New Features and Enhancements * Supports Multitasking with a single window to support split-view, etc. Portrait screen orientation is now supported. (You can lock rotation to restrict the app to landscape.) * Adds ability to AirDrop History data and summary via a share sheet. * Introducing Sentence Navigator! This new Multi Word search navigator has been added to the Search Feature . It will guide you to each word you enter in the search field. Seamlessly model phrases and sentences with a single search! Tap and hold on the arrow to treat the search text as a single entity, ex. “Grand Canyon”. * New option to add audio spoken in the SfY app to a phone or FaceTime call. Note that this feature should not be relied upon in an emergency. * Adds Mail to the Share (Airdrop) Vocabulary share sheet. * Adds a share icon to the navigation bar in Backup Vocabulary to display a share sheet. * Adds a document picker option to restore a vocabulary backup via a navigation bar icon in Restore Vocabulary. * Edit now uses the standard system photo picker. * Smart Punctuation (quotes and dashes) is turned off automatically when creating a user name, when searching for a symbol in Edit, when entering words in QWERTY, and in the Search Feature, to standardize the punctuation for proper searching. * The app will appear full screen in Assistive Access. * Supports iOS 15.6 and later. Bug Fixes * Fixed Dropbox bug that caused “Can’t Link to Dropbox” error message. Note that now you can use the new functionality in Vocabulary Backup and Restore to access your Dropbox backups. * Fixed smart albums bug on iOS 18 when selecting a photo in Edit by replacing the current functionality with the standard system photo picker. * Fixed search bug in Search feature when Smart Punctuation is ON on the device that might prevent words containing apostrophes from appearing in search results. Ex. “don’t”. * Fixed search bug in Edit symbol search when Smart Punctuation is ON on the device that might prevent words containing apostrophes from appearing in search results. * The User Flip title now respects the user’s text size setting. * Fixed bug in message window layout. * QWERTY symbol dimensions in the message window now match the size of other symbols in the message. Only available on iOS 16 and above * The option menu when you tap and hold on the arrow in the Search Feature.

* Adds new search scope buttons for the symbol search in Edit, similar to the buttons in Word Search. * Minor changes in the Dropbox alert messages displayed.

*This version adds the ability for the user to activate buttons on the initial tap instead of the release. *Performance improvements and minor bug fixes

This update adds the ability to customize the search feature indicator. You can now: * change the border color * animate the border * change the shape and width of the indicator and  * dim the background words This update is largely to help individuals with visual challenges and contrasting background colors, but as we know, improving accessibility for one group helps us all.

We’re so excited for the additions to this update and think you will be too! * Diversity character selection - you can select one of the Smarty Symbols (c) characters, and the app will use that character when there’s an option. * Personal voices can be used to Speak for Yourself! On devices running iOS 17 and above, you can create and use a personal voice in the app. * Page sharing! You can now share and import the beautiful custom vocabulary pages you’ve created. Go to Vocabulary and scroll down to “import a page” and “share a page.”

This version updates the symbols to high definition Smarty Symbols(R)! First, no vocabulary has been harmed in the creation of this update. Every word in the app is still in the exact same place as it has been since the app was released in 2011. If you’ve moved and added words, your individual vocabulary will also be in the exact same place. BUT the symbols are changing. As much as possible, we’ve chosen the high definition equivalent to the existing symbols. If that wasn’t possible, we chose the new Smarty Symbol for the word. We know a lot of people are sensitive to change, and we haven’t taken that lightly. We’ve updated the symbols for 3 main reasons. 1. Diversity Barbara Fernandes and the wonderful Smarty Symbols team have created characters to allow for more diverse skin tones and ages. It’s long overdue for us to include this new symbol library. 2. High definition quality The new symbols are crisp and clear and also allow for better quality screen shots and printed materials. These new symbols will also match the symbol library on the Smarty Symbol website. So, if you’re looking to create support materials, you can search by the category or file name of the SfY symbol to find them on the Smarty Symbols website. 3. Larger symbol library This update increases the symbol library from 11,000 to 31,000 symbols. You can still take pictures and choose photos from your camera roll, but now there are an additional 20,000 symbols to choose from as well.

1. Words in a message now may be edited. To edit a message, long-press or double-tap a word to display a cursor to the right of the word, then add or delete words. After speaking an utterance, the cursor is positioned automatically at the end of the utterance and hidden. 2. Separate play/pause and stop buttons replace the single play/pause button to make it easier to control speech. 3. Added a button to hide/show the navigation bar on late-model iPhones that have notches. The previous swipe gestures work as before. 4. "Squished" is automatically renamed to "squirted" when fetching all existing vocabularies and when restoring the factory vocabulary.This was a weird typo that we fixed. 5. When the “I” core word is linked to a second page, selecting “i” on the second page results in displaying an upper case “I” in the message. 6. Documents such as the Programming Guide and AACtion Plan now display in the familiar QuickLook interface that displays thumbnails for navigation, allows searching, markup, printing, and saving a copy of the document outside of SfY. 7. Restored proper behavior of Manual Whisper Mode. 8. Editing history is now available! Vocabulary added or deleted is now logged to History. 9. When exporting History data, History data entries that don’t have an associated word, such as turning Babble on or off, should leave the first column empty, but did not. This has been fixed. 10. SfY 4.2 requires iOS 13.0 or above. 11. Various bug fixes and minor improvements.

Fixes a bug in 4.0 where adding a word to the message and then quickly tapping delete can result in a crash.

Speak for Yourself 4.0 adds message window segmentation! *This update gives you the ability to “play” and “pause” the message window, highlight words as they’re spoken, and select an individual word from the message window. *Improved appearance of message window: ~Words are lowercase where expected ~First letter in the message is capitalized ~The symbol size now adapts when the text size is changed * Appearance improvements in Edit. Edit now supports dynamic type as set in the Accessibility section of the Settings app. *The search feature guide now blinks for a long time rather than quickly timing out. *Various bug fixes, including crash on launch, and performance improvements.

* This release is intended solely to fix a crash on launch that’s affecting devices managed through a device management system. There is no reason to install it if you aren’t experiencing a crash on launch (as soon as you try to open the app).

* Bug fix that affected voice download percentage accuracy

Minor bug fixes and improvements.

* Unlocked FAMILY and FEEL pages to make them editable * Dark mode is now supported within the Speak for Yourself app * User interface and appearance improvements * Bug fixes

* Added a “Done” button to navigation bar when in QWERTY to address dismissing hardware keyboard issue. * Implemented support for large nav bar titles. * Fixed bug in QWERTY where the previous word in the MW would be deleted when exiting QWERTY with empty text. * Implemented toggle between displaying the app version or build number in the settings within the app.

- Fixes bugs that caused word and symbol searches to crash on iOS 14.   - Overall compatibility improvements for iOS 14.

- Supports swipe down to dismiss sheets in iOS 13. - Updated to improve compatibility with iOS 13.

Fixes a crash when taking a photo while in Edit on certain iPhones.

* Bug fix that affected message window sharing.

* This update adds a Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI) vocabulary file with high contrast symbols. * A link to additional high contrast symbols has been added.

* Introducing User Flip! You can now quickly flip between user vocabularies on the main screen of SfY by touching the name at the top of the app. (This feature is locked by default. To unlock it, go to the iPad settings, scroll down to Speak for Yourself, and unlock User Flip.) * Minor bug fixes for optimal iOS 13 compatibility.

* This update introduces SmartSearch to the already industry leading Search feature! SmartSearch allows you to add words that are not found in the vocabulary to the message window and to a list that you can use later to add “unfound” words to your app’s vocabulary - all with a single touch. * New SmartSearch word list in editing allows for faster, more efficient programming. * Programming enhancements in editing that search for symbols based on “word to speak” field. * Improvements to saving and restoring vocabulary files. * Minor bug fixes

* Fixes a bug that causes crashes when “Vocabulary” is selected on iOS 9.3.5. * This is the last planned update for iOS 9.3.5. SfY will continue to run with this version on iOS 9.3.5. Future updates will require iOS 10.0 and above.

*This version adds English localization. The app will recognize the region and adjust for spelling in that region. * Minor bug fixes and improvements

*This update adds a Project Core vocabulary template to the settings of the app. This allows individuals who have been using the Project Core board to transition to Speak for Yourself with the same 36 core words. *Minor spacing improvements to the history feature.

* The Learning to Speak AACtion Plan PDF has been added to the settings of the app. * The settings within SfY have been organized and headings were added.