What's new in Tasteful

Branding

• New app icon — frosted plate with crossed fork and knife on a vibrant background, regenerated for all seven accent colors.
• Match your icon to accent color — Settings shows a live preview; changing accent updates in-app and Home Screen icons.
• Bigger loading icon on sign-in and initializing screens.

TestFlight feedback

• Share an idea from anywhere — tap the lightbulb in the mini recommender to capture a screenshot and record a quick voice note.
• Feedback lives in the bottom accessory beside +, not as a floating button over your content.
• Clearer mini recommender — empty state shows Suggest a meal with a photo icon.

Meals

• Gallery grid layout — cards stay aligned in the two-column grid when you switch from list to gallery.
• Category saves correctly — changing a meal’s category in Edit now sticks after save and sync.

Planning & sync

• Planner works offline — assign meals and restaurants locally first; sync when you reconnect.
• Today stays today — accepting a suggestion for tomorrow’s dinner no longer replaces your Today hero.
• Faster hero on launch — your accepted meal for today shows immediately; photos load from on-device cache when available.

Quality & security

• Stronger offline storage and sync — meal data writes are serialized and atomic.
• Private meal photos — cloud photos require authentication; uploads are scoped to your account.

Polish

• Save button looks right — filled accent checkmark when you can save in edit flows.
• Cleaner editor sheets — consistent cancel/confirm toolbar placement.
• Honest recommender copy — Why this meal? shows real engine rationale.
• Dinner means mains — dinner suggestions are limited to Mains unless you change the meal-time picker.

Share from Safari

• Notes-like share compose — pick Meal, Restaurant, or Recipe, edit the name, preview the link, then Save.
• Save recipes from Safari in one tap with clear progress and reliable handoff to Recipes.
• Works before you sign in — shared recipes save on device immediately and sync after login.
• Share food photos from Photos → Share → Tasteful into Meals with optional notes and category.

Meals & photos

• Tap the meal photo on detail to open Quick Look — local files open instantly.
• Recipe images cached like meal photos for consistent offline browsing.
• Share a meal with one tap — Share Meal sends an OpenMeal file via the system share sheet.
• Meal detail grouped into clearer sections: details, preparation, restaurants, variations, and more info.

Home & planning

• Today’s Selection survives a full app quit after I know what I want.
• Upcoming calendar opens on today’s month after reopening the app.
• Restaurant eating-out tonight on Home — confirm the plan, attach a meal, or add a new one linked to that restaurant.

Siri & Shortcuts

• What should I eat?, Log a meal, and Show favorite meals route into the same in-app flows.
• Fewer false failures when your meal list has not been written to disk yet.
• Less duplicate UI when Siri opens a meal suggestion.

Settings & design

• Accent color shows the right checkmark immediately in Settings.
• Appearance picks feel like Settings — full-row taps with accent on the checkmark.
• Liquid Glass everywhere — buttons use iOS 26 glass styles instead of legacy bordered chrome.
• Reader Mode keeps your screen awake while you cook.

Help

• Help & Support in the app opens tasteful.to/support — FAQ plus email, not a raw mailto link.

Home

• Today’s Selection matches iOS 26 Liquid Glass — glass buttons at the right sizes on the hero card.
• Empty hero matches the meal card so Home does not look like two different styles.
• Today's Selection photo sits cleanly inside its card with proper rounded corners.
• New meal = new photo immediately when you change where you’re eating.

Recommendations

• Mini Recommender stays aligned with the Home hero after you clear Today’s Selection.
• Change Location (At Home / At a Restaurant) updates planner data and the bottom accessory.
• Opening a linked recipe or restaurant shows a clear unavailable screen instead of a blank sheet.

Reliability

• Settings and preferences sync converge reliably across devices.
• Home and planner context synchronize as first-class state — Today’s Selection, planner slot, meal sessions.
• Smoother sync under the hood — serialized cloud work at launch reduces edge-case instability.
• Shared meal planning foundation — add someone to this meal in planner slots with participant counts.

App icon & About

• Refined app icon — fork and spoon centered around the checkmark; bolder green check at small sizes.
• No loading-screen icon flicker while the app warms up.
• About screen shows the real Tasteful app icon, not a generic glyph.

Stability

• Large meal photos decoded more efficiently — fewer memory spikes when browsing meals and Home.
• Face ID / Touch ID — sign-out clears saved sign-in on this device; biometrics cannot restore the previous account without your password.

Scope

• AI Chat removed from this release line so we can ship a focused 1.0. Privacy-first on-device chat is planned for a future major update.

Navigation

• Full mini recommender restored — tap for What should I eat? or your planned meal; + for Add Meal / Recipe / Restaurant.
• Add buttons in Meals, Restaurants, and Recipes tab toolbars for quick add from each screen.

What's new

• Tasteful — save the meals you love. Meal tracking, recipes, restaurants, recommendations, and sync.
• Navigation subtitles on detail views — e.g. Eaten 15 times · Last 2 days ago.
• Tap-and-hold previews on meals, recipes, and restaurants with quick actions.