The phase-field approach has emerged as a powerful and versatile framework for modeling and simulating complex fracture phenomena under diverse loading conditions, across scales, and in multifield settings. Owing to its flexibility, it has attracted wide interest in the engineering community, particularly in the past decade. Recent advances include the study of crack nucleation, establishing the connection to strength theories, and the extension to fracture of complex materials and structures, as well as to fracture in coupled multi-field settings. This mini-symposium provides a platform for the discussion and exchange of ideas on recent advances and applications of the phase-field approach to fracture. Contributions are welcome on topics including brittle, cohesive, and ductile fracture in solids and structures; fundamental aspects of phase-field formulations; numerical implementation strategies; experimental validation; as well as case studies and extensions to novel or more complex scenarios and applications.