Changelog
Seven days of features and improvements from the full Murph archive.
Choose how Murph talks, pick a stronger model on Edge, and make group challenges more creative. Conversations also got faster, browser handoffs recover more cleanly, and missing wearable history is less likely to stay missing.
New features
Choose Murph's texting tone and voice-memo voice during onboarding or from Settings. In a private chat, you can also set Humor, Push, and Detail anywhere from 0 to 10.
The three conversation dials persist across future chats, while safety, privacy, and the facts always take priority over style.
How Murph talks
Texting tone
Voice memo
Humor · Push · Detail
Edge members can switch Murph from the default GPT-5.6 Terra model to GPT-5.6 Sol in Settings, then switch back whenever they want.
Members who are not on Edge can now see the model choice and the upgrade path in the same place.
Model
EdgeGPT-5.6 Terra
Default
GPT-5.6 Sol
Stronger reasoning
Murph can turn group photos and running jokes into comic-strip standings, write an intro song, and help the group choose stakes that are playful without becoming reckless.
The group's agreed rules, photos, jokes, and daily dispatches stay attached to the challenge so the bit can keep building over time.
iMessage · Sunday crew
Week 2 standings, remixed from the group chat
The iPhone companion now picks up WHOOP Recovery scores and workout Strain values that Apple Health stores but ordinary sync can miss.
The enrichment is bounded to those two values and joins the same private health record as the rest of your wearable data.
WHOOP via Apple Health
Recovery
Workout Strain joins the same private record.
Improvements
If a private browser handoff expires, your next message can let Murph pick the task back up instead of leaving the browser session stuck.
Fresh handoff links are now guaranteed to reach the reply, and the live page no longer fights the browser over its viewport.
Murph does less unrelated maintenance before answering, keeps the typing indicator alive after a progress note, and keeps internal working commentary out of member messages.
A successful activity import can no longer make Murph assume your missing sleep history is complete. Historical sync now checks each kind of data independently and retries bounded gaps.
The evidence window also stays anchored to the period Murph actually requested, so older records do not create a false picture of recent coverage.
Murph now confirms that an iMessage thread is a group before planning a reply, so a group conversation cannot accidentally fall into someone's private onboarding flow.
Murph gained focused playbooks for the health questions people actually ask, learned when to offer a useful next step, and stopped recommending setup you already finished.
New features
Murph now has focused guidance for cardio fitness, body composition, cardiometabolic health, circadian rhythm, focus, hormonal health, daily activity, fatigue, digestion, HRV, supplements, mobility, recovery, sleep, and substance load.
Each playbook starts with your own context and data, names when the evidence is thin, and keeps clinician handoffs clear for questions that should not be improvised in chat.
When a conversation clearly points to something Murph can take off your plate, it can now offer one concrete next step instead of waiting for you to know the feature exists.
Offers stay bounded and situational: one relevant call, browser task, experiment, connection, reminder, or group setup, never a menu or a sales pitch.
Ask Murph how to improve your deep sleep and it now opens with what your own data says, instead of a tip list you could have gotten anywhere. Weekly automations got quieter and sharper, the images Murph makes are kept for later, and Apple Health finally shows up on the connect page.
New features
Ask how to fix your deep sleep and Murph leads with what it found in your wearable trends, vault, and memory, or asks the couple of questions it needs before answering.
When the picture is too thin to beat a generic answer, Murph says so and gathers what's missing rather than guessing at advice that happens to sound personal.
iMessage
Once a week Murph looks for a single clearly fixable thing in your data, like low deep sleep or no strength training, and offers to work on it with you. Most weeks it stays quiet.
iMessage · Tuesday
Every image Murph generates, including a group chat photo, is saved to your vault, so you can ask for a variation later instead of starting from scratch.
iMessage · Sunday crew
Variation on the saved group photo
Improvements
The weekly digest and the research scout used to read your dashboard back to you. Now an ordinary week sends nothing, and a note only goes out when it has something you'd remember.
Weekly digest
ordinary weeks stay silent
Apple Health now appears on the connect page with its real status from your iPhone, instead of being left off the list while its data was already flowing in.
Wearables
When Apple Health forwards a hollow copy of a night your WHOOP already recorded, Murph now reads the WHOOP record instead of reporting zero deep and REM sleep.
Deep sleep, same night
WHOOP record, not the empty copy
A 30-second song used to cram a full verse and chorus into the time and come back sung double-time. Murph now writes to a word budget that matches the duration.
iMessage
Up and out
Murph · ElevenLabs · 0:30
If the number you text Murph on changes, scheduled reminders now arrive where you actually are instead of failing against the route they were set up on.
Your preferred name lives in Murph's memory now, so group chats introduce you by it and existing accounts get it filled in without being asked again.
A burst of more than ten messages in a group chat used to leave the later ones waiting for the next wake-up. Every message now reaches Murph while it's already awake.
Messages in a group burst
no waiting for the next wake-up
If your AI allowance runs out mid-conversation, the message you sent is held and answered when the limit resets, and the notice about it goes out exactly once.
Joining a group is less reading: trimmed copy throughout, and the consent box only asks for the agreement you haven't already given.
Murph stops quote-replying your texts, the typing bubble works in group chats again, image generation waits longer before giving up, and a skipped device sync retries instead of waiting a day.
Fixed this week
Murph now texts in a few short bubbles instead of one wall of text. Experiments keep their own score: workouts from your watch count automatically, and sessions Murph can't sense (sauna, tretinoin, supplements) count as done unless you say otherwise. Plus a weekly health newsletter for your group, group renames and photos, and faster answers when you interrupt background work.
New features
On iMessage and Telegram, a reply now arrives as two or three short bubbles instead of one block of text, with the question last and nothing after it.
iMessage
A running experiment counts the sessions your watch already recorded and never asks you to log them. One Murph can't sense, like sauna or tretinoin, counts each planned session as done by default; say you skipped a day and it flips with one message.
Progress shows how Murph knows: sensed from a wearable, confirmed by you, or assumed on schedule. Results that rest mostly on assumed sessions read one confidence level lower, with the reason stated.
How Murph scores it
From inside a group chat, ask Murph to set up a weekly health newsletter. It emails one shared digest to everyone who opted in, celebrating wins and nudging gently, in the tone the group picks.
It reads only the stats members already share into the group, never texts anyone's address to the model, and waits out an opt-out window before the first edition instead of sending right away.
The crew, this week
Dana logged 6 workouts, a season high.
Everyone's sleep held above 7 hours except Fridays.
Nobody's touched the step goal yet, so that's the dare for next week.
Ask Murph in a group chat to rename it or set the group photo and it changes the real iMessage chat. It can draw the picture or use one someone already sent.
iMessage · Sunday crew
Sunday Crew · set as group photo
A group challenge can now ask for the exact daily number it needs, like running distance or strength sessions, and each person approves that one number before anything is shared.
Murph never sees routes or raw workouts for a challenge, only the bounded daily total the challenge was built on.
Sunday Crew asks to score
Improvements
Murph now asks who the group newsletter is for, what belongs in it, and what to call it rather than inventing a name and creating it on the spot.
The weekly note from Murph now carries what shipped every other week, and in the off weeks it surfaces a feature you have not tried yet.
Your weekly note
The hero phone on the homepage now morphs from a one-on-one thread into a group chat mid-demo, and the page explains challenges and the group newsletter for anyone who does not watch it.
Asking Murph to text you a PDF from your vault used to end with Murph saying it sent one that never showed up. Attachments deliver over iMessage now, and a failed send is reported instead of claimed.
PDF document
Delivered · 2 pagesBloodwork — Jun 2026
When the connection to the model goes silent mid-reply, Murph gives up and reconnects after 90 seconds instead of sitting there for five minutes.
Recovery from a silent connection
then it reconnects and answers
Text Murph while it's mid background task, a scheduled scan or a big import, and it now stops and answers you right away instead of finishing the chore first. The background work retries on its own later.
Interrupt during background work
your text preempts the chore
When your AI allowance runs out, Murph finishes the reply in flight and then tells you once, instead of going quiet until you text in days later and get turned away.
On iMessage the typing indicator used to vanish a second or two before Murph's message arrived. It now holds until the reply actually sends, and replies land a touch sooner too.
iMessage
Inviting someone to your family plan is now one screen: name first, a single contact field that switches between Messages, email, and Telegram, and far less fine print. The privacy line always matches what you actually entered.
After a wearable links up, the confirmation screen now reliably shows the connected source and a Text Murph button, even when the browser replays the callback or a fresh sign-in hasn't caught up yet.
Murph got a dedicated playbook for writing music prompts, so the songs it generates for reminders, challenges, and celebrations land closer to the genre and mood it's going for.
Group chats can now run multi-day challenges with Murph as referee, complete with daily standings in rotating formats. Friends can join a group just by liking Murph's message, family invites work over plain texting, workouts from your wearable count toward experiments, and replies got faster and steadier across the board.
New features
A group chat can now run a multi-day challenge start to finish: Murph negotiates the metric, kicks off with intros and photos, posts one daily standings drop in a rotating format (text, comic, voice memo, song, or ruling), and settles the stakes at the close.
Challenge state lives on a knowledge page in the group's vault, so rules, stakes, and standings survive any reset. Kickoff photos stay usable in generated images on every later day of the challenge.
iMessage · Sunday crew
Day 3 standings
Theo 9,412 steps · Will 8,730 · Sam 7,915
An invite bound to a phone number leads with Continue in Messages: the invitee sends one prefilled text to Murph's line and they're in. Telegram is only offered when the invite is actually bound to a Telegram username.
Invites with no binding can be claimed by whoever holds the link, but only through an explicit act: sending the join text, opening the deep link, or tapping Accept after signing in. The plan owner gets a heads-up when someone joins.
Messages
A running or cycling experiment now counts the sessions your watch already recorded, so four in-window runs read as 4 of 7 expected instead of 0 logged. Existing experiments heal immediately, no re-setup.
Running block adherence
same watch data, now counted
When Murph opens a group, anyone who already has Murph can join and share the stats that message names just by liking it. A tapback like or a 👍 is the whole handshake, no web page.
iMessage · Run club
Improvements
Scheduled nudges now rotate their angle: a plain cue one day, a question or a tiny fallback version the next, sometimes a callback, a light challenge, or a song. Same frequency, more reasons to actually read them.
iMessage
A group's Murph now stays alive as long as anyone in the room has an active Murph, not just the person who set it up, and keeps replying when members are added or removed instead of wedging into a silent retry loop.
A group now survives
Trimmed the wake path end to end: a leaner cold start, a reused warm connection to the runtime, a direct fast-path wake for texts, and quick follow-ups now get picked up by the still-warm runtime instead of waiting minutes.
Warm wake round trip
plus a leaner cold start and direct wake
Murph now durably marks a text answered the moment the reply is delivered, so a runtime restart or an overlapping wake can't replay the same answer twice.
When a wearable syncs after a day or more offline, Murph no longer narrates the days-old sleep and workouts in the backfill. Anything that ended more than 24 hours before the sync stays quiet.
Murph no longer re-pushes its contact card to people who already saved it, so the name and photo you chose stop getting overwritten. Settings gains a row to swap Murph's character and re-download the card whenever you want.
Invites, group joins, experiments, and biomarker pages now unfurl with their own preview images in iMessage and social. An invite says you're invited, an experiment shows its actual title.
The 180-day history import that runs when you connect a device now re-runs itself after any failure, and connections that never completed one get a one-time repair pass.
Improvements
The 180-day historical import at connect time now re-runs automatically after any lost or failed attempt. No reconnect, no support ping, and connections that never finished one get a one-time repair pass.
Failed history import
180 days of history, recovered automatically
Group chats get personal: Murph addresses members by their preferred names and challenges can run on steps, workouts, and heart-rate zones. Plus a batch of first-touch fixes across invites, sign-up, and device connects.
New features
Joining a group now introduces you by the name you told Murph during onboarding. Murph addresses each member by their preferred name and attributes shared stats to the right person instead of re-asking.
iMessage · Sleep league
Group challenges now support member-approved sharing for steps, activity minutes, workouts, heart-rate-zone minutes, strain, VO2 max, resting heart rate, HRV, and more. Each is a bounded daily stat you approve explicitly, never raw health data.
Shareable challenge stats
Improvements
During a slow turn, a big lab upload or a long lookup, Murph's mid-turn progress updates now actually reach your chat instead of silently disappearing while you wait.
iMessage
Access checks now understand family sponsorship on every path, so a sponsored member's group-chat message gets answered instead of silently dropped.
After you create a family invite, the dialog stays open, says plainly that Murph did not text the invitee, and gives you the link to share yourself.
If your browser redelivers the connect callback after a wearable links up, you now land back in the app showing the connected state instead of a bare connection-failed page.
Text Murph seconds after signing up and the queued welcome message now steps aside once real conversation has started. Silent signups still get the welcome as before.