Upcoming 4.0

Countdowns you share

Invite the people who are coming with you. Everyone sees the same number, the same stub, the same date — and everyone’s avatar shows up on it. A shared countdown lives in iCloud, so it stays in sync without anyone signing up for anything.

The hype thread

Every shared countdown has a thread. Post a photo of the tickets, a note about who’s bringing what, an emoji reaction to somebody else’s. Photos sync properly, so people genuinely see each other’s pictures rather than a placeholder.

A home screen made of ticket stubs

Each countdown is a tear-off stub — number on the left, the thing you’re waiting for on the right. They roll over at midnight on their own, without you relaunching the app.

Milestone moments

At 100, 50, 30, 10, 7 and 1 sleeps — and on the day itself — Upcoming stops what it’s doing and tells you. Once per launch, and never twice for the same occurrence.

Keepsakes

A countdown that reaches zero used to just vanish. Now it becomes something you keep.

Live stickers

Send a countdown into a conversation and it keeps counting there, in someone else’s chat, updating itself every morning.

Notification tone

Chill, Playful or Unhinged. It rewrites the copy of every reminder the app sends you.

And the rest of it

• Onboarding, create, edit, detail, import, contacts, settings and the paywall — all redrawn.
• Every widget family, including the lock-screen accessories.
• iPad gets a real two-column layout instead of a stretched phone.
• iCloud sync is no longer behind Upcoming Pro. It could not stay there — sharing needs it. Existing subscribers lose nothing.