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4 min read Arnaud Joubay

2027.1

🐄 Cow care

  • Update Celebration is on 14 October 2026: attract a cow that day and it arrives cast in Bronze ✨

✨ New

  • Scan your meals 📷 A camera moon orbits in on Today: photograph your plate or import photos, and Apple Intelligence suggests what it sees. Nothing is logged until you confirm with the usual YES/NO tap
  • Recognized foods arrive as chips you can remove — then the plate’s CO₂e drifts up the screen as clouds ☁️
  • Gentle waves move across your photo while it is analyzed, then give way to its CO₂e clouds when the result is ready
  • Guess before Naomi does, and wager a moon on how many clouds the plate makes
  • Say what the camera can’t see: tap the microphone and describe your plate out loud. Your words appear live under the viewfinder and travel with the photo, so the estimate knows what it could not see
  • Memories 📸 A new tab keeps one card per day for the plates you photographed. Filter them, give one a heart, five stars or a bookmark, and bring a bookmarked memory into any meal
  • Your year on one page 🗓️ History turns a calendar year into a poster, ready to share. Switch it to CO₂, Water or Land and it drops the calendar for things you can picture: kilometres by car, showers, football pitches 🌍
  • Four more things you can give up 🦐 Shellfish, molluscs, insects and honey join the diet picker — the app already understood them, it just never asked
  • Your own food groups now appear in the diet picker too: choose which ones count as meat for you
  • Cloud jar ☁️ Choose how many clouds your day holds before it turns red: Settings › Diet Goals › Cloud jar, or Edit on the scan’s meter. It starts at six, so nothing changes until you move it
  • Where the numbers come from 📚 The impact page cites its sources: Poore & Nemecek 2018 via Our World in Data, the EWG Meat Eater’s Guide for lamb and pork, Mekonnen & Hoekstra for water, the FAO for average diets — and says which rows are our own estimates. There is a new Sources page, and every scan ends with “How scanning works”

⚡ Improvement

  • The app turns sideways 🔄 Today, History, the year poster and the scan each get a layout built for landscape instead of a squeezed portrait one — on iPhone as well as iPad
  • Answer and a little moon lifts off the planet you touched and flies into the day’s bubble 🌙
  • The meal editor grows out of Naomi’s speech bubble and folds back into it
  • Clouds behave like clouds ☁️ They drift up and gather under the top of the picture instead of shooting up and knocking, and they keep breathing once they have settled
  • Settings moved to Today’s top-right corner: one tab less, and more room for what you came for
  • Rather not see the camera moon on Today? Hide it in Settings › Planets & Moons
  • Answer YES or NO while a scan is still being read: the analysis finishes on its own and keeps your answer
  • Second opinion: send the same photo back under the lens, then keep whichever reading matches what you ate
  • Photos you keep are saved to your photo library like any other shot — switch it off in Settings › Meal

🐛 Bug Hunt

  • Two holidays never share a day again: the second one steps to the next free day
  • History’s rings no longer blink when your data refreshes

♿️ Accessibility

  • VoiceOver names the colour of each card in the scan deck instead of spelling out a key
  • The cloud meter, the plate and the scan’s verdict all read out loud
  • VoiceOver announces each meal you log or remove, the guess game’s verdict and what dictation recognized
  • Each moon in the bubble says which meal it is, so Voice Control can tap it by name, and Reduce Motion swaps the bubble’s flights for crossfades
  • The meter’s About and Edit buttons, and its Ideal and Over words, now stand out on the pale panel

💬 Texts

  • A few translations lost stray symbols and leftover English words

🧱 Foundations

  • Scanning runs on Apple Intelligence with Private Cloud Compute: your photos are never stored, never used to train anything, and Apple cannot read them. It needs iOS 27, a device with Apple Intelligence and a connection — and it has a daily allowance, which iCloud+ can raise
  • Suggesting a name for a cow uses the on-device model, so it works offline
  • Dictation uses the on-device speech recognizer: what you say about your plate stays on your iPhone
  • Onscreen context for Apple Intelligence and Siri: open a day, meal, food, or tag, then ask Siri what you’re looking at