Omnifocus Release Notes

Requires

web browser with JavaScript and active connection

Tags

• New “Tag group” sidebar icon.
• Enabled Mutually Exclusive tag group behavior is now reflected in the Inspector and by the sidebar tag icon style.

Dates

• Standardized terminology relating to dates.

Flagged

• “Group actions by: Planned Date” View Option is now available.

Forecast

• “In Forecast, include: Items on planned date” View Option is now available.
• Addressed unexpected behavior and option display in View Options.
• Popover menu no longer dismisses unexpectedly when selecting “In Forecast, include: Items tagged:” View Option.

Settings

• Renamed “Preferences” as “Settings” for consistency with native OmniFocus apps.

Keyboard

• Restored support for Add Inside/Add Outside keyboard shortcuts.

Notes

• Improved reliability of 'keyboard shortcut.

Outline

• New items are no longer created in unexpected locations after navigating via arrow keys.
• Creating a new item no longer breaks arrow key navigation.
• Restored support for creating an action group via drag and drop.
• Fixed a bug that could cause drop targets to shift unexpectedly.
• Restored ability to create action groups via drag and drop.

Quick Open

• Quick Open results can now be opened via cursor.

View Options

• Fixed a bug that could cause interacting with View Options to trigger a crash.
• Increased size of Availability setting click targets.

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OmniFocus 4.8.5 for All Platforms

All Platforms

• Repeats — Repeat rules can now be cleared in rare instances in which the previously configured repeat schedule is corrupted.

Mac

• Notes — Link labels are no longer modified when editing at the start or end of a paragraph.
• Notes — Paste and Merge Style now correctly strips styles from copied HTML text.
• Notes — “Send to Inbox” clipping service no longer captures text with unreadable colors in Dark Mode.
• OS Compatibility — Two-factor authentication codes are no longer offered as autofill optons within OmniFocus.
• Outline — Columns layouts now respect “Show full item title: When Selected” appearance setting.
• Perspectives Bar — Adjusted selection highlight size.

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Requires iOS/iPadOS 17, watchOS 10

OmniFocus 4.8.5 for All Platforms

OmniFocus 4.8.5 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

All Platforms

• Repeats — Repeat rules can now be cleared in rare instances in which the previously configured repeat schedule is corrupted.

iPhone & iPad

• Focus — Focus bar now lays out correctly after Focus is applied.
• Search — Improved reliability of selecting “Show in Projects” or “Show in Tags” for an item returned in Search results.

iPhone

• Navigation Bar — Fixed a bug that could sometimes block re-expanding the Navigation Bar when tapping the current perspective icon.

iPad

• Perspectives Bar — Perspectives Bar is now always scrollable (this change avoids a bug in which tap targets could become misaligned in the Perspectives Bar).
• Keyboard — Corrected position of hardware keyboard selection highlight on iPadOS 26.
• Toolbar — Fixed a bug that could cause toolbar buttons to temporarily draw incorrectly when resizing window.

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