Changelog

New Features ✨

• The Quick Switcher graduates from Labs 🧑🏻‍🔬 - thanks to everyone who provided feedback!
  • Quickly jump from chat-to-chat without ever navigating back to your inbox
  • ⚙️ → Preferences → Quick Conversation Switcher

Bug Fixes & Optimizations 🛠️

• Fixed an issue where…
  • Chats could get in a weird state causing them to appear unread
  • the app could crash when responding to a message request
  • reactions sent from other clients couldn't be deleted
  • changing the playback speed of voice notes could cause them to not play at all
  • device verification could get stuck in some cases

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

• Fixed a crash when backgrounding the app while generating a link preview
• Fixed selected space not displaying correctly in the space selector on iPhone
• Fixed delayed notifications in some cases
• Fixed an issue where onboarding could get stuck while restoring encryption keys
• Improved onboarding messages to make encryption setup and recovery steps clearer
• Improved error messages to be clearer and more helpful

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

• Message requests that arrived while the app was closed, will send a notification for better visibility
• Fixed sometimes getting stuck in a “left” state when you leave a chat and come back
• Fixed “Send instantly” keyboard shortcut when Undo Send is enabled
• Fixed “+ text” being auto-converted to a bulleted list
• Reduced number of “Connecting…” notices shown
• Telegram: Fixed some custom emojis getting way too big
• Twitter: Fixed slight delay when archiving a chat
• iMessage: Improved sync for deleting chats
• WhatsApp: Fixed sometimes not being able to add new members to groups

✨ New

• Now you can filter each account by Archived, Requests, and Low Priority

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

• Fixed incoming messages sometimes duplicating themselves
• Fixed creating group chats in iMessage
• Several smaller UI and UX improvements

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

• Fixed a bug that prevented notifications from being delivered for some users

Bug Fixes & Optimizations 🛠️

• Fixed an issue where…
  • Messages sent via share to multiple chats only being delivered to one
  • Fixed a problem during login & device verification when we would present "Last seen: January 1, 1970" when no information was available
  • The CAPTCHA prompt could be too small to interact with on some devices for Facebook
  • Chat network connectivity status could appear stale or out of sync in the UI
  • The inbox content could get clipped behind the toolbar
• Improved On-Device Telegram connection reliability after app restarts
• Improved Facebook & Instagram on-device connection to fix connectivity issues

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

• Fixed pinned chat reordering in minimal inbox edit mode
• Marking a chat as unread on iOS now refreshes it correctly
• Fixed some chats getting stuck as unread
• Fixed message requests sometimes being shown with an empty title in the inbox
• Fixed an animation hitch that could occur when opening chats with photo access enabled
• Fixed an animation glitch in the chat info panel’s More button when scrolling
• Turned off using data export requests for On-Device Telegram connections
• Fixed On-Device Facebook connections sometimes missing messages from Marketplace chats
• Fixed a crash that could occur when searching contacts to start a new chat with
• Allow onboarding to continue when the app is backgrounded

✨ New

• Search images by their content with image classification and OCR (Mac only, new downloads)
• Redesigned forward messages dialog
• Option to disable link previews in outgoing messages

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

• Improved image loading performance
• Fixed composer state for bridges that don't advertise link preview support
• Fixed disconnect banner showing in unrelated spaces
• Fixed account display name not using profile name
• Fixed custom emoji reaction images not updating correctly when toggling or removing reactions
• Fixed On-Device Facebook connections sometimes missing messages from marketplace chats
• Turned off using data export requests for On-Device Telegram connections
• Upgraded networks with many assorted fixes

Bug Fixes & Optimizations 🛠️

• Fixed an issue where…
  • Navigation could be generally weird with bubbles open
  • The app could get stuck on the splash screen after certain navigation actions
  • The back button was missing in certain cases
  • Forwarding a message to multiple chats could skip some of the selected chats
  • Searching for rooms on tablet layout could fail to navigate correctly
  • Sending media could occasionally be corrupted due to a transcoding race condition
  • Attachments could become stale if the sending flow was interrupted and retried