Changelog

Reminders are easy to sleep through, because a notification obeys your ringer switch and your Focus. If your phone is on silent overnight — and most people opening tomorrow have it on silent overnight — a reminder is just a notification you find in the morning.

Shift alarms are real alarms. The same machinery the built-in Clock app uses, so they ring through silent mode and Focus, survive the app being force-quit, and get the full-screen stop screen.

• Set it once. Every early shift on your schedule gets an alarm, and they follow the schedule when it changes.
• Choose how long before the shift to wake — 30 minutes to 3 hours.
• Choose which shifts count. By default only ones starting before midday, so a late close never wakes you at dawn.

Turn it on in Settings → Notifications. Needs iOS 26; below that your reminders keep working exactly as before.

Clock in and the shift appears on your lock screen and in the Dynamic Island. Clock out and it disappears. Nothing to set up.

It answers the two questions you actually check your phone for mid-shift: how much longer, and how much have I made. The time left counts down on its own and the bar fills as the shift goes, so a glance is enough — no unlocking, no opening the app.

• A Clock out button, right there. Ending a shift never needs the app opened. Tap the card itself if you'd rather land on the clock screen.
• It reads like the time of day. The background is the sky at the hour you're looking at it — dawn, daylight, dusk, night. Four hours left shouldn't be delivered as a red bar and a deadline.
• Your pay stays yours. Earnings are hidden from the compact Dynamic Island, which is the view most likely to be read over your shoulder, and blurred like everything else when your screen is.

Earnings show as of the last time the app checked in, so they're marked "so far" rather than pretending to tick every second. Shifts paid a flat rate don't show a running total at all, because a shift rate doesn't accrue by the hour.

Clocking in by voice used to come with homework: open the Shortcuts app, tap +, add an "Open URL" action, paste a link, name the thing. Four steps in another app before anything worked.

Clock in, Clock out, Clock in or out and Scan a schedule are now real shortcuts. They're already in the Shortcuts app under ShiftPilot, already in Spotlight, and Siri already answers to them.

• Say it. "Hey Siri, clock in with ShiftPilot."
• Automate it. Drag Clock in into an Arrive automation for your workplace and your hours start themselves. Turn off "Ask Before Running" or it will only send you a notification.
• Put it on your Home Screen or a Back Tap. Clock in or out is the one to pick — you don't think "clock out", you think "I'm done".

Siri also learned three more answers, no setup needed:

• "Am I clocked in?" — whether the clock is running, and how long it's been.
• "How much have I made this week?" — what you've earned so far, and what's still to come.
• "How many hours have I worked this week?" — the hours you actually clocked, not the ones you were scheduled.

The raw links are still in Settings → Shortcuts & Siri, under Build your own, for anything you want to wire up yourself.

Subscribing used to require signing in with Apple before you could reach the purchase button. It doesn't any more — the subscribe button subscribes, and that's the whole flow.

Signing in is still offered, below the button, because it does one useful thing: it carries Pro to your iPad and to whatever phone you get next. You can do it before subscribing, after, or never.

• Buy first, sign in later, and the subscription you already paid for follows you across. Nothing gets stranded on the device you bought it on.
• Already subscribed? The paywall says so instead of asking you to pick a plan again.

Picking up Tuesday for a coworker used to mean deleting Wednesday and typing the whole thing back in — same job, same hours, same pay rate, one different day.

Now you long-press a shift on the month calendar and drop it on the day you actually work. Everything comes with it: times, job, shift type, pay rate, tips and notes.

• The target day lights up as you drag, so you can see where it will land before you let go.
• Drop it outside the calendar, or back where it started, and nothing happens.
• A move sticks. When your schedule email gets read again later, it will not quietly pull the shift back to the day the roster says.
• If the roster still disagrees, the shift tells you so — "the schedule still says Wed" — until your employer catches up.

The export sheet only ever offered ranges that had already happened, which missed the obvious use for it: showing someone what you're working next week.

• Pick next week, next month, or any custom range — future dates included.
• The sheet is built around the document it produces, so you can see what you're getting before you tap.
• PDF is the primary option now. It's the one that survives being emailed to a manager.

Clock in, clock out, and ask about your schedule without unlocking your phone.

• "Hey Siri, when's my next shift?" — answered out loud.
• Clock in and clock out as Shortcuts, so you can put them on your Lock Screen or an Action button.
• A Shortcuts gallery in the app with the ones worth having, ready to add in a tap.

Scan results got a fix in the same release: tap any shift the scanner read to correct it, instead of re-scanning the whole schedule because one time was wrong.

A new icon — the S with a paper plane taking off — plus a Pro icon picker with twelve colourways, so the app can match the rest of your home screen.

• The Next shift and This week widgets were redrawn to use the medium tile's full width.
• Small widgets got their own layout instead of a squeezed-down wide one.
• Added a large month widget.
• Fixed widgets rendering blank on the home screen, and blank previews in the widget gallery.

No schedule email? Take a photo of the one posted in the back and the app reads the shifts off it — printed, screenshotted or handwritten.

• On a multi-person roster, pick your name and it pulls out only your shifts.
• It also notes who else is on, so you can see who you're working with.
• Choose which job the shifts belong to before they're added.

Scheduled hours and worked hours are not the same number, and the gap between them is usually your money.

• Clock in and out to log real worked time, with unpaid breaks subtracted.
• Actual hours sit alongside scheduled hours, so a short paycheck has evidence behind it.
• Export your hours and pay to CSV or PDF.

Subscribe to your shifts as a live, read-only calendar feed. Add the link once and every future import shows up in the calendar you already use — no re-exporting, nothing to keep in step by hand.

The feed URL is its own token, not your account key, so it can be pasted into a calendar app without handing over your account. It only ever exposes shift times.

For everyone whose employer never emails a schedule — police, fire, EMS, manufacturing, a lot of nursing units — the rotation builder fills months of calendar in one go.

• 4-on-4-off, Pitman, DuPont, or build your own pattern.
• Track a PTO / leave balance anchored to a real pay stub, so it agrees with payroll.
• Unpaid breaks, overtime, and night and weekend differentials, set per job.
• Home-screen widgets for your next shift and the week's hours.
• Per-provider forwarding setup for iCloud, Gmail and Outlook, with the exact steps for each.

The first build. Forward one schedule email and it becomes shifts, hours and pay — no typing, no spreadsheet, no giving anyone your email password.

• Automatic import from a private address that's yours alone.
• A calendar and a week view built around shift work rather than meetings.
• Multiple jobs, each with its own pay rate and colour.
• A reminder before every shift.