New Features ✨
- Introducing Bookmarks 🔖
- Tap and hold any message and choose "Bookmark" to save it for later
- Saved bookmarks can be viewed in global or chat Search
Bug Fixes & Optimizations 🛠️
- Fixed an issue where…
- photos taken with the in-app camera could grow past a chat's size limit while being prepared, causing the send to fail
- a failed message could get stuck after tapping Retry
- opening a received text file showed "No apps found" or a blank viewer
- opening an attachment whose cached copy had been cleared failed instead of re-downloading it
- New Group remembered your previous contact selection after you backed out
- a QR login could be replaced by an outdated code, or an earlier cancelled login could clear a newer attempt
New Features ✨
- Tap a Matrix room link in a chat to jump straight into rooms you've already joined, or join new ones in a single tap
- Appearance settings now have a "Reset to defaults" option so you can start fresh anytime
Bug Fixes & Optimizations 🛠️
- Improved app startup reliability
- Fixed an issue where…
- network visibility settings weren't applied to Telegram communities
- logging out of a Slack workspace didn't work as expected
- crashes or hangs could happen during startup
New Features ✨
- The Inbox now has a Send Later space where you can find chats with scheduled messages
Bug Fixes & Optimizations 🛠️
- Fixed an issue where…
- Older messages could stop loading while scrolling through chat history
- Chats with more than 1,000 unread messages could open at the newest message instead of the first unread one
- Conversations could jump unexpectedly while scrolling when messages were edited
- An edited message in a Merged Chat could appear under the wrong chat network
- Multi-select polls could show the number of voters instead of the total number of votes
- Small stickers could appear enlarged and blurry
- Emoji-only messages containing newer emoji could appear in a regular message bubble instead of displaying at the larger size on supported devices
- Some animated stickers from Telegram packs could fail to send in WhatsApp chats
- Some valid phone numbers could not be used to connect WhatsApp or Telegram
- Tapping the call button in a one-to-one chat could dial your own number instead of the other person
- Custom chat names could be lost after leaving and rejoining a chat
- Beeper could use too much processing power and data in the background, sometimes causing Android to stop the app
- Mentions of your own account could appear as “Unknown” on On-Device connections
- Notifications could stop after reconnecting an On-Device account
- Opening a Signal setup link from outside Beeper could show an outdated QR code page
- Changing Instagram’s “Show in Inbox” setting from the navigation menu could have no effect
New Features ✨
- Choose any language for voice message transcriptions 🗣️
- Select a global default from preferences
- ⚙️ -> Preferences -> Transcription Language
- or, pick per-message
- Long press a message -> Transcription Language
Bug Fixes & Optimizations 🛠️
- Messages that fail to send now show a clearer explanation of what went wrong
- Fixed an issue where…
- The voice recording timer fell behind the real recording length, then jumped ahead when you stopped
- Reopening Beeper from recents after tapping a notification could leave it stuck on the splash screen
- The "Syncing…" notification sometimes stuck around and couldn't be dismissed
- Chats stayed muted after turning notifications back on for an account in settings
- Removing your last pinned chat left the inbox stuck in "Edit pinned conversations" mode
- Messages containing only an asterisk or list marker appeared empty
- Replying to a photo or video from the full-screen viewer while it was still sending could send the reply to the wrong place
- Long-pressing a mention in the composer could crash the app
- Verifying another device could fail
New Features ✨
- Beeper Nicknames are here!
- Give any chat a custom name and photo. Only you can see your changes, and they'll sync across all your Beeper apps
- From a chat → ℹ️ Info → tap chat name
- Merged chat info can now apply throughout the app
- A new setting lets your merged chat name & avatar show in group chats
- From a merged chat → ℹ️ Info → Apply merged info to contacts
Bug Fixes & Optimizations 🛠️
- Updated screens to make adding chat accounts easier
- Fixed an issue where…
- Chats marked as low priority still showed up in Android when they'd disappeared on other platforms
- The app could crash during search or when loading images
- The chat wallpaper briefly flickered when moving between screens
- Archiving a chat from a bubble opened the inbox instead of closing the bubble
- The app could freeze on devices without Google Play services
Bug Fixes & Optimizations 🛠️
- Fixed an issue where…
- Instagram Reels would not play in group chats
- the Merged Chats option would not appear under Inbox
General Updates 🧹
- Updated the Use System Font feature to better understand device theming information
- Previously, this setting would fall-through to the base Android default font (usually Roboto)
- Now, the app will better reflect the system flavored fonts (like Google Sans, Choco cooky, etc) for a more consistent look across apps
- ⚙️ → Preferences → Use System Font
Bug Fixes & Optimizations 🛠️
- Media loads more reliably thanks to improved media resolving under the hood
- Fixed an issue where…
- Sent messages could incorrectly appear as failed
- Tapping a notification during onboarding led to a blank screen
- Voice note audio could be silent for certain device OEMs
- Searching from the inbox could take you to the wrong place
- The composer could lose characters or focus when opening a conversation
New Features ✨
- A refreshed Spaces sheet makes it easier to jump between your spaces
- Based on feedback, we’ve retooled the spacebar to provide easier access to your spaces along with faster & more intuitive editing
Bug Fixes & Optimizations 🛠️
- HDR videos are now converted for wider compatibility, so they no longer look washed out for the people you send them to
- Fixed an issue where…
- HDR videos could look washed out or otherwise weird due to a side-effect of video transcoding
- Videos or audio could sometimes become unplayable or corrupted during send
- Thread timelines showed an incorrect loading indicator while scrolling back
- Mentions could show an outdated name instead of the person's current one
- Mark as read didn't work on messages in merged chats while incognito
- Removing a chat from a merged chat made it impossible to add back during the same edit session
- Outgoing messages might send on the wrong room in a merged chat
- The chat info sender page showed two navigation icons at the top
New Features ✨
- Merged Chats now have clearer controls in Chat Info for editing or unmerging
- Chat Info can now recommend other conversations with the same person to merge
Bug Fixes & Optimizations 🛠️
- Fixed an issue where…
- you couldn’t start selecting multiple chats from a chat’s long-press menu
- Merged Chats with long histories could be slow to open or load older messages
- opening some Merged Chats could leave other conversations stuck on a blank screen
- Merged Chats could show the wrong icon in the Inbox
- messages from an On-Device Instagram account could fail to send after returning to Beeper
- a failed Instagram voice message could remain stuck on Retrying without an option to try again
- failed messages sent through On-Device chat networks could appear as sent and could not be retried
- images shared from another app could become corrupted when Data saving mode was enabled
- assigning a chat to a label could crash the app on Android 10 and earlier
- the app could crash while syncing chat updates
- sending a message could make the chat briefly jump or stutter
- opening a chat could leave the conversation compressed into the top half of the screen
- the emoji picker could be hidden behind the system navigation bar when reacting to full-screen photos and videos
- the Inbox widget could have square corners on Android 12 and newer
- superscript and subscript text could appear without formatting inside chats
Bug Fixes & Optimizations 🛠️
- Fixed an issue where…
- replies in Merged Chats could show the wrong sending network in the composer
- reminders created for a Merged Chat on Android would not sync across your devices
- pinned Merged Chats would not always update when new messages arrived
- opening Appearance settings could crash on devices that don’t support the saved Dynamic color theme
- long-pressing Copy to use Smart Copy could crash the app