Social media used to be about connecting with friends. Somewhere along the way, that got lost in the noise of viral content and algorithms. It's time to bring friends back. Today, we're introducing Find Friends — a new way to find the people you know on Bluesky with your phone contacts. Most apps import your contacts knowing phone numbers are vulnerable to enumeration attacks — even with encryption, the limited set of possible numbers makes them easy to guess through brute force. We weren't willing to accept that risk, so we developed a new approach that's fundamentally more secure and gives you full control. - Bluesky asks everyone to verify their phone number before using Find Friends, proving you own the number you're using. - We also require that all matches are mutual, so someone will only match with you if both of you have each other in your contacts. - Plus, instead of storing phone numbers as plain text like other apps do, we encode phone number pairs, protecting them from enumeration. We hope Find Friends makes it easier for you to, well, find your friends on Bluesky!

Bug fixes and performance improvements

- Dark Mode app icon - Made all the buttons round again - The "Who can reply" dialog has a fresh look - New granular reporting reasons - Even more bug fixes and performance enhancements

- Dark Mode app icon - Made all the buttons round again - The "Who can reply" dialog has a fresh look - New granular reporting reasons - Various other bug fixes and performance enhancements

- New app icon - Refreshed color scheme - Added a new Finance interest - Many bug fixes and performance improvements

- Bookmarks are here! - Bug fixes and performance improvements

- Custom feeds can now enable the "Show more"/"Show less" buttons - The image/video buttons in the composer has been unified into a single button - You can now add people directly to a starter pack in the "…" menu on their profile - Performance improvements and bug fixes

- Muted threads are now also filtered from feeds - Visual improvements to suggested accounts and trending videos modules - Bug fixes and performance improvements

- Activity notifications are now filtered by muted words - Introduced new age assurance requirements for UK users - Multiple bugfixes

- Activity subscriptions: receive push notifications when users post by subscribing to their activity. - More detailed notification settings: change which notifications you receive and from whom. - New notification types: likes on reposts, reposts of reposts. - Multiple visual improvements to post threads. - Fixed a bug which made it difficult to link to search results. - Multiple other bugfixes.

- New share menu on posts - Likes and reposts on your reposts now show in your notifications - New translation: Portuguese (PT)

- Quality-of-life improvements and bugfixes - New application language: Frisian

We’re introducing a new layer of verification on Bluesky. Users may now be verified by Bluesky or by "Trusted Verifiers," adding a checkmark next to their username which confirms their identity.

- You can now react to messages in your DMs with an emoji! - The Search tab now has a new "Explore" experience with lots of tools to help you discover what's happening in Bluesky - Various bugfixes

- DMs inbox - 3 minute videos - A new moderation reporting flow - New tool: mute account from post menu - Better errors in the signup flow

- You can now restrict replies to your posts to followers only! - A new settings page now exists to set default "Who can reply" settings on all future posts - Improvements to the search page interface - Added a new "Search posts by user" tool to profiles - When reporting DM conversations, you will now be prompted to block the offending user and delete the conversation - Added "Interlingua" to application languages

- User profile pages now include a "Video" tab! - After reporting a user in DMs, you are now given a quick menu to block the user and/or delete the conversation - Updated translations

This release adds Video Feeds, a new video-centric experience.

Minor bugfixes

Removed some internal developer tooling from the build

- Updated the trending interstitial in discover - Fixed mute words in trending - Enabled landscape orientation when viewing an image - Updated localizations - Added Greek translation

Fix for uploading avatar and banner images

- New "Mentions" tab in notifications - New settings control when viewing a thread - Multiple UI improvements - Updated translations, and added Nepali, Khmer, and Romanian

- New thread sorting mode: "hotness" - Rounding numbers (like follower counts) is now consistent across all platforms - Improved localizations - Various bugfixes and performance improvements

- Redesigned settings screen - New animations when viewing images - Imported posts now clearly indicate they were imported - Performance improvements