Coming soonDate to be announced
A fresh, colorful look
A brighter app, Classes and Departments, repeating events and search from anywhere. It is on its way as soon as Apple approves it.
This is a preview. Plans can change, and nothing here is final until it ships.
- iPhone, iPad and Mac app
- 27.0 (6)
Flux Platform Administration
New
- Reset your operator password with a 6-digit code you type in, as well as the link in the email.
- The Audit Log now shows which operator did what on every row, and exports are described in it too.
- When you ask a school for support access, its Senior Admins can approve it from their phone.
Improved
- Times on the dashboard, the Audit Log and support-access expiry now show their time zone.
- Remove admin, Cancel invite and Remove operator now ask you to confirm first.
- A school's only Senior Admin can no longer be removed or demoted by accident.
- When a form needs fixing, it keeps what you typed and says what to change.
- Long lists, such as the Audit Log and school rosters, now show every entry instead of stopping early.
- Banner start and end times follow your own time zone.
Fixed
- A feature switch that could not save now says "Couldn't save - try again" instead of quietly flipping back.
- Create school and Post banner can no longer be clicked twice by accident.
- Security improvements.
School Administration
New
- Approve or deny a Flux support-access request at the top of Manage Access, on the web or from your phone. Approved access lasts one hour.
- Set up Classes and Departments with schedules and rosters, and repeat calendar events weekly or your own way. Available for schools that have turned them on.
- Import a big roster, up to about 20,000 rows, in one go. Students are saved first and map locations fill in afterward.
Improved
- Student grades now run from Kindergarten through Grade 12 when you add or edit a student.
- Manage Access is now the one place for members, admins and invites. The old Members, Admins and Pending Invites pages point there.
- Manage Access hides the buttons that would not work for a person, such as Change email.
- Deactivated parents no longer get notices, polls and other alerts.
- Audience rules like "Grade 3 except Chess Club" now compare children with children, so the right families are reached.
- If someone's account is removed, the notices and documents they wrote stay, passed on to a school admin.
- Calendar feeds you connect now drop events that were deleted at the source.
Fixed
- Re-importing a roster no longer shows returning students beyond row 1,000 as brand new.
- Security improvements.
Web Application
New
- A new help page with step-by-step guides for signing in and getting started.
- Release notes, right here, with a feed you can follow.
Improved
- The roster and map grade filters now cover Kindergarten through Grade 12.
- Class and organization rosters show the same student row as everywhere else, with photo, link and star.
- Formatted text looks and edits the same on the web and on your phone.
- Permission slip PDFs are laid out straight from your formatted text.
- The Privacy Policy now explains how Flux support access and testing work, in plain words.
Fixed
- Calendar and lunch menu lists no longer stop at 1,000 entries.
- Security improvements.
iPhone / iPad App
New
- A fresh, colorful look across students, staff, calendar, lunch menus, notices and documents.
- Classes and Departments with schedules, rosters and their own pages, for schools that use them.
- Repeating calendar events, with choices to change this event, the following ones or the whole series.
- Search from any list to find students, events, menus, staff, notices and documents, even words inside formatted text.
- Notices and Documents have colorful categories, and urgent notices stand out. Filter Notices by category or Urgent Only.
- If you use an authenticator app, the app asks for your code when you sign in. You will be asked once when you first open this version.
- School Admins can approve or deny a Flux support-access request from the Access screen.
- Attach files when you create a Document.
- Organization Editors can create documents and permission slips for their own organization.
- The school calendar fits on one screen, and events can have a location.
Improved
- Student grades run from Kindergarten through Grade 12.
- Poll and sign-up times show in your own time zone.
- The lock screen has a Use Passcode button for when your face or fingerprint does not match.
- If you turn off your device passcode, the app switches off Face ID unlock and lets you in, with a note.
- Signing out clears more downloaded content from your phone and your Apple Watch.
- A change the school cannot accept while you are offline is set aside with a "Change Not Saved" note, and your note text can be copied.
- The Apple Watch app shows "Open Flux on iPhone" until it has your data, and always shows the latest photos.
- Choices in Shortcuts keep working after you switch schools.
Fixed
- Tapping + in Documents or Sign-ups opens a form and only creates the item when you tap Save.
- Deleting a lunch meal now really deletes it.
- A photo picked while an earlier one was uploading is no longer replaced by the older one.
- Searching a list no longer removes a parent's saved photo.
- Fixed several crashes when something was changed or removed while you were editing it.
- Security improvements.
Known issues
We are working on these.
- On the two-factor screen, 1Password does not show its code suggestion above the keyboard yet. Copy the code in 1Password and paste it in, which works fine.
- School admins still on Build 4: please update before editing formatted text such as notices and documents, because edits made in Build 4 may not be saved. Reading works as before.
For developers
- The Developer Portal is now public: the API reference, the guide, the Design Specification and the MCP page all live at /developer.
- Formatted text is now sent and received only as Delta documents. The plain-text body, description and biography fields are deprecated, read-only copies kept for app builds 4 and earlier, and will be removed. They are ignored in requests.
- You can upload an attachment before the document or notice it belongs to exists. See the API reference.
App Store What's New
The text shown on the App Store for this version.
A fresh, colorful look across students, staff, calendar, lunch menus, notices and documents. New: Classes and Departments with schedules, repeating calendar events, and search from any list that finds students, events, menus, staff, notices and documents. School Admins can approve a Flux support-access request from the Access screen, attach files when creating a Document, and mark Notices urgent or sort them by category. If you use an authenticator app, you will be asked for your code at sign-in. Plus safer offline editing, correct times in your time zone, kindergarten through 12th grade, and a steadier Apple Watch app. Bug fixes and performance improvements across the app as well.