Writing on a phone just got a proper toolbar. A single row of controls now sits directly above the on-screen keyboard, with bold, italic, underline, lists, quotes, undo and redo always within thumb reach — and a dedicated line-break button, which is the one thing a phone keyboard simply cannot do on its own. Tap Aa at the left for everything else: headings, alignment, tables, scene breaks, checklists and more, grouped and labelled.
A sweep across every screen on a phone turned up a handful of things worth fixing. The Compile, Share and feedback windows had a close button that sat underneath the camera notch on newer iPhones and could not be tapped at all — the only way out was to force-quit the app. That is gone. Find, Quick jump and Version history had no way in on a phone and now live in the formatting panel. The Tome theme had pale text on gold buttons that was hard to read, and turning your phone sideways no longer clips the top bar.
Two more, away from the phone. Dragging a folder above a scene in the binder now stays where you put it, instead of springing back below. And if you leave the same document open in two places — a laptop and a phone, say — the app now notices before one copy can quietly overwrite the other, and asks which one you want to keep.
How to use it
On a phone, tap into any document and start writing. The toolbar appears above the keyboard as soon as it opens, and stays put while you type. The ↵ button towards the right inserts a line break inside the same paragraph — useful for poetry, addresses and song lyrics, and something a phone keyboard cannot otherwise do.
Tap Aa at the left of that bar to open the full formatting panel. Everything is grouped the way it is on a computer — text styles, formatting, lists and alignment, things to insert, and view controls including Find, Quick jump and Version history. Tap Done to close it, or the wide chevron at the right of the bar to put the keyboard away.
If you write on more than one device, watch for a window titled "This document changed somewhere else". It means the same document was saved in two places and the two copies have drifted apart. Nothing has been lost when you see it: the window shows both copies side by side, with the words that appear in only one of them, so you can tell which is which. Pick the one to keep. If you are unsure, keep what is on your screen — the other version stays available in Version history.