Birthday Boss5.4 - App Store

Have you ever forgotten someone special's birthday? Do you remember that rush of panic when you realize that today is your anniversary and you don't have any present or plans? And what about those times when you should have made that call to comfort a loved one on the anniversary of someone's passing? With Birthday Boss it will NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.

* Keep all of your important birthdays, anniversaries, deaths, and other annual events in one place, and see what’s coming up next in a simple scrolling list or traditional calendar-style display.

* Import events quickly from your address-book contacts or add events manually for people who are not in your contacts; all you need is a name, month, and day.

* Group your items using the built-in ‘Family’, ‘Friends’, and ‘Work’ groupings or create your own custom groups.

* Get pop-up reminders on the day of each event and add additional advance notifications as needed.

* Add yearly history logs for events to help with advance planning or recording previous gifts and activities.

* See how old someone will be on their birthday or what anniversary it is, with configurable milestones to highlight those extra-special times.

* Easily share event details with standard sharing tools for email, text, print, and more.

* Send a quick ‘Happy Birthday’ email or text message directly from within the app.

* Find items quickly with search or use the assigned groups to filter what items are shown.

* Use the included Home Screen widgets to customize your device display and make your entered events available at-a-glance without even launching the app!

Birthday Boss makes staying on top of all of those birthdays, anniversaries, and deaths a breeze. One app for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.

Version History * Interim Partial Fix for iOS 26 Data Loss Issues:
- iCloud Sync functionality disabled on devices running iOS 26+
- Existing on-device data backup used to re-populate event data on first launch of app on iOS 26+
- iCloud Sync functionality continues to be enabled and function as previously supported on devices running iOS versions prior to iOS 26.
* Bug Fix for data Restore action.
* Miscellaneous updates and performance enhancements. 5.4 09/24/2025 * Profile Photo Display! Touch the displayed profile image from the event details screen to see an expanded view of the image.
* Profile Photo Selection Fix! Bug fix for some selected images not being scaled proportionately for display within the associated button.
* Log Controller Button Color Fix! The color of the save button when creating or editing event log details is now distinct from the screen title bar.
* List Scrolling Improvements! Smoother scrolling for long lists with profile photos on the iPad.
* Miscellaneous performance improvements and updates to take advantage of additions to the standard iOS APIs. 5.3 02/18/2025 * Simplified New Event Creation for an existing Event subject! Touch the new 'Add More' button from the details screen of an existing event to create another event-type with the subject and group pre-populated.
* New Today Widget! Add the new 'Today' widget to your device home-screen or lock-screen to see a count of current-day events.
* Widget Padding Fix! Correct outer-padding is now applied to all widgets for devices running iOS versions prior to 17.
* Up Next Widget Updates! The date text is now larger and only includes the day-of-week and date in a distinct colour-scheme.
* Miscellaneous updates and performance improvements to coincide with iOS version changes. 5.2 01/03/2025 * Widget Updates! UI improvements for the 'Up Next' and 'Calendar' Home Screen widgets.
* Calendar Widget Bug Fix! Fixed an issue with the Calendar widget missing padding and spacing on iOS 14 and 15.
* Simplified current-date Event Creation! Added a button to assign the current date with a single touch when adding a new event.
* Improved Sharing UI! Additional meta-data provided to present clear descriptions and icons when sharing events and lists.
* Miscellaneous internal updates and performance/security improvements. 5.1 06/02/2024 * WIdgets! The previously defined 'Today' widget has been replaced with a two new-style Home Screen Widgets including a Calendar-style display and an 'Up Next' event-listing. 5.0 10/15/2023 * Bug Fix for text-field corruption when editing notes and app sent to background and then re-activated. 4.6 06/11/2023 * Sharing Enhancements!
- added event-type and year to text-format output for lists
- added event-type to html-format output for lists
- added direct support for printing both lists and event details
* Data Import/Restore Enhancements!
- added a prompt that allows merging (previous functionality) or replacing all loaded content
- added handling for attempts to import from data files that are not downloaded on the target device
* Group Enhancements!
- increased the max-length for group names from 16 to 24
- added support for renaming groups from within the Groups section of Settings
* Change Event Type!
- touch the event-type icon when creating/editing an event to change it's type
* Miscellaneous updates and performance improvements 4.5 05/14/2023 * Automatic Backup Logic Adjustment. An existing backup will not be replaced by an empty data-file when no events are currently defined.
* Improved Data/Backup Screen. Backup button disabled and the title for the section that presents the count of events is suppressed when there are no events loaded.
* Bug Fix for Data Restore. Crash when restoring events into an environment with no existing events will no longer occur; app restart no longer necessary to see restored data.
* Dynamic Shortcut Actions Restored! Shortcut actions from the app icon for viewing groups and searching are now included for all devices, not just older ones that include the now-obsoleted force-touch functionality.
* Miscelaneous other fixes and updates. 4.4 08/08/2022 * Backup and Restore! Complete support for creating backups of your data and restoring from backups in the case of data-loss.
* Internal code updates and revisions to take advantage of the latest iOS capabilities and remove depndencies on deprecated libraries and functions.
* Minor UI enhancements and revisions. 4.3 05/24/2022 * iOS 15 Compatibility Updates.
* Elimination of colour-scheme conflicts with presented system-type screens and dialogs (ex. hidden buttons, etc.)
* Miscellaneous updates and fixes. 4.2 10/17/2021 * Fix for Import to exclude Contact entries with no name information specified.
* Fix for Import to handle missing year values for birthday, anniversary, and death fields.
* Added support for future-year dates for events (ex. to allow input of planned weddings prior to the date of the event).
* Miscellaneous updates and code changes related to internal iOS version updates. 4.1 09/17/2021 * Support Email Address Update.
* Miscellaneous internal updates and performance improvements. 4.0 01/04/2021 * iOS 14 Compatibility updates.
* Fix for the event-count not being updated following changes applied from iCloud Sync.
* Fix for countdown label on iPad not being correctly updated for past-date events.
* Miscellaneous updates and performance enhancements. 3.9 10/04/2020 * New Icon! It was hard to say goodbye to the stripes but all good things must come to an end...
* Data Export! New functionality in Settings to create a CSV (comma-separated value) file with all your event data for backup purposes.
* New Birthday Event Image! I hope you like cake more than balloons? 3.8 07/28/2020 * Simplified Alert Time Selection! Touch the cell in Settings to expand the area presented for selection.
* Miscellaneous updates including restricting pull-down dismissal in iOS 13 where appropriate. 3.7 05/10/2020 * Fix for Cancel button not visible for email sharing and email support screens on iOS 13.
* Fix for App Store screen dismissal causing Settings screen to be dismissed on iOS 13.
* Miscelaneous updates and performance enhancements. 3.6 12/09/2019 * Fix for background color in search-bar input on iOS 13. 3.5 10/22/2019 More iOS 13 compatibility updates...
* Dark Mode support in Today Widget!
* Dark Mode temporarily disabled in application screens until the screens can be reviewed and revised as required.
* Miscelaneous updates to screen layouts and transitions to accomodate iOS 13 changes. 3.4 10/09/2019 * Updates for past-date event display when automatic event cycling is disabled.
* Fix for Today Widget display on iOS 13.
* Miscelaneous updates for iOS 13 compatibility and new devices. 3.3 10/01/2019 * Notification Scheduling Improvements! More robust and reliable mechanisms for scheduling your event alerts in low-memory scenarios and with iOS versions that more aggressively terminate background processes.
* Current Date Display! Optionally display the current-date at the top of the main event-list screen.
* Manual Event Cycling! If you don't want past-date events to be automatically advanced to the next year (i.e. moved to the bottom of the list) then you can now disable this behaviour and instead use the pull-down refresh action to move them when you want to. 3.2 09/16/2019 * Milestone Event List! All of your birthdays, anniversaries, and other events that are hitting one of those special milestones in a single list, all with one-touch, simple and easy.
* Miscelaneous updates and performance enhancements. 3.1 03/11/2019 * Fix for incorrect advance-days in some notifications -- thanks Andy ;-).
* iOS 12 compatibility updates.
* Today Widget update to improve legibility of event names. 3.0 10/02/2018 * Today Widget Updates! Improved display and handling for days with more than one event.
* Miscelaneous updates and performance enhancements. 2.9 08/13/2018 * Fix for crash when attempting to assign a profile photo with a new picture using the device's camera. 2.8 07/16/2018 * Notification Enhancement! Alerts presented for future-date events now indicate the number of days or weeks until the event.
* Profile Photo in List View! Assigned profile photos for events are now included in the application's primary list-view on the iPad (unless running in side-by-side compact mode). 2.7 07/10/2018