I never saw Dew crash. Did this affect me?

Almost certainly you never noticed, and that's the point. It happened while the app was closed — iOS woke Dew in the background, Dew read your days, and iOS shut it down before it finished. There was nothing to see and nothing was lost. It's fixed in 1.1.8.

Were any of my days lost?

No. The shutdown happened while Dew was reading, not writing, and everything you log is saved on your phone the moment you save it. This was a stability problem, not a data one.

Why were some of my reminders not arriving?

iPhone lets an app keep only 64 reminders waiting at a time. If you track several people with daily pill reminders, Dew was asking for more than that and iOS quietly dropped the extras. Dew now stays inside the limit and protects your period reminders and the evening nudge first.

My cycle day looked wrong after a flight. Was that this?

Yes. The day counter on the Lock Screen worked from the timezone a period was logged in, so after you changed timezone it could read one day behind. It now counts in the timezone you're actually in.

Moss is a private journal for iPhone, from the people who make Dew. It's a separate app, it isn't out yet, and Dew simply mentions it in a few quiet places. Nothing about you is shared with it — Dew has no way to reach you, and the mention is only a mention.

Do I have to use Moss?

No. Dew works exactly as it did. Once Moss is out you can choose whether the two apps talk to each other at all, and that's off until you turn it on, in each app separately.

What's new in Dew 1.1.8 — the crash you never saw, and a door to Moss

Most of this release is a bug you were never meant to see — and at the foot of your journal, a door to Moss.

Dew 1.1.8 is here. It’s a quieter release than the last one. Almost all of it is repair work on things you were never supposed to notice in the first place — and one small new thing at the end of your journal.

The crash you never saw

iPhone wakes Dew in the background fairly often: a note arrives from someone you share with, a widget needs refreshing, your own iCloud has something new. Dew wakes, reads your days, and goes back to sleep.

Except sometimes iOS decided to suspend Dew while it was reading — and because your days live in a file the widget shares, iOS treats an app still holding that file as misbehaving, and shuts it down. About once every two days, with the app closed and nothing on screen. You would only ever have known if you went looking.

The crash you were never meant to notice

about once every two days, with the app closed

While you slept

a note arrives from your partner

Dew wakes to fetch it

A moment later

Dew reads your own days to update the widget

iOS suspends the app mid-read

And then

iOS shuts Dew down for holding the file

you never see a thing

1.1.8 teaches Dew to let go of the file the moment iOS signals it’s about to be put to sleep, and to pick it up again when it’s woken. Nothing was ever lost to this — it happened while Dew was reading, not writing, and what you save is saved the moment you save it. But an app that quietly dies is an app that can’t be trusted to be there, so it needed fixing.

Reminders that went missing

If you track more than one person, some of your reminders may have stopped arriving — usually the ones furthest in the future, which makes it a hard thing to notice or report.

If you track more than one person

iPhone allows an app only 64 reminders waiting at once. With several people tracked and daily pill reminders for each, Dew was planning more than that — and iOS was silently dropping whichever fell off the end. Usually the ones furthest away.

Now Dew decides itself what to keep, in order: your period reminders first, then the evening nudge, then the pill reminders, which simply cover a few days ahead instead of a full week and refill each time you open the app.

The right day after you travel

A day in Dew is stored as the day it was for you when you logged it. That’s deliberate — a period that started on the 3rd should stay the 3rd wherever you go. But the cycle-day counter on your Lock Screen was comparing that stored day against your new timezone, and could read a day behind after a flight. It now counts in the timezone you’re actually in.

A few smaller things

Bringing your history in from Apple Health used to tell you it had imported days even when the save had failed; now it tells you the truth. And if you share Dew with someone, the moments where a note couldn’t be sent or taken back now leave a trace we can find, instead of failing in silence.

Moss, the journal next door

We’ve been making a second app. It’s called Moss, and it’s a private journal — no account, no login, it lives on your iPhone and remembers you. It comes from the same people and the same promise as Dew.

You’ll find it mentioned in a few quiet places: at the foot of your journal, a line under the evening note, and a door you can open if you’re curious. It isn’t out yet, and Dew won’t ask you for anything about it — there’s no email to leave, because Dew has no way to reach you and we’d rather not pretend otherwise. If you want to see it, it’s at moss.trydew.app.

When Moss does arrive, the two apps can leave notes for each other on your phone — and that is off until you turn it on, in each app separately, with nothing crossing a network in either direction.

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.

This release came almost entirely out of reading crash reports rather than feature requests, which is its own kind of feedback. If Dew gets something wrong for you, the suggestion box is in the app, or you can tell us here. Every note gets read.