What happened to the charts on the Rhythm tab?

They’re all still there. The tab now opens as a notebook — an hourglass for today, a board game for the days ahead and a shelf of your past cycles — and every chart that used to be stacked on it lives one tap away on the data page, with a few new ones beside them.

Why does my Rhythm tab show an example?

Until Dew has enough of your days to draw, the tab offers an example built from sample days, so you can see what your notebook will become. Only your usual cycle length is borrowed to set it out; your own days never mix with it.

Does Dew read my sleep from Apple Health now?

Only if you turn it on. Dew asks before it reads sleep and movement, keeps what it reads on your phone, and you can switch it off any time in Settings. Nothing about your rest is sent anywhere.

What can the Journal search find?

Your own notes, and the days where you kept a photo or a recording. The search runs on your phone, over your own days only.

I use the ring and Dew said my bleed was due the day I took it out. Was I setting it up wrong?

No — that was Dew. It put your bleed on the first day of the break, but a withdrawal bleed usually starts two to four days later. From 1.1.7 Dew expects it a few days into the break, learns your own timing from the bleeds you log, and once you’ve started bleeding in a break it moves on to the next pack instead of counting down to a bleed that’s already here. Nothing to change in your settings.

Why did some of my logged moods disappear?

On some phones, a day that held only moods or symptoms — no bleeding — could vanish a second after you saved it. It came down to how that day synced to your own iCloud: in a rare state it was being rejected and removed. Days with bleeding weren’t affected. 1.1.7 fixes the cause, so new days stay put. Days that already vanished aren’t brought back by the update.

Can I rename or delete a custom mood or symptom?

Yes. On the evening page, press and hold one of the words you added — a mood, a symptom or a remedy — and choose Rename or Remove from list. Renaming updates every day you logged it, so your history and your monthly chapters stay consistent. Removing only takes it off the list: the days you already logged keep the word.

Why didn’t I get the evening reminder every night?

The reminder used to follow your cycle and thin out through the calm days after your period, speaking only every third evening. Plenty of you read that as broken. It now comes every evening at the time you chose, and still stays quiet on a day you’ve already logged.

I share Dew with my partner. What changed for them?

If you switch Dew to pregnancy, an IUD or implant, menopause, or pause predictions, your partner’s app now stops counting down to a period and stops sending them heads-ups. It never tells them which of those you chose — only that there’s no forecast right now. On the pill, patch or ring, they no longer see a fertile window.

Did anything change about my privacy?

No. No account, no ads, no Dew server. Everything still lives on your phone and in your own private iCloud — including what Dew reads about your rest, and the custom words you rename.

What's new in Dew 1.1.7 — Rhythm as a notebook, your rest, and search

The Rhythm tab, redrawn as a notebook. Rest you don’t have to log, a search for your own days — and the fixes you wrote in about.

Dew 1.1.7 is here. Two kinds of change came together in this one: new ways to see your own days, and things that were quietly wrong, made right.

Rhythm, drawn by hand

The Rhythm tab is now a notebook in three chapters, each one a single drawing that inks itself in as you scroll. You, today is an hourglass: the sand up top is the days until your period, and the stretches you’ve already lived settle below it. Beside it, an energy line drawn from how your days have actually felt, with you standing on today.

What’s on the way is a board game — every square a real day, stickers where something usually comes, and the squares where your period is likely to land. Tap a square and a card tells you what you’ve met on that day before; tap one in your period window and Dew shows why it thinks so.

How far you’ve come is a shelf of books, one per cycle: a taller book is a longer cycle, and the red top is your period. Every chart the tab used to stack is still one tap away on the data page. New to Dew? Until your own notebook fills in, the tab can show you an example drawn from sample days.

You, today

an hourglass

the sand up top is the days until your period

What’s on the way

a board game

every square a real day, stickers where something usually comes

How far you’ve come

a shelf of books

a taller book is a longer cycle, the red top your period

Dew can notice your rest

Let Dew read sleep and movement from Apple Health, and the evening page can tell you what the night actually cost you — with nothing to log. Dew sets your short nights beside what you noted the next day, as a noticing from your own records, never a cause. And “why have I been so tired?” now has your own nights behind it.

It is off until you turn it on, it runs on your phone, and nothing it reads is sent anywhere.

Find a day again

Search your own notes, photos and recordings from the Journal. The thing you wrote months ago is reachable again.

The long arc

Your cycle length across everything you’ve tracked — and, until there’s enough to say something honest, a plain account of what Dew is still waiting for.

Your bleed, on your timing

A reader on the ring wrote in, worried she’d set Dew up wrong. She hadn’t. Her ring came out on a Friday and her bleed came on the Monday, like it always does — but Dew had told her it was due the day the ring came out.

That was our mistake. Dew put the bleed on the first day of the break, and a withdrawal bleed usually starts two to four days later. From 1.1.7 it expects your bleed a few days into the break, and once you’ve logged a bleed or two it uses your own timing instead of an average — spotting counts, and a bleed that was already running before the break doesn’t fool it.

One pack, 21 days in and 7 out

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Where Dew used to expect it: the day the ring came out.

Where it expects it now: a few days into the break, and on your own timing once you’ve logged a bleed or two.

It also knows when your bleed has already come. If you start bleeding earlier than expected, Dew moves on to the next pack instead of counting down to something that’s already happening. The same care went into every other mode Dew follows: a pregnancy, an IUD, menopause or a pause no longer shows a period countdown on your widget or Lock Screen, and the pill no longer draws a fertile window.

Your moods stay put

A few of you told us something unsettling: you’d log how you felt, save, and a second later the day was empty again. Days with bleeding were fine; days with only moods or symptoms weren’t.

The cause was in how a day syncs to your own iCloud. In a rare state, a day was being rejected on the way up — and removed from your phone with it. 1.1.7 fixes that at the root, so what you save stays saved. We’re sorry it happened; it’s the one kind of bug a diary can’t have.

Your own words, editable

You can add your own moods, symptoms and remedies, but until now you couldn’t take a typo back. Now you can: press and hold one of your words on the evening page and choose Rename or Remove from list.

A rename follows the word into every day you logged it, so your history, your monthly chapters and your export stay consistent. Removing a word only takes it off the list — the days you already wrote keep it. And if a rename would merge two words into one, Dew asks first, because that can’t be undone.

What your body did

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Fix a typo once and every day you logged it follows. Take a word off the list and the days you already wrote keep it.

A reminder every evening

The evening reminder used to follow your cycle, thinning out through the calm days after your period. The idea was restraint; the result was that many of you thought it had stopped working. It now comes every evening at the time you chose — and still stays quiet on a day you’ve already logged.

If you share Dew with someone

When you switch Dew to pregnancy, an IUD, menopause, or pause predictions, the person you share with no longer gets heads-ups about a period that isn’t coming. Their app only learns that there’s no forecast right now — never which mode you chose, and never why.

Still yours alone

None of this changes the promise underneath: no account, no ads, no Dew server. Your cycle, your rest and your notebook live on your phone and in your own private iCloud. By design.

Much of this release exists because someone took the time to tell us something was off. If Dew gets something wrong for you, the suggestion box is in the app, or you can tell us here. Every note gets read.