Why did the evening page change again?

Because you told us to. In 1.1.4 the daily log became a page you write on — ruled paper, your own words. People loved parts of it: the weather drawn at the top, the line you draw for how the day went. But enough of you said the rest read as a wall of text that we redrew it. 1.1.6 keeps the room and the drawings from 1.1.4 and brings back what 1.1.3 got right: headings you can scan and words you tap instead of type. Nothing was removed — you can still write, and plenty of evenings are still one tap.

Can I really put a photo in my period diary?

Yes. From 1.1.6 a day can hold one picture and one voice recording, stuck on like a scrapbook rather than filed like an attachment. It is for the day you want to remember, not for symptom photos — though nothing stops you. Both are stored as files on your iPhone, in Dew's own private storage.

If I delete the photo from my camera roll, does it disappear from Dew?

No. When you keep a picture, Dew saves its own downscaled copy in its private storage. Deleting the original from your photo library, or clearing your camera roll entirely, does not affect the day in Dew.

Do my pictures and voice notes sync to my other devices?

Only if you ask. Everything else in Dew is a database row and rides your own iCloud sync automatically; pictures and recordings are files, and files don't. So 1.1.6 adds a separate opt-in switch — Settings, media backup — that copies them into your own private iCloud database. It is off by default, it uses your iCloud storage rather than ours, and you're told the trade the first time you keep anything. Without it, a keepsake lives on the phone that made it, and a new phone won't have it.

Where do my backed-up pictures go? Can other apps see them?

They go into Dew's private CloudKit database — the same place your cycle already syncs — not iCloud Drive. That means they are not browsable in the Files app, not visible to any other app, and not readable by us. We chose it over iCloud Drive for exactly that reason: a period diary's photographs shouldn't sit next to your documents.

Did anything change about my privacy?

The promise is unchanged: no account, no ads, no Dew server. Everything still lives on your phone and in your own private iCloud. The one new thing worth naming honestly is media backup — it is the only part of Dew that sends a file off your device, it is off until you turn it on, and it goes to your own iCloud, never to us.

What's new in Dew 1.1.6 — you told us the page was too much

In 1.1.4 we turned the daily log into a page you write on. Enough of you said it felt like homework that we redrew it — and while we were in there, we made a day able to keep a photograph and a minute of your voice.

Dew 1.1.6 is here, and most of it exists because people wrote in. The last redesign got something right and something wrong, and this release keeps the first and undoes the second.

You told us the page was too much

1.1.4 replaced the old row of chips with a page to write on: ruled paper, your own words, room for the sentence a chip can’t hold.

Parts of it landed. People liked the weather drawn at the top, and the line you draw by hand for how the day went — the things that made it feel made rather than generated. But enough of you said the same thing about the rest that it stopped being a matter of taste: it’s a lot of text. Forty words in one typeface, with nothing for the eye to land on, and an evening you wanted to finish in fifteen seconds became something to get through.

So 1.1.6 redraws it as a fusion rather than a fourth idea. The headings and the words you tap come back from 1.1.3 — scannable, one glance to find the section you want. The room, the paper, the weather and the drawn mood line stay from 1.1.4. Nothing was taken away: the note is still there, and plenty of evenings are still a single tap.

Sunday eveningday 19 · autumn

How the bleeding is

nonespottinglightmediumheavy

How you felt

tiredtenderrestlesscalmlow

What your body did

crampsheadachebloatingbackache

Three sections, forty words, no scrolling wall of text. The note is still there when you want it.

A day can keep more than words

Some days aren’t a sentence. So a day in Dew can now hold one picture and one minute of your voice — taped on like a scrapbook, tilted slightly, rather than filed away as an attachment.

They show up everywhere a day does: in the Journal, in the day sheet, and in your monthly chapter months later, which is the entire point. Both live as files on your iPhone. Neither is uploaded, transcribed, or read by us. And if you clear your camera roll, the day in Dew is untouched — Dew keeps its own copy, not a reference to yours.

The picture you kept

In your own voice

0:41

Both are files on your iPhone. Neither is uploaded, transcribed, or read by us — and deleting the original from your camera roll does nothing to the copy Dew keeps.

And they can follow you — if you ask

Here is the part worth being blunt about. Everything else Dew holds is a database row, and rows ride your own iCloud sync to a new phone for free. Files don’t. Left alone, every picture and recording would live on exactly one phone, and you would find that out on the day you restored a new one — the one moment it is far too late to do anything about it.

So 1.1.6 adds media backup: a separate switch, off by default, that copies them into your own private iCloud database. Not iCloud Drive — a period diary’s photographs should not sit browsable next to your documents. Not our server; there still isn’t one. It costs your iCloud storage rather than ours, and the first time you keep anything, Dew tells you the trade instead of letting you find out later.

The reminders you never saw

Every so often someone writes in to say Dew never reminds them. We went looking, and the answer was uncomfortable: they were being reminded, perfectly, on schedule — into a place they were never going to look.

Dew opts you into notifications quietly, so it never has to greet a new user with a permission box. iOS honours that literally: the reminder is delivered straight into Notification Center with no banner, no sound and nothing on the Lock Screen. Everything worked. Nobody saw it. From 1.1.6 Dew notices when this is happening to you and says so — on the home screen and in Settings — with one tap to make them show properly.

Dewdelivered quietly

Your reminders arrive silently

They land in Notification Center — no sound, nothing on your Lock Screen.

Dew opts you in quietly so it never has to interrupt you with a permission box. The cost was that some people never saw a single reminder. Now it says so, and one tap fixes it.

A suggestion box

This whole release came from people writing in, so 1.1.6 makes that easier to do. There’s now a suggestion box at the end of the Rhythm tab, at the end of every monthly chapter, and in Settings — not a banner, not a prompt, just a box sitting at the end of a page you chose to read.

One tap to say whether something’s missing, something’s in the way, or you just wanted to say something. Then one open field. Dew is made by one person, and every note gets read. Since we don’t track you, what you write is the only signal we have.

Still yours alone

None of this changes the promise underneath. No account, no ads, no Dew server. Your cycle lives on your phone and in your own private iCloud. The one honest exception is media backup, which is the only part of Dew that sends a file off your device — it is off until you turn it on, and it goes to your iCloud, never to us. By design.

New to Dew, or curious how the prediction itself works? We wrote the honest version here. Dew is free on the App Store below.

And if there’s something you wish Dew did — or something that’s not quite right — the suggestion box is in the app now, or you can tell us here. It’s one question and completely anonymous.