Production Releases
What’s new in each production release, newest first. Entries are added automatically when a production deploy ships.
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October 10, 2026 — version 1.0.2, Party Animal groundwork
- With Spoiler Prevention on, the Party Animal keeps its reactions to a friend’s result to itself until you’ve played too.
- Party chat notices when someone joins or leaves, no refresh required.
- Party Details lists every game on its own row, and they stay put after a sync.
- Switching accounts no longer lets the previous one’s settings tag along.
October 1, 2026 — Push priming, Color Daily
- Dialed’s Color Daily results score again. It changed its name; we eventually noticed.
- We ask about notifications at a sensible moment, like after you join a party, instead of ambushing you at launch.
- New iPhone installs get quiet notifications in Notification Center until you decide otherwise.
- Reminders now reach new players, and signing out stops them, as one would hope.
- The Settings notifications toggle now tells the truth.
September 23, 2026 — Walkthrough, timezone, Dot unread
- New here? A short walkthrough now shows you around, and Getting Started boils down to one step: add a result.
- Change time zones and the app notices; “today” and party standings follow you.
- Dot’s chatter no longer inflates your unread count or app badge. Your friends still count.
- Party details now show the late-submission setting you actually chose.
- Help links to the full guide on the web.
- The Home logo keeps its “party” visible, as a party app should.
September 17, 2026 — A guide, at last
- There is now a proper guide at puzzleparty.app/guide, for anyone who has been working the app out by instinct. Start to finish, including the bits nobody asks about until they need them.
- The FAQ finally mentions the iOS setting that stops it asking permission to paste every single time. It turns up on its own schedule; Apple’s, not ours.
- Late submissions now follow your party’s setting instead of quietly allowing everything.
September 15, 2026 — Everyone Today, lineup rows, wizard funnel
- Everyone Today: a Plus view of how everyone you play with fared across all your parties, one tap from today’s lineup.
- Today’s Lineup rows got a tidy-up: two clean lines, buttons where your thumb already is, and a clock chip that turns amber, then red, as a puzzle nears rollover.
- Time zone heads-up: an optional nudge an hour before a puzzle closes ahead of your own midnight. Lives under Notifications.
- Assorted polish. Fewer game names wrapping one letter per line.
September 8, 2026 (evening) — Getting Started fix + tip names
- The Getting Started checklist no longer greets veterans as if they were new. If it appeared on you today, it will show itself out.
- Tip Jar tiers are named by the server now, so the app and the store agree.
- In Today’s Lineup, the “playing in” rows open the party feed instead of party settings.
September 8, 2026 — Apple resubmission build
- New welcome flow: three doors in, a fifteen-second party wizard, a Getting Started list that starts from zero.
- Invite friends by name, phone, or email. No contacts permission required.
- NYT Daily Crossword joins the lineup.
- Tap any game in Today’s Lineup for its detail sheet.
- The Store grew up: honest prices, renewal terms, a close button, no database-speak.
- iPad layouts stop stretching to the horizon; small grey labels are legible again.
- Streak badges on the home hero.
August 24, 2026 — Clipboard auto-submit & credits
- Tap + with a result on your clipboard and it submits itself. iOS will ask permission once, politely.
- Joining a party from an invite link now drops you back at Home, where your new party actually is.
- The invite share sheet shows up on iOS again, which helps.
- Linking a computer: clearer steps, auto-formatted codes, and a fixed paste quirk.
- Avatar packs are now all laid out to browse — no more digging.
- New Credits screen in Settings, for the curious.
August 20, 2026 — Quick Paste
- Play on a computer? Link it once from Settings, then paste your results straight into puzzleparty.app/paste. No more emailing yourself a Wordle grid.
- Add a note when you paste, and it reaches your parties behind spoiler protection, exactly as it would from your phone.
- The Stats Hub now opens on top of the app instead of swallowing the navigation, and Back leaves you where you started.
August 19, 2026 — Repeatable tips + Catalogues
- The tip jar now accepts repeat business: tip any tier as often as the mood strikes.
- New game: Catalogues, from The New Yorker — share it, log it by hand, watch its stats trend.
- Strands results with themed emoji boards now parse instead of sulking.
- The Store tab actually loads now, prices and all.
- Joining by invite link no longer strands you at sign-in.
- Now requires iOS 15 or later.
August 1, 2026 — One Word Search
- One Word Search joins the roster: share your daily 5x5 from puzzlist.com and your solve time scores against the party, star rating faithfully preserved.
- Prefer to keep your clipboard to yourself? Manual entry works too, DNF toggle included.
July 31, 2026 — Nerdle
- Nerdle joins the lineup: the daily number-equation puzzle now counts toward your party scores and streaks.
- Share your Nerdle result straight into PuzzleParty, or log a did-not-finish day manually.
- Fewer guesses, better score. The math checks out.
July 29, 2026 — partner page links
- New: a Partner with PuzzleParty page, linked from the avatar menu and the Games tab. If you make a daily puzzle game, come say hello — we bring the friendly competition.
July 27, 2026 — reaction integrity + Plus borders
- Reactions grew up: pile as many different emojis as you like onto a message or DM and they all actually stay. The mysterious vanishing second reaction has been retired.
- The reaction picker now highlights everything you’ve picked, and tapping one again removes it.
- Plus members get 18 new ring-style avatar frames, in a tidier picker.
- Your equipped frame now shows up on the People tab and head-to-head pages too.
July 24, 2026 — Reactions as a Plus perk
- Reactions are now a Plus perk: subscribers get the full emoji set everywhere, and everyone else gets a tap-to-upgrade nudge instead of a checkout.
- Reaction packs are no longer sold separately — if you’re on Plus, you already have them all.
July 23, 2026 — Account deletion
- You can now delete your account and all its data straight from Settings, no email to support required.
- The “Hide spoilers” setting is now called “Spoiler Prevention” — same job, clearer name.
- The Messages help topic finally has an icon instead of an awkward blank space.
July 20, 2026 — Scrandle, DM reactions, Plus gating
- Scrandle joins the lineup. Rank the dishes, chase the streak, question your taste.
- You can now react to direct messages, because sometimes a thumbs-up says it all.
- Plus members get a fancier reaction picker with the premium emoji.
- Head-to-head comparisons are now a PuzzleParty Plus perk.
July 7, 2026 — avatars, sparkle, party looks
- New avatars: pick a look from the default pack and ring it with a decorative frame. The Pioneer frames are reserved for our founding members.
- The Home wordmark now catches a little sparkle each day.
- Give any party your own icon and colour theme, just for you, without changing what everyone else sees.
July 6, 2026 — party icons + head-to-head polish
- Give your party a face: pick from 48 icons, each tinted to your party’s colour.
- Head-to-heads now crown the day’s winner in green, with the game name up top where you can actually find it.
- Comparing yourself with someone shows an overall win-loss record, colour-coded so you can see who’s ahead at a glance.
- “Spoiler Mode” is now “Hide spoilers” — same setting, plainer name.
July 2, 2026 — July 4th Easter egg
- Something festive may turn up on the Fourth of July. We won’t spoil it.
- Head-to-head on timed games now settles by your actual time, so genuinely faster runs stop landing as ties.
July 2, 2026 — spoiler threads + People refresh
- Spoiler comments in party chat now say which puzzle they’re about, and tapping today’s opens a tidy Game Activity view with everyone’s results and chatter for that game.
- The People tab refreshes when you open it or return from a chat, so unread counts stop clinging to the past.
June 30, 2026 — home hero + streaks
- Your home hero now counts only party puzzles; outside games ride along as violet pills at the tail of the bar.
- Tap any streak flame for a plain note on what it counts, and see your per-game streak when you open a feed result.
- Pips stats gain a time histogram, Failed row included.
- New Direct Messages notification toggle in settings.
- Spoilers wear a calmer lavender; party chat headers gain a Scoreboard glyph.
June 27, 2026 — Direct Messages + People
- Direct messages are here: start a 1:1 chat from the new People tab, mute or block anyone tiresome, and tap a message notification to jump straight to the thread.
- People tab: tap a name to message, or the scoreboard icon for your head-to-head record.
- Browse your game history, per-game standings, and head-to-head matchups, now with real results instead of percentages.
- Crossclimb shares in the newer format now parse cleanly.
June 21, 2026 — Failed results, recognized
- A failed Pinpoint now counts. Paste the “X/5” share and it records as a miss instead of getting turned away at the door.
- Owning up to a timed LinkedIn game you didn’t finish (Queens, Zip, Tango, and company) now shows as a Failed tally in your stats, instead of being politely forgotten.
June 20, 2026 — Word Search + Help/Stats
- Word Search arrives: solve the Daily Mini or the bigger Daily Max, share your time, and race the leaderboard.
- Help and Support now have their own spots under your avatar, with a browsable Help guide.
- Stats solve-time charts read in minutes and seconds instead of a wall of raw seconds.
- Your Stats Games tab sorts by what you actually play and tucks away the ones you don’t.
June 17, 2026 — game stats fixes
- The Waffle, Number Waffle, and Stackdown stats screens are back from the blank-grey void — star breakdown, history, and a count of the ones you didn’t finish.
- Stackdown now charts your solve times alongside the stars.
- Strands stats no longer go blank when you’ve never needed a hint.
- Dialed Daily shows your average on the real 0–50 scale, not a baffling percentage.
June 16, 2026 — NYT Pips
- NYT Pips joins the lineup. Share your daily Pips result — Easy, Medium, or Hard — and it scores right alongside everything else, cookies and all.
June 15, 2026 — Wend/Patches + home fixes
- Two new LinkedIn games join the lineup: Wend and Patches. Share away.
- Zip scores now line up with everyone else’s instead of marching to their own drum.
- Change a party’s games and the home screen keeps up, no relaunch required.
- Your profile picture shows up as your face again, not your initials.
June 13, 2026 — LinkedIn parsing + Home links
- Sharing your Zip, Tango, Queens, or Pinpoint results from LinkedIn now actually registers — the share sheet and the app finally speak the same language.
- The Home screen Play button reliably sends you to the right game.
- Pinpoint manual entry no longer miscounts a puzzle you never solved.
June 12, 2026 — five LinkedIn games
- Five new LinkedIn games join the party: Mini Sudoku, Tango, Crossclimb, Pinpoint, and Zip. Share your results or enter them by hand.
- Zip counts your backtracks and uses them to settle ties between equal solve times. Flawless runs get their due in stats.
- Queens now refuses to be fooled by mangled share text.
June 11, 2026 — Queens, trends, fixes
- Queens joins the party: share your LinkedIn result and race your friends on solve time. Tap a result in chat to see exactly how fast (or flawless) someone was.
- Per-game stats now chart your guess and star trends, so your improvement is finally visible. Or undeniable.
- Late-night Mini solves now land on the printed puzzle date, not whatever midnight says.
- Assorted visual tidying on the Games tab.