Updates to JW Library (iOS, Android, Windows)

[Michał]

7 hours ago, Dages said:

Reading
Explaining

Illustrating
Applicating

That's how you use Bible verse with people in the ministry  

Thanks, I know this framework but the English  acronym stumbled me 😉

 

Thsnk you!

[➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone]

21 hours ago, Michał said:

Thanks!

 

Now I get OCLM but what are:

 

DBR ?

Daily

Bible

Reading

[Michał]

4 hours ago, ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone said:

Daily

Bible

Reading

That I didn’t know 😆 I just read the Bible 😉

[idezotl]

On 1/22/2026 at 1:27 AM, Michał said:

Now I get OCLM but what are:

REIA

DBR

 

A brief explanation of the REIA method is explained in the Ministry School textbook: Preparing Discourses for the Public, subheading: Use of Scriptures

 

DBR = Daily Bible Reading. 

[idezotl]

I’m not sure how to edit or delete a post, maybe because of being a limited access user? I typed out my reply based on where the Notification link took me and it didn’t show me the last page of replies which had already answered the questions I answered. 😬 Better late than never. 

[rocket]

46 minutes ago, idezotl said:

I’m not sure how to edit or delete a post, maybe because of being a limited access user? I typed out my reply based on where the Notification link took me and it didn’t show me the last page of replies which had already answered the questions I answered. 😬 Better late than never. 

 

I think everyone has 10 minutes to edit a post.  After that you can ask a Moderator to make an edit.

[gazzari]

On 1/22/2026 at 6:27 AM, shali said:

It's not a huge deal.  You still get all the new publications and meeting materials.  You just won't have some of the new perks in the actual app but you will still get all the important stuff to keep up with the chariot.  I have one device that I love to play the video's on but after a certain update, the video's refused to stream or download.  I had to roll the app back to a previous version where streaming and downloading still worked and I've kept it there.  I still get all the new info and publications. 

How do you roll back a version. I have a Samsung S2 with Android 7. Downloads don't work, but it would be nice to have them working again. What is the version that still downloads?

 

As a workaround, I share to Chrome, download the jwpub, and run it, letting it run in JW Lib. Same works for videos, but some things don't work. I don't care for any extra features. I Download and mark the Watchtowers in pdf form. That way I get to keep them also. Old watchtowers in JW lib get deleted if I happen to download them.

 

I happened upon a Lenovo Miix 256 GB -W11, cheaply. Runs really nice, though a little big for the meetings. It also allows me to run the WT library also. My pdfs are synced between devices so I have marked stuff everywhere. Something JW library can't match. JW lib can't match search in WT lib either. And never will. You can't match "+" or "-" search shooting through stuff lightning fast.

[idezotl]

Question regarding JW Library > Personal Study and tags. Is it possible to filter using multiple tags? Like say #DBR #Shepherding? Is it possible to reverse order, aka ascending/descending? Or filter via a tag and then search within that tag group? 

 

I’m not sure if any of those things are available or even on the possible road map so does anyone have any suggestions or workflows for best use practice given the current tag features? Having 365+ entries in DBR (Daily Bible Reading) seems to overwhelm the purpose of the tagging, I guess I’ve kept up with it in case two or more tags can ever be used to filter in the future.

 

I didn’t keep up with this idea but for a time I was adding text tags because multiple could be searched.