The Omni Group fall newsletter

Omni Newsletter Fall 2026 After a really busy summer, we’re ready to harvest the fruits of our labors – which means you get to enjoy the fruits of our labors!! We also have plans for the rest of the year. Check it out. Hey Siri, We’re Ready! Our first priority every summer is updating our applications for compatibility with whatever Apple throws our way at WWDC. After a few exceptionally jam-packed summers—first visionOS, then Apple Intelligence, then Liquid Glass—this summer’s operating system updates were a breath of fresh air! Rather than adapting our products for new major technology launches, this summer reflected an effort to update our apps for some important refinements. We’re pleased to report all of our apps shipped ready for all of Apple’s platform updates (macOS 27 Golden Gate, iOS 27, iPadOS 27, visionOS 27, and watchOS 27), compatible universally across the board. Of course, we also try to go beyond that foundation of basic compatibility, which this summer meant adapting our apps for this year’s refinements to Liquid Glass, while exploring how our apps can best leverage the new capabilities from Apple’s refinements to Apple Intelligence and Siri AI. We’re particularly proud of our September OmniFocus update, OmniFocus 4.9, in which we introduced full support for Siri AI reminder functionality. Our work in OmniFocus 4.9 means that Siri now knows about “reminders” in OmniFocus (i.e. actions and Inbox items), “lists” (i.e. projects) which contain reminders, and any “groups” (i.e. folders) that lists have been organized into. Now that Siri can create and take action on reminders in OmniFocus, you can do things like: Ask Siri to break a goal down into actionable steps. Move a hand-written to do list into OmniFocus with Visual Intelligence. Ask Siri about remaining and recently completed items in your OmniFocus database, since those are now indexed by Spotlight. Ask Siri to take action on the items you’re viewing (apply a flag, or mark as complete), or draft an email summarizing the upcoming work displayed in a perspective. Additional technical details, as well as some of our thoughts on where Siri AI is headed, are outlined in the “Hey Siri, We’re Ready!” blog post! Designed for iPhone Duo The iPhone Duo announcement provided little time to design for this intriguing new device. Truth be told we love a good challenge, such as the various ways one can interact with it. And while it’s true that we have a long and rich history of being ready on Day One for a new platform (even without touching it first), the handful of weeks to design for it properly was really quite something. Because of its folding nature, the iPhone Duo is like six devices in one—there’s the tent layout, the book layout, the laptop layout, plus the new Split Screen modes, the iPad mini layout, and ultimately it’s really been an engaging design journey in that regard. It lent itself to some interesting, dynamic adaptations for sidebars and inspectors. If you’re lucky enough to have an iPhone Duo on its way, OmniFocus and OmniOutliner are ready for you, along with the OmniGraffle 8 TestFlight. Since they were designed specifically for the iPhone Duo, they efficiently display content and controls on the compact outer display, adapt to the unique layout of the spacious interior display, and are ready to multitask alongside another app in Split View. It would have been difficult to do all this without our investment in SwiftUI, which continues to pay dividends. From the Omni Labs: Refining OmniGraffle 8 Development of OmniGraffle 8 for Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Vision Pro continues apace, with test builds for almost all platforms now available (look for OmniGraffle 8 for visionOS in TestFlight soon!). In recent OmniGraffle 8 test builds, we’ve built out Canvas Styles, which replaced and improved upon the functionality previously provided by themes. Customization of objects using Canvas Styles can be managed in the new Style Overrides P