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Beeper Android
v4.26.3

New Features ✨

  • Remove any message from Beeper on all your devices
  • Enjoy hyper-specific theme settings 🎨
    • Type a hex code directly into the color picker in Settings → Appearance → Color Palette
  • See which of your devices an account is connected on, and remove it from a device you no longer use
  • The Sticker Maker now supports “Original” mode, allowing you to keep the image’s background
  • Leave a Matrix chat straight from the inbox long-press menu
  • The full-screen media viewer now works in the dual-pane layout on tablets and foldables
  • Edit the caption on a photo, video, or file you've already sent

Bug Fixes & Optimizations 🛠️

  • Improved startup reliability, including a fix for a repeated crash on launch for some WhatsApp users
  • If the local database is lost, the app now rebuilds it from your account instead of sending you back through onboarding with an empty inbox
  • Messages send sooner after a network change, and queued messages keep sending after an earlier one gives up
  • Smoother scrolling in chats, and faster rendering of animated sticker packs
  • Reactions that the network rejected are removed instead of lingering
  • Links with no preview show as a regular text bubble
  • Image files sent as attachments display as images
  • Group chats show read receipts on the last message each person actually read, matching Beeper Desktop
  • New emoji from Emoji 16 and 17 render and appear in the reaction picker on every Android version
  • Recent emoji appear first in the reaction picker on networks with long reaction lists
  • Fixed an issue where…
    • the chat could jump while new messages were loading
    • a chat could be lost when quickly flipping between single- and dual-pane layouts
    • read status could hide the reply status on a message
    • a read receipt could appear on your own message after someone reacted to it
    • merged chats disappeared from All Chats when a member network was hidden, or when one of its chats was deleted from another device
    • the keyboard stayed open when opening chat info from a conversation
    • the Stickers screen showed Edit when there were no stickers
    • full-screen videos kept the screen awake after closing
    • voice note waveforms could stall on long recordings
    • the composer text color didn't match the chat theme
    • the text selection toolbar ignored the app's dark mode setting, and dark mode wasn't applied consistently
    • the blurred reply view didn't blur the chat background
    • phone numbers were truncated in Seen by and group member summaries
    • saving media without a file type silently failed
    • stickers changed size after downloading
    • stickers sent to Discord were missing a file extension
    • reply targets showed up in media galleries
    • formatting leaked into quoted text in reaction previews
    • LinkedIn company pages opened as member profiles
    • double-tapping to react to a message that hadn't sent yet caused problems
    • typing indicators were sent while Send Later was selected
    • the Send Later header action was mislabeled, now "Reschedule"
    • "Mute In-App Sounds" didn't make clear that notification sounds are separate
    • the Storage screen listed media that couldn't be cleared
    • the microphone permission prompt looped when permission was permanently denied
    • the custom app icon stuck around after logging out
    • the email code "Resend" button stopped working after a failed attempt, and the email step was lost after backgrounding
    • Google Messages sign-in didn't offer to reconnect after a credentials error, or stalled when a pending login expired
    • Slack showed duplicate spaces on self-hosted workspaces and ignored the visibility setting
    • Slack's email CAPTCHA failed to load
    • login screens closed during hidden steps or when a site handed off to another app
    • connecting a chat network could be cancelled while the app was starting up, or lost when the screen rotated