Since shortly after Callsheet was released, my #1 request from my users has been the same thing: pins are great, but can we have multiple lists of pins?

Today is the day.

Over the last few days, Callsheet 2025.2^[1] has been quietly rolling out to users. While there is a lot in this release, the headline feature is the ability to make multiple lists of pins. If you have Callsheet installed, and it hasn’t updated, you can open it in the App Store and force your device to update it.

Multiple Pins

As noted above, a clear improvement to Callsheet would be for it to support multiple lists of pins. Many users asked for some variation of three lists:

• Watching
• Have Watched (or, perhaps, Favorites)
• To Watch

The headline feature of 2025.2 is exactly this: Callsheet now allows for more than one list of pinned items. Additionally, the Pinned Items list can now be renamed, though it cannot be deleted.

As I was designing this feature, I wanted it to be completely ignorable if multiple lists just aren’t a user’s cup of tea. Furthermore, in order to keep the user interface straightforward, I wanted to avoid asking users “which list are you talking about?” every time a pin is added or removed. However, I wanted to make it possible for power users to quickly add or remove an item from any of their lists.

Callsheet now has a concept of an Active List, which is to say, the default list that pins will be shown, added to, or removed from. If you open an item in the app, and you tap the outline of the pin in the toolbar, the Active List is the list that will have a new pin in it. (This is the same way things have always worked in Callsheet; except that there could only ever be one list.)

However, if you tap and hold on the pin icon in the toolbar, you’ll be presented with a new pop-up menu:

Right now, this menu isn’t very interesting, as it only has the default Pinned Items list in it. Since Pinned Items is the active (and, as it turns out, only) list, if I were to tap on that menu item, it does the same thing as tapping the pin icon. Hunt would be added to the active list, which is Pinned Items.

Once you add a few lists, that menu gets more interesting:

If I were to select Have Watched, then The Hunt for Red October would be added to that list. This would be shown as a ✔️ on that menu item.

Now that Hunt is in the Have Watched list, to indicate that this item is pinned on an inactive list, the pin icon is striped:

To switch the Active List, return to the Discover screen (the first screen you see when the app opens). On the right-hand side, you’ll see a link/button that either reads Add list… (if you only have one list) or Switch list buttons. Tapping Switch list will change what the Active List is. Additionally, you can see the items in the Active List by tapping the list name, just like Callsheet has always worked.

Spotlight, Control Center, and Shortcuts

I’ve also begun adding App Intents to the app, which in non-nerd means “you start to see Callsheet showing up in more places within your phone now”. This includes Spotlight:

As well as Shortcuts:

And Control Center:

Better Treatment for Long-Running Series

An extremely common — and fair! — complaint about Callsheet is the way I handle long-running series. Take, for example, Sabrina Carpenter, who was born in 1999. She has made appearances on shows like Saturday Night Live, but, well, after 1999. Due to a quirk in the way TMDB works, the way the information about her appearance on SNL is returned to me is based on the year that Saturday Night Live first aired. Which was 1975. Almost 25 years before Sabrina was born.

Coming up with a fix for this quirk is more challenging than you’d think — to properly fix it would require making a lot of requests to the TMDB servers. While each request is very fast, in aggregate, it would make Callsheet seem far slower. I don’t think perfect accuracy in a person’s filmography is worth slowing down the app.

Instead, I’ve tried to thread the needle by doing my best to group shows like these behind a new, collapsed, Long-Running Series section on a person’s filmography. Here you can see Sabrina’s filmography in version 2025.2; this is after I expanded the Long-Running Series section:

Note this is one of the first sections on a person’s filmography; it is slotted between Upcoming releases and the current year’s releases.

iPad/macOS Support for ⌘F

Good news: iPads with keyboards attached, as well as Macs, can now hit ⌘F to focus the search field.

Bad news: It’s a disgusting hack, and there’s nothing I can do about it. If anyone at Apple is reading this, FB16385764.

Automatic Dark Mode Icon Switchover

For the OG icon set — the clapperboard with magnifying glass — those icons now know what their dark variants are. For users that switch between light and dark mode, the OG icon set will automatically switch between light and dark variants.

Apologies for this taking so long, but to be completely honest, I hate the way my home screen looks with dark icons, so this wasn’t a high priority.

Other Quick Hits

There’s also a handful of other changes in this release:

• Users can now “roll the dice” to select a random entry from a list:
  1. Tap the list’s name on the Discover (main) screen
  2. Tap the dice button on the right-hand side
• Users can now un-hide the spoilers in the Known For section when viewing a person.
• There is a new Pretty in Pink version of the OG icon.
• I’ve started to slowly embrace TipKit, which means occasionally users will see a popover with hints on how to make the most of Callsheet.
• Some small VoiceOver fixes
• Fix an oddball case where a movie/show title with a question mark in it would lead to Callsheet getting confused when opening Wikipedia
• Fix a plurality mismatch in the pre-sale screen
• Started to work toward adopting Swift 6 Strict Concurrency… maybe one day I’ll actually finish that effort 😵‍💫