Pulled the App Store numbers for the first time in a while. Two of them stood out.
42.8% of installs are on iPad
Higher than I expected. I assumed this was mostly a phone app. The terminal app for iPad page covers the iPad setup, Magic Keyboard and trackpad included.
13-inch iPad Pro M4, landscape orientation
435 v5 updates in six days
v5.0 went live on 26 July. 435 devices updated in the six days after.
What those 435 devices got
v5.0 was the biggest release so far. The parts that matter most for agent work:
Voice Drop. Tap the mic on the keyboard toolbar and your words go straight into the agent. On-device Siri transcription by default, or bring your own free Groq API key for whisper-large-v3-turbo.
Image paste. Copy a screenshot from any app, or multi-select from Photos, and it uploads to the server for the agent to read.
Agent to clipboard. Ask the agent to write an email, say "copy that to my clipboard", then paste it into your mail app. Opt in via Settings.
Droplet Visualizer. Every live session becomes a droplet on a pyramid you can spin and page through.
A text selection mode with long-press word select, an editable keyboard toolbar with sticky Ctrl, tab names that sync with Tmux, Nerd Font support (FiraCode and JetBrains Mono), and a family of five-dot sound cues you can switch off in Settings.
Shipped later in August
Two more releases landed before the month was out.
5.1.2, 15 August. Close Tab in the terminal tap-and-hold menu. Cmd+V and trackpad right-click paste straight into the terminal on an iPad with a hardware keyboard. Connections that die after a VPN switch are detected and reconnected automatically, and auto-reconnect re-attaches your Tmux session and reflows the terminal to full width.
5.1.3 and 5.1.4, 31 August. Camera roll mode for the paperclip: switch it on and a plain tap opens your camera roll, while tap and hold brings up the file, image and video menu. Tmux auto-attach also explains itself when it cannot find your session, and points you at the one-time server setup in Settings.
Every release, with dates, is on the release notes page.
Using v5?
What features are we missing? What can we do to really help your speed and productivity?
