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.

Recent Changes

OmniFocus 4.4.1 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

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 Apple Vision Pro

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.

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 Vision Pro

• Stability — Fix a crash attempting to import reminders on visionOS.

OmniFocus 4.3.2 for Apple Vision Pro

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!

• Drag & Drop — Adding items to the outline no longer breaks the long-press drag gesture.
• Forecast — Improved item sorting in Forecast, so items are sorted on selection change or Clean Up whenever Keep Sorted is enabled.
• Inspector: Title — Fixed a bug editing the title field with a hardware keyboard where the field could lose focus immediately after being tapped unless you tapped on another inspector field first.
• Inspector: Notes — Fixed a bug that could cause note edits in the inspector to be copied to a different item.
• Omni Automation — Automation scripts that present forms should no longer run into an error saying “No presenting view controller found.”
• Stability — Fixed a crash encountered when an building a Spotlight index after conflicting edits deleted an item which had a tag assigned to it on another device.
• Stability — Fixed a crash sometimes encountered while calculating the location of an item in Forecast.
• Sync Settings [Apple Vision Pro] — Updated the Replace Sync Data dialog to have a more reasonable size on visionOS.
• VoiceOver — Fixed a recent regression from the inspector redesign in 4.3 that could cause VoiceOver to get stuck in the top toolbar rather than navigating through the inspector fields.
• VoiceOver — Made it possible to navigate through search results that return results from outside the current perspective (i.e. when using the “Search Remaining” and “Search Everything” options).