Quenched 1.1 is out now for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, and it's a free update. It's our iOS 27 release: the app wears Liquid Glass from the tab bar up, you can log a drink by pointing the camera at it, your water shows up on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and Siri finally knows what a glass of water is. Here's everything that changed, and what you need to get each piece.
Log a drink from a photo
This is the one we're most excited about. Tap the new camera button on the Today screen, point it at your glass, bottle, or cup, and Quenched works out two things: what the drink is, and how much the container holds. A few seconds later the Add sheet slides up with the amount already dialed in, in your units, and a note like "From your photo: the plastic bottle holds about 24 oz." Change anything you like, then tap Add.
The recognition runs entirely on your iPhone using Apple's on-device Foundation Models, the same models behind Apple Intelligence. Your photo never leaves the phone, there's no account, and it works with no signal at all. Because it's an estimate, we deliberately never log anything automatically: the number is a starting point that you approve, not a decision the app makes for you. It's the fastest way we've found to log a container you've never measured, and after the first time you'll probably know that bottle is 24 oz forever.
Photo logging needs iOS 27 and an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence. On other devices the camera button simply doesn't appear; nothing else in the update depends on it. Identifying water is free; if the photo turns out to be a latte, picking that drink is part of Quenched Pro, the same as it is everywhere else in the app.
Liquid Glass, and a plus button where your thumb already is
Quenched's whole interface sits over a pool of water that rises as you drink and sloshes when you tilt your phone. Liquid Glass was, as far as we can tell, designed for exactly this. In 1.1 the tab bar, the header buttons, the quick-add tiles, and the cup-or-bottle toggle are all real glass: they refract the water moving underneath them, and the tab bar tucks itself away as you scroll so the water gets the whole screen back.
On iOS 27 the add button has moved. Instead of living in the top corner, the plus now sits on its own at the end of the tab bar, in the spot iOS 27 reserves for an app's main action. It's reachable with one thumb from any tab, and tapping it opens the Add sheet from wherever you are. On iPad, where the tab bar runs along the top, the button stays in the header where it was.
If you use Reduce Transparency, the glass becomes solid, just as you'd expect.
Your water on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island
Quenched now has a Live Activity. Turn it on under Settings → Lock Screen and today's total and goal stay on your Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, in StandBy while your phone charges, and in the Smart Stack on Apple Watch. It's not just a readout: your quick-add amounts are right there as buttons, so a glass gets logged with one tap on the Lock Screen, without unlocking, without opening anything.
Think of it as the widget that's always in front of you. Widgets stay where they were, and the widget guide now covers both.
"Hey Siri, log water in Quenched"
Quenched now works with Siri and the Shortcuts app through three phrases:
- "Log water in Quenched" — Siri asks how much, or you say it up front: "log 16 ounces of water in Quenched."
- "Log a drink in Quenched" — Siri asks which drink from your list, then how much.
- "Check my hydration in Quenched" — Siri reads back where you are against your goal and shows the ring.
We kept it to three on purpose. Every drink in your catalog could have had its own phrase, and every one of them would have cluttered your Shortcuts and Spotlight results. These three cover what people actually say out loud. They also work from the Shortcuts app, an Action button, or a Back Tap, if you'd rather not talk to your phone. Logging a drink other than water is a Pro feature, same as in the app.
A bigger widget, and widgets that stay legible
iOS 27 adds a tall, extra-large Home Screen widget on iPhone, and Quenched supports it in 1.1: the ring, the water level, your quick adds, and the day's chart in one place. The whole widget set also got a pass for the tinted and clear Home Screen styles, so the drink icons stay readable when iOS recolors them.
Quick adds on your wrist
On Apple Watch, the quick-add amounts you set up on your iPhone now follow you to the watch. Tap the small arrow under the ring, or scroll down, and they're stacked right there: one tap logs the glass, and the ring moves. The log rows got tighter, the seven-day chart got taller, and the arrow button is glass too. The Apple Watch guide has the details.
The smaller things
- Drag to reorder quick adds. Under Settings → Quick Add Sizes, drag a size up or down to reorder it. On iOS 27 this uses the system's new drag-to-reorder, so it feels like reordering anything else on your phone.
- Delete drinks. Swipe a drink in your list, or open it and choose Delete. Long overdue, and it's in the Android app as of this week too.
- Safer multi-device setup. If you set up your drink list on your iPhone and then sign in on an iPad, the iPad now waits for iCloud before creating anything, so it can't overwrite the list you already built.
- Charts for VoiceOver. Every chart under Trends now describes itself, and supports Audio Graphs, so you can hear the shape of your week.
- Eleven languages. Everything above ships localized, including right-to-left Arabic.
What you need
Quenched 1.1 runs on iOS 26.4 and later, and everyone on iOS 26 gets Liquid Glass, the Live Activity, Siri, the watch quick adds, and the rest. Four things are iOS 27 only, because they use APIs that don't exist before it: photo logging (which also needs an iPhone with Apple Intelligence), the plus button in the tab bar, the extra-large widget, and drag-to-reorder.
Everything in this update is part of the free app. Pro is unchanged: trends and streaks, caffeine, the full drink catalog, custom drinks, and custom quick-add sizes, for $5.99 a year or $9.99 once.
