Changelog

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✨ New

  • Mention AI bots in your chats (requires a subscription), managed from the new Settings > AI section
  • YouTube links appear as embedded video players
  • New keyboard shortcuts when you have a message selected:
    • Press CMD+SHIFT+H / CTRL+SHIFT+H to open the first link in the message
    • Press CMD+SHIFT+R / CTRL+SHIFT+R to add your quick reaction (customizable in Settings > General > Quick reaction emoji)
    • Press → to open the Emoji picker
  • New ways to filter your chat list, including Drafts, Unanswered, and Groups

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

  • When “Auto copy OTP/2FA codes” is enabled, messages with authentication codes will immediately notify and copy even if the chat is muted or “Delay notifications” is enabled
  • Fixed instances where opening a chat did not jump you to the last unread message
  • Fixed a few more cases of 😮 appearing as 😮‍💨
  • Facebook: Fix a case where if the most recent message in a group chat was an image attachment then two copies of it would show up in Beeper after creating the connection
  • Several other UX and stability improvements

✨ New

  • Customize your preset times for Reminders under Settings > General > Time Suggestions
  • Customize what happens when you double-click a chat under Settings > Appearance > Chat List > On double-clicking a chat…
  • Double-click messages to add a reaction with Settings > General > On double-clicking a message > React with…
  • Group chats now have a Notes section in the Chat Info sidebar
  • Matrix invites are grouped in a new Requests section
  • New Command Bar (CMD+J / CTRL+J) options to “Copy current chat ID” and “Copy invite link” (on supported chats)
  • Instagram no longer syncs view-once media. Please use the native Instagram app to view.

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

  • Fixed certain audio messages not transcribing correctly
  • Fixed the UI bouncing back and forth when you edit a very tall message
  • Improved performance when sending messages to Signal groups and added support for sending typing notifications to Signal groups
  • Fixed another issue where muting On-Device WhatsApp conversations would not work
  • Fixed a bug where disabled accounts wouldn't get recalculated when an account is removed in some cases
  • Improved grouping of disappeared messages
  • Fixed issue that sometimes caused chats to be stuck unread
  • Fixed the account connect/reconnect window sometimes appearing blank
  • Fixed chats sometimes showing a reminder when the reminder has already been cleared
  • Fixed chat avatars sometimes showing the wrong image
  • Fixed rich text support in Discord
  • Prevent WhatsApp connections from breaking after a temporary WhatsApp outage
  • Improve recovery in poor network conditions
  • Your preferred emoji skin tone syncs across devices and is used more consistently
  • Show Messenger stickers at the same size as they appear on Messenger, instead of gigantic
  • Show the thumbs-up message consistently as an emoji rather than sometimes an emoji and sometimes a (gigantic) sticker
  • Several more UX improvements

✨ New

  • CTRL+TAB shows your chat history as you cycle through them
  • Added buttons to “Open in Clay” when you have the Clay app installed

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

  • Fixed app for older versions of macOS where it wouldn’t open — re-download the app for the fix
  • Fixed transcriptions not working on WhatsApp
  • Jumping to old messages from Search is much faster
  • Fixed problem causing some Search queries to crash the app
  • Tooltips should alway appear in the right place now
  • Traffic lights are better aligned in macOS Tahoe
  • Several other UX improvements

✨ New

  • Autoplay the next voice note when the current one stops (toggle this in Settings > General > Automatically play the next voice note)
  • Mac: Writing tools show up in right-click menus
  • Added support for deleting Signal private chats

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

  • Plus: Fixed audio transcriptions not working for some accounts
  • Windows: LinkedIn login should no longer prompt you for a passkey you do not have
  • Fixed instance where chats can be stuck Unread
  • Fixed instance where some messages can appear stuck “Sending”
  • Fixed outgoing typing notifications not being sent
  • Fixed disappearing timers being turned back on after you’ve turned them off
  • Fixed searching for chats with non-Latin characters
  • Fixed a few interactions not working correctly in popout chats
  • Fixed various issues with missing reactions/edits/etc in WhatsApp private chats
  • Fixed history transfer option not appearing when connecting Local Signal with a recent version of Signal Android
  • Improved performance when logging in for users with a large number of chats on cloud connections
  • Some small improvements to rich text editing
  • Various other small UX improvements

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

  • Fixed issues logging into most chat accounts
  • Fixed starting a New Chat with people not in your contacts
  • Fixed database migration that in rare cases could cause the app not to open

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

  • Critical fix to restore the app for Intel Mac users

✨ New

  • Updates to Chat Info pane including chat description / topic
  • Added support for forwarding messages on LinkedIn

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

  • Fixed login to LinkedIn
  • Slack users who were missing DM chats should see them restored
  • The persistent “loading” chat at the bottom of the chat list shouldn’t show any more
  • Fixed 😮 reactions showing as 😮‍💨 in Beeper
  • OTP/2FA auto-copy behavior should be more accurate
  • You can start chats with Matrix users who previously were not showing in search results
  • Fixed search sometimes showing no results when there should be results
  • Fixed sticker sizes on WhatsApp & Signal
  • Twitter: Better handling for voice notes that are too long to be sent
  • Several other UX improvements

✨ New

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

  • Fixed a bug that caused the chat to jump around instead of staying at the bottom
  • Users on the latest macOS have overall performance improvements
  • Windows users should be able to more easily find Beeper in the Start menu
  • Attaching photos and videos to Report a Problem form doesn’t cause scrollbars
  • Fixed problem that sometimes caused emoji verification to stall
  • Fixed an issue where scrolling up in Matrix rooms wouldn't fetch more messages
  • Fixed an issue where On-Device Facebook connections were stuck in an error state
  • Fixed an issue where muting On-Device WhatsApp conversations would not work
  • Made On-Device Google Voice connections more reliable
  • Fixed handling of leaving WhatsApp Communities not removing those spaces when using the On-Device WhatsApp connection
  • Several improvements to rich text editing
  • Several UI and UX improvements

✨ New

  • Voice Transcriptions show up in message search

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

  • Discord DMs should start appearing correctly as DMs instead of groups
  • Message previews should not be blank when you log in
  • Timezone changes only notify you if the time offset has changed
  • Logout from another device should properly log you out on this device
  • Fixed an issue where new On-Device Signal connections that were paired from the native Signal app on iOS didn't backfill previous conversations

✨ New

  • The emoji selector now lets you navigate with keyboard arrows — happy reacting!
  • Sleeker Command Bar design

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

  • Fixed an issue where On-Device Twitter connections would disconnect frequently
  • Improved account setup instructions for Telegram, WhatsApp, and Signal
  • Allow users with self-hosted iMessage to also use on-device iMessage connection