OmniFocus 4.4.2 for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro

iPhone & iPad

• Notes — Additional fix to address a bug that could cause note edits in the inspector to be copied to a different item.

Apple Vision Pro

• Notes — Additional fix to address a bug that could cause note edits in the inspector to be copied to a different item.

OmniFocus 4.4.1 for All Platforms

All Platforms

• Stability — Styling note text via Omni Automation no longer triggers a crash.

iPhone & iPad

• Keyboard — Project and Tag pickers now support Chinese Pinyin input on iOS/iPadOS 18.
• Keyboard — Pressing the tab key now confirms autocomplete suggestion when appropriate.
• Notes — Additional fix to address a bug that could cause note edits in the inspector to be copied to a different item.
• Notes — Addressed a bug that could cause new note content entered in Inspector to be lost after some types of navigation.
• Notes — Addressed a bug that could cause link formatting in notes field to bleed into notes field of other selected items.
• Sharing — Popovers now layout correctly when sharing to OmniFocus on iPadOS 18.
• VoiceOver — Fixed a bug that could cause sidebar projects/tags list contents to be inaccessible by VoiceOver after toggling Show Sidebar button.

OmniFocus 4.4 for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch

OmniFocus 4.4 introduces new Quick Entry, Quick Open, and Open Perspective functionality, brings new gesture and widget support to Apple Watch, and improves compatibility with newer OS versions.

OmniFocus 4.4 requires macOS 14 Sonoma, iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10, or visionOS 1. Some features may not be available on all supported OSes.

All Platforms

• OS Compatibility — Improved compatibility with newer versions of macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and visionOS.
• Shortcuts — New Quick Entry, Quick Open, and Open Perspective shortcuts.
• Spotlight — Quick Entry, Quick Open, and Open Perspective shortcuts are now included in Spotlight search results on supported OSes.
• Localizations — Localization updates.
• Widgets — Widgets no longer allow for selection of custom perspectives when OmniFocus is running in Standard mode.

iPhone & iPad

• Control Center — Customize Control Center with resizable new Quick Entry, Quick Open and Open Perspective controls available in the Control gallery.
• Lock Screen — Replace the controls at the bottom of the Lock Screen for new Quick Entry, Quick Open and Open Perspective controls to quickly access your most frequently used OmniFocus features.
• Action Button — Customize the Action Button to launch Quick Entry, Quick Open, or a perspective (requires iPhone with Action Button).
• Home Screen — App Icon and widgets have been optimized for light, dark, and tinted display.
• Widgets — Tapping on a date in Forecast Widget now launches OmniFocus to selected date in Forecast.
• Outline — Date fields now display in time-only format in outlines grouped by date (matching Mac behavior).
• Outline — Row swipe now action now displays correct tag icon.
• Settings — Removed deprecated “Show Explanation in Today Widget” setting.
• Sync — Fixed a bug that could temporarily block displaying synced changes.

Apple Watch

• Gestures — Double tap now activates Quick Entry or completes the displayed item (double tap gesture requires supported Apple Watch).
• Widgets & Complications — New widget type displays Inbox, Forecast, and Flagged item counts in Smart Stack and on supported watch faces.
• Widgets & Complications — Item completion is now supported in new interactive widgets in Smart Stack and on supported watch faces.
• Widgets & Complications — Additional watchOS complication options now highlight key elements using the watch face’s accent color.
• Siri — Siri capture has been updated for parity with functionality available in iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS, allowing for assignment of project and tags on capture.
• Quick Entry — Quick Entry button is now displayed when viewing outline.

OmniFocus 3.15.8

• OS Compatibility — Clarified text of alert presented when OmniFocus is launched on an unsupported OS.
• Localizations — Updated localizations.

Our team is currently hard at work updating OmniFocus to support the new operating systems announced last month and shipping later this year. But we’ve also been fixing some important bugs!

OmniFocus 4.3.3 for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro

All Platforms

• Outline — Fixed a bug that could cause new items to sometimes appear to be added above the previously selected outline row instead of below it.
• Omni Automation — Addressed an installation path bug that could occur for Github hosted plug-ins installed via Install Link.
• Perspectives — “Due Soon” status filter no longer includes items which have inherited the completed (or dropped) status from a project or parent.
• Sync — Disconnected database transaction files detected on the sync server are now cleaned up after one week.

iPhone & iPad

• Dates — Fixed a bug that could cause date changes in date picker to be discarded if time is also changed.
• Keyboard — Displayed hardware keyboard row highlight now stays in sync with actual outline selection.
• Outline — Improved animation after marking an item complete.
• Outline — Creating items in a previously empty outline via hardware keyboard no longer breaks drag & drop.
• Outline — Scroll gesture no longer breaks up/down keyboard navigation in outline.
• Repeats — Restored ability to customize days of week for monthly repetitions.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur on sync in certain app states.

Apple Watch

• Complications — Circular Infographic complication now displays relevant task title in addition to item count.
• Sync — Watch app now attempts to connect to the network immediately when launched while in low power mode.