Changelog
Latest
Version 2.0.2
This release includes a number of bug fixes and improvements to Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ, including:
- Support for “deezer.page.link” short links.
- Support for “tidal.com/browse” links.
- Fix for a newly added item not immediately appearing under its filter.
- Fix for Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ not handling AirDropped links correctly.
- Improved performance when using a short link with Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ.
- Search results will sort regardless of the number of results.
- Search results show “Opened on” instead of “Added on”.
- Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ preserves ‘+’s in titles when quickly sharing with a service.
- Appearance settings shouldn’t refer to app icon on macOS.
- Light grey for artist and podcast name text.
- Lighter grey for date text and song/album/podcast symbol.
- Smaller fonts for song/episode and artist/show text in open/share in/with Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ view.
- Smaller font for service buttons.
- Smaller fonts when viewing How to, Version History, Privacy Policy, or Terms of Service pages.
- Show MacOS and iOS Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ+ features on both platforms.
- Added a new line after the Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ link when sharing a podcast with the title.
Table of Contents
- Version 2.0.1
- Version 2.0
- Version 1.6.2
- Version 1.6.1
- Version 1.6
- Version 1.5.2
- Version 1.5.1
- Version 1.5
- Version 1.4.5
- Version 1.4.4
- Version 1.4.3
- Version 1.4.2
- Version 1.4.1
- Version 1.4
- Version 1.3.5
- Version 1.3.3
- Version 1.3.2
- Version 1.3.1
- Version 1.3
- Version 1.2.13
- Version 1.2.12
- Version 1.2.11
- Version 1.2.10
- Version 1.2.9
- Version 1.2.8
- Version 1.2.7
- Version 1.2.6
- Version 1.2.5
- Version 1.2.4
- Version 1.2.3
- Version 1.2.2
- Version 1.2.1
- Version 1.2
- Version 1.1
- Version 1.0.3
- Version 1.0.2
- Version 1.0.1
Update History
Version 2.0.1
This release includes a number of bug fixes and improvements to Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ, including:
- Search in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ defaults to searching services if you don’t have any music or podcasts in your history.
- Minor UI enhancements:
- Adjusted some font weights.
- Added a gradient behind the status bar during onboarding.
- Adjusted the colors of the Grey widget tint in dark and light mode.
- Various changes to the cards shown in the onboarding and Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ+ screens.
- Aligned the appearance of the toggles and pickers on macOS with iOS.
- Added more subscription info to the Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ+ header.
- Minor bug fixes:
- Adjusted the spacing around the filter chips when searching services with an empty history.
- Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ could incorrectly fail to find matches for music across services.
- Choosing “Remind Me” while searching your history could remind you of the incorrect item.
- Tapping artwork while searching your history could open the incorrect item.
- Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ showed the old app icon during onboarding.
Version 2.0
Introducing Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ+
Available as a monthly or yearly subscription, with:
- search across music and podcast services,
- a growing list of custom app icons,
- a new tint color for the Recent History and Quick Actions widgets,
- an additional live activity when opening something in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ,
- and more…
New to Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ 2.0
Smarter search
Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ can find what you meant to type.
Search from Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ’s widgets
You can also touch and hold the app icon, or ask Siri.
Identify songs from Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ’s widgets
New to the recent history widget.
Revamped settings
With a new How to and an option to include the title when copying from Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ.
Updated look and feel
A sleeker, more modern design
Improved accessibility
Text in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ adjusts with your device’s text size
Performance and usability improvements.
Version 1.6.2
- Support for “spotify.link” music and podcast links.
- Improved album artwork loading.
- Improved service matching algorithm.
Version 1.6.1
- Updated look and feel.
- New appearance section in settings for changing Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ’s theme and the Recent History widget’s tint.
- Easily share to some of your favourite messaging and social media services from the more options button when viewing music or podcasts.
- Shortcuts to quickly open in or share with Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ and identify a song from spotlight search or through the Shortcuts app.
- Performance and usability improvements.
Version 1.6
- Updated look and feel.
- New appearance section in settings for changing Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ’s theme and the Recent History widget’s tint.
- Easily share to some of your favourite messaging and social media services from the more options button when viewing music or podcasts.
- Shortcuts to quickly open in or share with Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ and identify a song from spotlight search or through the Shortcuts app.
- Performance and usability improvements.
Version 1.5.2
Shared with You
With Shared with You, you can view the Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ links you’ve received in Messages in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ. To open Shared with You, tap its icon on the left of the Settings icon. For the links to show up automatically, go to Messages in the Settings app, then open “Shared with You” and enable automatic sharing for Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ. If you don’t choose to enable automatic sharing, only the links you’ve pinned will appear in Shared with You. Shared with You is available on iOS 16.
Live Activity
When you’re identifying a song in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ, the progress is shown as a Live Activity in the Dynamic Island (on iPhone 14 Pro or iPhone 14 Pro Max) and on the Lock Screen on iPhone running iOS 16.1 or later.
Widgets
Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ has new widgets:
- Recent History comes in two sizes to view the two or five most recent items you’ve received in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ.
- Quick Actions comes in one size with three actions:
- Open in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ
- Share with Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ
- Identify Song
Open in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ and Share with Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ use the link in your clipboard. Identify Song requires iOS 15 or later.
Open and Listen on Service from Share View
When sharing to Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ from the Share Sheet, you can more easily open and listen to the music or podcast in a supported service from the the More Options button.
Musicboard Lookup
When viewing music, you can view ratings and reviews for the song or album on Musicboard from the More Options button.
History View Design Refresh
The design of the history view (home screen) has been refreshed in small but noticeable ways.
Unified Search
Quickly search the music and podcasts you’ve opened in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ right from the History View.
Expanded Drag and Drop
You can now drag music and podcast links from supported services and drop them into Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ. In addition to dragging music and podcasts’ Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ links from the history view, you can also do the same from Shared with You.
Version 1.5.1
Shared with You
With Shared with You, you can view the Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ links you’ve received in Messages in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ. To open Shared with You, tap its icon on the left of the Settings icon. For the links to show up automatically, go to Messages in the Settings app, then open “Shared with You” and enable automatic sharing for Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ. If you don’t choose to enable automatic sharing, only the links you’ve pinned will appear in Shared with You. Shared with You is available on iOS 16.
Live Activity
When you’re identifying a song in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ, the progress is shown as a Live Activity in the Dynamic Island (on iPhone 14 Pro or iPhone 14 Pro Max) and on the Lock Screen on iPhone running iOS 16.1 or later.
Widgets
Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ has new widgets:
- Recent History comes in two sizes to view the two or five most recent items you’ve received in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ.
- Quick Actions comes in one size with three actions:
- Open in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ
- Share with Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ
- Identify Song
Open in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ and Share with Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ use the link in your clipboard. Identify Song requires iOS 15 or later.
Open and Listen on Service from Share View
When sharing to Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ from the Share Sheet, you can more easily open and listen to the music or podcast in a supported service from the the More Options button.
Musicboard Lookup
When viewing music, you can view ratings and reviews for the song or album on Musicboard from the More Options button.
History View Design Refresh
The design of the history view (home screen) has been refreshed in small but noticeable ways.
Unified Search
Quickly search the music and podcasts you’ve opened in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ right from the History View.
Expanded Drag and Drop
You can now drag music and podcast links from supported services and drop them into Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ. In addition to dragging music and podcasts’ Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ links from the history view, you can also do the same from Shared with You.
Version 1.5
Shared with You
With Shared with You, you can view the Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ links you’ve received in Messages in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ. To open Shared with You, tap its icon on the left of the Settings icon. For the links to show up automatically, go to Messages in the Settings app, then open “Shared with You” and enable automatic sharing for Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ. If you don’t choose to enable automatic sharing, only the links you’ve pinned will appear in Shared with You. Shared with You is available on iOS 16.
Live Activity
When you’re identifying a song in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ, the progress is shown as a Live Activity in the Dynamic Island (on iPhone 14 Pro or iPhone 14 Pro Max) and on the Lock Screen on iPhone running iOS 16.1 or later.
Widgets
Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ has new widgets:
- Recent History comes in two sizes to view the two or five most recent items you’ve received in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ.
- Quick Actions comes in one size with three actions:
- Open in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ
- Share with Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ
- Identify Song
Open in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ and Share with Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ use the link in your clipboard. Identify Song requires iOS 15 or later.
Open and Listen on Service from Share View
When sharing to Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ from the Share Sheet, you can more easily open and listen to the music or podcast in a supported service from the the More Options button.
Musicboard Lookup
When viewing music, you can view ratings and reviews for the song or album on Musicboard from the More Options button.
History View Design Refresh
The design of the history view (home screen) has been refreshed in small but noticeable ways.
Unified Search
Quickly search the music and podcasts you’ve opened in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ right from the History View.
Expanded Drag and Drop
You can now drag music and podcast links from supported services and drop them into Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ. In addition to dragging music and podcasts’ Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ links from the history view, you can also do the same from Shared with You.
Version 1.4.5
- Minor bug fixes and performance improvements.
Version 1.4.4
- Improvements to handling shortened links.
- Minor bug fixes and performance improvements.
Version 1.4.3
- Improvements to sharing.
- Minor bug fixes and performance improvements.
Version 1.4.2
- You can search for music and podcasts you’ve opened in Shared using Spotlight Search.
- You can set music and podcast reminders from the More Options buttons in your Shared history.
- Shared can open and share supported music and podcast links from short links (e.g. apple.co, t.co, bit.ly).
- Minor bug fixes and performance improvements.
Version 1.4.1
Reminders
Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ can send you notifications to remind you of music and podcasts you open in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ. To create a reminder when viewing media, select Remind Me from the menu revealed by tapping the More Options button.
Safari Extension
Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ has a Safari Extension that opens links from supported services in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ when you tap them or when their pages finish loading. To enable the extension:
- Open Safari
- Tap ᴀA in the address bar
- Scroll to and tap Manage Extensions
- Enable Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ
- Tap Done.
For supported links to open in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ when you tap them—before they load and when you aren’t browsing a supported service—choose Always Allow on Every Website when asked. A list of supported services can be found in the walkthrough in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ’s settings.
More Options Buttons
Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ has added More Options buttons to the history and media view that show options previously only accessible by touch and holding the artwork and by other gestures.
New Convenience Feature
With Convenience purchased, Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ’s reminder notifications include an action to open the song or podcast in your preferred service. To reveal the action, touch and hold the notification.
Song Identification Improvements
Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ can now:
- Identify a song without stopping audio playback on your device.
- Continue identifying a song if you leave the app.
Custom Episode Artwork for Podcasts
When sharing or opening a podcast episode with custom episode artwork, Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ shows the episode artwork instead of the show artwork.
History Sync
Your Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ history is now kept in sync across devices signed into your iCloud.
Data Usage Settings
To reduce data usage, Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ can load a lower-quality version of the music’s artwork in the Media View. Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ can also use the saved artwork thumbnail from the History View in the Media View without reloading the original artwork. There’s also an Auto-Switch option which enables Low Quality Artwork Mode and disables Reload Original Artwork when on Cellular and the opposite when on Wi-Fi. The options are in a new section in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ’s settings.
Miscellaneous
- You now can go to settings in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ to:
- Give Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ an App Store rating.
- View Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ on Instagram and Twitter.
- View an updated Walkthrough.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Version 1.4
Reminders
Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ can send you notifications to remind you of music and podcasts you open in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ. To create a reminder when viewing media, select Remind Me from the menu revealed by tapping the More Options button.
Safari Extension
Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ has a Safari Extension that opens links from supported services in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ when you tap them or when their pages finish loading. To enable the extension:
- Open Safari
- Tap ᴀA in the address bar
- Scroll to and tap Manage Extensions
- Enable Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ
- Tap Done.
For supported links to open in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ when you tap them—before they load and when you aren’t browsing a supported service—choose Always Allow on Every Website when asked. A list of supported services can be found in the walkthrough in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ’s settings.
More Options Buttons
Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ has added More Options buttons to the history and media view that show options previously only accessible by touch and holding the artwork and by other gestures.
New Convenience Feature
With Convenience purchased, Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ’s reminder notifications include an action to open the song or podcast in your preferred service. To reveal the action, touch and hold the notification.
Song Identification Improvements
Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ can now:
- Identify a song without stopping audio playback on your device.
- Continue identifying a song if you leave the app.
Custom Episode Artwork for Podcasts
When sharing or opening a podcast episode with custom episode artwork, Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ shows the episode artwork instead of the show artwork.
History Sync
Your Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ history is now kept in sync across devices signed into your iCloud.
Data Usage Settings
To reduce data usage, Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ can load a lower-quality version of the music’s artwork in the Media View. Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ can also use the saved artwork thumbnail from the History View in the Media View without reloading the original artwork. There’s also an Auto-Switch option which enables Low Quality Artwork Mode and disables Reload Original Artwork when on Cellular and the opposite when on Wi-Fi. The options are in a new section in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ’s settings.
Miscellaneous
- You now can go to settings in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ to:
- Give Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ an App Store rating.
- View Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ on Instagram and Twitter.
- View an updated Walkthrough.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Version 1.3.5
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
Version 1.3.4
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
Version 1.3.3
- Reload service links for music you’ve previously opened in Shared by long pressing the artwork when viewing.
- Added Songlink and Shazam attribution to the walkthrough.
- Minor bug fixes and performance improvements.
Version 1.3.2
- Identify songs playing around you with Shared on iOS 15.
- Long press the Shared app icon for quick actions to:
- Open in Shared
- Share with Shared
- Identify Song
- Use Shortcuts to identify a song in Shared.
- Lyrics load faster when you long press a song’s title.
- Larger artwork when sharing.
- Fixed crash when sharing podcasts from Spotify.
- Fixed Cmd+Return keyboard shortcut behaviour when navigating history.
Version 1.3.1
- Identify songs playing around you with Shared. (iOS 15)
- Long press the Shared app icon for quick actions to:
- Open in Shared
- Share with Shared
- Identify Song
Version 1.3
- Identify songs playing around you with Shared. (iOS 15)
- Long press the Shared app icon for quick actions to:
- Open in Shared
- Share with Shared
- Identify Song
Version 1.2.13
- Shared is now available on the Mac App Store.
- Use handoff to view the music or podcast you’re viewing on another one of your devices.
Version 1.2.12
- Shared is now available on the Mac App Store.
- Use handoff to view the music or podcast you’re viewing on another one of your devices.
Version 1.2.11
- New iPad interface.
- Long press the artwork when viewing music to open in: Amazon Music, Napster, Pandora, SoundCloud, Yandex Music, and YouTube Music.
- Updated Icons.
- Updated selection for preferred music and podcast services.
- Settings Help Section:
- Changelog
- Walkthrough
- Manually set appearance — Switch between system, dark, and light
Version 1.2.10
- View lyrics by long pressing the title when viewing a song in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ.
- Long Press buttons when viewing something and media in the history view to quickly copy and share links.
- New IAP Features for Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ’s Share Sheet Extension:
- View lyrics by long pressing a song’s title
- Quickly share to social media and messaging services by long pressing the Share button
Lyrics
When in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ, you can now view the lyrics of a song in its media view by long pressing the title.
Context Menus
Long press the services in the media view to copy or share a direct link to the service. Long press a song or album when viewing your history to copy or share its Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ link.
Convenience
Open Automagically has been expended and renamed into four convenience features:
-
Always Open in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ:
If you don’t want to tap “Open in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ” in the Share Sheet Extension, you no longer have to. Tapping Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ from the Share Sheet will automatically open in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ.
-
Always Open in Preferred Service:
Opening somehting in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ will always take you to your preferred service.
-
Lyrics from Share Sheet:
Don’t want to open in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ to view the lyrics? Just long press the title in the Share Sheet Extension to view the lyrics on genius.com.
-
Quick Share:
Long Press the Share button in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ’s Share Sheet Extension to quickly share to: Messages, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Twitter, or WhatsApp.
Convenience is an In-App Purchase and any amount gives you access to all four features. If you already paid for Open Automagically, you’ll have access to all four features.
Version 1.2.9
- Tweaked the sharing UI.
- Fixed artwork loading bug.
Version 1.2.8
- Performance Improvements.
Version 1.2.7
- Visual Tweaks.
Version 1.2.6
- Performance and Usability Improvements.
Version 1.2.5
- More Services: Shared now supports Tidal, YouTube, and more.
- Performance and Usability Improvements.
Version 1.2.4
- More Services: Shared now supports Tidal, YouTube, and more.
- Performance and Usability Improvements.
Version 1.2.3
- More Services: Shared now supports Tidal, YouTube, and more.
- Performance and Usability Improvements.
Version 1.2.2
- More Services: Shared now supports Tidal, YouTube, and more.
- Performance and Usability Improvements.
Version 1.2.1
- More Services: Shared now supports Tidal, YouTube, and more.
- Performance and Usability Improvements.
Version 1.2
- More Services: Shared now supports Tidal, YouTube, and more.
- Performance and Usability Improvements.
More Services
In addition to Apple Music, Deezer, and Spotify, Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ now supports:
- Amazon Music
- Napster
- Pandora
- SoundCloud
- Tidal
- Yandex
- YouTube
- YouTube Music
You can open in Apple Music, Deezer, Spotify, Tidal, and YouTube by tapping their buttons. For the other services, change your preferred service in settings and tap the artwork.
Version 1.1
- More Magic.
- Performance and Usability Improvements.
More Magic
Open Automagically has been expanded into two features:
-
Open Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ Automagically:
If you don’t want to tap “Open in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ” from the Share View, you no longer have to. Tapping Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ from the Share Sheet will Automagically open in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ.
-
Open Services Automagically:
This is what used to be called “Open Automagically” and it will still Automagically take you to your preferred service when you open something in Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ.
Open Automagically is an In-App Purchase and any amount gives you access to both features. If you already supported Sʜᴀʀᴇᴆ, you’ll have access to both features.
Version 1.0.3
- You can now choose to exclude the title text when sharing.
Version 1.0.2
- Usability improvements and bug fixes.
Version 1.0.1
- Added explanation why Shared asks for notifications.