Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell

Updated
• Ensured price clearly visible in purchase flow
• Improved layouts and animations in purchase flow

Fixed
• A crash that when reading calendars events that have the same start and end time

New
• Added support for Vision Pro
• Added tips to help guide you through using Lotus Bud
• Added ability to restore to defaults in settings
• New snooze button, allows you to snooze from inside the app

Fixed
• A bug in the empty quiet hour state where the label was not aligned

Fixed
• Much more reliable communication between phone and watch
• Changing settings on iPad could unexpectedly change settings on iPhone
• A crash on watch when receiving notifications
Updated
• Much improved accessibility voice over support, especially for custom controls including:
• Mindfulness bell switch
• Today's Quiet Hours view
• Frequency control in settings
• Quiet Hours views
• Refactored Mindfulness Bell switch and frequency slider

Fixed
• Snoozing mindfulness bell from watch did not work
• The keep scheduling button from notification wasn't working properly
• A bug that prevented widgets on the watch from being shown
• Several small bugs

Updated
• Reduced the number of times the schedule was rebuilt from scratch
• Added more detail in logging to help troubleshoot in the future

Fixed
• Apologies, I had a bug that inverted the timings for Infrequent, Default and Frequent, so if it felt backwards to you, it was. Sorry.
• A bug where running a shortcut would fail.

Fixes an issue that could continue to schedule notifications if the bell is turned off while a set of notifications is being scheduled

Fixed a widget glitch

3.0.2 is a minor update with bug fixes and initial compatibility for the latest iOS versions

• Fixed: custom and default messages sometimes could not be fetched from the database resulting in a fallback message "Remember to always be mindful"
• New: improved logging when sending feedback (Settings>Send Feedback) to better troubleshoot in the future
• Updated: calendar permissions


Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell has been completely redesigned for version 3. I’ve updated the look at feel, refined the fonts, animations and made it more useable for everyone. While the app functionality is the same, the entire thing has been modernized using the latest technologies. What this means for you is the app looks cleaner, more consistent and will be easier for me to maintain and keep delivering updates for years to come.

Plus there are new and updated features from the 3.0.0 release:
• Home screen, lock screen widgets, give you the current status of the mindfulness bell. It shows when snoozed, in a quiet hour or on and off.
• Watch complication, see the status at a glance
• Accessibility improvements
• Use Siri to control the mindfulness bell
• Run Shortcuts to control the bell
• Easily select weekends weekdays, or every day when setting up Quiet Hours

Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell is over 12 years old! It appeared as a feature in my other app Lotus Bud Meditation Timer in 2011. In 2014 I split it out into its own app. I've updated the look and added new features, but the core of the app has been the same for a long time. This summer on a whim, I started rewriting the UI and am now ready to release.

Thank you for using Lotus Bud all these years! I'm looking forward to bringing you updates for another decade to come!

Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell now requires iOS 16 and watchOS 9

3.0.1 is a minor update with bug fixes

Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell has been completely redesigned for version 3. I’ve updated the look at feel, refined the fonts, animations and made it more useable for everyone. While the app functionality is the same, the entire thing has been modernized using the latest technologies. What this means for you is the app looks cleaner, more consistent and will be easier for me to maintain and keep delivering updates for years to come.

Plus there are new and updated features from the 3.0.0 release:
* Home screen, lock screen widgets, give you the current status of the mindfulness bell. It shows when snoozed, in a quiet hour or on and off.
* Watch complication, see the status at a glance
* Accessibility improvements
* Use Siri to control the mindfulness bell
* Run Shortcuts to control the bell
* Easily select weekends weekdays, or every day when setting up Quiet Hours

Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell is over 11 years old! It appeared as a feature in my other app Lotus Bud Meditation Timer in 2011. In 2014 I split it out into its own app. I've updated the look and added new features, but the core of the app has been the same for a long time. This summer on a whim, I started rewriting the UI and am now ready to release.

Thank you for using Lotus Bud all these years! I'm looking forward to bringing you updates for another decade to come!

Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell now requires iOS 16 and watchOS 9

Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell has been completely redesigned for version 3. I’ve updated the look at feel, refined the fonts, animations and made it more useable for everyone. While the app functionality is the same, the entire thing has been modernized using the latest technologies. What this means for you is the app looks cleaner, more consistent and will be easier for me to maintain and keep delivering updates for years to come.

Plus there are new and updated features:
* Home screen, lock screen widgets, give you the current status of the mindfulness bell. It shows when snoozed, in a quiet hour or on and off.
* Watch complication, see the status at a glance
* Accessibility improvements
* Use Siri to control the mindfulness bell
* Run Shortcuts to control the bell
* Easily select weekends weekdays, or every day when setting up Quiet Hours

Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell is over 11 years old! It appeared as a feature in my other app Lotus Bud Meditation Timer in 2011. In 2014 I split it out into its own app. I've updated the look and added new features, but the core of the app has been the same for a long time. This summer on a whim, I started rewriting the UI and am now ready to release.

Thank you for using Lotus Bud all these years! I'm looking forward to bringing you updates for another decade to come!

Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell now requires iOS 15 and watchOS 8

Initial release for iOS 16 watchOS 9

Fixed
* A crash in the background when receiving notifications


This will be the last version to support iOS/iPadOS 13, and watchOS 6

Fixed
• Sometimes the app would launch to a blank screen
• A semi-frequent crash
• The snooze indicator would not always show up right after snoozing


This will be the last version to support iOS/iPadOS 13, and watchOS 6

Fixed
• A stall and crash in the background
• A crash that could occur when adding or removing Quiet Hours
• Incorrectly handling entering the background

Improved
• Bell scheduling performance
• More bells scheduled at once, reducing the frequency you need to reopen the app

Recent Improvements in previous versions:
• Reduced the number of notifications that remain in Notification Center and Lock Screen after being delivered

This will be the last version to support iOS/iPadOS 13, and watchOS 6

Fixed: Apologies last update introduced a bug where only a default message would be used instead of the default set or custom messages. This version fixes that.

This will likely be the last version to support iOS/iPadOS 13, and watchOS 6

Improved
• The app now periodically will remove previously delivered notifications
• Fixes for some crashes
• Minor UI tweaks

This will likely be the last version to support iOS/iPadOS 13, and watchOS 6

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

New iPhone
• Added initial support for iOS 15
New On iPad
• Added initial support for iPad OS 15
• You can scroll vertically on a trackpad to toggle the mindfulness bell
• You can scroll horizontally on the Bell Timing slider to change the bell frequency
On Watch
• Added initial support for watchOS 8
• Added support for new watches
• Added label indicating mindfulness bell switch state

Fixes
• Quiet Hour picker was mistakenly updates to the new picker style without updating size, reverted back to the wheel picker style
• Fix for background crash when snoozing from a notification
• Fix for crash when data no properly setup
• Better reliability in updating the mindfulness bell switch on watch
• Better rotation animation

This will likely be the last version to support iOS/iPadOS 13, and watchOS 6

• Bug fix for crash

• Initial iOS 14 support

Changes:
• The snooze shortcut when long pressing on the app icon now only appears if the bell is turned on and you don't have an active snooze
• Made the naming of snoozing more consistent (replaced the word Pause for Snooze)
Fixed:
• Notifications could not be properly setup, causing bells not to be scheduled and preview sounds not being played
• The frequency control did not properly show the Default button as selected prior to making adjustments
• Some tasks that were performed on app launch and when app was placed in the background were not being performed

Fixed:
• Messages could be duplicated in the messages list
• A stall could occur during startup, that would eventually result in a crash
• Some text in the messages view would be clipped
• Debug info when emailing support might not be up to date
• The bell timing control might not display the selection of the timing buttons properly
• The bell timing control might not update properly for dark mode

Fixed:
• When enabling/disabling messages in the message settings the app might not save the change if you leave the app right away. It now saves when leaving.
• The educational message that you can customize your experience in settings would show every time you launched the app. It now only shows once.

Fixed:
• Duplicate Quiet Hours are now cleaned up.
• Duplicate day values are now cleaned up.
• Launching the app could crash and the cause duplicate Quiet Hours and day records
• If you toggle the Mindfulness Bell on and off quickly you could have overlapping status messages.
• If you went to another screen while the walkthrough was playing it would not be cancelled
• When turning on the Mindfulness Bell the first time, notifications might not get scheduled successfully.

Enhanced:
• Quiet Hours setup screen auto expands the time picker the first time
• When Mindfulness Bell is scheduling, you now see a spinner above the switch.

Fixed many new bugs from the previous version. Apologies