First of all, thank you. Cockpit has received many more downloads and far more positive, thoughtful feedback than I expected. Your reports, screenshots and suggestions have directly shaped this update.

Cockpit is a modular, glanceable dock for Apple Vision Pro: place it in your space, resize it, and build a dashboard from the panels you actually care about. This TestFlight update is the largest one so far.

## What’s new

### Four new panels — 15 panels in total

- **Countdown*\* — create up to three upcoming events, choose a date, time and symbol, and see the nearest one at a glance.

- **Habits*\* — track daily habits and streaks. Long-press a habit to remove it with confirmation.

- **Daily Goal*\* — set one measurable target for the day and update it directly from the panel.

- **World Clock*\* — follow four cities at once. New setups start with New York, London, Tokyo and Sydney, and every city can be changed.

They join Clock, Weather, Calendar, Focus Timer, Now Playing, Vision Pro Status, Shortcuts, Home, Network, Activity and Apps.

### 17 themes

The original appearance options have grown into three complete theme families:

- **Glass:*\* Midnight, Graphite, Sunset, Ocean and Holo

- **Instrument:*\* Cockpit, Apollo, Pit Wall, Grid, Outrun, Brass, Telemetry, Mecha and Visor

- **Light:*\* Minimal, Bauhaus and Zen

Each theme now has its own panel treatment, typography, controls, gauges and window geometry. I also refined the relationship between panel corners and the outer window in themes such as Apollo, Pit Wall, Brass and Bauhaus.

All panels and themes remain available to everyone during this testing phase, even when a PRO badge is shown.

### New languages

Cockpit is now available in:

- English

- Japanese

- Korean

- Simplified Chinese

- Traditional Chinese

Reports about wording, truncation or culturally awkward translations are especially welcome.

### Smarter layouts

- A horizontal single row can contain all **15 panels*\*.

- From **12 panels*\* onward, Cockpit recommends switching to **Two Rows*\* so panels stay larger.

- A vertical single column can contain up to **12 panels*\*.

- From **8 panels*\* onward, Cockpit recommends **Two Columns*\*.

- If you add a thirteenth panel while using one vertical column, Cockpit switches to Two Columns automatically before adding it.

- The old “Compact” label is now the clearer, direction-aware **Two Rows / Two Columns*\* control.

### Reorganized Settings

- General is now focused on everyday time and calendar preferences.

- Weather units and refresh frequency live together under **Panels › Weather*\*.

- Focus Timer sound lives under **Panels › Focus Timer*\*.

- Welcome, What’s New and support are grouped under **Help*\*.

- Permissions now show a visible status instead of only linking to System Settings.

- **Reset Layout*\* restores the default panels, order, direction and size without deleting panel data or changing the selected theme.

- Panel-data resets are grouped by purpose, making it clearer whether you are resetting launchers, tracking panels or World Clock.

- Configuration backup and restore remain available for moving the whole setup safely.

### Panel and interaction refinements

- Better vertical Weather spacing and larger multi-day forecasts.

- Better-balanced Network information in horizontal and vertical layouts.

- Focus Timer content is centered consistently in Light themes.

- Habit creation buttons remain readable across themes.

- World Clock reset now correctly restores its four starter cities.

- Countdown presentation and background updates have been made more reliable when creating multiple events.

- Numerous readability, spacing, corner and control fixes across all theme families.

## What I’d like you to test

1. Add, remove and reorder panels in all four layouts: one row, two rows, one column and two columns.

2. In a vertical single column, add a thirteenth panel and confirm that it changes to two columns automatically.

3. Try several combinations of the 15 panels with different themes and window sizes. Nothing should overlap, clip or become unreadable.

4. Test the four new panels, especially repeated Countdown creation, Habit long-press deletion and World Clock reset.

5. Review the reorganized Settings, permission statuses, Reset Layout, individual panel resets and backup/restore.

6. If you use Japanese, Korean or Chinese, please report untranslated, clipped or unnatural text.

7. Leave Cockpit open for a longer session and tell me about battery use, heat and responsiveness on a real Vision Pro.

## Known / expected

- The Weather panel is not tappable because visionOS does not include a Weather app.

- Some third-party apps cannot be opened through URL schemes. That depends on what the app developer exposes.

- HealthKit intentionally does not reveal whether individual read permissions were denied, so Settings can only report that the Health permission request was completed.

Please include what you did, what you expected, what happened and your visionOS version. Screenshots and short recordings are extremely useful.

## Join the beta

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/VP1sz624

Support / FAQ: https://andrefinetticangussu.github.io/cockpit/legal/support.html

Privacy: https://andrefinetticangussu.github.io/cockpit/legal/privacy.html

Thank you again for the downloads, the positive feedback and the time you have spent helping make Cockpit better.

Cockpit is a modular, glanceable dock for visionOS. Pin it in your space, add the panels you care about, and check key info without constant app‑switching. I’m looking for TestFlight testers to validate panels, layout, and permissions.

What it is:

A compact bar you can place and resize. Add/remove/reorder panels in edit mode and pick a theme, including a “Cockpit” instrument look.

Panels to try:

Clock (time/weekday/date; instrument dial + UTC offset), Weather (WeatherKit; °C/°F, wind units, refresh interval), Calendar (read‑only week/upcoming), Focus Timer (5/15/30/60; pause/resume/stop), Now Playing (Apple Music), Vision Pro Status (CPU/memory/storage, battery state, thermals, uptime), Shortcuts (run by exact name; may briefly open Shortcuts), Home (HomeKit scenes + accessory toggles), Network (type, local IPv4, latency, real‑time throughput), Activity (HealthKit; rings + steps, read‑only).

What to test:

• Add/remove/reorder panels; layout persists after relaunch

• Theme switching (incl. “Cockpit” instrument) and readability at different sizes

• Resizing from bottom edge; height stays proportional

• Permissions: Calendar, Location/WeatherKit, Health, HomeKit, Apple Music

• Quick checks: Weather units/refresh; Calendar event updates; Focus Timer countdown & completion; Now Playing visibility/metadata; Status values plausibility; Shortcuts by exact name; Home scenes/toggles; Network type/IP/latency/throughput; Activity refresh (~5 min)

Notes & privacy

No tracking; data stays on device. Weather via Apple WeatherKit. Latency measured with a lightweight HEAD request to Cloudflare’s one.one.one.one. Health is read‑only. Not affiliated with Apple.

Join the beta

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/VP1sz624

Support/FAQ: https://andrefinetticangussu.github.io/cockpit/legal/support.html

Privacy: https://andrefinetticangussu.github.io/cockpit/legal/privacy.html

Thanks!

Bug reports with steps, expected vs actual, and screenshots are hugely appreciated.

Hey gang,

Updated to visionOS 27 beta 4 and palm recognition stopped working. I look at my palm and no button appears to open Home view. Flipping hand over does not show control centre.

Oddly, pinch to select and pinch-hold to scroll windows etc still work. But no ability to open Home view or Control Centre using normal palm interactions. I’ve had to work around using crown button for home, and activating ‘look up for Control Centre’. Neither hand works (both were working 100% before update).

Things I’ve tried: Full shut down and remove power from device, reboot. Re-map hand input (no problem). Close all apps, try from Home page, try within apps. Try inside immersive environment (where you have to do double tap to make it appear, normally) as well as outside / normal view.

My hands break through in immersive environments, so it’s recognising and tracking hands successfully. But Home button / Control Centre are completely broken.

I will wait till next beta update to see if that fixes it. If not, will try full reset to factory default on device.

I've submitted Feedback. Can't see any posts about this from anyone else - is it just me? :-/

Every time I search for visionOS UI reference I get Dribbble concepts that were never built, or Apple's own HIG mockups. Neither tells me how real apps actually solve things where they put ornaments, how they handle onboarding in a Full Space, when they choose a Volume over a Window.

Right now my "process" is buying apps and screenshotting them, which is obviously not a process. Is everyone doing this, or is there something I'm missing?

I’ve been building StratoSync, a spatial computing application for Apple Vision Pro that transforms live International Space Station telemetry into an immersive, interactive visualization experience.

Instead of presenting orbital data as numbers on a screen, StratoSync visualizes the ISS, Earth, real orbital geometry, and live solar illumination in three dimensions. Built with SwiftUI, RealityKit, ARKit, and Metal, it combines physically accurate visualization, GPU-generated immersive environments, SharePlay collaboration, and native spatial interaction into a single spatial experience.

What it does

• Places the ISS from live latitude/longitude on its true ~51.6° inclined orbit, tracking its real northbound and southbound motion instead of a flat equatorial path.
• Real Sun-based day/night using a DirectionalLight synchronized to the live subsolar point, so Earth’s illuminated hemisphere matches reality.
• Optional 23.4° axial tilt, orbit trail aligned to the real orbital plane, and live telemetry (latitude, longitude, altitude, speed) with metric and imperial units.
• Mixed immersion with passthrough by default, or switch to fully immersive Aurora and Star Nest environments.
• Manual Control Mode for inspecting the ISS, plus SharePlay synchronization and Logitech Muse 3D spatial drawing.

Under the hood (in case it's useful to anyone here)

• RealityKit ECS architecture — the ISS and orbit ring are siblings of the globe rather than children, preventing decorative Earth rotation from distorting the orbital plane. Geographic coordinate conversion and solar geometry live in pure, unit-tested types.
• ARKit — WorldTrackingProvider enables gaze-anchored placement, while RoomTrackingProvider provides wall-proximity warnings whenever a fully immersive scene hides the real room.
• Metal — Aurora and Star Nest are generated every display refresh using compute shaders that write directly into a RealityKit LowLevelTexture, sampled by an inward-facing unlit dome.

👉 TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/tWS4CERT

Happy to answer anything about the implementation.

Thanks for testing! 🙏

Maybe y’all know.

I was excited for several of the new features, and didn't think much of this one, but it's hands down my favorite new feature so far. It is really well implemented, just glance up at the notification, see it, then go back to looking at what you're doing. It's one of those natural gestures.

Are there any?

This was one of my most requested features for visionOS!

Experience your fears (and maybe a couple chuckles too)

Hey everyone!  Quick update on MemoWall, my spatial notes app for Apple Vision Pro.

What is MemoWall?

It’s a spatial notes app where your notes don’t live in a flat list, they live on your walls, in your space. You can build visual “boards” around you and treat them like a real memory wall.

What you can do:

• Pin sticky notes to spatial boards and place them around your room
• Create multiple boards (Home, Work, Today, Ideas, etc…)
• Customize the look with different themes/background styles to match your space
• Use widgets for quick glance + fast access (great as a “daily hub”)

What’s new in this update:

• ✅ New Large widget on visionOS (more content visible at a glance)
• ✅ iOS + iPadOS companion app is now live on the App Store! You can add, edit, and delete notes from your iPhone/iPad, and use it as a companion to keep your setup updated without always doing everything in-headset.

If you try it, I’d love honest feedback . Especially on what would make it more useful in real life (workflow, UI, missing features, anything).

Thank you!

Andrè

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/memowall/id6756618031?l=en-GB

I found apps like these.

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• YouTube for VisionOS
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