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Hello there! We hope you enjoy the summer with a cold drink (if you live in the northern hemisphere) or the winter with a warm drink (if you live in the southern hemisphere). Regardless of where you live, you not only deserve peace and happiness, but also the 2024.6-release of Mastodon for iOS. And that comes with this: - A new Privacy & Safety-section in the Settings-part of the app. Here you can configure the default visibility for new posts, for example. (IOS-168) - A bug fix for our Number One-crash! When tapping in your own profile too quickly, this resulted in a crash. But don't worry: We got this! (IOS-255, GH-1257) - Speaking of bug fixes: When you tried to change your profile fields, some content got erased. We are really for if this happened to you. (GH-1290) - A little cleanup, that won't affect you: We removed old persistence code for cards and polls (IOS-178, IOS-182) - We improved "Load more"-behaviour in several parts throughtout the entire app. Loading new content should be waaaaaaayyyyyy faster now, nearly at the speed of light! (IOS-272) - When you update your profile-image, you will see that change now in the Tab-bar (IOS-277) - We fixed a bug that showed the "Load more"-button in your Home-timeline when there was no new content (GH-1288) We hope that these fixes and improvements make your Mastodon-life a little easier. This release wouldn't have been possible without your ongoing support. Thank you so much for that and for using Mastodon and making the Web (and the world) a better place.

Long time no see! Okay, joke's on us as it has been just a week or so since the last release. But we've been busy and this is why you can enjoy these rather short release notes for the latest and greatest 2024.7-release of Mastodon for iOS. It contains not one, but two improvements and bug fixes: 1. We fixed a bug! In case you wanted to translate a reblogged status, this failed, but not anymore, as we fixed this! (IOS-271) 2. An improvement! If the author of a blogpost or a newspaper article or a video producer or any other content creator on the internet has a Mastodon-account (and did some configuration), you will see a small, additional button if someone posts a link to their written piece or video or content in general. This button leads you to the author's profile so that you can discover more of their content. We hope that these numerous changes help you discover more content you like, but: No pressure! Use Mastodon only as much as it feels good to you. We don't want to lurk you in as we all know: There are way more important things in life than social media. As always: This release wouldn't have been possible without your ongoing support. Thank you so much for that and for using Mastodon. It sparks so much joy to see people using the stuff you built. Until next time!

Hey there! We’ve got some nifty updates for you in this release. Now you can check out your lists right in the app, because who doesn’t love a good list? If your server is feeling generous, you’ll enjoy our new notification filters. Filter away! We’ve sorted out the character counter on the compose screen, so you can add links without any counting mishaps. Crash fixes galore! The app is now more stable than your morning coffee routine. Widgets can finally retrieve data, and shortcuts are back to posting like champs. Thanks for sticking with us and for all your feedback. We hope these tweaks make your app experience even better! Enjoy the update!

We’ve fixed bugs and improved stability with this release.

Going viral just got a lot less painful! This version lists your notifications in streamlined groups instead of one at a time, meaning you can spend less time scrolling and more time being part of the conversation. - Favorites, boosts, and follows that occur close together will be grouped with similar notifications. (Resolves #399) - Follow requests can be approved or rejected when they appear. (Resolves #1342) You’ll also see a bunch of improvements around post visibility (”Public”, “Unlisted”, etc.) throughout the app: - Visibility setting for each post has been moved to the top of the compose window, just under the publish button, making it much more obvious. - Posts that are not public show the visibility icon next to the timestamp. - Private mentions and replies display headers as appropriate. - Several other long-standing issues in this area have been resolved (#242, #472, #1395). Plus quite a few other small fixes! New Contributors - @tvrrp made their first contribution in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1392 - @vtourraine made their first contribution in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1400 - @angristan made their first contribution in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1414 Full Changelog: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/compare/2024.12...2025.01

Updates to notifications, new account registration, and more. Notifications: - Push notifications should work more consistently. - Notification filter options offered now match the web interface. - Admin notifications are optionally included for those with access to them. New account registration: - Terms of Service link will display for instances that have them. - Fields will wait until you have entered data before warning if the entry is invalid. - Date of birth field has been added for servers with a minimum age requirement. Additional improvements: - Boosts and favorites on already-boosted posts should “stick” properly. - The Voice Over experience in the Followers and Following lists is significantly better.

A few small improvements while we work on larger changes behind the scenes… - iPad layout is better - User’s default visibility choice is now respected for boosts as well as posts - Server rule display now shows both the headline text and the additional explanations (if any), and will show rules in the user’s current preferred language setting, if translations are available.

A few fixes while work continues behind the scenes on home timeline improvements: - Navigations should no longer look broken (fixes #1448) - Editing a post now gives the same progress indication as publishing a post for the first time (filling up the button). - Efficiency improvements to avoid the “too many requests” error (fixes #1449).

Quick update: - Donation form now respects the default currency provided by the server. - Hopeful fix for #1385 Error 3 (cancelled) on attempt to export video from iPhone 16

We are excited to bring you a brand new timeline layout throughout the app with a fresh look, smoother scrolling, more responsive buttons, and rich text formatting for posts using supported html tags. - View Mastodon quote posts and compose them (when your Mastodon server supports the feature) - Notifications list is less likely to show stale data - Several crash fixes - A fix to make it less likely you’ll hit a “too many requests” error - Long poll options now wrap their text so you can read the whole thing!!!

Important bug fixes! - Better background color for “Muted” and “Blocked” buttons so you can read them - Double tap on Home takes you to the top of the timeline - Avoid opening the same post in thread mode multiple times in a row - Crash fix - Better updating of actions (like follow, boost, etc) from one screen to another

This version brings several improvements to the main timeline: - The post “…” menu now offers both the existing “Copy Link” option and a new “Copy” option, which will copy the text of the post now that selecting text directly from the screen is not possible. - There is a new dedicated audio player and improvements have been made to the video player. - Loading from the top and bottom should work more smoothly, and the bottom loader now has some visual feedback as you scroll to trigger it. We’ve also made big changes to the way we handle localizations, which will make the app much more flexible going forward. This may mean you see a few additional untranslated strings until our volunteer translators can catch up. Several places in the app that display lists of other accounts have been updated to match our new layout and provide more useful information.

Mastodon, now in Liquid Glass! We’ve also fixed a few crashes, turned on localization for some additional languages (including Estonian), and improved the iPad layout so that the margins are scrollable.

A quick update to bring a more legible icon to the App Store listing.

Some minor fixes to start off the year: - Avoid triggering post actions accidentally while scrolling. - Display Lists in alphabetical order, as on the web. - Improved hashtag statistics layout for longer translations.

While larger changes take shape behind the scenes, this update brings a few important improvements: - You can now manage multiple logged-in accounts from the Settings screen (this has always been accessible by longpressing the current account avatar, but that was not easy to discover). - A new media viewer, which maintains current functionality while removing a technical obstacle to further improvements to the app as a whole. - Fix for [BUG] No audio while playing videos or audio before going full screen #1505 - Fix for [BUG] Quoted posts that are *long* are not truncated #1516 - Fix for [BUG] Encoded HTML entities in display names are applied. #1528 - Make language variants available in language picker (contributed by Poren Chiang) - Refactor AccessTokenQuery to use multipart/form-data for OAuth POST requests (contributed by vitalyster) - Significant code clean up (contributed by Jack Alto)

This update brings an all-new profile page and profile editing experience. More control over your own profile display: - Feature other accounts on your profile - Feature hashtags on your profile - For servers running 4.6+, set how and whether your “Media” and “Featured” tabs are displayed. More control when viewing other profiles: - Filter the timeline by hashtags they have featured - Accept or reject pending follow requests from the new banner - Content warning when viewing a profile that has been limited by your moderators Additional new features: - Create lists and manage them - Add and edit personal notes (visible only to you) about other accounts - Update bottom loading indicator lets you know when additional items are being actively fetched Bug fixes: - Images are sharable again — longpress them in the timeline or use the share button from the full size viewer - Fix main navigation bar gestures like scroll to top not working on iOS 26 ([#1537](https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/issues/1537)) (Thanks to Patryk Zawadzki) - Improvements to the image gallery including easier paging, easier dismissing, double tap to zoom, and single tap outside the content to dismiss

You can now view Collections natively in the app! You can also report them, if necessary. Also: - The edit history view has been updated to match the new timeline style everywhere else. - Stats are now always rounded down, so you won’t see milestones like “1K” before they are actually reached.

Some small but important bug fixes: - Restores the ability to change your avatar and banner images. - Shows a collection attached to a post only once, rather than as a collection and as a link preview.

A couple important bug fixes: - Update only the affected relationship when following/unfollowing. (Fixes the problem where profiles could show the incorrect follow button state after you had followed/unfollowed another account.) - Avoid getting stuck if fetching associated relationships or accounts fails.

This version fixes a security issue when using the "Open in Mastodon" feature on links that are not Mastodon URLs.