Beta 5 is a Mac release first. Updating moved into Settings and became one button, Droppy Sync came out of Coming soon, and the iPhone app it has been waiting on is out with it: Droppy for iOS, on TestFlight, free.
Updating, from one place
Updates now happen entirely in Settings. A small glass button in the header lights up when a build is ready, the version pill turns into the install action, and the About page's button was recolored so all three read as one family.
That version pill used to blink back to your current version for a moment every time you opened About while an update sat waiting. It holds the install label for the whole visit now.
The iPhone half
Droppy for iOS is out on TestFlight, it is free, and installing it takes about a minute. Point your phone at https://testflight.apple.com/join/KVP7HrYZ and you have the companion the Mac app has been waiting on.
Droppy Sync came out of Coming soon alongside it. Make a Sync Library on the Mac, pair the phone once, and your clipboard, recognised text, Shelf, Basket and cloud files are on both of them.
On the lock screen and the shelf
High Alert got its own lock screen card, built like the timer card, and the three cards now share the space properly. Now Playing, a running timer and High Alert stack below each other instead of landing on one spot.
Around those sit smaller additions: the buttons under the shelf can be hidden and the pages swiped between, a Nightly channel sits beside Stable and Beta, Telegram calls answer to the meeting controls, and Voice Transcribe can pick its own microphone.
The things that were wrong
A screen recording and a Pomodoro timer used to paint over each other in the notch, and they now ride separate seats. Per display settings could also drift onto the wrong monitor after sleep or clamshell, which is sorted.
Dragging the Settings sidebar fully shut left a ghost smear trailing off to the right. Behind that one sit forty more, spread over Droppy Sync, the update page, Mechey, the brightness HUD and Window Snap.
Settings, rearranged
The Settings sidebar is a thing you drag now. Pull its edge in to park it as an icon rail or collapse it entirely, and a grip on the detail sheet pulls it back; the header navigation shrank to one glass capsule.
External monitors are steadier, with dock handshakes no longer tearing down every notch surface for nothing. Under that sits the usual long tail of detail work, across the iPhone app, the update page, widgets and the lock screen.