Smaller release focused on UI polish, bug fixes, and general improvements:
• Attempted another fix to the vexing disappearing downloads issue. Please continue to let us know if you continue to sporadically lose downloads.
• Enhanced scrolling and overall performance of Home, especially on iPad.
• Improved the performance of the video player during scrubbing, fast forwarding, and similar actions.
• Fixed a bug that was preventing the display of thumbnail images when a notification was long-pressed.
• Corrected an issue that prevented proper updating of lesson progress.
• Added haptic feedback when selecting homepage chips.
• We now scroll to the top of the view when you tap tab bar icons.
• Added additional telemetry data for podcasts.
• Polished tab text styling within Library.

Welcome Home.
The main view–now called Home–has been redesigned to make it even easier to discover content you’ll enjoy. In addition to the featured content you’re used to seeing, Home is now where you can find additional pages of curated content grouped by category or interest such as News, Culture, Science, and Classes. We’ll continue to add more Home pages over time, so let us know what you’re interested in seeing more of.
Some other smaller changes in this release include:
• Settings has a new icon
• Library has a new icon
• Browse has been renamed Explore
And also, the team took this update as an opportunity rewrite the entire Featured/Home view in SwiftUI.

Minor release focused around updating our internal image caching and bug tracking libraries.

This release focused on minor improvements and app polish:
Improvements
• Downloaded content is now ordered by the date and time it was downloaded.
• Podcast player analytics have been added to help diagnose and solve podcast playback issues.
• Added an in-app notification system to communicate required app updates and minimum app and OS version requirements.
• Updated the description of the background audio setting to clarify that this setting only applies to videos and lessons. Podcast audio will always continue upon locking device.
• Updated and refreshed the app color palette.

Improvements
• Built for iOS 17. Let us know if you run into any new issues.
• You can now choose to have audio continue playing when you turn off your screen. This can be toggled on and off within app settings under Player Preferences.
• New widget size added to let you see the two most recent videos from your library.
• Added “Browse Videos” button to watch history when there is no watch history to show.
• Improved messaging in the Credits view when a network error occurs
Bug Fixes
• Squashed another bug that could lead to downloads unexpectedly being deleted. If you continue to see this issue after updating please let us know: [email protected].
• Corrected a bug where the tab bar icon for Featured was missing after launching the app through a web link to the Library view.
• Improved long press interactions when viewing in landscape orientation.
• Fixed a font legibility issue on the sign-up screen when in dark mode.

New Stuff
• Lesson History has been added to the Classes section of Library.
• You can now add a widget to your Home Screen that shows the latest video from your library.
• Introduced Spotlight support. Channels and downloaded videos can now be included in Siri Suggestions and Spotlight search results.
Bug Fixes
• Watch History now displays all video history, instead of just the last 200 videos.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a square to be displayed around the channel avatar image.

• Fixed a bug that prevented saved podcast episodes from being synced across devices.
New in the previous release:
• We’ve improved the contextual awareness of Up Next to help make recommendations more relevant.
• Downloading content on a cellular connection that does not have unlimited data now shows a confirmation prompt.
• Added an Airplay button to podcast episode detail screen.
• Removed Watch History from app settings (its new home is in Library).
• Added telemetry data to the video player to help improve streaming video quality and debug playback issues. This can be toggled off or on in app settings.
• Updated the credits screen.
• Updated Google Cast SDK.
Bug fixes
• Fixed a bug that caused Classes to not load for users who had not watched a lesson.
• Added the correct text description for autoplay in the app settings.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the loading spinner on Featured to never go away after pulling to refresh.
• Scrolling down and back up the list of videos in a channel view caused a bunch of empty space to appear. That’s been fixed.
• Voice Over in the Library view will now only read a preview of the podcast episode description text, rather than the entire description.
• Fixed an issue where the title of a podcast detail screen was sometimes duplicated.

• We’ve improved the contextual awareness of Up Next to help make recommendations more relevant.
• Downloading content on a cellular connection that does not have unlimited data now shows a confirmation prompt.
• Added an Airplay button to podcast episode detail screen.
• Removed Watch History from app settings (its new home is in Library).
• Added telemetry data to the video player to help improve streaming video quality and debug playback issues. This can be toggled off or on in app settings.
• Updated the credits screen.
• Updated Google Cast SDK.
Bug fixes
• Fixed a bug that caused Classes to not load for users who had not watched a lesson.
• Added the correct text description for autoplay in the app settings.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the loading spinner on Featured to never go away after pulling to refresh.
• Scrolling down and back up the list of videos in a channel view caused a bunch of empty space to appear. That’s been fixed.
• Voice Over in the Library view will now only read a preview of the podcast episode description text, rather than the entire description.
• Fixed an issue where the title of a podcast detail screen was sometimes duplicated.

This release focuses on revamping the Library view and expanding podcast functionality:
• Library now consolidates all of your saved, followed, and downloaded content into one space, with individual tabs for Videos, Podcasts, and Classes to keep everything organized.
• Podcasts can now be followed.
• Podcast episodes can now be saved to listen to later.
• Push notifications have been added for podcasts. Get notified when a new podcast joins Nebula, or when new episodes of podcasts you follow are released.
• Downloads and Watch History are now accessible from the Library tab.
Bug Fixes and Improvements
• Corrected a bug that allowed users to interact with video controls underneath the autoplay end card.
• Faster loading of the Featured tab.

• Autoplay behavior has been corrected to be off by default. Autoplay can be turned on my tapping the ∞ button in the video player.
• Certain network conditions, such as in-flight WiFi, could cause users to be signed out and have their downloads deleted. We’ve improved how the app handles network errors and this should no longer happen.
• Autoplay can now be toggled on/off within app settings, as well as the video player.
• Fixed an autoplay bug where a video would sometimes get skipped.