Omnifocus Updates & Release Notes

Requires visionOS 2

OmniFocus 4.8.12 for All Platforms

OmniFocus 4.8.12 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

All Platforms

• Custom Perspectives — Improved perspective rule editing reliability, addressing scenarios in which it previously appeared that a rule change needed to be made twice before it took effect.
• Forecast — Improved reliability of Forecast sort order when both calendar events and an item due on a prior date are displayed for a specific day.
• Forecast — Fixed a bug that could cause inaccurate “Keep Sorted” checkbox state.

Requires iOS/iPadOS 17, watchOS 10

OmniFocus 4.8.12 for All Platforms

OmniFocus 4.8.12 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

All Platforms

Custom Perspectives — Improved perspective rule editing reliability, addressing scenarios in which it previously appeared that a rule change needed to be made twice before it took effect.

Forecast — Improved reliability of Forecast sort order when both calendar events and an item due on a prior date are displayed for a specific day.

Forecast — Fixed a bug that could cause inaccurate “Keep Sorted” checkbox state.

iPhone & iPad

Forecast — Date pickover popovers are no longer prematurely dismissed following date change.

Inspector — Inspector now displays correctly when invoked from Select Mode overflow menu.

Menus — Contextual menus no longer become temporarily unavailable after a drag & drop actions results in a hierarchy change.

Outline — Swiping to delete an action group child action no longer cause outline to become misaligned.

Paste — Paste is now more reliable when clipboard is copied from a source outside OmniFocus.

Show In… — Fixed a bug that could cause outline to fail to display correct content after invoking Show in Projects, Tags, or Inbox from Search results.

iPad

Animation — Corrected sidebar open/close animation.

Navigation Bar — Adjusted placement of Navigation Bar in narrow windows.

Search — Removed unnecessary gap above search scope options and outline when a search is active.

Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur switching perspectives while search is active.

Requires macOS 14

OmniFocus 4.8.12 for All Platforms

OmniFocus 4.8.12 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

All Platforms

• Custom Perspectives — Improved perspective rule editing reliability, addressing scenarios in which it previously appeared that a rule change needed to be made twice before it took effect.
• Forecast — Improved reliability of Forecast sort order when both calendar events and an item due on a prior date are displayed for a specific day.
• Forecast — Fixed a bug that could cause inaccurate “Keep Sorted” checkbox state.

Mac

• Cursor — Fixed a bug that could cause cursor appearance to get stuck in incorrect state.
• Inspector — Restored ability to re-order tags in the Inspector via drag & drop.
• Outline — Completion Dates entered in outline popover are no longer discarded.
• Outline — Metadata is now correctly displayed for newly selected item after deletion of previously selected item.
• Sidebar — Cancelling deletion of a sidebar item no longer causes sidebar selection to fall out of sync with displayed outline content.

Requires iOS/iPadOS 17, watchOS 10

OmniFocus 4.8.11 for All Platforms

OmniFocus 4.8.11 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

All Platforms

Documentation — Updated “Capture Methods” reference manual chapter.

Omni Automation — Fixed recently introduced regression setting link styles via Omni Automation.

iPhone & iPad

Outline — Fixed a bug that could sometime block re-ordering items via drag and drop.

Outline — Current text insertion point is now more reliably scrolled above on-screen keyboard.

iPhone

Quick Entry — Keystrokes entered immediately after opening Quick Entry are now captured reliably.

Quick Open — Addressed slow performance navigating from filtered Quick Open results.

Tags — Removing an assigned tag no longer temporarily blocks assigning new tags to an item.

Requires macOS 14

OmniFocus 4.8.11 for All Platforms

OmniFocus 4.8.11 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

All Platforms

Documentation — Updated “Capture Methods” reference manual chapter.

Omni Automation — Fixed recently introduced regression setting link styles via Omni Automation.

Mac

Forecast — Extending Forecast sidebar selection via arrow keys now works in all directions.

Forecast — Fixed an outline display bug that could occur when wrapping metadata to a second line in Forecast.

Inspector — Dates entered in Inspector Completed field are no longer discarded when clicking into or tabbing to the Dropped field.

Inspector — Inspector no longer has one rounded corner on recent versions of macOS.

Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when hovering cursor over full screen window edge.

Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur animating View Options popover.

Requires iOS/iPadOS 17, watchOS 10

OmniFocus 4.8.10 for All Platforms

iPhone

Navigation Bar — Expanded Navigation bar no longer animates unexpectedly when Quick Open or Quick Entry is dismissed.

Navigation Bar — Fixed a recently introduced bug that could block creating new items with Add Here button.

iPad

Sync — Leaving Quick Open or Quick Entry open in a backgrounded OmniFocus window no longer blocks sync integration.

Toolbar — Corrected text color of disabled toolbar buttons.

OmniFocus 4.8.9 for All Platforms

OmniFocus 4.8.9 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

All Platforms

• Flagged — Fixed buggy view filtering in Flagged perspective; Flagged now reliably displays correct items in outline across all platforms.
• Omni Automation — Multiple mutually exclusive tags can no longer be assigned to an item via Omni Automation.
• Sidebar — Perspectives showing remaining items now only show tags in the sidebar for those visible items, rather than also including tags from dropped items.
• Stability — Fixed a crash in the OmniFocus widget.

OmniFocus 4.8.9 for All Platforms

All Platforms

Flagged — Fixed buggy view filtering in Flagged perspective; Flagged now reliably displays correct items in outline across all platforms.

Omni Automation — Multiple mutually exclusive tags can no longer be assigned to an item via Omni Automation.

Sidebar — Perspectives showing remaining items now only show tags in the sidebar for those visible items, rather than also including tags from dropped items.

Stability — Fixed a crash in the OmniFocus widget.

iPhone

Search — Search can now be initiated when sidebar is displayed.

Sidebar — Perspective title is now displayed in sidebar toolbar.

Keyboard — Using the on-screen keyboard to edit an item now collapses the navigation bar so more of the item is visible.

Navigation Bar — Adjusted spacing between Navigation Bar and on-screen keyboard.

Navigation Bar — Fixed a bug that could cause Navigation Bar expansion state to get stuck.

Navigation Bar — Improved Navigation Bar layout on smaller iPhones.

Navigation Bar — Navigation Bar no longer animates unexpectedly when navigating to or from Review perspective.

Navigation Bar — Fixed a slight jitter that could happen when the Navigation Bar expands while scrolling on iOS 26.

Outline — Fixed a bug that could cause outline scroll position to jump unexpectedly when navigating between outline and Inspector.

Perspective Title — Fixed some bugs with the appearance of the perspective title when switching between the outline and sidebar.

Toolbar — Addressed unexpected toolbar button animation and tint.

Quick Entry — Improved initial character input reliability.

Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when dismissing Quick Open.

iPad

Menus — Updated Edit menu.

Perspectives Bar — Adjusted selection highlight.

OmniFocus 4.8.9 for All Platforms

All Platforms

• Flagged — Fixed buggy view filtering in Flagged perspective; Flagged now reliably displays correct items in outline across all platforms.
• Omni Automation — Multiple mutually exclusive tags can no longer be assigned to an item via Omni Automation.
• Sidebar — Perspectives showing remaining items now only show tags in the sidebar for those visible items, rather than also including tags from dropped items.
• Stability — Fixed a crash in the OmniFocus widget.

Mac

• Outline — Content can now be dragged from outside OmniFocus into empty outlines and space below last displayed item in an outline.
• Outline — Safari links and Mail messages can now be dragged into outline.
• Outline — Display fields are no longer clipped in fluid outline after duplicating or pasting an item.
• Outline — Addressed column layout issue when opening perspectives set to “Always Open in New Window.”
• Perspectives Bar — Adjusted padding around topmost perspective selection highlight.
• Perspectives Bar — Improved highlight when clicking on a perspective.
• Sidebar — Sidebar bottom buttons are no longer clipped.
• Writing Tools — Invoking Writing Tools in the Notes field for an item no longer unexpectedly replaces text in the Title field.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur on layout in Forecast.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when editing a note.

OmniFocus 4.8.7 for All Platforms

OmniFocus 4.8.7 is a minor update focused on bug fixes.

All Platforms

• Performance — Addressed memory leaks related to text attributes.

iPhone & iPad

• Sync — App states which transitorily block sync are no longer incorrectly reported as continuing to block sync.
• Sync — Fixed a bug that could cause sync to silently fail after creating items via the Share sheet.
• VoiceOver — Improved VoiceOver rotor reliability on iOS and iPadOS 26.
• VoiceOver — VoiceOver no longer reads navigation bar button labels more than once.
• VoiceOver — Corrected Quick Entry VoiceOver label.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur when navigating to a perspective via Quick Open.
• Stability — Fixed a crash on launch that could occur if Search was previously active.
• Stability — Fixed a crash that could occur in the outline.