8.19

• Add Smart Bookmarks: bookmarks now suggest a title and capture the surrounding passage from the episode transcript, mark their spot in the transcript, and anchor their timestamp to the transcript's reference timeline so it stays accurate even when dynamic ads shift the audio #4761
• Add swipe actions to bookmark rows (Share and Delete) in the Player, the podcast screen's Bookmarks tab, standalone Podcast bookmarks, Episode, and Profile bookmark lists #4900 #4912
• Add a Sleep Timer Live Activity so users can see the remaining sleep timer countdown from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. #4949
• Tapping a bookmark's artwork now opens the episode the bookmark was made in #4928
• Fix animations on the podcast screen's Bookmarks tab: rows now animate as they are added, removed and filtered, and highlight when tapped #4904
• Fix bookmark multi-select losing track of a selected bookmark when it was edited or updated by a sync, leaving a wrong selection count and a row that could not be deselected #4913
• Fix the bookmark multi-select long press options: Select all above/below now flip to Deselect all above/below once that range is selected, and are left out for the first and last bookmark #4915
• Fix the podcast screen tabs being clipped when scrolled #4918
• Fix the colors on the Bookmarks screen in Profile: the list no longer shows up as a light gray slab on the dark themes, the whole screen uses one surface, and the search field is legible on every theme #5007
• Fix the About and Legal & More screens not following the app's theme, the Automattic family logos being misaligned, and legal pages (Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Acknowledgements) not expanding beyond the safe area #4887
• Improve playback reliability when starting audio #4938
• Optimize fingerprinting and features that depend on it, including synced transcripts and more #4846, #4847
• [tvOS] Show Episode artworks on player, episode show notes and podcast episode list #4893
• [tvOS] Add a Top Results tab to Search, now the default, showing a Featured row of matching video episodes followed by Episodes and Podcasts rows. The Episodes tab leads with the same Featured row whenever a search turns up video episodes #4926