The dashboard is metrics only, and it tracks your nutrition now
The dashboard was doing two jobs: showing you where you stand, and offering you today's workout. The workout half was a second front door to something Workout already does better — it can swap exercises, regenerate the plan and start the session, none of which the dashboard card could. So the dashboard is now purely a reading of your day, and starting a session lives in one place. Nothing is lost: today's plan and its estimated length still appear in the "Where you stand today" panel, and everything the card linked to is on Workout or Programs. In its place is a nutrition tile, because what you've eaten today is a real metric worth a glance. It shows today's calories and protein against your targets, with a calculated calorie target shown as a range rather than a falsely precise number, plus your 7-day protein average. If you track weight only, it shows your latest weigh-in, your goal, and your actual weekly trend with how many weigh-ins that's based on — and no calorie or macro numbers at all. If you've turned nutrition off, there's no tile. Nothing logged yet says so, rather than showing a zero against your target. The location switcher has gone from the dashboard for the same reason — the dashboard reports, it doesn't configure. Which location you're training at is still shown in the "Where you stand today" panel, and you can still change it for one session in Quick Check-In or permanently in Settings.
Resuming a workout is always one tap away
If you have a session in progress, you'll now see a way back into it from anywhere in the app, not just the dashboard. On a computer it's pinned at the top of the left-hand menu; on a phone the Workout tab reads "Resume" and the More menu carries it too. It disappears when you don't have a session running. This matters most when a session is open on another device — you can pick it up from whatever page you happen to be on.
Easy weeks now end, and they're not as light as they were
An easy week could start and never finish. If one movement had a few rough sessions in a row, the app dropped the whole session into recovery mode — and because recovery sessions don't count toward judging your progress, the reason it started could never clear. Some people would have stayed there indefinitely, watching every session come back at 60% with half the sets and no way out. That's fixed: an easy week now lasts a week and ends on its own, and a normal session always follows one. Three more changes came with it. An easy week's weights are lighter by about 15% rather than 40%, which is what the research on deloading actually supports — you'll still notice it's easier, especially with half the sets, but it'll feel like your training rather than a different workout. One movement going badly now only steps that movement back about 10%; the rest of your session runs normally. It takes two rough sessions to count, not three. And if you're new to lifting you'll no longer get an automatic easy week on a schedule — the evidence says beginners don't benefit from one, so yours will only come when your training actually calls for it.
Machine and cable lifts are sized on machine research now
Machines and cables behave differently from free weights — you can usually get more reps out of a given percentage of your max. The app knew that for isolation moves like a triceps pushdown, but the bigger machine lifts were quietly borrowing the barbell version's numbers. The leg press in particular was being sized off the back squat, even though the research the app uses was measured on a leg press. Movements like the leg press, hack squat, machine chest press and lat pulldown now use the machine research. What this changes for you: if you've trained the barbell equivalent and are new to one of these machines, your suggested starting weight will be a bit higher — still deliberately conservative, and still yours to change. If you're brand new with no history, nothing changes. If you're already training one of these, your next weight doesn't change either, since that follows what you last lifted. Free weights are untouched. Beginners are still held to the same safety cap on very heavy low-rep sets.
The split chooser on your check-in is a dropdown too
When Quick Check-In became one line per question, the workout-split card above those questions was left as it was — five stacked split options plus up to six more for training a different day, which on a phone pushed the questions themselves below the fold. Both are now single rows showing your current choice: your rotation with its day order, and either "Follow schedule" or the one-off day you picked. Nothing about how they save changed, and both rules stay readable without opening either list — completing your scheduled day advances your rotation, any other day is for today only and leaves it where it is. Two trades: picking a split or a one-off day now takes two taps instead of one, and you can no longer compare all four rotations side by side on the check-in screen. Profile still shows all four laid out, which is the better place to compare them anyway.
Your screen stays awake, and rest tells you what's next
Four changes to the rest timer. Your screen no longer sleeps mid-session, on phones that support it. The alert now lands when rest actually ends rather than when you next pick the phone up — if your phone was asleep through the end of rest, you get it the moment you look. Your phone buzzes when a set is logged, buzzes three times when you finish an exercise, and gives a long buzz when rest is over. And the bar now tells you what's coming — the movement, which set of how many, and the target weight and reps, or the hold in seconds — plus it says when you're on the session's last set. The −30s, +30s and Skip buttons are full-size thumb targets now, and the countdown is announced to screen readers. Two small things you might notice: the "Rest" label sits beside the countdown instead of above it, and the bar is a couple of pixels taller.
Effort is a phrase now, not a number to type
Logging how hard a set was meant tapping a box and typing a number, which opened your phone's number pad over the rest of the screen. Pick a phrase instead — several more, a few more, a couple more, one more, or nothing left. One tap, no keypad. Set apart below those is "Couldn't finish the reps", for when the target itself was too much; choosing it records that set as a failed set. If you want to give an exact number it's still there behind a small Exact toggle on each set, and a number you type wins over the phrase. Warm-up rows now say in words that effort isn't logged on them. Each set row is a little taller as a result, so a session's list is longer than before.