New Features

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• Do Not Disturb in focus sessions – Focus sessions can now turn on Do Not Disturb automatically
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• Edit habits at routine start – You can now edit your habits right at the start of your routine.
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• Change email from Help – You can now change your email address from the "Report a problem" tab in Help.
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• Press and hold postpone – A press-and-hold "postpone" control on break reminders means a long postpone can't be picked by accident.
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• New Schedule view – See your habits and calendar together on one timetable.
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• Focus Button Late No More support – The Focus Button now forwards Late No More notifications, with a beep on audio alerts, firmware version and update checks, a Flash Firmware button, and a habit countdown that stays synced to the device.
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• Per-schedule emoji – Custom blocking schedules now show the emoji you set on the backend.
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• New Office Mode settings – A direct toggle plus automatic switching based on your Wi-Fi network.
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• Inline focus starter – Set duration, intention, and block list without leaving the menu.
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• Restore dismissed events – Dismissed events now show with a strikethrough and an "eye" icon so you can restore them if you change your mind.
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• Collapsible deep work sessions – Deep work sessions can now be collapsed into a single accordion item for a tidier view.
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• Manual disconnect for Focus Button – You can now manually disconnect your Focus Button device from within the app, instead of only unplugging it.
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• Leaderboard username shown – Your leaderboard username now appears in Account settings.
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• Teacher Mode – Teachers can start class focus sessions that students join, with settings locked to what the teacher sets.
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• Glowing screen border – Added a glowing border around your screen edge while a focus session is running.
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• Auto open URL on unlock – Teachers can set a URL that opens automatically on the block page once they unlock it.
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• Hide Tools rows on hover – Tools rows can now be hidden on hover, with a gear icon to bring them back.
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• Music prompt after session start – Added a prompt to start playing music right after a focus session begins.
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• Talking Clock – A new feature that announces the time during your day.
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• Focus Music rewrite – A refreshed design with a Spotify links section, YouTube Music support, and a unified "Now Playing" card, plus restored "resume last played" and "stop prompt started music" behavior.
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• To Do Player rewrite – A refreshed design with a now playing focus music bar, and real Spotify and YouTube track names shown instead of raw links.
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• Cross device pause and resume – Pausing or resuming a focus session on another device now syncs to your Mac, including session strictness and paused state.
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• Pause and resume from the menu bar – Pause and resume a focus session right from the menu bar, not just stop it.
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• Pause focus music with your play key – Pause and play your focus music using your Mac's play/pause key.
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• Calendar RSVP status in Day Plan – Calendar events in your Day Plan now show who's accepted, declined, or is tentative.
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• Snooze tasks and type projects – Snooze Day Plan tasks to earlier days, and pick a #project straight from the keyboard as you type.
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• Shortcut tips on open – Opening Focus Music, Brain Dump, or To Do Player from the menu now shows a quick tip with the keyboard shortcut to use next time.
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• Ask before snapping the routine window back – If you move the routine window aside while a routine is running, Focus Bear now asks whether you'd like to postpone, instead of silently snapping it back.
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• Focus Button icon auto sync – Default focus icons now sync automatically the first time you connect, so a focus session shows an icon with no setup needed.
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• "Habits postponed until" in the menu – The Day Plan menu now shows the time your habits are postponed until, available in English and Spanish.
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• Sidebar tooltips when collapsed – Hovering an item in the collapsed, icon only sidebar now shows its name as a tooltip.
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• "Hide habits" setting – Declutter the Day Plan down to just your calendar events.

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Improvements

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• Habits UI improvements – The habit list now shows when habits have been postponed.
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• All days checked by default – New blocking schedules now start with every day of the week checked.
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• Micro breaks setting synced – Your focus session micro breaks on/off setting is now saved and synced across devices.
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• Focus Button improvements – Minor reliability improvements to Focus Button focus events.
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• Simplified advanced focus mode settings – Removed an unnecessary checkbox from the advanced settings of certain focus modes.
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• Notifications blocked in stricter modes – Deep Work and "block super distracting sites" mode now block notifications too.
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• Do Not Disturb improvements – Minor reliability improvements to Do Not Disturb.
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• Skipped the countdown on "Can't do it" – Choosing "Can't do it" while skipping a habit no longer shows a 15 second countdown, unless you've turned on high friction mode.
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• Focus sessions auto trigger for apps too – Automatic focus session triggering now works for apps, not just URLs.
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• Better chat title detection – Improved detection of chat titles, including Claude, so they're passed correctly to FBTT and AI features.
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• Automatic focus session start – Focus sessions now start automatically at their scheduled time, instead of waiting for a manual start.
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• Blocked app notifications – Deep Work and "block super distracting sites" mode now notify you when an app is blocked.
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• Onboarding improvements – Improved onboarding wording and flow.
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• Clearer Wind Down messaging – A clearer message now shows when a computer shutoff is aborted ("your computer is now accessible again").
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• Clearer strictness levels – The strictness level selector now explains each level in more detail.
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• Hidden focus countdown at start – The focus countdown timer now stays hidden for the first 30 seconds of a session.
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• Loading indicator for routine suggestions – Added a loading indicator so the routine suggestion view finishes loading before it moves on.
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• Focus Button firmware support updated – Updated Focus Button firmware support, matching the Windows app, so it works reliably with habits.
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• More reliable Focus Button – Improved Focus Button connecting and signalling, and it now stops the device when a running habit is skipped or postponed.
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• Simplified Day Plan – Day Plan is now a single task list with a time-boxed clock badge.
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• Focus goal and block list memory – Your typed focus goal is kept when switching block lists, and Focus Bear now remembers your last block list.
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• Improved break windows – Break windows are taller with a reworded end message, and the break interval only resets on a real break or postpone.
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• Focus Button phone signal – The Focus Button is now signalled when a session is started from your phone.
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• Focus Button auto reconnect – The Focus Button auto reconnects after an accidental disconnect, so Late No More and habit signals keep working.
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• Password always required for postpone – Postponing now always requires your password when a full screen routine is showing, closing a grace period gap.
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• Blocking schedules redesigned – A cleaner list, calendar, presets, and editor for blocking schedules.
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• Custom Routines panel in full screen – The Custom Routines panel now stays available while in full screen.
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• Sharper Bear icon – Sharper Bear icon in the menu bar on Retina displays.
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• Faster AppleScript checks – Cut the maximum wait time for AppleScript checks from 7 seconds to about 1, so a stuck script can no longer freeze the app.
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• Confirm before cancelling a routine – Day Plan now asks you to confirm before cancelling a routine from the X button, instead of it happening silently.
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• Read only completed routines – A completed morning routine now renders as read only instead of showing unresponsive Play, Skip, and Done buttons.
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• Focus Button firmware updates – Added firmware version display and update checks, an always visible sync status icon, and hid the "buy a device" prompt once one is connected.
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• Loading spinner for dashboards – Added a loading spinner while the To Do List and Stats dashboards load.
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• Time Tracker toggle relocated – The Time Tracker's Enable toggle moved from Add Ons into the Time Tracker view itself, so it's easier to find.
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• Routines deferred during class – Routines and breaks are now suppressed and deferred while a class session is running, and your postponed routine automatically resumes once the class session ends.
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• Immediate URL blocking – URL blocking in a class session now takes effect immediately instead of waiting for the next app switch.
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• Improved Day Plan performance – Skips a full re render while the schedule view is hidden.
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• Removed MAIN section label – Removed the collapsible "MAIN" section label from the sidebar.
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• Subscription status in menu – Your trial or expired subscription status now shows in the menu popover.
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• More Day Plan scroll room – Reserved extra scroll space so the last task's action buttons are always reachable.
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• Improved End of Day layout – Improved the End of Day screen layout on 13 inch MacBooks.
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• Consistent Skip Habit buttons – Moved the primary button to the right on two Skip Habit screens for more consistent placement.
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• Talking Clock settings polish – Reused the native back bar and switch style toggles, aligned the quiet hours fields, and made settings sync to your account instead of staying on one device. Also fixed a cross account settings leak on logout.
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• Accurate distracting site time – Distracting site time is now measured with a stopwatch based on real elapsed time, instead of an estimate.
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• Brain Dump account sync – Connected the two way sync bridge so your Brain Dump notes are tied to your account.
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• Break frequency check in – If you've had breaks switched off for a couple of days, Focus Bear now checks in to help you set a break frequency that suits you.
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• Clearer calendar connection guidance – Connecting your calendar when no calendar account is set up now explains what to do, instead of appearing to do nothing.
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• Hidden Deep Work break slots – Hiding Deep Work blocks in your Day Plan now also hides their break slots, for a cleaner plan.
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• Real Focus Music playlist names – YouTube playlists that used to show a generic "YouTube playlist" label now display their real title.
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• Day Plan syncs across devices – Tasks you complete on your phone or another computer now update right away in the "Tasks for today" panel, without switching days and back.
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• Clearer menu buttons – Every button in the redesigned menu now shows a hand pointer on hover, so it's obvious what's clickable.
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• Evening routine on the Day Plan – Once you've finished your evening routine, the Day Plan now shows it properly, with completed habits crossed off and a quick "Complete" option for any you still want to tick off.
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• Hold to set evening postpone – Postponing your evening routine now uses a press-and-hold control, so a long postpone can't be picked by accident.
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• Smarter Focus Mode prompts – Focus Bear won't suggest starting Focus Mode when a super strict blocking schedule is already running.
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• Tidier habit controls – Removed action buttons that could appear on a habit when there was nothing to act on.
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• Day Plan tasks sync across devices – Tasks you add, plan onto your schedule, or rename in "Tasks for today" now show up on your other devices, and a rename made elsewhere updates here too.
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• Instant evening routine updates – Uncancelling your evening routine now refreshes the Day Plan right away, without closing and reopening the menu.
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• Office Mode stays on – It no longer silently switches itself back off when you have no office friendly break activities, and instead offers to add one.
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• Clearer focus session info – During "block super distracting sites," the message now correctly reads "AI not applicable," and your focus score shows in the menu and To Do Player, not just the nudge.
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• Keyboard shortcut tips – Using the Advanced focus button now shows its shortcut tip, and these tips appear on top of the menu instead of behind it.
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• Tidier Day Plan header – The "+ Add event" button and date arrows no longer overlap the Habit Player and Day Plan tabs.
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• Cleaner "Start a break now" – The menu only shows "Start a break now" when a break can actually be started, staying hidden during routines, shut off time, or when there are no break activities.
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• Clearer shortcut label – The "Start focus session" shortcut is now labeled "Open Focus Session," since pressing it opens the Start Focus screen rather than immediately starting a session.
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• Live Day Plan menu updates – During a routine, the menu now shows your current habit and the next one correctly with no duplicates. Between routines it shows when your next routine starts, and it refreshes on its own as you postpone, resume, or start habits.
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• Focus Goal always visible – The menu's focus session card now always shows the "Focus Goal" label and lets you set or edit it, even when it's empty, and clearly labels the current focus mode.
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• Confirm before extending past a meeting – A focus session ending during a meeting now shows the end of session warning first, instead of silently extending itself.
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• Broader meeting detection – Meeting detection now works for browser based calls like Google Meet and Bluetooth or USB headsets, not just native apps with the built in mic.
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• Teacher checklist in class sessions – When a student joins a class focus session, the To Do player now hands off to the teacher's checklist instead of the student's personal tasks, which are safely restored when the session ends.
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• Extending a session keeps your routine covered – If you extend a focus session while a routine was postponed, your habits are re-postponed to match, so they no longer interrupt you seconds later.
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• Snoozing updates the due date – Pushing a to do to a later day now moves its actual deadline, not just where it sits in your plan.
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• Independent habit sections – Opening or closing one routine section no longer affects another.
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• Reliable app block notifications – When a blocked app is caught during Focus Mode, you now get a clear notification in the top right. During a teacher or class session it includes a "Request unlock" button pre-filled with the app's name.
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• Pointer cursor on buttons – Buttons now show the pointing hand cursor on hover.
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• Removed the 4 hour deactivate option – To keep your blocking schedule reliable, the postpone dialog no longer includes a 4 hour deactivate option. Postpone and Resume Habits are still available.
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• Remembers your last duration – Each focus mode now defaults to the length you last used it for, kept even after restarting the app.
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• Bigger time fields – The From and Till time pickers and their up/down arrows are larger and easier to tap when setting up your first blocking schedule, which now defaults to now through one hour later.
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• Visible hide button – The hide button on an active Tools sidebar item is now clearly visible instead of washing out.

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Bug fixes

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• Fixed Auto Start Focus Mode – Auto starting a focus mode now works correctly.
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• Fixed focus session end time handling – The actual session duration is now stored correctly, and a session more than 24 hours overdue is cancelled instead of resumed.
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• Fixed browser tab limiter – The tab limiter now blocks you correctly after you exceed your set limit.
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• Fixed allowed app activity after sleep – The app no longer forgets you're in an allowed app activity if your Mac goes to sleep during it.
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• Fixed features disabled after reinstall – Core features no longer stay disabled after reinstalling the app.
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• Fixed false meeting detection – Dictation no longer triggers a false positive for meeting detection.
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• Fixed habits option not responding – The "I don't have time for all these habits" option now responds correctly during morning and evening routines.
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• Fixed to do list loading – Fixed the to do list sometimes not loading all of your tasks.
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• Fixed habit editing crash – Fixed a crash when editing habits while in full screen mode.
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• Fixed blank routine screen – Fixed the active routine screen going blank and unresponsive after switching to another tab and back.
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• Fixed misplaced "Uncancel" option – Fixed "Uncancel my evening routine" wrongly appearing in the morning routine flow, and added clearer feedback when you restore it.
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• Fixed views after minimizing – Fixed views not rendering correctly after the app was minimized, for example when Alt clicking another app.
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• Fixed postpone button clicks – Fixed the postpone buttons not always registering clicks, plus a related break timer glitch.
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• Fixed Tools menu – Fixed "Tools" in the menu not opening.
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• Fixed unexpected logouts – You're now kept signed in automatically instead of being logged out unexpectedly.
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• Fixed evening reminder reappearing – Fixed the evening routine reminder reappearing shortly after you dismissed it.
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• Fixed lost offline completions – Fixed offline activity completions being lost after the first re-sync.
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• Fixed habit start crashes – Fixed a couple of crashes in the habit-start flow.
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• Fixed habit finish crash – Fixed a crash when finishing a habit, so it no longer gets stuck showing as postponed afterward.
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• Fixed a browser check crash – Fixed a crash caused by overlapping browser checks.
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• Fixed fullscreen exit behavior – Leaving fullscreen now releases secondary monitors properly, and postpone is no longer accidentally skipped.
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• Fixed clipped habit finished screen – The small window is now taller so the "habit finished" screen isn't clipped.
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• Fixed mic button listening state – Pressing the Focus Button's mic button now opens the menu in listening state, as expected.
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• Fixed browser tab freeze – Fixed a freeze where checking your browser tabs could hang the app and leave the Day Plan blank.
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• Fixed midnight rollover crash – Fixed a crash caused by the midnight rollover repeating itself endlessly.
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• Fixed Sunday scheduling – Fixed weekend and weekday routine scheduling that never accounted for Sundays.
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• Fixed postpone prompt visibility – Fixed the postpone prompt not appearing on some screens by presenting it correctly.
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• Fixed menu bar icon border – Fixed a stray red border box showing around the deactivated menu bar icon.
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• Fixed accessibility link layout – Fixed the "Open Settings" accessibility link layout in the menu.
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• Fixed unresponsive Day Plan buttons – Fixed the Play, Skip, and Done buttons not responding in the Day Plan during a postponed Focus Summary.
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• Fixed routine window staying open – Fixed the routine window staying open after cancelling an in progress routine from the X button.
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• Fixed stale menu bar habit – Fixed the menu bar continuing to show a morning habit after that routine was already completed.
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• Fixed stale appointment reminders – Fixed stale "appointment about to start" reminders triggering after the appointment had already begun.
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• Fixed Day Plan crash – Fixed a crash that could occur in the Day Plan.
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• Fixed Return key in task details – Fixed the Return key in the task details window accidentally starting the next habit.
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• Fixed block list auto suggest default – Fixed new block lists not defaulting to auto suggest starting Focus Mode.
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• Fixed app auto suggest setting – Fixed auto suggest checking the wrong setting, so it now correctly follows your allowed apps rather than your allowed URLs.
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• Fixed blank card titles – Fixed a layout bug that left Day Plan card titles blank.
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• Fixed music prompt sync – Fixed your remembered music prompt choice not syncing to the server right away.
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• Fixed shutoff password rule – Fixed shutoff unlock buttons not honouring the postpone after cutoff password rule.
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• Fixed appointment popup password rule – Fixed the appointment popup not honouring your postpone password setting.
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• Fixed missing password checkboxes – Fixed missing Postpone password checkboxes and info buttons in strictness settings, and added a scroll to top control.
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• Focus Button connection improvements – Improved the reliability of the Focus Button connection, and focus goals now update on the device automatically.
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• Fixed Done button after password prompt – Fixed the Done button not reappearing after cancelling a password prompt in the Day Plan.
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• Fixed menu Day Plan refresh – Fixed the Day Plan in the menu not refreshing after cancelling or uncancelling a routine.
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• Fixed browser tab freeze during routines – Fixed a freeze, a spinning beachball, caused by browser tab checks running at the start of a routine.
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• Fixed tag editor text bug – Fixed a text editing bug in tag editors that mismeasured certain characters.
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• Fixed appointment popup auto close – Fixed the appointment popup not closing automatically at the meeting's end time.
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• Fixed launch freeze – Fixed a freeze at launch related to account credential checks.
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• Extra crash protection – Added extra crash protection around the focus completed screen.
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• Fixed Day Plan tab highlight – Fixed "View full day plan" in the menu not highlighting the Day Plan tab in the sidebar.
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• Focus Music rewrite polish – Fixed several issues found while testing the rewrite, including broken link validation, an incorrectly sized animated wave graphic, inconsistent button cursors and click areas, and music prompts interrupting playback that was already happening.
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• Fixed first launch Spotify playback – Fixed Spotify sometimes not starting playback on the first launch of the day, caused by a timing issue right after Spotify finished loading.
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• Fixed meeting detection freeze – Fixed a freeze related to detecting meeting apps.
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• Fixed outdated Spanish text – Fixed outdated Spanish text in sync error messages so it matches the current English wording.
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• Fixed background habit controls – Skip and Postpone now work correctly for a habit running in the background.
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• Fixed duplicate AI tasks – AI suggested tasks no longer show up as duplicates.
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• Fixed stale task status on load – The Day Plan no longer briefly shows out of date task status when it first loads.
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• Fixed stuck sync spinner – Fixed the focus icon sync spinner getting stuck.
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• Fixed network and sleep crashes – Fixed a couple of crashes that could happen with network changes and when your Mac went to sleep.
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• Fixed break video sound in meetings – Break activity videos no longer play sound into your meetings.
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• Fixed bad schedule wiping all schedules – A single bad custom blocking schedule no longer causes all of your blocking schedules to disappear.
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• Fixed cut off breaks message – The breaks menu message now wraps onto a second line instead of getting cut off.
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• Fixed rare startup crash – Fixed a rare startup crash related to focus modes.
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• Break videos resume after meetings – If a meeting is detected during a break, your break video now automatically resumes once the meeting ends, instead of staying paused for the rest of the break.
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• Reliable sync after sleep – Real time sync for habits and focus sessions started on your other devices now reconnects properly after your Mac wakes from sleep, and a related crash on sleep or network drop has been fixed.
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• Custom blocking schedule fixes – Fixed a rare crash when starting or deleting a schedule, and the pause countdown now stops cleanly when you dismiss it.
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• Fewer freezes – Fixed a hang that could happen with custom routines over time.
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• Fixed blank Habits screen – The Habits screen no longer shows up blank after you unlock your computer from the Wind Down screen.
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• Fixed calendar and mic permissions – "Grant access" for your calendar now works in the installed app, and microphone access is fixed too.
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• Fixed blank Brain Dump on launch – Opening Brain Dump from the menu right after launching the app no longer shows a blank page, and now loads correctly the first time.
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• Fixed recurring Focus Summary – If you cancel your evening routine from the Day Plan, the Focus Summary is now marked as done too, so it won't keep popping up.
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• Focus Bear dashboard never blocked – During a focus session, dashboard.focusbear.io and other focusbear.io pages are always allowed instead of occasionally being blocked.
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• Readable Day Plan text while editing – Editing a task in the Day Plan no longer makes its text hard to read.
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• Readable selected tasks – A highlighted task's text stays legible in both light and dark mode.
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• Reliable focus summary after breaks – Your focus summary now reliably reappears after a short one minute break, even when a full screen app is in front.
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• Notes tied to your account – Brain Dump notes now stay correctly associated with the right user on shared devices.
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• Fixed disk full crash – The app now keeps running instead of quitting unexpectedly when your disk is full.
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• Fixed date bar freeze – Removed a brief freeze in the Day Plan's date bar.
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• Fixed duplicate snoozed tasks – Snoozing a task no longer duplicates it or loses its project, and leftover duplicates from the old bug are automatically cleaned up.
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• Fixed stray placeholder text – Fixed a stray "xx" showing before your Focus Alignment score.
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• Fixed results view – AuDHD results now open correctly in full screen.
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• Blocking works in fullscreen – Focus Bear now reliably pulls a blocked app out of fullscreen so the block takes effect right away.
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• Allowed apps stay in fullscreen – Apps you're allowed to use are no longer briefly yanked out of fullscreen.
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• Fixed AuDHD results loading – Fixed the results page failing to load correctly from the app.
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