v1.3, v1.4, v1.5.The evening the app became part of the phone, not just an app on it.

Where and when

This is the second half of 17 August 2026 — from 21:43 to 23:11:

• 21:43 — UI fix: the 'Ask for help' button on Today's focus card no longer overlaps the text (84f813d)
• 21:56 — Score explanation + 'What Changed', Refuel AI as a navigator, App Intents, Doctor Visit Mode — v1.3 (260b664)
• 22:05 — Care Circle completion loop, a deterministic support insight, user-picked focus goals, retention tracking, 15 new tests (cb330d8)
• 22:10 — Full Ukrainian for v1.3 + development-status docs (416db10)
• 22:52 — v1.4 device integration: real HealthKit, an Apple Watch app, WidgetKit extension, Live Activities, on-device voice input (version 1.4.0 build 2, c8129e2), plus its release docs (a7f922f)
• 23:11 — a cluster of v1.5 hardening fixes and tests: persistence corruption-tolerance and complete deletion (50066c1), safety crisis recall and reliable reminder routing (9007880), VoiceOver labels for the widget and Watch (ce1cadd), regression tests (c31188f), and a beta-hardening status report (a65f6ad)

All of this stayed in the repository — still no App Store or TestFlight submission at this point. That step is covered separately, in the v1.6 / launch-readiness post.

Explaining the score, instead of just showing it

Up to this point the Refuel Score existed, but it didn't explain itself well. v1.3 added a 'Why this score?' view with a baseline-relative label and a deterministic 'What Changed' card — a plain, day-over-day breakdown of sleep, energy and mood deltas, with an honest fallback when there isn't a clean story to tell. It's a small thing that matters: a number without a reason behind it isn't useful, it's just another thing to worry about.

Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight — and Refuel AI as a careful navigator

App Intents let you check in, start a 2-minute reset, view your Refuel Score, view Today's focus, ask for help, or open the Weekly Report from Siri, Shortcuts, or Spotlight — all built on a deliberately non-sensitive 'shortcut snapshot' (score and focus only). No reproductive, symptom, or crisis data is ever returned in a Siri dialog; that boundary was tested explicitly, not assumed.

Refuel AI also became able to act as a navigator inside the app — with an expanded allowlist (open Cycle, prepare a doctor summary, view the score explanation). The important design decision here: the AI only suggests a destination, and the app itself validates and performs the navigation. There's no arbitrary navigation, and nothing safety-critical can be bypassed through this path.

Doctor Visit Mode

Doctor Visit Mode lets you generate a wellbeing-summary PDF over a window you choose — 7, 14, or 30 days — with selectable sections. It's built to be genuinely useful in an appointment and nothing more: it never includes AI chat transcripts, your full journal, your Care Circle contacts, or reproductive data. It's a generalized version of the report/PDF pattern the weekly report already used, aimed specifically at the conversation you have with a doctor or midwife.

v1.4: real Apple Watch, widgets, Live Activities, HealthKit, voice

At 22:52, version 1.4.0 build 2 landed the real device integrations that the earlier abstractions had been preparing for, all while keeping the iPhone archive green throughout:

• HealthKit — a real, read-only runtime for sleep, steps, menstrual data import, and resting heart rate, with manual entries always taking precedence and clear provenance shown in a per-category 'Health Connections' UI.
• Apple Watch app (MommyRefuelWatch) — home screen, quick check-in, 2-minute reset, and help handoff, reusing the same domain models as the iPhone app, synced over WatchConnectivity with an offline queue.
• Widgets (MommyRefuelWidget) — Home Screen and Lock Screen families, reading a shared snapshot through an App Group.
• Live Activities — a Rest Window / Reset activity with Dynamic Island support, bounded to non-health-state information only.
• Voice input — on-device speech-to-text, with no audio or transcript retention.

All of it routes through one canonical app route shared by widgets, the Watch, App Intents, notifications, and deep links — one source of truth instead of five ad-hoc ones. 114 tests were passing by the end of this commit, up 26 from where the day started this section.

v1.5: a night spent hardening, not adding features

The last stretch of the night, all logged at 23:11, was deliberately not about new features. It was about making sure everything shipped so far was actually solid:

• Corruption-tolerant persistence — each saved field now falls back independently, and arrays decode lossily (dropping only the bad entry), so one malformed field can no longer silently wipe an entire user's saved state.
• A genuinely complete 'Delete Everything' — it now purges the widget and App Group snapshot, the Siri/Shortcuts snapshot, the sync ledger, Watch caches, and Health-connection flags, and ends any running Live Activity. No deleted user's data was left behind anywhere on the device.
• Ukrainian crisis-keyword coverage — localized self-harm language now correctly routes to the crisis screen instead of to the AI, closing a real safety gap in the Ukrainian version (still flagged as needing clinical and native-speaker review, not yet a finished claim).
• Reliable reminder routing and VoiceOver labels for the widget and Watch score, so meaning (not just colour or a bare number) is conveyed on glanceable surfaces.

None of this changed what the app does. It changed how much I could trust that it does it correctly, every time, for every user — which mattered more to me than any new feature would have that night.