The release where a scanned code stops being a lookup and starts being a thing you own.

This is the version the App Store installs today, approved on 14 September 2026. If you were on 0.14.5 before, the two builds in between went to testers only — so this update is a bigger step than the number suggests.

#What It Does

#A scan gives you a document, not a description

Point the camera at a QR code or a tag and the app now follows the link to the data behind it, rather than reading the web page's description of itself. What you get is a real document in your library:

  • A picture — one you took, one the app drew for you, or one you uploaded. You can remove it, replace it, or have it redrawn.
  • A name you choose and a folder you file it in — and the confirmation names the folder it actually went into.
  • The ability to point it somewhere else later. A bookmark opens the address you typed.

Typing an address does the same thing. Type theverge.com by hand and the page is saved, and opens, exactly as a scanned one would.

#Ask about the thing in front of you

Tap AI on a scan card and the assistant answers from what the page actually contains, not from its title. Tap Listen and it reads the page aloud.

The card itself now leads with what matters. If a page describes thirty-four things and three of them are in trouble, the card says so — 3 High temp · Case A0 · Freezer · temp 38C — instead of showing whichever entry happened to be listed first. If everything is fine, it says 34 ok.

It repeats the page's own words for a status rather than deciding for itself whether a reading is alarming, because a temperature is only an emergency against a threshold somebody set.

#The app opens into a conversation

A new account now starts in chat, with suggestions based on what you actually have, instead of a deck of cards explaining the app to you. Expiring items appear as rows you can open and act on, and things expiring today are no longer left out of that list.

#A trash you can see

Deleted items and documents go to a Trash folder, on the phone and on the web. You can:

  • Restore several at once.
  • Permanently delete named entries when you really mean it.

Three places in the app that used to destroy things outright now put them in the trash first.

#Listen works properly

Narration plays the whole way through, starts sooner, and can be stopped part-way. A chat turn that gets stuck no longer stays stuck, and a failed answer no longer leaves a spinner running.

Previously, a narration that had played perfectly well was sometimes recorded as having failed — so the next tap regenerated it from scratch and the card claimed it could not play something you had just heard. That is fixed.

#Taps answer your finger

Buttons, cards, the trash can on the inventory grid, and chat's own controls now respond the instant you touch them, rather than waiting for the network. Press and hold any icon in chat and it tells you what it is.

#Everything speaks to VoiceOver

Every button, field and switch now announces what it is to a screen reader, across the whole app.

#Make your own places

You can create a place of your own — private to you — and give it zones. An item you save records where you saved it, and remembers where it came from.

#Beacons report temperature and battery

A fixed beacon that measures temperature now has somewhere to keep that reading and something to show it, with a stamp saying how fresh both the temperature and the battery reading are. Battery level reaches both the screen and the assistant.

Ask the assistant "what beacons do I own?" and it lists the ones you own, not only the ones stamped with your name.

Your beacons, zones and places are now included when you export your data.

#Search everything you have ever asked

The Q&A search box reads every conversation you have had, rather than only the most recent few hundred.

Long inventory lists now page properly in the order you sorted by, and a list that fails to load says so instead of claiming you own nothing.

#New models

GPT-6 Astra joins the Frontier tier in the model picker. Gemini 3.7 Flash replaces Gemini 3.6.

#How to Use It

To keep something you scanned: scan the code, tap Save, choose a name and a folder. It appears in Documents, and in the folder the confirmation named.

To change where a saved page points: open the document, edit its address. The bookmark then opens what you typed, everywhere.

To get something back after deleting it: open Trash, select what you want, and restore. Nothing leaves Trash until you permanently delete it.

To make a place: Settings → Places → create. It is private to you unless you decide otherwise.

#Known Limitations

  • A scanned code written without https:// at the front is reported as "Not recognized", even though typing the same address by hand now works.
  • An AR card can be pinned before its picture has finished arriving.
  • A share that has passed its expiry still shows in your library, and opens onto nothing.
  • Some shares show the recipient as "Someone" rather than their name.
  • Category counts refresh after every delete, so clearing out a lot of items at once can feel slow on a very large collection.

#Recent Releases

  • 0.14.8 (this release) — scans become documents you own; a real Trash; chat as the first screen; Listen fixed; VoiceOver throughout; your own places; beacon temperature and battery.
  • 0.14.5 — search that covers everything you own; document search that reads the documents; large lists that page correctly; shared records that open properly.
  • 0.14.4 — see What's New in 0.14.4.

(0.14.6 and 0.14.7 were tester-only builds and were never released on the App Store.)

#Version History

Version Date Change
1 2026-09-09 Drafted with the 0.14.8 release, held at status: draft with no date while the build was in App Store review.
2 2026-09-15 Apple approved the build on 14 September 2026. Published with its real date and promoted to current in the release index. The flip was missed for a day after approval, during which the public help site went on presenting 0.14.5 as the newest release.