Moons
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Moons now speaks French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. It follows your iPhone's language, or you can choose one for Moons alone in the Settings app.
If a translation reads wrong, or you have an idea, there is a new "Send feedback" link in Settings, under the version. It goes straight to me.
Adding someone is one short screen now. How often you want to be in touch, and when you last spoke, are both in front of you — no scrolling past the first question to find the second.
The introduction is in Settings whenever you want it back, and it opens the moment you ask for it. There is a new page in it as well, about people drifting past the rim and about setting someone aside on purpose. Nothing explained either before.
The widget is the orbit now. The same fan, the same three rings, you at the foot of it and everyone arranged above — not the little circle of dots it used to be. There is a large size too: the fan with faces on it, and everyone who is due underneath, each with a button that logs the catch-up without opening the app.
How you reach someone is yours to set. Open their page, tap Messaging apps or Calls, and tick whatever fits: WhatsApp and Messages, or a normal call and FaceTime, or one of each. Messages has joined the list, so you can switch it off for the people whose number you would never actually text. Settings holds the defaults for everyone you have not singled out.
Anyone you set aside is easier to find again. Settings has a row called The drift that says how many people are out there, and the label at the top of the orbit now appears for the people you chose to keep quietly, not only the ones who drifted off on their own. Bringing someone back leaves them where they were, rather than pretending you spoke to them today.
Logged a catch-up by mistake? Swipe the most recent one in their history and it goes. They drift back out to wherever they were before it.
And the orbit holds still. The rings used to shift as you swiped between groups, and people caught up with on the same day could end up drawn on top of one another. Both are fixed.
After your third catch-up, Moons may ask what you think of it. Once, and never again; say no and that is the end of it.
A rating is what tells the next person whether the app is worth a look. If Moons has earned one, thank you.
Also: got a code from me? Redeem it on the paywall, next to Restore purchases.
Groups, and the dates worth remembering.
Friends and family were never the only people worth keeping close. Now there is room for a client, a team, the school run — up to four groups, each its own orbit of twelve. Swipe sideways to spin from one to the next; pinch in to see all four around you at once. Everyone you already have stays exactly where they were. One more one-off payment, if you want it, and cheaper if you already own the full orbit.
Anniversaries, the day you met, whatever matters: add them on someone's page, or let them come across from their contact card along with the birthday. Each gets a quiet nudge a week before, the way a birthday does.
The birthday itself is tidier: one line, tap to change it, swipe to remove, and a proper date wheel with room for "no year".
Also: a new icon. Swiping between groups is smoother, and nobody from the last group lingers at the edge. The widget can show whichever group you choose. Restoring purchases says what it is doing. The same person can no longer be added twice. And editing a contact card from inside Moons works as it should.
Not everyone is on WhatsApp. Adds Signal and Telegram alongside it, and makes which apps a person gets a preference rather than a fixed list.
The first release.