Back on August 17th, Apple rejected our beta for an iOS 14 version of Pop Out Timer. After back and forth with Beta App Review, attempting to appease them as best we could, another rejection, a lot of back and forth with App Review (and a blog post), a crashing bug caused by iOS 14.2 (with all the emails and negative reviews that go along with that), an official appeal, a few phone calls, an official “suggested change to an App Review guideline”, an email, and finally a voicemail with the good news: Pop Out Timer 3.1.4 is now live in the App Store. It’s a relief after a stressful 4 months.

Here’s what’s new.

iPhone Support

When Apple announced that the iPhone would get Picture in Picture support it took about half a second to figure out we’d try to get Pop Out Timer running it. Our UI already supported multitasking so it only took a few minor tweaks to ensure it properly fit the small screen. If you’ve used Pop Out Timer on iPad you know exactly what to expect.

Set up your timer or stopwatch, tap Pop Out, and hit play. The timer will follow you around as you navigate other apps. Use a pinch gesture to change the size of the window or flick it off screen momentarily if it gets in your way.

Widgets

Pop Out Timer already had a widget but with the introduction of iOS 14′s new widget system we took the opportunity to re-write and come up with something better.

There is a small widget just for the stopwatch. One tap will open the app, navigate to the stopwatch, pop it out, and start it.

Our medium widget gives you that same stopwatch functionality, but it also includes up to your 9 most recent timers. Tap a timer to open the app, create your timer, and pop it out.

Sound

Pop Out Timer primary focus has always been as a silent presentation timer, but we’ve added the flexibility to have a subtle chime at the end of your timer. You must tap the speaker icon on the timer to unmute and make sure you have alerts enabled on your device if you would like to hear the sound. Please keep in mind that it is a single chime; it will not keep pestering you until it is addressed. Please use accordingly.

Updated Icon

I’m very happy with our updated icon. It’s like a cleaner version of the original, with better margins, clearer text, and a better representation of the timer in action.

App Privacy

Apple’s app privacy report is really easy to fill out when you don’t collect a single thing.

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