What's new

A sermon’s Overview used to keep the memorable quotes and stories in their own section at the bottom. Now they live with the key point they belong to in the message — a point with quotes or stories carries a small line like “2 quotes · 1 story from life” you can tap open to read them right there. When the speaker says the big idea out loud, the Big Idea card marks those words and lets you jump straight to the moment they were said. And anything we couldn’t pin to a specific key point still appears under “Also from this message.”

Section shortcuts are clearer, Share and the ⋯ menus now open in a roomy panel on phones, Read along moves to every requested match, and scripture ranges stay together on narrow screens without changing copied or shared text.

Each key point on a sermon’s Overview now explains how the speaker developed it, which made the page a long scroll. Those explanations now show the first few lines with a “More” link — tap it to read the rest, tap “Less” to fold it back. Nothing is removed: searching the page still finds the folded text, and copying still copies all of it.

The filters on your church's library now include a Series dropdown, so you can narrow the archive to one series — on its own, or together with a speaker, a topic and a date range. The From and To date boxes have been fixed too: on a phone they sat on top of each other, and with larger text turned on neither date was fully readable. They now sit one above the other.

If you opened Ask Rewind on an iPad and started typing, the on-screen keyboard covered the panel — including the box you were typing in. It now sits just above the keyboard, the same way it does on a phone.

On a phone, pressing play in the compact player at the bottom of a sermon often did nothing the first time — you had to press it two or three times before the video started. Tapping a timestamp to jump to a moment had the same problem. Both now start on the first tap.

On a phone, Read along used to hide the compact player at the bottom of the screen, leaving you with just play and close at the top. The player is back — while you read it stays at the bottom with playback speed, chapters and the rest of its controls, and when Read along is scrolling along with the message it now keeps the line being spoken clear of it.

After a couple of questions, the box you type into slid off the bottom of the Ask Rewind panel — and with the keyboard up it was gone entirely, so you had to drag the panel around to ask anything else. The box now stays put at the bottom and the conversation scrolls above it. New answers scroll into view on their own, unless you have scrolled back to re-read something earlier, in which case you stay where you are. The panel also opens taller, so you can see about twice as much of an answer while you type, and there is now a “New conversation” button to start a fresh thread whenever you want one.

While a message played, Read along kept scrolling the page to the line being spoken — so if you scrolled back up to reach the controls, it pulled you down again a moment later. Now your own scrolling wins: the page stays where you put it, and a Follow along button appears if you want it to start following again. Close stays pinned to the top of the reader too, along with the play controls when the message has audio, so you can stop it or leave without scrolling anywhere.

If you turned on notifications in Settings, your phone was never going to get one — a setting on our side was written the wrong way and every notification failed before it left. That is fixed, and the sends are now checked, so a new message from your church can reach your phone.

For messages that are audio only, the player shrank to a sliver once it dropped to the bar at the bottom of the screen — there was nothing left to press. It now takes half the bar, so play, pause and the elapsed time are all there while you read, and the listening controls beside it still scroll to reach the rest.

For messages that are audio only, Read along could start playing from a timestamp but had no way to stop — you had to scroll back up to the player. It now has its own play and pause button, the same one video messages already had.

If a church removes a video, makes it private, or turns off embedding, the player used to sit on “Loading the video…” forever. It now offers a link to watch on YouTube instead, carrying the timestamp you came for.

When you scroll down and the player shrinks into the bar at the bottom of the screen, that bar now has its own play and pause button. Before, the only way to start or stop was to tap the small video itself, which often did nothing. The player also slides into place instead of snapping.

Tapping a timestamp in Read along used to throw you back up to the top of the page, away from the words you were reading. Now it starts playing from that line and leaves you exactly where you are. Read along also shows you how to start — tap any timestamp — instead of showing a transcript with nothing highlighted and no explanation. And it now has its own play and pause button, so you can stop the message without scrolling back to the player.

Every action in the ⋯ menu on a sermon — Bookmark, Save moment, Make a clip, Copy link, the share options — did nothing when tapped on an iPhone. The menu was closing itself the instant you touched a row, before the tap could land. All of them work now.

On a phone, tapping Hide on the player bar left the video and its controls exactly where they were and stacked a second row on top of them, so the message title and the Hide button overlapped into each other. Hide now clears the bar down to the title and a Show video button, and tapping that brings the player back.

On a phone, the Ask Rewind button sat on top of the bar the player shrinks into — covering Read along and Chapters, and taking the taps meant for them — while the ⋯ menu and Hide sat past the edge of the screen. Ask Rewind now sits above the bar, and every control in it can be reached. Tapping a timestamp while that bar is showing also no longer jumps you back up to the top of the page.

A problem on our end could drop a device from the list we notify, while the setting on that device still showed as on — so notifications for new messages from your church quietly stopped arriving. Rewind now spots that on its own and puts the device back. If your setting still shows as on, there’s nothing for you to do; if it shows as off, switching it on will set it up again.

Each key point on a message's Overview carries a few sentences on how the speaker developed it — the argument, the story, the passage they worked through — so you get more than a one-line outline. Messages summarized earlier gain this as their overviews are refreshed.

A scripture reference sometimes covers less than what was actually read aloud. When a reference points at particular verses, the expanded passage — on the Scripture tab and on a passage page — now has a “Read the whole chapter” link, so you can keep reading in context.

On a phone the player used to scroll away and stay away — to pause, skip back or open the chapters you had to scroll all the way to the top again. It now shrinks to a bar at the bottom of the screen and stays there while you read, with the video still playing in it.

When a sermon is in the archive before its video is online, the empty thumbnail used to be a blank red block. Cards and lists now show a quiet branded panel with the title (where it fits) and a small audio cue — and when the video arrives, the real YouTube art still takes over.

When a message finishes, the “Keep going” card now offers its devotional alongside the next message in the series. If a message has a devotional but nothing else to suggest, that card appears where it previously stayed hidden.

When a message uses an illustration or the speaker tells a story from their own life, it now shows up under Memorable moments with the time it happened, so you can go straight back to it. The overview also ends with a way into the devotional or the group guide when the message has one.

The big idea and the fuller explanation are one card now instead of two sections saying the same thing twice, and the outline has moved to the Chapters control on the player, where it does something. How long the message runs and how long the write-up takes to read sit with the speaker’s name at the top.

All seven days used to be open at once, so the tab began with a wall of text and getting to day four meant scrolling past three you may have already done. Now the first day you haven’t finished is open and the rest are one tap away, each showing its passage and whether you’ve completed it.

If you have a Rewind account with one church and open a sermon from another, you’ll now see the option to follow that church instead of being asked to sign in — which you already were.

On a phone the sermon’s title used to sit below the player, about halfway down the first screen. Title and speaker now come first, the player follows, and all four tabs fit without sliding — Scripture included. The speed control appears once you start playing rather than sitting there beforehand.

Not every recording is a sermon — a worship night, a concert, a members' meeting. Those used to sit under a summary assembled from the songs and the announcements, or under a promise that study tools were coming. They now say plainly that there's no message in the recording, and you can still listen to it.

If you listen at 1.25×, every message you open now starts at 1.25× — on this device, until you change it. Opening a related message no longer carries over anything else from the one before it either: the tab, the reader and any clip you had started all begin fresh.

Highlighting a sentence to ask about it never worked reliably on a phone. Now every summary, group question and devotional day has an “Ask about this” option in its ⋯ menu, so you can ask without getting the highlight exactly right. Highlighting still works where it always did.

Summaries, group questions and devotional days sometimes point you to a passage that isn’t one of the ones we found in the message itself. Those are now marked “Related passage” — still worth reading, still one tap away. It means we couldn’t match the reference to the message’s own passages, not that it wasn’t preached.

Settings, your preferences and your data export all kept working for everyone except one group: members whose home church was no longer on Rewind. Those pages now load, your preferences save, and Settings offers to make one of your other churches your new home.

When your church posts the audio first and the video a few days later, the video now lands on that same sermon instead of creating a second copy. Your saves and timestamps all stay put — and if the church posts a shorter, message-only cut, jumping to a quote still lands in the right place.

The home feed on your church's site now shows only your own church's messages and content. Sermons from the churches and speakers you follow have their own home on the Following page at rewind.church/following, and your saved items now open at rewind.church/my — same content, one clear place for everything beyond your church.

Put a phrase in quotes — like “living water” — and search now shows only the messages that match it word-for-word, best matches first. Near matches move to a clearly labeled “Related” list below instead of mixing in, and if nothing matches your phrase word-for-word, search tells you plainly and offers to look again without the quotes.

Search results now appear the instant an exact match is found, with related moments filling in right after. Tapping a “Said in the message” result opens the sermon with the audio cued to that moment and the transcript open with your words highlighted. Mistype a name or topic and search offers a “Did you mean…?”; accented names like “Muñoz” now come up when you type them without the accent; sermons you're partway through say “In progress”; and when your search reads like a question, the Ask Rewind option steps forward to answer it.

When you search, results highlight the words you looked for right where they appear — in the sermon title, the speaker's name, the church's name, and the line quoted from the message — so you can see at a glance why each result came up. Accent marks don't get in the way (typing “munoz” still highlights “Muñoz” in a result), and longer forms of your word are highlighted too, so searching “pray” also marks “prayed” and “praying”.

The Library on rewind.church now opens with a search box. Search sermons across your church and the ones you follow at once — by word, speaker, series, or scripture — and switch the scope to look in just your church or everywhere on Rewind.

The Library on rewind.church now brings together sermons from your church and every church you follow, newest first. Filter by church, speaker, or date, and each card shows which church a sermon is from. Every church's own library is unchanged.

The churches page now has a search box — start typing a church's name or city and the list narrows as you type.

The controls under the sermon player now sit in one compact row — swipe it sideways if you need more. Tap the speed chip to cycle through playback speeds, the way podcast apps do.

The Library now opens with search — look up sermons, speakers, series, topics, or a scripture reference from one box, and choose how far it reaches: just your church, churches you follow, or everywhere on Rewind. Shortcuts jump straight to a speaker, series, or passage page; a one-tap Ask Rewind handoff is there when you want an answer instead of a list; and when you're visiting another church's library, search looks through that church's public archive.

Spot something confusing, broken, or missing? Open your profile menu and choose Send feedback. It notes the page you're on automatically, and your church's team reads every report.

Your home church now appears with a Home badge alongside the churches you follow — on your Following page and your Saved page — so everything you belong to and follow sits in one place.

Your Following tab remembers your place in messages from any church you follow, not just your home church. Start a message on one church's page and pick it back up from Following, right where you left off.

The sermon tabs now run Overview, Devotional, Groups, Scripture — and questions moved to the Ask Rewind button, which you can open from any page. Bookmark, share, and clip actions for each point and quote now live behind a single ⋯ button, so the message itself has more room.

Your saved items now live under your profile menu (tap your avatar, then Saved) instead of the main navigation.

Your Following tab now suggests churches and speakers from across Rewind that you might want to follow. Follow one and their latest messages start showing up in your feed.

Home now opens to your own church — this week's message, where you left off, and what's new. The churches and speakers you follow moved to their own Following tab, so everything from beyond your church is in one place.

When other churches on Rewind share their libraries publicly, strong matches now appear under “Elsewhere on Rewind” at the end of your search results.

Search now includes the churches you follow, not just the ones you're part of — you'll see each result's church, and only what that church shares publicly.

Searching for a phrase you remember now works even when the words fall across a break in the transcript — results still jump to the moment it was said.

Search now looks through the messages themselves — type a phrase you remember hearing (put it in quotes for an exact match) and the result jumps to the moment it was said. You can also search by speaker or topic, and a small typo won't get in the way.

No Google account? Enter your email on the sign-in page and we'll send you a one-time sign-in link — no password to remember.

Follow a speaker whose teaching you want to keep up with, and their messages gather in one place — even across more than one church you're a part of.

The clips and moments you've saved now gather on a single Saved page — including from every church you follow, all together.

A new directory lets you browse churches sharing their messages on Rewind and open what they've chosen to make public.

Ask a question and get an answer drawn from every message your church has taught — with each point cited back to the message it came from, so you can listen for yourself.

A new set of suggestions on your home page, drawn from the messages you've been listening to — an easy way to find the next one.

Change the playback speed, jump straight to a chapter, and turn on read-along to follow the transcript line by line while you listen.

Heard something you want to come back to? Save the moment and Rewind remembers the exact spot, ready to replay from your Saved list.

Browse the archive by series — see each teaching series as a set and move through it week by week.

Open anyone who has taught and see every message they've given in one place, with a new Speakers directory to find them.