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).

OmniFocus 4.3.1 for Apple Vision Pro

• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — Displayed perspective rules now refresh automatically when changed in another context (such as another window, another device, or through some automation).
• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — When a perspective is organized by projects, hiding the “Preserve hierarchy” switch, its hidden value no longer affects the contents of the perspective.
• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — Restored ability to cancel out of upgrading legacy custom perspectives.
• Localization — Restored missing Spanish strings in View Options.
• Omni Automation [Pro] — Addressed a memory leak that could be triggered by repeatedly running Omni Automations via a shortcut.
• Outline — Empty space displayed at bottom of outline is now a drop target.
• Unsupported OS Alerts — Unsupported OS alert no longer presents on every app launch.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could be triggered by Omni Automation scripts which focus on a folder.

OmniFocus 4.3 for Apple Vision Pro

OmniFocus 4.3 introduces support for device Focus Filters and a new Set/Remove Favorite Perspective shortcut. Additionally, this release includes a wide range of improvements and bug fixes, including new custom perspective rule comments, enhanced Apple Watch sync reliability, and improved outline behavior in a variety of contexts.

• Shortcuts — New Set/Remove Favorite Perspective shortcut. With this shortcut, you can change your favorite perspectives based on your device focus or by using a Siri command. (Shortcut requires macOS 13, iOS 16, or iPadOS 16.)
• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — You can now intersperse comments among your perspective rules.
• Clean Up — Selected items now immediately clean up when removed from current view via drag & drop or a key command.
• Forecast Calendars — Calendar events are now enabled by default in Forecast on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro, matching the default behavior on Mac.
• Import — Choosing to skip syncing during setup now offers to import data from previous versions of OmniFocus.
• Inspector — Updated Inspector layout code to be better shared cross-platform, including some visual changes for cross-platform consistency.
• Localizations — Localization updates.
• Outline — Improved overall stability/reliability of outline order when editing.
• Review — Review now supports filtering by availability.
• Sync — Provide more context in the encryption passphrase prompt.
• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — The correct tag is now assigned when adding an action to a custom perspective which groups actions by tag but doesn’t sort them in Tags Order.
• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — Addressed a bug that could cause manually sorted custom perspectives to temporarily reorder after assigning a tag to an item.
• Custom Perspectives [Pro] — When a perspective is grouped, hiding the “Preserve hierarchy” switch, its hidden value no longer affects the contents of the perspective.
• Forecast — Improved flexible Forecast order logic when both “Preserve Hierarchy” and “Keep Sorted” are enabled.
• Forecast — Indenting an item in Forecast no longer causes temporary duplicate display of that item.
• Inbox — Fixed a bug that could cause Inbox items to reorder unexpectedly.
• Outline — Fixed a bug where items in the Inbox could not be reordered in the Projects perspective the way they could be in the Inbox perspective.
• Quick Open — Fixed a bug where using Quick Open to find a project or folder would fail to select that target in the sidebar when the window was focused.
• Sidebar — Fixed a bug that could cause content displayed in the outline to fall out of sync with the selection in the sidebar.
• Sync — Prevented a rare sync conflict that could be encountered when a device syncs changes while edits are in progress.
• TaskPaper — Default defer/due times are now respected when pasting TaskPaper items that only have a date.
• TaskPaper — The current year is now assumed when TaskPaper items include partial dates.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when a perspective with a date-based filter rule refreshes its reference date.