LifeCycle Changelog

Hard drive backup logs

• Logging a drive backup now offers an Undo snackbar for about four seconds, extended when required by Android accessibility settings. Undo removes only that newly logged entry and leaves other records intact.
• Expand History to see the three latest logged dates, with View all for the complete list. Edit a recorded date using the calendar, or delete an individual entry after confirmation. Last backup reflects the newest backup date, not the order entries were added or edited.
• All logged history is retained, not just the three preview entries, and is included in manual and automatic complete LifeCycle backups/restores as well as drive data exports. The date already saved for an older drive becomes its initial history entry; previously overwritten dates cannot be recovered.
• These controls affect the backup log only. They do not perform a hard drive backup or delete any backup files. Deleting a drive removes its associated log history after confirmation.

Update notes

• The compact in-app What's New popup highlights 2.6, with previous 2.5 highlights shown when relevant to the upgrade. The 2.5 Home alert improvements remain documented separately below.

Home alert context and navigation

• Home items in Alerts now identify the property and relevant asset instead of showing only the generic Home label. Component or consumable names are included when they add useful context without repeating the task or asset name.
• System-wide and property-wide tasks are explicitly labeled. Context can wrap onto two lines without reducing the text size, helping distinguish similarly named tasks such as refrigerator and furnace filter replacements.
• Tapping a Home alert opens its property's Maintenance list, scrolls to the specific task, and highlights it with an outline. The task's existing logging, editing, and context actions remain available without first searching the Home overview.
• Planning alert cards show the same property and item context. If an alert's task or property has been deleted, a clear unavailable-item notice replaces silent navigation to the Home overview.
• Existing alert urgency, ordering, colors, and snoozes are retained. Android notification timing and its compact summary layout are unchanged. No new data entry or database migration is required.

Update notes

• The compact in-app What's New popup highlights 2.5, with previous 2.4 highlights shown when relevant to the upgrade. Older release details remain available below.

Rental reports and walkaround records

• Rental PDF reports now begin with booking details and side-by-side Pickup and Return information. Each walkaround's completion time, media counts, and condition note stay together. Missing notes are marked as not recorded, not as an absence of damage.
• Each photo or video has its own record reference and accompanying metadata, grouped vertically under File & capture and Location. Full original-file SHA-256 fingerprints remain in the report. Video pages use representative frames; original media remains available through the complete ZIP export when available.
• Location recorded by LifeCycle is distinguished from location embedded in the media. Capture times, the time media was added to the rental, accuracy and altitude, camera/media properties, and metadata recovered during export are identified separately when available.
• Walkaround history, retained prior media, export notes, and an updated disclaimer are included in the report. The disclaimer links to the full website disclaimer. Reports are organizational records, not independently notarized or cryptographically signed evidence.
• Removing saved media now requires confirmation explaining that saving the change retains the original and removal history in the rental record and exports. Adding photos to clarify the condition is suggested instead. Unsaved draft captures are not described as archived records; deleting an entire rental remains a separate permanent action.
• Walkaround notes request sentence capitalization. Rental save controls use a keyboard-aware footer, with related keyboard-layout refinements in rental and Flight Credit forms. Past-rental date ranges now include the year at both ends, such as Oct. 12, 2026 to Oct. 15, 2026.

Shirt availability and feedback

• Pause or resume a shirt from its three-dot menu to exclude or include it in Planning recommendations and remaining-wear calculations without retiring or deleting it. Existing wear and care history is preserved, and pause status is included in complete backups.
• A discreet pause symbol appears on the shirt image or placeholder. It is not a separate tap target, so opening the image still works as before. Snackbar feedback explains pause/resume; the existing Clean, Wash Me, and Iron Me indicators remain.
• Compact and expanded shirt cards group Pause/Resume, Edit, and Delete in the three-dot menu. Planning retains its existing refresh control and remaining-wear warnings. Shirt feedback is positioned near the bottom of the screen, with the Add control moving above it while visible.

Release packaging and update notes

• Release builds enable code/resource optimization and obfuscation; debug builds remain separate. This is not a promise of a particular app-size reduction or Google Play optimization percentage.
• The compact in-app What's New popup highlights 2.4, with previous 2.3 highlights shown when relevant to the upgrade. Full older release details remain in this changelog.

Android reminders and shared snoozes

• Optional Android notifications show overdue and upcoming totals in the title, followed by a compact list with property or vehicle context and timing such as (62d late), (Today), or (in 2d), without repeated group headings. When both groups have items, four preview slots are shared (normally two each, with spare slots used by the other group); a single group shows up to three. Remaining-item counts keep the summary compact. Long names may wrap. Tap to open Alerts. Private item details are hidden on the lock screen by default, subject to Android notification settings.
• Choose an Android-only window: overdue only, due today, the next 1, 3, or 7 days, or Match in-app Alerts. Fixed windows include overdue work without shortening your in-app planning view. The default is the next three days plus overdue; items with invalid dates can still appear as needing review.
• Include automatic payments & renewals is off by default and applies to Ledger entries marked Passive Autopay. Excluded entries remain visible in the app.
• Snooze individual items in Alerts for 1, 3, or 7 days, including overdue items. The full snooze duration applies to both active in-app alerts and Android notifications. Items remain available under Snoozed and in their normal sections; restoring a snoozed alert does not complete or delete it.
• A one-time invitation follows What's New for users who have not seen the feature invitation. Declining explains how to enable reminders later, without repeating the invitation on future upgrades. LifeCycle's switch and Android's notification permission are shown separately.
• The preferred delivery hour defaults to 8:00 a.m. local time; existing choices are preserved across normal app upgrades. Hourly background checks can deliver from that hour through the rest of the day, without the former four-hour cutoff. Scheduled daily delivery is not early, but Android can delay it beyond an hour or prevent it; exact-time delivery is not guaranteed. Optional battery/deep-sleep guidance is available in Settings.
• Explicitly enabling reminders with Android permission requests an initial summary when eligible overdue items exist, without waiting for the preferred hour—even if today's notice was dismissed. Android may still take time to display it. This counts as today's delivery, avoiding another scheduled summary that day. Upcoming-only items follow the normal schedule.
• Keep notification after opening is off by default. Enable it to open Alerts without dismissing the notice; the setting applies immediately to a visible notice, and swiping still dismisses it. Visible summaries update quietly and disappear when no eligible items remain. Dismissed summaries are not recreated by ordinary refreshes that day. Swiping does not snooze individual items.
• Reminder initialization and automatic-backup scheduling now handle startup errors independently, so a backup-scheduling error does not skip reminder initialization.

Clearer Settings and Search & AI Assistance

• Settings is grouped into Reminders & Alerts, Backup & Restore, Planning & Clothes, Home, Search & AI Assistance, and Troubleshooting. Clearer headings, spacing, and aligned links make related controls easier to find.
• Search & AI Assistance replaces the user-facing Find & Log name. Search works without AI; optional on-device Nano assistance helps interpret Home work requests, with local search first and no cloud fallback.
• Nano availability is checked automatically when its settings page opens. The switch is enabled only when Nano is available, with separate explanations for downloads, unavailable configurations, and failed checks. Downloads require explicit confirmation; a failed check is not presented as proof that the phone is unsupported.
• Troubleshooting includes the diagnostic log, user guide, and Contact LifeCycle links. The compact What's New popup highlights 2.3 and shows previous 2.2.1 highlights when relevant to the upgrade.

Backup-folder refinements

• Reconnecting the same backup folder preserves an enabled automatic-backup setting. Selecting a different destination remains a separate choice, with existing archives protected until automatic backup is enabled.
• Selecting a backup folder no longer opens a restore dialog. Restore ZIP explicitly starts restoration. When existing backups are found in a newly selected folder, an explanation remains visible until acknowledged or dismissed, or until you leave Settings.

Backup and restore reliability

• Fixed backup validation for Home schedules that use text identifiers, allowing those records to be backed up and restored correctly.
• Complete backups preserve database ID counters as well as records, helping prevent new entries from reusing identifiers retained in historical records. Older compatible backups remain supported, with additional protection for identifiers referenced by rental evidence history.
• Restored rental evidence preserves filenames containing characters such as #, %, and ?, keeping file references intact.
• Stronger archive and file-integrity checks reject incomplete or damaged backups before replacing current records. Interrupted-restore recovery and rollback safeguards help protect existing data if a restore cannot finish.
• Complete ZIP backups retain stored legacy Home Service Plan and Service Event records as well as current Home data; this does not bring back the retired Home Old interface.
• Changing the automatic-backup folder clears the previous location's backup status, so a successful backup elsewhere is not mistaken for protection in the new folder. Reconnecting the same folder retains its history.

Included improvements from 2.1 and 2.2

• The planned 2.1 release was superseded by 2.2.1. Its improvements are included here; installing 2.1 separately is not necessary.
• A unified Home experience, section and cross-section search, partial-name and activity matching, highlighted results, and Home Find & Log with review before saving. Optional on-device AI assistance remains off by default, and local search works without it.
• Daily or weekly automatic complete backups and manual ZIP backups of records, settings, and media to a local or compatible cloud folder, with three automatic copies retained.
• Richer clothing details and color palettes, wear and wash statistics, retirement and restoration with history, Facilities visit statistics, compact forms, and keyboard and scrolling improvements.
• Diagnostic log access remains in Settings → Troubleshooting. The earlier entries below provide the full feature details.

Complete backups

• Automatic Complete Backup creates daily or weekly ZIP backups in a selected local folder or a cloud folder made available by a compatible Android storage provider. Cloud availability depends on the installed provider; not every cloud app supports selecting a backup folder.
• Automatic backups retain three copies in the selected location. Manual Complete Backup copies are not automatically pruned.
• Automatic and manual complete backups include records, app settings, images, documents, and rental evidence. ZIP contents are checked for integrity; restoring a complete backup replaces the app data currently on the device.
• Backup settings include an optional Wi-Fi requirement, last-successful-backup information, folder reconnection and reset, and an explanation of how backups work. Clearing the folder selection does not delete existing backup files.
• First-time users receive a backup setup prompt. Android's separate device backup is not a substitute for a complete ZIP backup containing media and documents.

Clothing details and history

• Add or edit shirts with an optional nickname, brand, style, color, and purchase date. When no nickname is entered, available brand, style, and color details form the display name. Existing names are preserved.
• Brand and style suggestions reuse saved clothing entries locally. An expanded palette supports multiple named shades, visible swatches, custom color text, and removal or clearing of selections.
• Optional More details include fabric percentages, purchase price and currency, and place of manufacture. Calendar, currency, and searchable country pickers make entry easier.
• Clothing statistics show recorded wears and washes in compact Active and Retired lists, with details and care history. Existing wear, wash, and iron actions build the records without a separate statistics-entry workflow.
• Retire clothing with a reason while preserving its history, and return it to the wardrobe later. Permanent deletion is a separate, explicit choice. Older unrecorded washes and cleared wear logs cannot be reconstructed.
• Compact forms, keyboard-aware layouts, clearer field spacing, and a fading scroll indicator improve navigation through clothing details and statistics.

Facilities statistics

• View total recorded visits, the first recorded date, average days between visits, and the typical gap (median).
• Intervals use consecutive recorded visits, including fractional days where timestamps are available. At least two visits are needed; missed logs can make gaps appear longer.

Search and update experience

• Section search supports partial words, with exact matches ranked before partial and fuzzy matches. Clothing searches also include saved brand, style, and color details.
• Search results are easier to find without scrolling past introductory instructions.
• The What's New popup uses consistent compact text and highlights version 2.2, with previous 2.1 highlights shown when relevant to the upgrade.

Find the right record

• Search starts in your current section, with an All sections option for Home, Clothes, Vehicle Service, the Ledger, and Favorite products.
• Search by name or supported activity phrase, with common word variations and minor-typo matching. Global results group by section before showing individual entries.
• Clothes and Ledger results scroll to the entry and briefly trace its border, leaving normal logging, completion, and editing controls unchanged.
• Hard Drives, Facilities, and Travel remain available in the app but are not included in this search.

Home Find & Log

• Find Home items using a location, item name, action, or combination. Choose the item and task, then review before saving completed work.
• Related schedules are grouped under their linked item, with clearer distinctions between asset-wide, component, and consumable work.
• Missing details prompt clarification. Other work can be recorded without completing a listed schedule.
• Improved Home data-loading behavior, result labels, keyboard layout, and retry messages. Dismissed queries are retained briefly and can be cleared.

Optional on-device assistance

• Gemini Nano assistance for Home Find & Log is available as a beta option in Settings, off by default. Local search always runs first.
• Availability depends on device and AICore support. Any required model download needs confirmation; no model is bundled with LifeCycle.
• Suggestions are checked against tracked items and require review. Local search remains available if Nano is unavailable, with no cloud-search fallback.

A unified Home experience

• Home is now the single property-maintenance experience.
• Transitional Home navigation and migration notices have been retired.
• Home reminders, alert links, navigation, settings, and terminology now consistently use the current Home experience.
• Backups now reflect the active Home structure, including properties, schedules, systems, assets, components, consumables, maintenance history, providers, documents, media, and custom systems.
• Retired legacy-only Home Service Plan and Service Event records are no longer included in new backups.
• Remaining transitional Home terminology has been removed from the visible interface.

Update experience

• The in-app What’s New dialog is now version-aware.
• Users upgrading from version 2.0 see a concise summary of the 2.1 changes.
• Users who skipped version 2.0 receive both the major 2.0 highlights and the latest 2.1 improvements.
• The app now links directly to this full changelog.

Additional refinements

• Moved View Debug Logs from the main menu to Troubleshooting at the bottom of Settings, renamed Diagnostic log. Viewing, copying, sharing, and clearing remain available.
• Shortened the update popup, showing the latest changes first and earlier 2.0 highlights only for users who skipped that release.
• Improved consistency across Home navigation, settings, reminders, and backups.
• Continued reliability and interface refinements throughout the app.

Completely redesigned Home management

• Introduced a multi-property Home experience with priority-based and property-based organization.
• Added clear property overviews for maintenance, systems, assets, recent activity, and property tools.
• Added structured home systems such as HVAC, plumbing, appliances, electrical, and custom systems.
• Added guided setup so schedules and assets are created within the correct system hierarchy.
• Added assets and fixtures within systems, with separate components and consumables within assets.
• Added system-wide, asset-wide, component-specific, and consumable-specific maintenance schedules.
• Added consolidated Maintenance listings with overdue, upcoming, routine, and repair information.
• Added detailed maintenance and repair history with provider and technician information.
• Added service-provider records, supporting documents, photos, product information, model and part details, warranties, and completed-work history.
• Added clearer navigation between properties, systems, assets, schedules, and history.
• Improved reminder and alert integration for Home maintenance.

Clothing and planning

• Expanded support for work, casual, and versatile wardrobes.
• Added more garment sections and improved clothing organization.
• Added smarter clothing planning and compact display options.

Vehicle Service

• Improved vehicle-maintenance status and service logging.
• Added clearer compact and expanded vehicle layouts.

Travel, Ledger, and other refinements

• Refined Travel, the Ledger, Facilities, hard-drive backups, alerts, forms, and app-wide presentation.
• Improved recurring-task visibility and historical record keeping throughout LifeCycle.

Rental-car records and evidence

• Added rental-car management within Travel.
• Added rental-company, agreement, third-party booking, pickup, and return information.
• Added vehicle-condition walkarounds using photos or video.
• Added completion timestamps and optional location metadata.
• Added shareable PDF and complete ZIP record exports.
• Added retained evidence history, file metadata, and integrity information to exported records.
• Added appropriate disclosures to rental-car exports.

Additional improvements

• Corrected Ledger recurring-date and variable-date calculations.
• Added more flexible recurrence anchor options.
• Improved Travel forms and release-readiness details.

Expanded Home maintenance foundations

• Introduced an earlier system-and-asset-oriented Home maintenance workflow that became the foundation for the redesigned Home in version 2.0.
• Added asset organization, editing, grouping, and maintenance history.
• Added asset and component relationships.
• Added custom Home categories and property-specific organization.
• Added providers, technicians, documents, and recent-work information.
• Improved maintenance logging, recurrence inputs, date handling, and contextual navigation.
• Added safer deletion behavior and more reliable property-state handling.

Ledger and interface fixes

• Corrected Ledger variable-date due calculations.
• Improved recurring-event scheduling and anchor behavior.
• Continued alert, hotel-address, and interface refinements.

• Improved Google Analytics reliability.
• Corrected analytics initialization and release configuration issues.
• Included minor stability refinements.

• Refined analytics and advertising-identifier privacy configuration.
• Added additional privacy-conscious release adjustments.

Redesigned reminders and alerts

• Replaced large stacked warning banners with a compact alert system.
• Added a top-bar status indicator, floating alert chip, and detailed alert panel.
• Added clearer urgency grouping and status colors.
• Added alert snoozing, temporary dismissal, and automatic reappearance before due dates.
• Added global and section-specific reminder profiles.
• Ensured overdue items remain visible when action is required.
• Improved reminder consistency across Home, Vehicle Service, the Ledger, and Travel.

Planning and settings

• Renamed the Summary area to Planning.
• Renamed Backup & Restore to Settings and expanded reminder controls.
• Improved Planning visibility for upcoming and snoozed items.
• Added version-aware What’s New acknowledgement.
• Added per-page usage analytics.
• Included numerous alert-spacing, color, and animation refinements.

Home Service Plans

• Added property-specific Service Plans.
• Added recurring service scheduling and next-due calculations.
• Added service-event history.
• Added visit and repair logging.
• Added event editing and deletion.
• Added immediate detail updates after recording work.
• Added undo support when deleting service events.
• Improved date selection, validation, recurrence behavior, and tab counts.

• Added a unique clothing-wear warning in Planning.
• Added a more compact upcoming-items layout.
• Corrected excessive top spacing caused by duplicate window padding.
• Included additional Planning presentation refinements.

• Ordered upcoming Planning items by next due date.
• Added a refresh control for clothing suggestions.
• Improved undo notifications for outfit and garment changes.
• Extended undo-message visibility for easier recovery.

Expanded Travel organization

• Renamed Flights to Travel.
• Added flight-credit tracking.
• Added flight-credit editing.
• Improved Travel layouts and forms.
• Added scrolling support to longer credit-entry forms.
• Improved hotel and numeric-field entry behavior.

Planning and Ledger expansion

• Added the original centralized landing and Today view.
• Added direct navigation from upcoming items.
• Added Ledger categories and type management.
• Added Ledger filtering and sorting improvements.
• Added quick entry cloning and notes.
• Improved Ledger add-entry and filter layouts.

Clothing, Parking, and platform updates

• Added the “Iron Me” clothing-care status.
• Added hotel information to Parking.
• Updated the Android build platform and corrected compatibility warnings.
• Improved sidebar navigation and visual sizing.

Backup and restore

• Added full ZIP backup and restore for app data and images.
• Added database migration support for future updates.
• Improved backup date formatting and log ordering.

Home and property tracking

• Expanded property and maintenance details.
• Added property and maintenance photos.
• Added gallery image selection.
• Added HVAC filter specifications such as MERV, UPC, width, height, and depth.
• Added water-softener and water-filter templates.
• Added property and maintenance-item sorting and editing improvements.
• Improved recurring Home scheduling and warning behavior.

The Ledger

• Introduced the Ledger for recurring events and obligations.
• Added due-date calculations, variable dates, and event history.
• Added history editing and deletion.
• Added search and time-horizon filters.
• Added automatic-payment indicators and filter refinements.
• Improved Ledger date accuracy and entry presentation.

Vehicle, Facilities, and clothing fixes

• Corrected vehicle mileage and date calculations.
• Improved vehicle service logging and editing.
• Added additional recurrence precision for vehicle schedules.
• Improved Facilities logging, sorting, editing, undo, and elapsed-time display.
• Improved pants ordering and clothing interactions.

Initial release

• Introduced LifeCycle as a local personal organization and recurring-task tracker.
• Added clothing tracking for shirts and pants.
• Added vehicle service tracking.
• Added Home maintenance tracking.
• Added hard-drive backup tracking.
• Added Facilities records and event logging.
• Added parking and travel-detail tracking.
• Added local backup and restore controls.
• Added photo support, date controls, history, editing, deletion warnings, and basic reminders across supported sections.