apple Intelligence).

A launch hang on cold start was fixed, and the new wording was translated to Spanish and French. See Sharing care with others (sync).

For the complete, current list of everything CareHaven does, see the Full feature catalog. For what’s still ahead, see Known limitations & what’s coming.