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  1. All of Me

    • On a tablet or an unfolded phone, an idea's picture no longer fills the screen, so you can see its name straight away.
    • On a tablet or an unfolded phone, the + for adding an idea now sits at the top of the Date Jar, next to your picture, so it never covers a card.
    • On a tablet or an unfolded phone, every memory in a month's row now fits, with none cut off at the edge.
    • Coming up now shows the year on dates that aren't this year, so next June no longer looks like this June.
    • Saved gigs and events no longer get the venue repeated in their name, so it's "Nickelback", not "Nickelback at Nickelback".

  2. Perfect

    • Dote is now on the App Store and Google Play in every country, so friends abroad (or on a store account from another country) can get it too 🌍
    • Sharing or adding a place from anywhere in the world now finds it, from a Berlin bar to a Sydney ramen spot, and captions in other languages still get a tidy card in English.
    • An idea's price now shows in the local currency, so a Berlin dinner reads €€ and a New York one $$.
    • Find knows towns all over the world now, and wherever we haven't written a guide yet, it shows you date ideas that work anywhere.
    • Dote now keeps to your own time zone, so today, the weather and plan times land on the right day wherever you are.
    • Seasons now follow your side of the world, and Bonfire Night and Hogmanay stay in the UK.

  3. Thinking Out Loud

    • Dote is out on the App Store and Google Play 🎉 Know a couple who'd love it? Send them dote.day/download.
    • On an iPad or a Mac, a group date's memory now lines its words up in one tidy column, with the photos still filling the page.
    • Choose which photo leads a memory: tap ⋯ on any photo and pick "Make this the main photo". It shows first on the memory, its card and On this day. Photos on a phone now all share the main photo's shape, so no more empty gap under it, and memories with videos count them as videos.
    • On a group date, your videos can now join the shared album too, and everyone on the date can play them. Tapping Share with everyone on a video works again.
    • Coming up's calendar now has a little heart on every day you made a memory. Page back through the months to see your story, and tap a heart to open the memory.
    • Premium couples can now add short videos to their memories 🎬 Up to 30 seconds each, right next to your photos.

  5. Let's Stay Together

    • TikTok shares fill themselves in again: the caption, who posted it and the picture. TikTok stopped sharing those the usual way, so saves came through as just "An idea from TikTok".
    • Sharing an idea from one of our dote.day guides into Dote now adds it just like adding it from the guide: its proper photo, the place and the details, not a picture of the Dote card.

  6. Crazy Little Thing Called Love

    • Buttons at the foot of an idea, a sheet or a card now sit in the same order everywhere: the main one first, then the others, and any small link (Cancel, Clear and the like) last.
    • Fancy a date with friends? When you plan an idea, pick With friends under Who's coming? and invite other couples. Everyone picks the times that work, you lock one in, and it lands on every couple's calendar. Afterwards there's a shared album and everyone's take on how it went. They only ever see that one idea, never your Date Jar. Doing the organising for both of you? You can plan one too.
    • Hungry? Find has two new food lists in our biggest cities and around London: Good food, small bill, for eating out well without spending much, and Worth dressing up for, for the anniversary dinner. Each city gives them a name of its own, and you'll find them on dote.day too.
    • A shared link that doesn't load first time is now tried again a minute or two later, so a website having a slow moment no longer leaves you with a blank idea.
    • One memory for a day out: tick off an idea on a day you've already got a memory for, and you can add it to that memory as another stop. The memory then shows the day's stops in order, each with its own hearts, links and photos.
    • Some restaurant websites won't let Dote read them. When that happens, Dote now finds the place from the web address instead, so the idea still gets its name, where it is and what kind of place it is, rather than coming in blank.
    • Jot down something like "Squash session, Edinburgh or Glasgow" and Dote now keeps every word: both towns stay on the card, and the idea page suggests a few real places in each under Where?. Tap one to make it the place, or None of these to hide them.
    • Every card in the Date Jar shows at least one of its labels now, even when the first one is too long to fit.
    • Add another place straight from a memory with "＋ Add a stop", and a day out gets a name of its own, like "Linlithgow day out". Change it any time with Edit.
    • Every shelf in the Date Jar has its own emoji now, so you can spot the food ones at a glance.
    • Signing in with email copes better with a patchy connection: if it drops mid sign-in, Dote tries again or sends you a fresh code.

  7. Wonderful Tonight

    • Waiting on your other half to join? Your invite now says how it's going: when you sent it, and whether they've opened the link yet. An invite that's about to run out quietly gets more time when you look at it, and if one does run out, Send it again makes a fresh one ready to share.
    • Sharing the same post twice no longer saves it twice.
    • A suggestion, a yes, a plan or a new idea from your other half that lands in your quiet hours now waits until morning instead of going missing.
    • Sharing into Dote while it's closed saves first time, even if you head back before tapping Save.
    • A big Date Jar is easier to choose from: a few shelves near the top gather your ideas by type, like Something to eat or Out and about, with See all for the lot. Everything's still in the list below, and you can turn the shelves off from the order menu.
    • If Sign in with Apple or Google won't start on your phone, you can now Continue with email: we send you a 6-digit code, no browser needed.
    • Terms of use and the Privacy policy now open right inside Dote, so you can read them on any phone, even one where Safari is switched off.
    • Doing the planning for both of you? Turn on "I'll do the organising" in Settings, under Your partner (or from Later on the invite card), and Dote stops suggesting the invite. Your plans get a big Add to calendar and a Send to button for your other half, and memories keep just your take, with a place to say who came. Turn it off any time, and it switches itself off if they ever join.
    • Plans change. If a date didn't happen, tap Didn't happen? and choose Plan another time, or Back in the Date Jar to keep the idea for later without picking a new time. Before the day, a plan's card has Not this time to do the same. Your ❤️s, notes and replies stay, there's an Undo for a few seconds, and your other half gets a quiet heads-up if they were in on it. A surprise stays a surprise.

  8. In My Life

    • What's new on dote.day is easier to read: the three newest releases show in full and older ones fold away under their names, a tap to open. The roadmap has moved to the footer.
    • Getting started together is easier. Until your other half joins, the top of your Date Jar has your invite ready to send (tap Later and it'll wait a week). When they join, they get a warm hello showing how many ideas you've put in already. And an empty Date Jar now starts with three local favourites near you, each one tap to add, with the rest of your city's picks a tap away.
    • Joining your other half from their invite link? Dote spots the code you copied on the way to the store, so it's one tap to paste instead of typing it in. And when your Date Jar's still empty, a link you've just copied is one tap away in Jot down an idea.
    • Find is calmer, especially on iPad: "＋ Add" is now a small button with the Date Jar's own jar on it, turning to "✓ Added" once it's in, and a card's tags never get cut off halfway, showing the ones that fit with "+2" for the rest. On dote.day, "Add to Dote" wears the same jar.
    • A memory's photos now fill the space on iPad and Mac: the first one big across the top in its own shape, the rest in neat squares below, and the title lines up with them.
    • On iPad and Mac, each tab now opens your next date, latest memory or top idea beside the list, with a roomier list on big windows and the tabs gathered in the middle; and the Date Jar's "Next" strip only pops up when something needs you, like an answer to give or a date tonight.
    • Hearts on your Date Jar cards are just yours now, and a short line tells you when your other half loves one too, or when you both do.

  9. Unchained Melody

    • Date ideas for Brighton, York, Oxford, Cambridge, Nottingham, and Loch Lomond and the Vale: starlings over Brighton's West Pier, York's city walls, punting in Oxford and Cambridge, a pint in a pub cut into Nottingham's castle rock and a cruise from Balloch. Read them on dote.day, or find them as local favourites in Find if you live nearby.
    • Date ideas for Southport and the Sefton Coast: Lord Street under its glass canopies, the Golden Gallopers carousel, red squirrels at Formby and Gormley's iron men on Crosby Beach. dote.day also has pages of free, cheap, rainy-day and dog-friendly dates there, and couples in Southport, Birkdale, Ainsdale and Formby will find them as local favourites in Find.
    • Date ideas for Sheffield, Chester, Exeter, Norwich, Swansea and St Andrews: sunset on Stanage Edge, a lap of Chester's city walls, cycling Exeter's canal to a pub with no road, Norwich's cathedral cloisters, Rhossili Bay on Gower and the Old Course on a Sunday. Read them on dote.day, or find them as local favourites in Find if you live nearby.
    • Ideas from our local favourites now show the full address with Directions, which opens your maps app ready to go, and a Book button beside the website that opens their booking page right inside Dote. It works on ideas you've already added to your Date Jar too, and dote.day's guides show the address and a Book link as well.
    • Find only says "near you" when it really is. If our nearest city guide is a drive away, it shows at the end as "Further afield: Liverpool" with a rough travel time, and Find says we're still gathering local ideas for your town.
    • Memories now look right on iPad and tablets: on a big screen a memory opens beside your list, a medium screen shows your memories as a grid of photos, and a memory's photos sit in a grid across the page. Every tab now shares one layout on a tablet too, with the title and your picture in the same place and a fine line under the header once you scroll.
    • The date ideas page on dote.day is much easier to browse: pick the kind of date you fancy, find your town (nearby towns count too), then choose from photo cards grouped by England, London, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, each with a standout idea to start with.
    • Date idea guides and spot pages on dote.day now feel like one set: tap anywhere on a card to open that place, tap a chip like Free or Dog friendly to see every pick like it in that city, and get Directions straight from any card. No more big empty boxes waiting for a photo. In the app, the button on Ideas now says "＋ Add to Date Jar", so you know where it's going.
    • Date Jar cards are all the same size now, with the title, the place and the tags in the same spots on every card. Your partner's ❤️ shows as their initial on the heart. And once you've said whether your dog can come to an idea, the question tucks away into a quiet "🐾 Bramble can come" you can tap to change.

  10. The Water Is Wide

    • Every place in our city guides now has its own page on dote.day, with the guide's picture, its tags and Add to Dote. Venues on Dote for Venues can put up a page of their own too, in their own words, with their live deals, and share it with a link, a QR code or a "Find us on Dote" link on their website.
    • Venues on Dote for Venues can now add up to 5 photos of their place and pick a main one. Each gets a quick check before it goes up, and once it's live it leads on that place's ideas in your Date Jar, in Find and on its dote.day page. Your own photos and the pictures from links you save stay yours.
    • Dote now looks right on iPad, Android tablets and foldables: on a big screen your Date Jar and Coming up show an idea beside the list, Find lays its ideas out in a grid, and the story card gets the whole screen.
    • From Thursday to Sunday, Find opens with This weekend, picked for the forecast. And our local favourites now sit in one row instead of ten, with See all to open the full city guide.
    • dote.day's home page now shows what Dote looks like on a phone, and the site says what Premium costs: from £1.99 a month or £14.99 a year, one subscription for you both.
    • Find cards lose their little ×. To pass on an idea, press and hold its card, or open it and tap Not for us at the bottom, with Undo as before. Adding from an idea's page is now one big button.
    • dote.day has new pages for the kind of date you're after, like free date ideas in Glasgow and dog-friendly dates in Glasgow and Edinburgh. And Find has a Free & cheap near you row, so a good date that costs next to nothing is always one scroll away.
    • Typed something like "Looks good 😊" into Jot down an idea? Dote now checks before saving it as a date idea, with Save it or Edit. Real ideas, even one word like "Cinema", and links save straight away as before.
    • You can reply on an idea now: open it and Say something, or tap Looks good 😊, Let's do it or Maybe another time. Your other half gets a gentle nudge (unless it's their quiet hours), and the card in the Date Jar shows a little 💬 count. Ideas you're keeping a surprise stay just yours.
    • Find now sits first in the tab bar, right next to your Date Jar. Dote still opens on your Date Jar, and anything you save lands there as before.
    • Find tidies up its top: your picture sits top right like on the other tabs, with Change just under the place name. Got a dog in the family? A new Dog friendly row gathers the spots we know welcome dogs, and cards no longer show a puzzling "Either" chip.
    • Edinburgh's local favourites have more dates you can bring the dog on, from the Hermitage of Braid and the causeway at Cramond to St Giles' Cathedral and a whisky bar just off the Royal Mile.
    • Got a dog? Glasgow has six new dog-friendly date ideas in Find, from WEST's beer hall on Glasgow Green to a canal walk out to Maryhill, and the spots we already had that welcome dogs now say so.
    • Cards in your Date Jar and Find are tidier: no more "Google Maps" line under every place. Google's credit now sits quietly with the map on an idea's page, and a Google photo still names the person who took it.
    • Links like Terms of use and Privacy policy now open reliably, right inside Dote, and if a link ever won't open you'll see a short note instead of nothing happening.
    • dote.day's home page now shows the date guides nearest you, picked from roughly where you're browsing (never stored), plus Find your city to jump straight to any guide.
    • Tapping the nudge that your other half added an idea now opens that idea, even if Dote was closed. If it's still filling in the details, you'll see it filling in, then the idea.
    • New ideas, from either of you, now sit at the top of your Date Jar until you've had a look, and your other half's say who they're from.
    • The Date Jar tab has a new jar with the Dote heart on its label, filled in when you're on it and drawn in outline when you're not, just like the tabs beside it.
    • Venues on Dote for Venues have a print kit: a counter card, a table tent and a window sticker, each with their name and a QR code to their Dote page, ready to print or share.
    • Got a dog in the family? Your Date Jar now has a Dog friendly row too, gathering your own saved ideas that welcome dogs.
    • Date ideas for Belfast, Cardiff, Bristol, Bath and Birmingham: a snug in the Crown, a walk across Cardiff Bay to Penarth, Brunel's bridge over the Avon Gorge, the rooftop pool at Thermae Bath Spa and a balti on Ladypool Road. Read them on dote.day, or find them among our local favourites in Find.
    • dote.day has 30 more pages for the kind of date you're after, from cheap dates in Edinburgh and Aberdeen to rainy day dates in Leeds, Manchester and across London.

  11. Wild Mountain Thyme

    • Signing up together? Your invite now shows a big QR code too: your other half points their phone's camera at it and Dote opens straight to joining you (or to the invite page, if they haven't got Dote yet). The code's written underneath, and on two iPhones, tapping Send the invite and holding your phones together does it by AirDrop.
    • Making a memory public now shows you exactly what goes on the page first: the photos, both your notes, the place and the date. Leave out your other half's note, hearts and photos with one switch, then tap Make public. They get a nudge to say so, and either of you can turn the link off from the memory.
    • You can now leave a shared space without deleting your account: Settings → Your partner → Leave this space. The Date Jar, plans and memories stay with your other half, who gets a gentle note, and you start a fresh space, ready for a new invite whenever you like.
    • A planned date's page now leads with the plan: right under the name you'll see when it is, the weather, Directions and Add to calendar, with your plan notes just below, ahead of the map and chips. VoiceOver reads it in the same order.
    • New tabs: Date Jar · Find · Coming up · Memories. Dote opens on your Date Jar, Ideas is now Find (and Make Ideas yours is Tune your picks), and planned dates have a tab of their own: times waiting on your answer first, then each date by day, then the ones waiting on your other half, with the dot for a time to answer on it. Settings is behind your picture, top right of every tab. The selected tab's icon fills in, so it's not marked by colour alone.
    • The Date Jar's Near filter works wherever you live: it leads with your own town and the towns your saved ideas are in, and Another town… finds any town or city in the UK. No more Glasgow and Loch Lomond for everyone.
    • Dote has a line now: Find it. Dote it. Do it. It's on the first screen of the app, it opens the tour, and it leads dote.day.
    • Already sorted it over dinner? Plan it now has We've already agreed, which plans the date straight away (reminders for you both) and tells your other half it's planned. If a time you suggested goes by without an answer, Dote won't ask how it went: it says Morag didn't answer and offers Plan again. And the evening before, you'll get a gentle "Waiting on Morag for tomorrow" while you're still waiting.
    • The Date Jar's filters are simpler: Near, 💞 Both keen (just the ideas you've both ❤️'d) and Cost up front, with everything else under More filters, which shows how many are on. They start fresh each time you come back to the Date Jar after a few minutes away, so it never looks mysteriously empty, and if nothing matches, Clear filters is right there.
    • An idea's page gives you more of the page: the buttons at the bottom are slimmer, with just Plan it and We did this! (or what fits where the date's at), and no empty strip under them. Remove from Date Jar has moved to the very end of the page, and still asks first.
    • Ideas from the city guides now show the place's own website and a pin on the little map, like the rest of Find. We checked every one by hand against the venue's site and OpenStreetMap.
    • Memories counts the places you've been instead of a month streak: every place you've had a date, once each, so the number only ever goes up.
    • Your take on a date can be just words now: write "Lovely walk, rubbish chips" and tap Save my take, no hearts needed. Hearts on their own still work too, and tapping the hearts you picked clears them. Words alone count as yours being written, so your other half's take is revealed.
    • When the Date Jar, Find or Memories can't load, they now say whether it's your connection ("Can't reach Dote just now") or a problem at our end ("Dote's having a moment"), with Try again on both. And a list that can't load says so, rather than sitting on its loading line.
    • The sign-in screen now links to our Terms and Privacy policy, right under the buttons. And Find no longer opens with a line about how few couples are near you: our picks just sit under Our favourites near you.
    • Opening Dote after an update no longer flashes up "Saving to Dote…" when you haven't shared anything. If Dote opens to save a share and there's nothing there, it quietly goes back to where you were.
    • Writing about Dote? dote.day/press has everything in one place: what Dote is in 50 and 150 words, the key facts, screenshots, the logos to download (or the lot in one zip), the colours and fonts, and who to email.
    • Sharing the same post twice, or a share that had to try again on a patchy connection, no longer puts two copies in the Date Jar. If it's already there, Dote says so and takes you to it.
    • Shared an Instagram or TikTok post we couldn't read? It's now called "An idea from Instagram" (or TikTok, or wherever it came from), or takes the post's caption if your share carried one, rather than a bare web address. Its card and page ask, gently, for a name.
    • Typed your name all in small letters? Dote now gives it a capital, so "scott" shows as "Scott" everywhere your other half sees it. Names with capitals of their own stay exactly as you wrote them.

  12. A Red, Red Rose

    • An idea's page in Ideas now shows the place's website, which opens right in Dote, and a little map with Open in Maps. Its seasons and themes are there too, and no card says the same thing twice: a park says Outdoors once, and a free one doesn't also say Cheap and cheerful.
    • Invite links on dote.day get straight to the point: "Morag's invited you to Dote", then how to get the app (the waitlist, until Dote's in the App Store and Google Play). Already have Dote? Open in Dote takes you straight to joining, and the code is right there with a Copy button.
    • A time your other half suggests is easier to answer: "💌 Morag suggested Sat 7 pm · Sounds good?" leads the Date Jar, Coming up starts with Over to you, and the cards and the notification have Sounds good 💞 and Another time? buttons, with one-tap picks like Same time Sunday. A small dot on the Date Jar tab says one's waiting, Plan it now says Suggest to Morag, and once you're both in there's a 💞 and Add to calendar straight away. Date Jar cards are tidier too: one line on why it's there, two chips at most with a +N (no more Outdoors three times), and one line saying where things stand.
    • A planned date now has notes for the two of you: the booking ref, what to wear, whose treat. Add one under the plan (or tap Booked ✅, My treat 💸 or Bring a jacket 🧥 to start), edit or delete your own, and your other half gets a gentle nudge. Once you've been, they stay on the memory under From the plan. Planning a surprise? Its notes are yours alone until the reveal.
    • Maps show their sources: a place's details carry a small Google Maps label, the little map on iPhone pins the spot from OpenStreetMap (and says so), and a shared memory on dote.day shows the place on Google's own map.
    • dote.day now says what Dote is straight away: the date-ideas app for couples. Save date ideas together. Pick one. Remember it.

  13. The Way You Look Tonight

    • Plan a date and it's now a question for your other half: they get a nudge and can tap Sounds good 💞, or Another time? to offer up to three other times for you to pick from. Until you're both in it says Waiting on them, with no reminders yet. Surprises still stay a surprise.
    • ✨ Make Ideas yours: five quick picture questions each, on your own phones, and Ideas gets a For you row that puts what you two will love first, each with a reason why. You'll see your date style, where you agree and where you don't. It's a head start: what you save, ❤️, plan and remember counts for more as you go, nothing is ever hidden, and one in every five is something a bit different. Retake or delete it in Settings → Our date style.
    • Date ideas for five corners of London: Soho and Covent Garden, Shoreditch and Hackney, South Bank and Borough, Notting Hill and Kensington, and Greenwich. From jazz at Ronnie Scott's and the Kyoto Garden to a play at the Globe and the view from Greenwich Park. Read them on dote.day, or find the nearest one among our city favourites in Ideas.
    • Date ideas for Liverpool and Newcastle: a ferry across the Mersey, the Picton Reading Room and cocktails behind an unmarked door on Berry Street, then the Millennium Bridge, BALTIC, the Lit & Phil and Tynemouth by Metro. Read them on dote.day, or find them among our city favourites in Ideas.
    • Seasons and themes wear their emoji everywhere now: 🌸 Spring, 🎄 Christmas, 🛋️ Cosy, 🌃 Big night and the rest, on your cards, the filters, the idea form and the Ideas tab.
    • Cards on the Ideas tab keep one tidy shape however long the name: the same height along a row, ＋ Add in the same spot on every one, and the full name still read out by VoiceOver and TalkBack.
    • Adding an idea now gives it your ❤️, so your other half sees "Morag added this. You in?" and their ❤️ says they're in. Once you're both keen it floats to the top of the Date Jar with a Plan it nudge, and a Thursday evening ping (once a week at most) rounds up the ones you've both ❤️'d. Rather tap your own? Switch off ❤️ what I add in Settings.
    • Date ideas on dote.day now look like they do in the app: each one shows the seasons it suits, its themes and 🐾 Dog friendly when we know, a guide's ideas can be narrowed by season or theme, and prices show as plain £ signs.
    • The tour's had a refresh for how Dote works now: find or share an idea, see you're both keen, suggest a time your other half says yes to, then keep it as a memory. Already seen the old one? Have a look in Settings → Help & feedback → Show me around again.
    • Swipe a card left in the Date Jar to let it go, with Undo straight after if you change your mind. If your other half added it or ❤️'d it, Dote checks with you first. VoiceOver and TalkBack users get a Let go action on the card, and the idea page still has Remove.
    • Not your sort of thing? Tap the × on any card in Ideas and it's gone for you both, on every phone, with Undo if you change your mind. Hidden ones wait under Hidden at the bottom of Ideas, where you can show any of them again.

  14. Letter from America

    • Every idea now knows the seasons it suits: a beach walk is spring and summer, a cosy pub autumn and winter, and a museum is good any time. Your cards show it, and you can change it on any idea. Filter the Date Jar by Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter (or Christmas, Hogmanay and the rest), not just In season, and In season now leads the Ideas tab, where you can flick it to another season to plan ahead for summer.
    • Opening a date with a place photo no longer jumps about: you see its little picture straight away and the photo gently fades in over it. Pop back to the same date and the photo's already there.
    • If Sign in with Apple or Google can't start on your phone, the sign-in screen now says so plainly and points you to the other one, instead of asking you to try again.
    • A date showing Google's photo now gets the place's own picture soon after you first open it, from the venue's website or Wikimedia Commons (credited), when there is one.
    • Dote now always opens on your Date Jar. If it's empty, its button takes you to Ideas for a few to start with. Links and notifications still take you straight to what they're about.
    • Planned dates have a home of their own: Coming up, a calendar with a dot on every planned day and your dates listed underneath, weather and all. Tap a day to see just that day. The Date Jar keeps your someday ideas, with a line at the top saying what's next, and once a date's been, Coming up asks how it went so you can keep it as a memory.
    • Got a dog? Turn on Four paws in the family 🐾 in Settings → Our household (give them a name if you like). Ideas that welcome dogs get a 🐾 in the Date Jar, and a Dog friendly filter there and on Ideas shows just those. Tell us yourselves with Dogs welcome? on any idea, or tick Brought the dog on a memory: your answer beats ours.

  15. Something

    • A planned date now shows the forecast for its own day, like Rain due on Tue 29 September, instead of the weekend's. Too far off to tell? It says Forecast nearer the time. Ideas without a day still show the weekend's weather, now in a few different words.
    • Meet the Ideas tab, first in the bar: what's good to do near you, with deals from places on Dote, what's hot with couples nearby, picks for this weekend's weather, what's in season and our own city favourites. Tap ＋ Add and it's in your Date Jar, or tap a card for more. Change the town any time. Nothing goes in your Date Jar unless you add it, and if it's empty Dote opens on Ideas to get you started.
    • Date ideas for Manchester and Leeds, our first cities outside Scotland: from the John Rylands Library and Castlefield's canals to Kirkgate Market, a film at the gas-lit Hyde Park Picture House and cocktails somewhere a bit hidden. Read them on dote.day, or find them among our city favourites in Ideas.

  16. Ae Fond Kiss

    • Ideas now come with a theme or two (cosy, foodie, big night, rainy day and more) and, when it fits, the best time of year for them, from summer to Bonfire Night. Dote fills them in for you, even on ideas you saved before, and you can change them on any card. Filter the Date Jar by theme or tap In season, and ideas that suit the time of year get a nudge up when it's sorted for you.
    • No more Just In: anything you share or jot down goes straight into the Date Jar, which is now the first tab. A new save says it's filling in the details while Dote reads it, then turns into the idea in the same spot, marked Just saved for the first few hours, then Recently added for a couple of days (and who saved it, if it was your other half). Couldn't read the link? The card says why and offers Fill it in.
    • More of your ideas come with a picture: when the place's own website won't give us one, Dote looks for an openly licensed photo on Wikimedia Commons, credited under the picture. Still nothing? The idea's page can show Google's photo of the place, with the photographer's credit.
    • Once you've been, your own memory photo becomes the idea's picture, unless it already had one you shared.
    • Places you love can now share a deal with you. When a spot in your Date Jar has one on, you'll see it on the idea, marked 🎁 Deal from the venue, and checked by us first. Want a heads-up? Turn on Deals in Settings, then Notifications (never more than one a week).

  17. Your Song

    • Story cards fill the whole card now, with bigger photos and no big empty paper. Tap Move and frame to drag the words out of the way, and pinch or drag each photo to frame it just right (a double-tap starts it again). Dote remembers how you left each card.
    • Deleting your account now asks why you're leaving, if you'd like to say. It's optional and anonymous, and it helps us make Dote better.
    • Tapping a nudge that your partner's found something now takes you straight to it: the idea itself if it's already in the Date Jar, or its card in Just In, picked out for you.
    • The Date Jar is sorted for you now: ideas you both ❤️, ones that suit the weekend's weather, ones near you, and ones that have been waiting a while float to the top, some with a short note saying why. Prefer the newest first? Tap For you by the filters, pick Newest first, and Dote remembers.
    • Shared a private or locked Instagram or TikTok post? Instead of "Couldn't read this one", Just In now says why (private, behind a login, taken down) and offers Fill it in, which opens the card ready for a name and place. Dote also reads more public Instagram posts than before, and uses any caption you share along with the link.

  18. At Last

    • The Halloween story card now has pumpkins and bats 🎃, tucked by the photo where Instagram can't cover them.
    • The share buttons under a story card line up in even pairs now.
    • Memories show who added the idea, and one Edit now changes both the title and the date. Your take has a tidy pencil to edit it.
    • Dote is much better at finding a photo for a place you add, even when the venue's own page doesn't offer one.
    • Choose which emails Dote sends you: Settings, then Notifications, now has Push and Email on each row. Every email also has a link to change them, or unsubscribe in one click, no app needed.
    • Settings, then Notifications, is tidier: each nudge sits under who it's from (your partner, your dates, or us), with a Push and an Email pill you tap to turn on or off.
    • Email me my data, in Settings, Account, sends a copy of everything to your inbox. And if someone deletes their account, Dote sends one email to confirm it's done, and lets their partner know their shared ideas and memories are still there.
    • Both started your own Date Jar before pairing up? Tapping your partner's invite now works: Dote tells you what you've saved, and it all comes with you into theirs.

  19. I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)

    • Give a memory a better name: tap Edit title on any memory, and the new name shows everywhere, from your Memories to On this day.
    • Three new looks for sharing a memory: a Ticket stub for everyone, plus a Photo booth strip and a Magazine cover with Premium. Every card now keeps clear of Instagram's buttons.
    • Seasonal story cards: Valentine's, Easter, summer, Halloween, Bonfire Night, Christmas and Hogmanay (and Thanksgiving in the US and Canada) turn up when it's their time.
    • Dote now asks about notifications while you're setting up, so nudges from your other half don't go missing, and tells you when they've got them switched off.

  20. Can't Help Falling in Love

    • Surprise us is properly random now: everything in your Date Jar gets its turn before anything comes round again, even if you close it and come back, with a nudge towards the ones you love. And it's got a bit of theatre: shake the Date Jar or unfold a paper heart (pick your favourite in Settings, Text & display).

  21. Sunshine on Leith

    • Prefer Dote light or dark, whatever your phone's doing? Settings, Text & display, Appearance: Match phone, Light or Dark. It follows you to a new phone, too.
    • No more stray scroll bars on Android: the Date Jar, Memories, Settings and every other page scroll without one getting in the way.
    • Photos now arrive with a little paper heart fluttering while they load, instead of a blank square. It keeps still if you've turned on Reduce Motion.
    • Make a story card from any memory: swipe through five looks, choose whether the place shows, then share it to Instagram Stories, TikTok or your photos. It's made on your phone, and nothing's uploaded.
    • Can't decide? Tap Surprise us at the top of the Date Jar and Dote picks one idea from what your filters show, leaning towards ones you both love and outdoor plans with a good weekend forecast. Plan it straight away, or tap Another for a different one.
    • On this day: when a date you kept falls on today in an earlier year, Memories shows it at the top, and you'll both get a little nudge at 10 in the morning. Tap either to relive it. Switch the nudge off in Settings, Notifications.
    • An empty Date Jar can now start with local favourites: our dote.day picks for Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen or Inverness, all ticked, ready to go straight in with their places, photos and links. Untick any that aren't for you, or switch city. Your partner sees them too, and adding them again never doubles up.
    • Already got a few ideas? Tap + and Browse local favourites to add our picks for Glasgow, Edinburgh or another Scottish city, whenever you like.
    • Follow Dote now has its own row in Settings, under About, next to About Dote.
    • About Dote has a new Services section: Providers lists everyone Dote runs on and the data and fonts we credit, and Libraries lists the open-source code inside the app, server and website. Tap any of them to visit it.
    • Tap a memory's photo to see it full screen, and swipe through the rest. The ⋯ on each photo lets you save it to your phone, share it, or delete it, so there's no bin sitting on your pictures any more.
    • Story cards now go straight into Instagram or Facebook Stories, ready to post, with TikTok and everywhere else a tap away.
    • Story cards: Polaroid and Just words are free for everyone, and Premium unlocks Scrapbook, Postcard and Film strip. Every card still says Made with Dote.
    • Plan a surprise: with Premium, switch on Keep it a surprise when you plan a date. Your partner sees just the day, the time and any hint you add, until the big reveal at the start time, or sooner if you tap Reveal now.
    • Story cards now put a 📍 by the place and the little Dote heart by Made with Dote.
    • Keep an idea a surprise from the moment you save it: with Premium, switch on Keep it a surprise 🤫 when you jot it down or share it in, then tap Save, and only you'll see it until you plan it or share it with your partner. Your surprises wear a dashed edge in the Date Jar, and there's a Surprises 🤫 filter too.
    • Dote's little nudges now come in a few different wordings, so you'll not get the same one twice in a row, and every one ends with an emoji.
    • Notifications are back on track. If you'd reinstalled Dote, it never asked again, so nudges from your other half went nowhere. Now it asks, and they reach every phone and tablet you're signed in on. Still quiet? Settings, Notifications has a Turn on notifications button.
    • Pick your own quiet hours in Settings, Notifications: reminders wait until you're ready, or switch quiet hours off altogether.

  22. Love Me Do

    • A fresh tour of Dote: follow one idea all the way, from saving it to the Date Jar, picking it together, planning it and keeping it as a memory, on the same cards you'll use every day. Already seen the old one? It won't pop up again, but it's in Settings, Help & feedback, Show me around again.
    • Little tips the first time you do things for real, like your first match or your first take. Each one shows once, on whichever phone, and you can wave it away. Want them back? Settings, Help & feedback, Reset tips.
    • Follow Dote on Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky and Facebook from Settings, About, Follow Dote.
    • Plan it now shows the forecast for indoor ideas with a place too, as a quiet heads-up for getting there, like a brolly if rain's likely. Forecasts now come from MET Norway, credited in Settings, About.
    • An idea's page now nudges the next step: Plan it first, then a plan card with Add to calendar, Change plan and, on the day, Directions. Once the time comes, We did this! takes the lead, with Plan again if it didn't happen. Bin it is now a gentler Remove from Date Jar (Not for us in Just In), and it checks with you first.
    • Date Jar cards catch up too: once a planned date has been, the card asks How was it? instead of showing the date, and with VoiceOver or TalkBack on, We did this is the card's first action.
    • A reminder or calendar link for a date you've already done now opens its memory, instead of saying the idea's no longer here.
    • Rather not use AI? Settings, AI has a switch just for you. With it off, what you save isn't sent to an AI service: you get the link's own title and picture and fill in the rest yourself. Your partner's saves follow their own setting.
    • Releases now opens with one plain line saying which release you're on, and Check for updates tells you right there if there's something new. The techy bits have gone: Report a bug still sends them along so we can help.
    • The morning after a planned date, you'll both get a gentle How was it? Tap it to keep it as a memory, or plan it again if it didn't happen. Just the once, and not if one of you has already saved it. Switch it off in Settings, Notifications.
    • Settings is much tidier: you and your partner sit on one card at the top, then just Your Dote, Help and About. Everything else is a tap further in, and the weather credit is a small line on About.
    • Just made your space? The tour now has the screen to itself: Share Dote with your partner waits until the end, instead of popping up over the top of it.
    • Your photo's on Settings now, and your partner's sits next to Your partner. It's your Google picture to start with, or your initial on a warm colour. Fancy a different one? Settings, You & your account, Change photo.

  23. Just the Way You Are

    • The Jar's now called the Date Jar.
    • Plainer, friendlier words right across Dote, with just a sprinkle of Scots.
    • Each release now has just the one title, its song name.
    • Settings is shorter and tidier: Notifications, Text & display and Account have their own screens, each row shows what it's set to, and Your partner sits under You.
    • Settings scrolls with one smooth scroll bar on Android.
    • On Android, the box you're typing in now stays above the keyboard everywhere: names, invite codes, Quick add, editing ideas, notes and suggestions.
    • When your partner joins you with your invite, you'll get a notification, and Dote tells you too, just the once, if you've got it open or next time you do.
    • Joining your partner with an invite code no longer says it's already been used when it was you. A double tap just joins you, once.
    • Plan it is back on every idea in the Date Jar: tap the calendar next to the heart to pick a day. It fills in once the idea's planned.
    • Every release now has a name, after a love song we're fond of. This one's Just the Way You Are: find it in Settings, under Releases. In Shape Dote, tap You asked, we built it to jump straight to the release that brought it.
    • What's new is on the website too, at dote.day/releases/, with a feed if you'd like to follow along.
    • Releases in Settings now shows what's running, build and update, with a Check for updates button: if there's something new, tap Restart to get the new bits straight away.
    • Pick a reading font in Settings, under Text & display: OpenDyslexic, Atkinson Hyperlegible, your phone's own font, or ours. It changes the text right across Dote and follows you to a new phone.
    • New to Dote? A one-minute tour shows you how to save ideas from anywhere with Share, then Dote. Skip it whenever you like, or take it again from Settings with Show me around again.
    • Bigger text works better: screens scroll so every button stays in reach, the filters scroll with your ideas, and titles, places and plan dates wrap instead of getting cut off.
    • The keyboard no longer hides what you're typing in a memory note, a suggestion or Quick add, and Save stays in reach even with the biggest text. Settings values sit under their names at big sizes, and screens that are still loading say so instead of sitting blank.
    • With Reduce Motion on, screens and pop-ups fade in gently instead of sliding, and nothing wiggles for a moment when Dote opens.
    • Text boxes, switches and choice chips have clearer edges, so they're easier to spot.
    • Turn on Increase Contrast (iPhone) or High contrast text (Android) and Dote's lines and softer text get bolder too.
    • Quick add now says what to pop in above the box, not only in faint example text.
    • Near the end of a note, the counter says how many characters are left, and tells VoiceOver and TalkBack once.
    • Easier with Voice Control and Voice Access: buttons answer to the words you can see, like "Tap Plan it" or "Tap 4 hearts", and small links are bigger to tap.
    • Better with VoiceOver and TalkBack: errors and "saved" are read out on iPhone too, each card reads as one item with Love, Plan it and Open in its actions, and Undo stays up longer while a screen reader is on.
    • Tap your invite code and "Tap to copy" turns into "Copied!" right where it is, then back again, so nothing jumps about.
    • Partner nudges now reach Android phones too.
    • Settings now shows just the one version number, nice and simple.
    • Shape Dote: suggest what we build next, vote for your favourites and see what's on the roadmap. Find it in Settings.
    • Pop-ups now all have their title and close button in the same place.
    • New suggestions go straight up for votes, and join the roadmap once they've got 5 votes.
    • When something goes wrong, Dote now says what happened and gives you a way out: try again, cancel or sign out, instead of a dead end.
    • If something breaks or a link goes nowhere, you'll get a friendly screen with a way back home, and we'll hear about it so we can fix it.
    • A new Notifications section in Settings, and Dote keeps quiet between 9:30 pm and 8 am your time.
    • Date reminders: you'll both get a heads-up the evening before a planned date and again that morning. Switch them off in Settings if you'd rather not.
    • This Weekend pins have made way for Plan it: tap This Saturday when you plan an idea, and find it under Upcoming, now first in the filters.
    • Ideas now find the place's website and a picture, even when you just type them in.
    • New names for two tabs: fresh saves land in Just In, and once they're sorted they go in the Date Jar, to pick from together.
    • Found a bug? Settings now has Report a bug, which opens an email to us with your version and device already filled in, nothing personal added.

  24. Hello

    • Share a link from anywhere to save it to Dote, and we'll fill in the details for you.
    • Pair up with your other half using an invite code. Tap the code to copy the whole invite.
    • Tell us your name, so your partner knows who added what.
    • Ideas you can filter by near me, this weekend and good weather, with a forecast on outdoor plans.
    • Tap the heart to ❤️ an idea and see the ones you both love.
    • Pick a real place as you type, and see a picture on every idea.
    • A link back to where each idea came from.
    • Plan an idea for any day and add it to your calendar.
    • Tap any address, or its map, to find your way there.
    • Memories for the dates you've done, with photos and both your takes, revealed together.
    • Dote Premium, shared between the two of you.
    • Pull down on any list for a paper heart refresh.
    • Settings now shows your version and a log of what's new.
    • Tap Add to Dote on our date guides at dote.day and the idea's ready to save.
    • Dates and times now follow your phone's settings, 12 or 24 hour, and Dote's ready to speak more languages one day.
    • Plans now show the forecast for the day, or the hour if you've set a time, and the Plan it day chips show the weather so you can pick a good one.
    • When you open a link to a venue's website, they'll see you found them through Dote.
    • A tidier About section in Settings.
    • Dates you add to your calendar get an emoji and a link that opens the idea in Dote. On Android that link opens the app after the next update from the store.
    • If Dote crashes or trips up, we now hear about it so we can fix it. Never your ideas, notes or memories.

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Every release is named after a love song we're fond of. It's a nod, and doesn't mean the artists or rights holders know about or endorse Dote.