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11 November 2026

1.3

A run's page has tabs at its foot. Now shows the step in hand on the whole screen with its clock, big enough to read across the room, and the tab bar steps out of the way while it is open.
In hand is the app's mark in the middle of the tab bar, with a count on it while something waits. It opens over the page you are on, and the plus that stood there is gone: each list has its own.
The tab bar slides away while you scroll down and comes back when you scroll up. More › Appearance turns it off.
Decide later leaves a step where it is and brings it back after everything else, instead of moving it to the end.
How should it look? on the way in, and under More › Appearance: a style, a picture behind the pages and a colour.
A Focus rule can be turned on from inside the app, with the switcher at the foot of Routines, Runs and Steps. A new rule takes its name, icon and colour on one sheet, and a rule can show a run.
Select several routines or runs to tag them, add them to a Focus, or pin runs.
Filter by place on Routines, Runs and Steps, counted from what is really there.
On the Lock Screen, Next is a word you can't miss, with Decide later under it.
Shortcuts in More opens straight away with a big library.

6 November 2026

1.2

Records opens straight away with thousands of entries, and Forms no longer slows down as they grow.
Messages and Forms have marks of their own, so they no longer look like Triggers and Records.
Writing a note no longer puts an undo bar over the next screen. The card already says Note added, and a note is taken off where it landed. A step, a button or a value you put somewhere still gets its undo.

5 November 2026

1.2

The tab bar is Routines, Runs, the plus, Steps and More. Routines, Runs and Steps are tabs of their own instead of three segments of one, and Triggers, Data and History are the first rows of More, each with a line saying what it's for.
Steps lists the step each going run is on, with The steps coming up too at the foot for the rest, and tapping a row opens that step's page. Next, Not now and Again are under a long press. Pressed from a run's page, Steps lights up that run's step and Routines opens its routine.
The plus in the middle opens at half the screen and is about the page in front of you: Write it down opens on that page instead of on Later. Routines and Runs each have a plus of their own again: Routines for the ways a routine comes to be, Runs for starting one, with Ask an AI on both.
A Settings sheet says whose it is: Routine settings, Run settings or Step settings, so the two gears on a run's page can't be mixed up.
Start a routine… lists only routines somebody made, not the ones a quick run made for itself. The writers that go through the Routine Run Ask shortcut are offered once that shortcut has run on this phone.
Empty pages look the same everywhere, with the one button that fills them.

4 November 2026

1.2

A routine file sent in Messages shows the routine's own mark instead of a page of code, its preview has Open in Routine Run at the foot, and sending one to the app puts up a card that opens it.
Keep both on Import now adds the routine beside the one you have, instead of replacing it. Import's buttons are one row with one sentence under them.
When an assistant's answer can't be read, Try again sends it back what was wrong and what it wrote, instead of leaving you to copy a sentence across.
Not yet on a check-in counts the whole gap from the moment you press it, wherever you press it: "every 30 minutes" answered at twenty past comes back at ten to, not ten minutes later.
A run counted from a date with no hour comes back at nine, and At changes the time. A moment that has already gone says so instead of quietly greying out Set.
A routine started once says Once, not "1 times", and a call or a message on a button is said in words instead of "Opens a link".

31 October 2026

1.2

A routine can say how its steps are walked, in its Settings: Any order, In order (every step listed, but only the one in hand opens, and there's no Later) or One at a time (only what's done and the step in hand, with how many are left). A step with a length can make Next wait until its time is up.
A routine reached by a code starts with one big Start now, and is kept only if you say so at the end. Scan the same code after making it yours, and it starts yours. A published routine is read in full in the app, and a video, a map or a Turo trip on one of its steps opens in its own app. The App Clip draws a step's description as it is written, with lists and with pictures from routinerun.com.
Call, Text and Email buttons wear a phone, a bubble and an envelope instead of a web page's arrow, and a Text button can carry the message itself.
A tag written for a code is guarded with a password by default, so anybody can read it and nobody else can write over it. Lock for good is still there.
An Apple Pay payment over a sum you set can start Check a purchase, through a Shortcuts automation the Apple Pay connection walks you through.
Saying "Write it down in Routine Run" to Siri asks for the note instead of answering that there was nothing to write down, and Next heard from a speaker says what's next, or that the run is done.
Sync between devices is steadier: a step's buttons changed on two devices read right, and something deleted for good stays deleted. A big library reaches the watch, and a routine written by a newer version of the app stays on screen instead of disappearing.

28 October 2026

1.1

A printed code can be pointed at another routine and keep its letters: Point this code at another routine…, so the poster stays on the door.
Style the code… gives a code the routine's colour, its mark, two initials or your own Logo from Photos, and round dots, and it still scans. The logo stays on this phone.
A run's Share offers Publish for a code, which publishes the routine the run is of.
A published step keeps the buttons a stranger can press, and the App Clip draws them.

27 October 2026

1.1

Write it down is one page: the words, where they go with Later first, then what they become there: a note, a step, a button or a value, each saying where on that run or routine it lands. A step, a button or a value can be undone.
A value can sit on a run's step, the one in hand or the next, and is read there and nowhere else.
Deal with it… on a note opens the same page, and can keep the note where it is as well as move it. What's on the clipboard opens Write it down with the words or the address already in it, and the share sheet has the same shape.
In hand lists the runs that ended in the last day, three of them, each opening its own page; the rest are on Runs' shelf of ended runs. A button waiting in In hand names its step first, so the step is what you read.
Choose from your reminders… no longer closes the app.

26 October 2026

1.1

A webhook button on a run your assistant starts for you can be allowed once and for good: Allow from Claude from now on, on the button's page. After that, the same request on the runs it starts works without asking. A new address, a new secret or another method still waits for your Allow. The rules are listed under Webhooks it may send on the assistant's page in Settings › Connections, and swiping one away turns those buttons off again, on runs already going too.
Sharing a phone number, an email, a date, a number or a contact card to the app offers what it can become: a Call or Text button, a value later runs read, or a note. A link can fill in a value each run, and Describe it… asks the phone's model for a button from one sentence.
A button can carry a name of its own, with what it does said under it, on the card, in In hand, on the Lock Screen and on the wrist. A spoken step can name its language, so an English word is read by an English voice on a phone set to another one.
The share sheet can put a button on every step of a run, and a button can say Next presses it too, under When it runs.
The writer next to Write it says where the writing happens: on the phone, in Apple's cloud, or through Shortcuts.
An address under Connections takes what other tools already send: plain webhooks, Alertmanager, Grafana and PagerDuty's Events API v2. A phone that lost its connection key registers again by itself and gets its connections back, and a script starting runs through an Any system address can be allowed a webhook from now on, as an assistant can.

22 October 2026

Beta

A routine kept only to hold one run's own steps no longer turns up in pickers like Put it in — it stays that run's alone, the way it already does in Routines.
The clock on a step's card steps aside while you're renaming the step, instead of crowding the name.
Setting a time on a run's step keeps the hour you picked, instead of snapping back to the old one.

21 October 2026

Beta

Hold the bar at the foot of the app for a menu — Open In hand, Write it down, or Later with a few short lengths — and press anywhere on its capsule to use it, not just the two lines of text.
In hand now lists a stopped run that still holds something, the same as a finished one — and only asks about runs stopped from now on, not every run ever stopped. Moving a step that's in hand to another list moves the run on instead of leaving its card stuck counting.
A trigger with several moments now says so in words next to it instead of a number on its mark. A check-in reached twice in one pass puts up one card instead of two, and Not yet is now offered right on the run's page when a check-in is due, not just in In hand.
Renaming, Put it in, Keep, and several other places that act while the keyboard is still up now hear the word you just typed instead of missing it, and the keyboard's Done button works the same way on every field.
Put it in can now find a run or routine by name and says where in it the step will land — now, next, or at the end. Run something new can take a list of steps pasted in at once, one to a line.
The filter can ask for what has no tag, or exactly one tag — handy for checking how fully things are filed — and a tag's own page now lists the runs filed under it too, not just the routines.

20 October 2026

Beta

A date can have a name — Departure, Launch — under Data › Set up › Dates. Steps' times, a run coming back, a planned run and a routine's start can be counted from it: packing three days before, the car the day before at nine. Move the date and everything counted from it moves, cards and alarms included.
Triggers have Before or after a date. It comes once for each date. If moving the date puts it in the past before it came, In hand asks under A date moved instead of starting it late.
A date can follow one event in Calendar, by its start or its end, or one reminder. Move the trip in Calendar and the date moves here the next time the app opens.
A late time can be moved or taken off from where it shows up. Tap Overdue on a run's page, or swipe the row in In hand. A run with several late steps can move them all at once, keeping the gaps between them, or count them from a date.
Your own answers to Not now: set up a wait in Come back to it… and Save as preset…, for one step, one routine or everywhere. A follow-up in two working days at ten, sooner if the reply arrives, is then one tap. A step's own follow-up is offered on the watch too.
A shared or exported routine takes its dates and its follow-ups with it, and an assistant can write both.
When a date slips, a run already going moves with it, and a deadline the slip puts back in the future rings again. A run that started from the date before it slipped is asked about in In hand: Until then puts it down until its new start, with everything it has gathered, and Keep going leaves it.
A date can wait for its day: turn on Day not known yet, count the steps, starts and waits from it, and set the day later. Everything counted from it starts then, together.
A follow-up puts aside only its step, and the run goes on: the letter comes back in two working days, or as soon as the reply arrives. Puts down: The whole run is there for when nothing else can happen without the answer. A quiet wait now stays quiet.
Before or after a date counts in minutes and hours too: two hours before Go out lands two hours before the time the date says. A new date has a time unless you turn on All day.
A value on a step whose run has no routine behind it now shows what the step actually says, and changing it no longer disturbs the run's other values.
The coloured rows on a run's and a routine's panel keep the quiet tint Light Mode uses instead of standing out too loudly in Dark Mode.
Runs you've put down for later stay together in their own Comes back section at the bottom of Runs, open by default, and a search now finds them there too.
Setting up a check-in opens with buttons for the common intervals, with an exact interval or a single moment a tap away and the rest of its settings folded under More.

19 October 2026

Beta

Routine Run is in the Messages drawer. Tap the plus beside the message field, choose Routine Run and pick a routine: its link goes into the message for you to send. Somebody with the app opens the routine in it, and somebody without it opens it in the App Clip or on the web.
A shared routine's link now shows the routine's name and how many steps it has in its preview, in Messages and anywhere else that draws one.
Starting a routine from Siri, the wrist, a shortcut or an assistant now carries on with a run that's already going instead of silently ending it, and names whichever run it starts or finds with the values you gave it.
An assistant can ask back before writing or starting a routine: its questions show up as answers you tap, with its own best guess already chosen and an Other… capsule to type something else.
Descriptions an assistant writes — on a suggestion's preview and on the import screen — are drawn as proper text now, lists, bold and links included, instead of raw dashes and asterisks.
A suggestion's preview fills in the values it has instead of leaving placeholders in curly braces, and names whatever's still missing; it no longer disappears the first time you open it, and Start on it now asks for any values it didn't already have. Importing a shared routine shows Look it over only when there's something on it this page doesn't already say.
Settings has a new Redeem a Code… under Pro, for a code somebody's given you.

18 October 2026

Beta

Tapping an assistant's suggestion — on its card or its notification — opens a full preview with Save, Run, Plan and Drop as its own buttons. Save writes it and opens it, Run starts it, Plan schedules it for the moment the assistant gave it, and Drop can be undone. The assistant hears your answer right away instead of at the next check.
Something worth remembering joins Inbox at the top of the starter catalogue: nothing to set up, and it comes back to you by itself — a day later, then three, then a week.
Adding a link to a step now starts as an empty address to fill in rather than a web search, and Link leads the list of what a step can do.
Stopping an alarm for a step now leaves the run's card on the Lock Screen with its buttons, instead of leaving nothing behind.
A step that was put off opens on itself once it's back, and every card offering to start a routine now always carries a working Start.
A few fixes: In hand's badge on the Lock Screen wears its own mark instead of a circle that looked like Messenger; a widget's Only this routine can be set back to Any routine; the Ask an AI page no longer pops the keyboard up over an answer it already gave; and an empty library's plus offers starters where Start a routine used to be.

17 October 2026

Beta

Long-press a step partway through a run's list for a quick way to move it — Now, Next, or At the end — each shown only when it would actually move the step.
Keep it as a routine moves off a run's panel once "Ask what to keep" is turned off, since that answer already says to keep nothing; find it in the ellipsis menu instead.
Adding a step — from the plus, the track, or by duplicating one — now shows where it landed, on both a run's page and a routine's.
A check-in no longer shows as due the instant you set it up, and a step with no timer counts up in the card's corner and on the Lock Screen.
Archiving a routine takes it off the schedule right away, and an archived routine can no longer start itself.
A step's description under its name no longer gets crowded out by the clock beside it.

16 October 2026

Beta

Tapping or scanning a Routine Run business card opens a short demo run in the App Clip.
Starting a routine whose name quotes a value — "Due diligence: {company}" — now asks for it right away, so the run is called "Due diligence: Acme" from the moment it starts rather than a plain counter until somebody goes looking. A number quoted in the name is offered one past the highest run so far; a word like a company name is simply asked, never counted. A run keeps the name and counter it started with even if the routine is renamed afterward — "Use the routine's name" catches it up on purpose.
Starting several runs at once of a routine whose name quotes nothing now asks once what tells them apart, with the next free number already filled in — "Onboarding 1", "2", "3" — instead of a separate box that didn't know what the others were called.
A run's name can quote when it started — the date, the time, date and time together, the day of the week, or the date written in numbers — under When in the name's ⊕ menu.
The run's panel and the routine's panel were redone. A run's now says its status and how long it's been going as plain facts, with Pause, Pin and Not now… as one control under them, and Review spelled out — "3 notes waiting on you…" — instead of a bare number. A routine's panel says how many of its runs are going, paused or waiting, with Start now / Plan… and Pause all / Not now… / Archive as its two controls.
A routine or run brought in by import or share now says so, and whether it's been changed since, in its title's popover and its long-press glance.
A value in a description now shows correctly wherever it's written: a token the page can't answer — like {started} on a routine's own page — reads as plain words instead of showing braces, and a run's description can read a value answered at one of its steps, not only one answered for the whole run. A value chip no longer runs into the word right after it.
Adding a step or a note to one of many routines or runs now has a field to type and narrow the list, instead of only a scroll.

15 October 2026

Beta

Routine Run is listed in Claude's connector directory, so it can be added from there instead of through a custom connector.
A routine's name can hold a value: add one with ⊕ beside the name, and a run it starts is called by what it's about — "Due diligence: Acme" — once it's told, rather than just a counter. Works for a routine that only runs one at a time too, and a name typed on the run itself still wins.
Tapping a starter opens its page first, with Add and start under the name and its steps, instead of adding and starting it straight from the row.
Routines, Runs and Steps now share one menu: History is first, in a group of its own, on all three; In hand is gone from Routines' menu; When is only on Runs; and Show Archived / Show Ended is one switch instead of three rows.
A new routine or a change an assistant suggests in In hand now carries its own buttons — Drop, and Save… or Start — instead of a card with nothing to press.
A description can hold a list, bold, a link or a picture, drawn properly rather than as raw dashes and asterisks. A long one folds with a line saying how much more there is; turn on Read descriptions in full, on a routine, a run or a step, for one that's meant to be read whole, like a recipe. Every description field now offers the same ⊕ — values, a picture, Scan — including a run's own.
A picture in a description or a note can be swapped for a web address, the one kind that survives sharing a routine: Share the picture, then paste back what comes of it. Share and Copy on a picture in a note work now too.
Importing a shared routine your plan has no room for no longer writes its tags, forms and places and then refuses the routines with nothing to undo — it works out what will actually land first, and shows See Pro when nothing would fit.
Sharing a routine now shows what it discloses, the same warnings the import screen shows the other way — including when a picture in it won't travel with it. Export moved behind the Select bar's ⋯, like the other three.
The feeling sticker on a step's card no longer vanishes depending on how much room the screen has, and it always shows the step you're actually standing on.

14 October 2026

Beta

A routine's own name and description can hold a value too, the same ⊕ and chip field a step's already had — filled in wherever it's shown.
A step can send to Discord, Telegram, Pushover, Google Chat, Healthchecks.io or Zapier. Choose Call a webhook, then Send to a service…: the step shows the message, what the key is and where that service shows it, and what leaves the phone. An assistant can write these too, and what it writes still waits for Allow.
A value in a step's name or short description now reads filled in everywhere the step is shown — the step's page, its Settings, the card's subtitle and the glance — so "Your number is A42" rather than the placeholder.
A step's name and description can hold a value: write "Go to window", press ⊕ beside the name and pick window. It reads "Go to window …" until the run is told which window, then "Go to window 7" on the card, the Lock Screen, the Dynamic Island, the watch and the widgets. Set it by hand, from Shortcuts with Set Value, with a step's Change a value, or from a connection.
With the caret in the name you see the value as a chip; out of it, the words as they read. Filling in a value is not a change to the step, so the orange band doesn't count it and Keep never writes "window 7" into the routine. A value said on the run's step wins over the run's own.
A connected assistant that may not read your values no longer sees them in the name of the step you're on.
Settings › Connections makes an address another system can send to, such as a script or PagerDuty, so it can start or move a routine on this phone. On iOS 27 with the Routine Run bridge, the run starts by itself and its card is on the Lock Screen while the phone stays locked. Otherwise it starts when you tap the notification.
Add a connection… offers PagerDuty beside Any system, and says where in PagerDuty the address and the secret go. Copy address and Copy secret say Copied, and the secret leaves the clipboard after two minutes. Remove stops one address at once, and Turn all off… stops all of them and makes the relay forget the phone.
Claude, ChatGPT or another assistant can be connected in Settings › Connections with a code it shows you, once. It can read your routines and where your runs stand, start, plan, pause and move runs, write you a checklist and start it, and say how your week went — without your notes and values unless you turn on Read notes and values.
What an assistant writes — a new routine or a change — waits under Suggested in In hand until you open it, or is saved at once if you turn on Save without asking; a change keeps the routine as it was in Earlier versions. Tapping a connection's notification opens the run it started or moved.
ChatGPT and the web, in Settings and beside Write it, asks a bigger model through the free Routine Run Ask shortcut. With the bridge set up it answers in the background, and a notification says when it is ready.
A question nothing picked up doesn't hang any more: after half a minute it goes back to Shortcuts, after three minutes it stops waiting, and a button under the warning adds Routine Run Ask.
Share as a routine… on a run sends its steps as you walked them, and the link shows the routine to somebody without the app. A routine an assistant wrote can be shared without adding it first.
The bar at the foot is In hand's on every screen. The step in hand is a card standing over its run, and a run's steps wear the run's colour. A finished run's card stops its clock, and a new tag stays grey until you colour it.

12 October 2026

Beta

A status other than Running holds the run. Blocked or Waiting for feedback no longer has a working Next, and Not now offers Running as the way back. A status you write can still say "It keeps running".
A time of day can be counted from when the run started: "be there an hour after I set off". The Lock Screen card and the Dynamic Island show the time to keep, and the alarm names the step first and offers Not now.
A run coming back can come back quietly: no card and no alarm. In hand still counts it, and the bar says so a day before, an hour before and when it arrives.
Waiting for you in In hand shows the buttons of your pinned runs, and a pinned run says so beside its name.

11 October 2026

Beta

Deleting a step from a routine offers Leave it in the going runs, so a run you're halfway through keeps the step where it was.
A timed step can wait for you: set Starts to "when you press it" and the clock begins at Start the timer, not when the run reaches the step.
The name at the top of a run or a routine is the field, and its mark opens the picker. A run can be told not to ask what to keep, from its review.
A step's row and card say what the run is waiting on there, and when a step put off will come back. A long step name wraps instead of being cut.
The shortcut picker always has a way to Shortcuts, and an action you made and backed out of leaves nothing behind.

10 October 2026

Beta

A step says when the shortcut it runs is gone from the phone, and shortcuts nothing uses leave the Shortcuts screen by themselves.
At the largest text sizes, marks grow with the words, chips keep their words whole, and the layout stops growing past a point where it would break.
A Focus filter the app can't confirm no longer stays on for ever, and the bar notices when a Focus ends while the app is open.
A description typed in the sheet behind a card's corner is saved; it used to go missing.

9 October 2026

Beta

An assistant can write a step's webhook, event, alarm, Home scene or Health entry. Each one arrives switched off until you turn it on. Siri and Shortcuts can add a webhook or a scene to a step the same way.
A webhook's token lives in the phone's keychain, and the routine holds only its name, so exporting or sharing a routine no longer carries it. A webhook can say which run it is about.
A note or a step can be put on another run, not only on the one that is open.
Opening a run from In hand while another run's page was open no longer lands on an empty page.

8 October 2026

Beta

Do it now in In hand ends on the run with the card up, not back on the list. A held run offers Resume there and says it is held.
Later on the In hand bar puts the way back under your thumb, and how long it holds is a setting.
A check-in held to certain hours names the hours it asks at, not the interval.

7 October 2026

Beta

The bar at the foot becomes In hand while anything is waiting, and the In hand band can be put down for half an hour.
A starter can be started from its row, and one you already have can be replaced and started in one press. New starter: due diligence on a deal.
The Runs list stays quick with hundreds of runs behind it, and search and filters reach all of them.
A verb that can't move a held run is no longer drawn, and an answered check-in offers Ask again.

6 October 2026

Beta

Keep and Only here work on a run that has already ended, and Done with it is a button on a finished run's row instead of a hidden swipe.
Not yet on a check-in held to certain hours waits its whole rhythm, rather than asking again at the next hour on the clock.
A card's corner says what is behind it, such as "2 notes · 1 value", and a step wears its number.
Buttons you can press wear glass across the app, and when one routine has several runs going, a row leads with which run it is.

5 October 2026

Beta

Publish for a code…, in a routine's ⋯, puts that routine under a short code at routinerun.com/c/. The code's page shows the QR code, and has Print a poster…, Write to an NFC tag…, and two files for your own website. Only the steps and their words go. Actions, notes and values stay on your phone.
A screenshot shared in as a step arrives with the picture on it.
A run with no steps in it no longer counts as finished, and Add a step offers the one place it can go.
Start… says it is about to ask: now, later, and whether to end a run already going.

4 October 2026

Beta

A routine scanned at a door opens in an App Clip, with nothing to install. You walk the steps on the app's own track and card, the walk is on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and nothing is kept or sent.
Starting a routine that runs several at once asks what this one is about, instead of naming it "3".
Pressing the badge on a routine's mark opens the run when there is only one. Holding down a step offers Show it on the card.
A step's page wears the step's colour, and the end of a run asks again once you've finished what it sent you to.

3 October 2026

Beta

A thought can be caught with nowhere to put it yet. Note for Later and Clipboard for Later in Control Centre land it in a pile you deal with later, which remembers what was going on when you wrote it.
The watch has In hand, and writing a note is on the row. Pause is gone from the wrist.
The end of a run asks what is left: is there more, is it worth keeping, when should it come back. A run finished from the Lock Screen or the wrist asks in In hand instead. A new routine is asked what brings it back.
The plus and Add a step are sheets that explain each choice, instead of menus of bare words, and Describe it… opens inside the card that offered it.
The empty library offers starting a run with no routine at all.

2 October 2026

Beta

Routine Run works inside Assistive Access: your routines, then one large step with Next and Not now. No Stop, no editing, and a timer never moves the step on by itself.
Larger Text reaches the places it did not: feelings, a number's dial and the status beside a run's name grow with your text. Reduce Motion is honoured — bars fade instead of sliding, and nothing bounces or scrolls itself.
A step whose time has passed says "Due 9:00 · 12 min ago" in a deep orange instead of "late" in red, and In hand lists them under Time passed. Where the clock moved a step on, the record says the time passed rather than Skipped.
A run can answer to a time of day, like a step: "today's list, by nine". A step that has to be done by a time no longer skips everything in front of it when its moment comes.
Carry the rest into a new run… in a run's menu moves what is still ahead into a fresh run and files this one, and Carry over sits beside a late run in In hand.
The plus adds to the page you are on, and offers Before this step as well as after. The colour a new routine starts with is a setting.
Settings opens with what most people come for, and the first screen says that a routine can start from doing the thing, not only from planning it.

1 October 2026

Beta

Opening a run takes about a third of a second, and coming back to the app no longer waits for iCloud.
A run's page draws a road from the run to its routine, with the run's status on its card and its verbs beside it.
Keeping a run as a routine asks what of each step should travel.
A feeling sits on its step's bead on the track, and a long description folds.
Every settings sheet opens with what the thing is; the name is a field and the mark a button on every page's head.

30 September 2026

Beta

A run, a routine and both kinds of step open with one card: what it is, where it comes from, and two corners — Add or see… and the gear.
What a run wrote of its own is marked orange where it stands, and each mark carries Keep and Only here.
A run's own words and tags are counted and can be kept onto the routine.
The timer wears its word, and a clock can be put back.
A note is no longer written to its file on every letter, and a routine's colour is lifted so it can be seen on a dark page.

29 September 2026

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Apple's cloud writes routines from inside the app on iOS 27, with nothing to install and Shortcuts never opening. The first run asks where AI works: in Apple's cloud, or only on this phone, where nothing you type leaves it.
Ask about Routine Run, first in Settings and under With AI on the plus, is a chat that answers how the app works and how to use the Routine Run method.
A routine a model writes is shown in full at once — every step, its mark and its tips — with Start it and Keep it above it. Models stop putting a timer on every step and write in the language you asked in.
Under a step's countdown: −1 min, +1 min, +5 min and Start the timer again. Take the timer off is there and in the step's ⋯. The card ends with Step settings for this run.
The Action button has a page of its own and a shelf of routines for it, a marked action can be pressed as often as you like, and a run's card on the Lock Screen is what lets the button reach it.
A step can ask why before it lets the run past, and a routine can hold that rule for all its steps. A note that is a photograph shows the photograph.

28 September 2026

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Late is its own standing, in red, on the step's card and on the track, and the line saying so carries the button that answers it.
A question can be put off for a quarter of an hour, and answered questions fold away.
A note can be moved onto a step, or before one, without becoming a step of its own.
Pin a step from the list of what there is to do. A run coming back keeps its card up and can be told to ring.
Rows, marks and capsules were redrawn across the app so the colour left on a screen is the colour that means something.

27 September 2026

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Eight answers to "when should it come back" rather than four, and Not now comes first on a question.
A step already walked can be done now, as well as gone back to.
A link or a screenshot made into a step is named, and the screenshot comes with it.
A step's settings, and a run's, are one page again, arranged like the others.
Keep both asks for a name instead of putting a number on the end.

26 September 2026

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Starters about one thing at a time — a post, a shoot, a receipt, a code review — can have several runs going at once. Starting the second no longer ends the first.
A Focus rule has Fires again, so a trigger set to When a Focus changes can be connected to one.
A run is paused and resumed with Pause and Resume everywhere, and Shortcuts calls it a Run.
In hand shows the words a shortcut is sent, not the run's raw data.
Sharing a routine with days on it makes the same link every time.
Every page says in bold whether it is a routine, a run, a routine's step or a run's step, and a run's page shows its routine, Run's steps and Run's settings under the step in hand. A step's page has no buttons: its row to the run or the routine opens that page at the step, where Next and Not now are.
Start opens the run, and so do Again, Reopen and planning one. Every Next can be taken back, and so can Archive. Press and hold any routine, run, step or Settings row to see what it holds.
The Action button's run card says what the next press will do and what the last one did. A marked action can be limited to the first press or a few minutes, In hand can hold one on the button for a while, and Settings chooses what happens when two runs both offer something.
In hand opens with Late: steps that had to be done by a time that has passed. A length can be emptied back to nothing.

25 September 2026

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Describe… is one page for everything you ask a model to do: write a routine, change one, change a step, write its triggers. Choose who writes it in Settings.
The Routine Run Ask shortcut asks the model you chose and brings the answer back by itself. Get it installs it in one tap.
A routine that has to be done by a time gives every step its own deadline, and the run's page says how you stand when it matters.
Do it now on a step further down takes that step in hand without walking past the ones in between. A run's steps reorder in Select.
Going again answers a run's check-in, and an answered check-in leaves the run's page. The two are named apart: Check in on this step… sets the step aside, Check in on the run… pauses the run.
Not now on a paused run offers Resume instead of an empty sheet.
A routine an assistant wrote for something that happens once is archived when its run is done.

24 September 2026

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A step can be done by a time, or begun by one, and its deadline can go into your calendar or Reminders. A tick in Reminders moves the run on.
A list can stay open: Inbox, To read and To watch wait for more instead of finishing, and the share sheet offers them first.
Write a routine on the phone from one sentence, on iPhones with Apple Intelligence.
Siri can change a routine: rename it, add, change, move or remove a step. The earlier version is kept, and one Undo puts it back.
Steps from another routine… copies steps from any of your routines or any starter.
A link shared as a note reads as its title, with the address under it, everywhere a note is listed.

23 September 2026

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A routine an assistant wrote can be started once without keeping it, and a starter can be changed before you add it.
The plus in the middle of the tab bar is the one place for anything new.
Two triggers that start the same routine at the same minute start it once.
An assistant can suggest the tags for a routine it writes.
A long press on a note offers what its swipes do.

22 September 2026

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When something pages you, the on-call routine starts at any hour, and a second page starts a second run.
A routine can say whether an event from another app asks you first.
Choosing a routine from a long library opens a page with a search and the ones you used lately.
A button marked Worth thinking about first is red on the Lock Screen card and on the step's card.
Long press a description, a note or a value to copy or share it. Decide later can be undone.
Fields no longer lose words or jump while you type.

21 September 2026

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How did it go: put a feeling on any step of a run. It shows on the Lock Screen card and in the Dynamic Island.
A step can have a colour of its own, chosen with its mark.
An assistant can change a routine, not only write one, and what it would change is shown to you before anything is written.
“When I get home, but only on weekdays” can be said as one trigger.
Routines can be grouped by tag, and Start is on a routine's swipe.
Waiting on you: tick what to keep, and Done settles the rest.

20 September 2026

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Pause holds the step's timer too, and has a button of its own.
A run or a step can wait for something that happens elsewhere: an event from another app, a place, or another run.
Not now on the Lock Screen card sends the step to the end and leaves a quiet question about it in In hand.
Don't start until: a routine can wait for a date without being turned off.
The run's page is a track of its steps. Press any stop to see that step's card.
A button on a step can wear a mark you choose, and Back is gone from the Lock Screen card.

19 September 2026

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iCloud sync between your own devices, through your private iCloud. It is off until you turn it on in Settings.
Delete keeps things 30 days in Recently Deleted, and the bar at the foot of the screen takes it back.
A routine keeps its earlier versions, and any of them can be put back.
Runs on iPhone with iOS 26.1 and Apple Watch with watchOS 26, not only 27.
A copy of everything is kept on the phone once a day.

18 September 2026

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Check-ins: a question on a run or a step that asks every so many minutes, hours or days until you answer. A run pauses while its check-in asks.
A trigger can sit on a step, so a moment can move the run to that step.
The pages for a routine, a step, a run and a run's step are built the same way, and Arrange sections… hides what you do not use.
Move or delete an event the app wrote into your calendar, and it asks what you meant. It never undoes what you did.
Your assistant can write a routine: send it the request, paste its answer back, and look it over before anything is added.
A finished run keeps the routine it followed, so it still reads right after the routine changes or is deleted, and can bring it back.

16 September 2026

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A step can ask for a few words, and you type them into its notification.
What you copied can go into a run as a value, and a step's words can include what is on the clipboard.
A step can ring an alarm the moment it is reached, not only when its time runs out.
Tapping a notification opens the run it is about.
A paused run no longer puts its Lock Screen card back after you swipe it away, and the watch no longer says Running for runs that are not.