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

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

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

Bug Fixes & Optimizations 🛠️

• Fixed an issue where…
  • the app would crash when launching on Android 8, 9, & 10
  • the app could crash when opening a link with no browser installed
  • the app could crash when logging out before verification was complete
  • the app could crash when navigating to the sticker maker
  • reaction sync could get stuck in an endless loop
  • the scheduled send icon didn't clear from the inbox after deleting a scheduled message
  • refreshing device media repeatedly could cause performance issues

Bug Fixes & Optimizations 🛠️

• Fixed an issue where…
  • Messages weren’t following LTR rules correctly (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew)
  • Tab characters could be dropped or rendered incorrectly in messages
  • The app could freeze (ANR) when scrolling through long message lists
  • Text messages were cut off when opening the context menu
  • Long-pressing a link would accidentally trigger while scrolling
  • Long-pressing a message on a link didn't work correctly
  • Navigating to older messages via search didn't work properly
  • The message composer could be in a weird state with overlapping or missing text
  • The Signal QR code sharing link could get pushed off-screen
  • Media that hadn't finished sending could be lost from cache (and fail to send)
  • Reply thread counts didn't display correctly on older Android devices
  • The app could rarely get stuck during startup due to a sync issue