All Platforms

• Documentation — Updated Edit Menu and Keyboard Shortcuts reference manual chapters.
• Notifications — Item titles are now displayed ahead of notification type and date.
• Forecast — Launching OmniFocus with an item selected in Forecast no longer initially shows incorrect outline order.
• Forecast — Completed repeat instances are now placed in the correct order when “Keep Sorted” is turned off.
• Repeats — “Catch up automatically” setting is now appropriately applied to completed instances of a repeating item.

iPhone & iPad

• Performance — Addressed memory leak related to perspective navigation.
• Reminders Capture — Reminders Capture is now automatically disabled if Reminders list designated for capture is deleted.

iPad

• Menus — Duplicate Edit menu option and corresponding keyboard shortcut are now available.
• Perspectives Bar — Adjusted perspective spacing and size of selected perspective indicator.
• Keyboard — Keyboard focus now shifts to Perspectives Bar when selected outline item is scrolled off screen (previously, scrolling caused keyboard selection to shift unexpectedly in outline).
• Keyboard — Tapping an outline row while keyboard focus is active elsewhere now moves keyboard focus to newly selected outline row.
• Keyboard — Keyboard focus is now placed in date field when date popover is opened via bare key shortcut.
• Keyboard — Traversing outline via keyboard no longer sometimes cause outline to display blank.
• Keyboard — Keyboard focus is now restored in outline row after a project or tag is assigned via popover.
• Keyboard — Keyboard shortcuts can now be used to change search scope.
• Keyboard — Keyboard shortcuts now work in Search results.
• Keyboard — Select Mode toolbar is now displayed when Select Mode is activated via keyboard.
• Keyboard — Select Mode is now enabled automatically after Select All keyboard shortcut is invoked.
• Keyboard — Creating a new item via return key while in Select mode now exits Select mode and places keyboard focus in new item’s title field.
• Keyboard — Mark Reviewed keyboard shortcut now consistently advances to next project.
• Keyboard — Keyboard focus now moves to new instance of a duplicated item.
• Keyboard — Fixed buggy behavior deleting last item in an action group via hardware keyboard.

OmniFocus 4.8.12 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

All Platforms

• Custom Perspectives — Improved perspective rule editing reliability, addressing scenarios in which it previously appeared that a rule change needed to be made twice before it took effect.
• Forecast — Improved reliability of Forecast sort order when both calendar events and an item due on a prior date are displayed for a specific day.
• Forecast — Fixed a bug that could cause inaccurate “Keep Sorted” checkbox state.

iPhone & iPad

• Forecast — Date pickover popovers are no longer prematurely dismissed following date change.
• Inspector — Inspector now displays correctly when invoked from Select Mode overflow menu.
• Menus — Contextual menus no longer become temporarily unavailable after a drag & drop actions results in a hierarchy change.
• Outline — Swiping to delete an action group child action no longer cause outline to become misaligned.
• Paste — Paste is now more reliable when clipboard is copied from a source outside OmniFocus.
• Show In… — Fixed a bug that could cause outline to fail to display correct content after invoking Show in Projects, Tags, or Inbox from Search results.

iPad

• Animation — Corrected sidebar open/close animation.
• Navigation Bar — Adjusted placement of Navigation Bar in narrow windows.
• Search — Removed unnecessary gap above search scope options and outline when a search is active.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur switching perspectives while search is active.

OmniFocus 4.8.11 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

All Platforms

• Documentation — Updated “Capture Methods” reference manual chapter.
• Omni Automation — Fixed recently introduced regression setting link styles via Omni Automation.

iPhone & iPad

• Outline — Fixed a bug that could sometime block re-ordering items via drag and drop.
• Outline — Current text insertion point is now more reliably scrolled above on-screen keyboard.

iPhone

• Quick Entry — Keystrokes entered immediately after opening Quick Entry are now captured reliably.
• Quick Open — Addressed slow performance navigating from filtered Quick Open results.
• Tags — Removing an assigned tag no longer temporarily blocks assigning new tags to an item.

iPhone

• Navigation Bar — Expanded Navigation bar no longer animates unexpectedly when Quick Open or Quick Entry is dismissed.
• Navigation Bar — Fixed a recently introduced bug that could block creating new items with Add Here button.

iPad

• Sync — Leaving Quick Open or Quick Entry open in a backgrounded OmniFocus window no longer blocks sync integration.
• Toolbar — Corrected text color of disabled toolbar buttons.

All Platforms

• Flagged — Fixed buggy view filtering in Flagged perspective; Flagged now reliably displays correct items in outline across all platforms.
• Omni Automation — Multiple mutually exclusive tags can no longer be assigned to an item via Omni Automation.
• Sidebar — Perspectives showing remaining items now only show tags in the sidebar for those visible items, rather than also including tags from dropped items.
• Stability — Fixed a crash in the OmniFocus widget.

iPhone

• Search — Search can now be initiated when sidebar is displayed.
• Sidebar — Perspective title is now displayed in sidebar toolbar.
• Keyboard — Using the on-screen keyboard to edit an item now collapses the navigation bar so more of the item is visible.
• Navigation Bar — Adjusted spacing between Navigation Bar and on-screen keyboard.
• Navigation Bar — Fixed a bug that could cause Navigation Bar expansion state to get stuck.
• Navigation Bar — Improved Navigation Bar layout on smaller iPhones.
• Navigation Bar — Navigation Bar no longer animates unexpectedly when navigating to or from Review perspective.
• Navigation Bar — Fixed a slight jitter that could happen when the Navigation Bar expands while scrolling on iOS 26.
• Outline — Fixed a bug that could cause outline scroll position to jump unexpectedly when navigating between outline and Inspector.
• Perspective Title — Fixed some bugs with the appearance of the perspective title when switching between the outline and sidebar.
• Toolbar — Addressed unexpected toolbar button animation and tint.
• Quick Entry — Improved initial character input reliability.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when dismissing Quick Open.

iPad

• Menus — Updated Edit menu.
• Perspectives Bar — Adjusted selection highlight.

OmniFocus 4.8.7 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

All Platforms

• Performance — Addressed memory leaks related to text attributes.

iPhone & iPad

• Sync — App states which transitorily block sync are no longer incorrectly reported as continuing to block sync.
• Sync — Fixed a bug that could cause sync to silently fail after creating items via the Share sheet.
• VoiceOver — Improved VoiceOver rotor reliability on iOS and iPadOS 26.
• VoiceOver — VoiceOver no longer reads navigation bar button labels more than once.
• VoiceOver — Corrected Quick Entry VoiceOver label.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when navigating to a perspective via Quick Open.
• Stability — Fixed a crash on launch that could occur if Search was previously active.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur in the outline.

OmniFocus 4.8.5 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

All Platforms

• Repeats — Repeat rules can now be cleared in rare instances in which the previously configured repeat schedule is corrupted.

iPhone & iPad

• Focus — Focus bar now lays out correctly after Focus is applied.
• Search — Improved reliability of selecting “Show in Projects” or “Show in Tags” for an item returned in Search results.

iPhone

• Navigation Bar — Fixed a bug that could sometimes block re-expanding the Navigation Bar when tapping the current perspective icon.

iPad

• Perspectives Bar — Perspectives Bar is now always scrollable (this change avoids a bug in which tap targets could become misaligned in the Perspectives Bar).
• Keyboard — Corrected position of hardware keyboard selection highlight on iPadOS 26.
• Toolbar — Fixed a bug that could cause toolbar buttons to temporarily draw incorrectly when resizing window.

All Platforms

• Repeats — Improved repeat scheduling logic; repeating items with “Catch up automatically” enabled now maintain regular schedule when skipping past occurrences.
• Perspectives Bar — The contextual menu for the perspectives bar now uses a shorter phrase “Perspectives” to open the editable perspectives list.
• Forecast — Improved Forecast sort order logic to avoid unexpected re-ordering of items following selection change in the outline.
• Repeats — Avoided hang that could occur when calculating “catch up automatically” date over a very long interval of time.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could potentially cause widgets to stop updating.
• Support Tools — Made the anonymizer more robust when data attachments are truncated.

iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro

• Symbols — On OS 26, menus now use the same symbol for the Inspector as the toolbar uses.
• Outline — Fixed a bug that could trigger temporary misalignment of tap targets in the outline.
• Quick Open — “Edit” option in perspective shortcut contextual menu is now functional.
• Search — Duplicating a search result no longer creates more than one item duplicate.

iPhone

• Keyboard — Improved compatibility with third party keyboards on OS 26.
• Navigation Bar — Addressed delay that could sometimes occur displaying Smart Add and Quick Entry buttons in Navigation Bar.

iPad

• Perspectives Bar — Addressed unexpected Perspectives Bar animation when revealing or hiding a sidebar.
• Toolbar — Toolbar buttons are now labeled when displayed in an overflow menu on iPadOS 26.

All Platforms

• Widgets — Widgets and Complications now always reload when app is foregrounded.
• Documentation — Updated in-app Help.

iPhone & iPad

• Quick Open — Quick Open now includes a Perspective Settings button, for quick access to perspectives management.
• Delete — Attempting to delete a project or group when Select mode is enabled no longer triggers “No nodes were deletable” error message.
• Free Viewer — Text is once again legible in Free Viewer mode expectations bar on OS versions prior to OS 26.
• Nearby — “Location” button is now easier to tap.

iPhone

• Navigation Bar — Improved Navigation Bar auto-collapse behavior when viewing a short outline.
• Outline — Perspective title now remains visible when items are selected in the outline.

iPad

• Menus — All perspectives are now listed in Perspectives menu.
• Quick Open — Improved appearance of selection highlight in Quick Open.
• Inspector — Inspector popover now displays correctly in Dark Mode when opened from contextual menu.

iPhone

• Navigation Bar — When the Perspectives Bar is hidden, switching perspectives will now always collapse the Navigation Bar.
• Navigation Bar — Fixed a bug that would cause the Navigation Bar to scroll unnecessarily when switching perspectives.

iPad

• Review Interval — Work around a crash in iPadOS 26 encountered when dismissing the review interval popover. Also improved the popover’s layout.