◦ Vault-Grade Privacy: Your browsing history and open tabs are now moved to a secure, hidden system directory. ◦ Back on Mac: Take your private browsing to the desktop. SHEILD is now officially optimized for Mac Catalyst with native scrolling and desktop-class navigation. ◦ On-Device Encryption: All local data is now encrypted at rest, ensuring your browsing habits stay yours and yours alone. ◦ Smarter Navigation: Refined URL bar layout for a cleaner, more immersive experience. * Critical fixes & Performance improvements ◦ Beta 26.5 Readiness: Critical layout engine fixes and memory optimizations for the latest developer previews. ◦ Share your comments, suggestions, any bugs, or feature requests. * Thank you for downloading Sheild, your generous support is appreciated. ------------------------------

* Critical fix for startup crash affecting some devices: iOS 26.5 Dev Beta.

◦ Live Clock Widget: A new live-updating date and time display now sits above the weather, ticking in real-time. ◦ Immersive Scrolling: Enhanced URL bar background fade-out smoothly as you scroll, letting the webpage content take center stage. ◦ Refined Controls: Action buttons now feature a sleek new background and color scheme for a modern, polished look, better visibility and a modern look. ◦ Optimized Animations: Improved scrolling performance and smoother transitions of toolbars. * Bug Fixes: Resolved issues with background visibility and toolbar overlap. ◦ Share your comments, suggestions, any bugs, or feature requests. * Thank you for downloading Sheild, your generous support is appreciated.

What’s New in Version ◦ All-New Downloads: Download almost anything! From ZIPs to EXE files, got you covered with a new toast notification system. ◦ Better Logins: fixed issues with site authentication and private logins. ◦ Quick View: Tap "VIEW" on your new download toast to see your files immediately. ◦ Enjoying Sheild! share your comments, suggestions, any bugs, or feature requests. * Thank you for downloading Sheild, your generous support is appreciated. ------------------------------

◦ Refined Navigation Bar: All new redesigned the bottom toolbar with a more compact, modern layout. Icons are now sharper and more space-efficient, giving more room for your content. ◦ Enhanced Privacy Controls: Our signature "Sheild" clear-data button is now more accessible than ever, allowing you to wipe your browsing traces with a single tap. ◦ Optimized for All Devices: Whether you're on an iPhone SE or a Pro Max, the interface now adapts perfectly to your screen size for a seamless experience. ◦ Performance Improvements: Under-the-hood tweaks for faster loading and smoother tab switching. ◦ Enjoying Sheild! share your comments, suggestions, any bugs, or feature requests. * Thank you for downloading Sheild, your generous support is appreciated.

This update focuses on improvements, performance, stability, privacy, and core browsing upgrades. ◦ Search Improvements • Fixed and improved search proxy result handling • More reliable result parsing and display consistency • Reduced inconsistent or missing results during fast queries ◦ Password & Form Saving • Added secure password saving using iOS Keychain • Improved AutoFill behavior for login forms • Form credentials are now handled through system-level security storage (not browser-local storage) • Existing saved passwords remain untouched and are still managed by the system ◦ Browser Engine Stability • Improved tab lifecycle handling and reduced race conditions • More stable WebView configuration pipeline • Fixed edge cases in tab switching and loading behavior ◦ UI & Visual Improvements • Long-press support on dynamic homepage (cleaned + stable) • Better interaction model for homepage tiles/actions • Improved Dark Mode rendering consistency • Fixed layout issues affecting the address/search bar width • Enhanced transparency and overlay behavior for modern UI feel ◦ System-Level Fixes • Improved interaction between browser storage and system AutoFill • More predictable handling of session and browsing state resets • General performance and rendering stability improvements Enjoying Sheild! share your comments, suggestions, any bugs, or feature requests. Thank you for downloading Sheild, your generous support is appreciated.

Introducing: Sheild AI Search Engine. Search smarter. Search safer. Search with Sheild. ◦ Sheild now features its own integrated search engine. Ask a question, and Sheild crawls the web in real-time to give you grounded, factual answers. ◦ Live Web Access: No more knowledge cut-offs. If it’s happening now, Sheild can find it. ◦ Privacy-First: Your search queries are proxied through our secure Cloudflare edge—keeping your identity hidden from big-tech trackers. ◦ AI-Summarized Results: Don't just get a list of links; get a clear, concise answer compiled from the best sources on the web. ◦ Dark Mode Optimized: A clean, redesigned search interface that’s easy on the eyes, day or night. Please share your comments, suggestions, found any bugs, or feature requests. Thank you for downloading Sheild! and generous support is appreciated. ------------------------------

Version update features Performance & Stability "Optimized for the latest iOS **iOS 26.5** ◦ Intelligent URL Management: overhauled address bar logic. The bar now intelligently yields to touch, preventing unexpected crashes during initial load. ◦ Zero-Lag Keyboard Interaction: By optimizing the way the URL bar gains focus, eliminated micro-stutters. ◦ Global Readiness Shield: UI is fully stable before any background updates occur, making the app significantly more robust during rapid tab switching. UI & Experience Improvements • Smarter Text Selection: Just like your favorite desktop browsers, Sheild now perfectly highlights the URL for quick editing, with improved timing to prevent visual glitches. • Adaptive Theme Support: The address bar now features enhanced "Adaptive Colors" that resolve instantly between light and dark modes, for better visibility in sunlight. • Refined Loading Indicators: The refresh buttons and activity spinners have been re-engineered to be lighter on system resources more accurate feedback progress. Bug Fixes • Fixed a rare but annoying crash when clicking the address bar before the homepage finished initializing. • Eliminated "Ghost Layout" errors that occurred during device rotation. --- Please share your comments, suggestions, found any bugs, or feature requests. Thank you for downloading Sheild! and generous support is appreciated. ------------------------------

## What’s New in SHEILD 1. New AI Engine: Qwen 2.5 (1.5B) An upgraded to your on-device intelligence. Experience faster response times and significantly better accuracy for concise, private assistance. 2. Improved Storage Management The AI "brain" has moved to a new, dedicated home. This frees up your Documents folder and prevents the AI model from bloating your iCloud backups—saving you nearly 1GB of cloud space! 3. Automatic "Ghost File" Cleanup Our new self-healing logic automatically detects and deletes old, unused AI models (like Llama 3.2) to ensure your iPhone storage stays lean and mean. 4. Performance Boost By isolating the AI from your browser history and tabs, we’ve reduced background "indexing lag," making the interface feel snappier than ever. 5. Privacy First As always, your AI conversations never leave your device. Local processing, local privacy. Please Share: Comments, suggestions, found any bugs, or feature requests. Thank you for downloading Sheild! and generous support is appreciated. ------------------------------

Major stability improvements in this release: * Enhanced Stability: I overhauled tab switching and page recovery, ensuring a smoother experience even after interruptions. * Reliable Startup: Resolved a navigation issue that occasionally caused blank or unresponsive pages immediately after launch. * Refined Address Bar: Improved the behavior of the address bar on new tabs and homepages, eliminating visual glitches and flickering text for a cleaner look. Please Share: Comments, suggestions, found any bugs, or feature requests. Thank you for downloading Sheild! and generous support is appreciated.

## What’s New & Improved ------------------------------ Global Browser Experience * Full Multilingual Support: The browser interface is now fully localized for 8 additional languages, including Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, German, Italian, and Portuguese. * Native Terminology: Menus, settings, and toolbar actions now use standard browser terms in every supported language for a truly native feel. Advanced Download Management * Intelligent File Handling: Our new download engine now automatically detects non-web files (like ZIP, APK, and DMG) and prompts you to save them directly to your device. * Seamless Transfers: Optimized the hand-off between web requests and local storage, ensuring downloads are reliable and secure. * Quick Look Integration: Once a download is finished, you can now preview the file immediately or open the standard iOS Options menu to share it with other apps. Navigation & Connectivity Fixes * Smart Link Management: Refined our "Universal Link" blocker to keep you inside the browser while ensuring essential system links (like tel: for calls or mailto: for emails) still open their respective apps. * Improved Web Performance: Fixed several edge cases where the address bar spinner would stall during page transitions. * Authentication Support: Added a new secure login dialog for websites requiring HTTP Basic or Digest authentication. [1] Platform Optimizations * Enhanced Layout: Fixed several visual bugs on iPhone 16e and iPhone 17 to ensure the toolbar and AI search elements stay perfectly aligned on all screen sizes. Please do share: Any comments, suggestions, found bugs, or feature requests. Thank you for downloading Sheild! and your generous support is appreciated. ------------------------------

## What’s New & Improved New Feature: Integrated AI Search Box * Dynamic Homepage Search: You can now ask the AI anything directly from the homepage. Just type your query and hit "Enter" to launch the AI assistant. * Contextual Handoff: Your search text is automatically passed from the homepage into the AI interface for a seamless start. Critical Stability & Crash Fixes * UI Hierarchy Fix: Resolved a major crash caused by the AI button existing in multiple view parents. The button is now properly managed by the Toolbar system. * Safe Interaction: Implemented a "bridge" function for the AI Toolbar button to prevent Objective-C selector crashes during handoffs. * Thread Safety: Added Main-Thread enforcement when launching AI screens from the homepage to prevent background-process crashes. Adaptive Layout Improvements * iPhone 16e & 17 Compatibility: Fixed "Toolbar Bleeding" where the menu would stretch beyond the screen on smaller devices. * Dynamic Safe Areas: Switched to Safe Area Layout Guides to ensure the toolbar and AI button sit perfectly above the home indicator on all screen sizes. * Responsive Spacing: Replaced rigid fixed-width spaces with flexibleSpace to allow the toolbar to fit comfortably on 6.1" and 6.3" displays. Web Engine Reliability * Stall Detection: Added background logic to detect and reset the web process if the homepage or a site becomes unresponsive (White Screen fix). Please share: comments, suggestions, found bugs, or any feature requests! Thank you for downloading and your generous support helping improve Sheild! ------------------------------

* WebView Recovery – Fixed a long-standing bug where tabs could remain blank after a crash or app restart. Tabs now automatically reload the last URL or dynamic homepage, keeping your browsing smooth and uninterrupted. * Dynamic Homepage Reliability – The homepage now loads consistently, even if network images or scripts are delayed. * Improved Dark Mode & Dynamic Homepage Appearance – Dark mode styling and homepage visuals now appear correctly on launch. * General Stability & Performance Fixes – Various tweaks to prevent stalled pages and maintain spinner behavior. Your browsing experience should now feel faster, more reliable, and less prone to crashes. Please do share: found any found bugs, comments, suggestions, or any feature requests! Thank you for downloading and your generous support helping improve Sheild!

------------------------------ 1. Private On-Device AI (Beta) * Local Intelligence: Integrated a high-performance, 1-billion parameter LLM that runs entirely on your device. Your chats never leave your iPhone. * Lightning Fast: Optimized for the A14 chip and newer, featuring 4-bit quantization for rapid responses and reduced memory footprint. * Hybrid Fallback: Automatically switches to high-speed cloud inference if the local model is still downloading. 2. All-New Dynamic Homepage * Smart Weather: Get real-time local weather and conditions directly on your home screen. * Privacy-First Permissions: We only request your location when you tap the weather widget—no unsolicited pop-ups on startup. * Cross-Tab Sync: Your weather and settings now stay perfectly in sync across all open tabs and survive page reloads. 3. Performance & Security * Hardened Security: Advanced internal obfuscation for API keys to protect the app's infrastructure. * Memory Efficiency: Reduced app overhead by 40% using optimized KV cache management and smarter tab handling. * Reliability: Fixed "Hostname not found" and "JSON Parse" errors in the weather engine for more stable updates. Thank you for downloading Sheild, and your generous support helping to improve! ------------------------------

Live Weather (GPS-based): • Automatically detects your location using Apple GPS and displays current weather directly on the homepage powered. Minimal, fast, and privacy-friendly. Smarter Location Handling • Improved accuracy and fallback behavior for location detection, ensuring weather loads reliably even with intermittent permissions or signal issues. Local AI Identity Automation: • Introduced early-stage local AI identity logic—enabling more personalized, on-device behavior without relying on external services. Performance Improvements: • Reduced data usage and simplified weather parsing for faster homepage loading. Stability Fixes • Better handling of async homepage updates, preventing stuck “Loading…” states. Thank you for downloading Sheild, and your generous support helping to improve!

No More "Infinite Spin" • An overhauled loading logic. If the network hits a snag or DNS fails, the loading spinner now stops immediately and no more getting stuck! Lightning Fast Dynamic Homepage Consistent Custom Themes Stability Improvements: • Dynamic homepage now stays exact locked in custom colors so they won’t shift or "jump" when your system switches between Light and Dark modes. • Identified and squashed a deep-rooted performance bug involving background blurs. The Result: Clicking tabs, bookmarks, quick links now instant and flicker-free. • Smoother Navigation: Reduced GPU strain means a cooler device and a more responsive browsing experience. • Improved handling of "Provisional Failures" to get you back to browsing faster. • Fixed a rare layout issue where backdrop-filter: Glitch could affect the screen. • Refined "Edit Mode" for Top Sites—smoother animations and more reliable deletion. Thank you for your using Sheild, and your generous support helping to improve!

• Refactored: Unified logic prevents Universal Links Apps hijacking via interception. • UI Optimization: Synchronized urlBar reset logic to eliminate layout flickering. • Navigation: Implemented viewWithTag cleanup for error overlays during Navigation. • MIME/Extension Support: Integrated NWPath extension checking for decisionHandler(.download) on iOS 14.5+ • Bug Fixes: Resolved an issue where the homepage sometimes hanging wallpaper prevented dynamic content from loading into view correctly. Thank you for your continued generous support helping improve Sheild!

• Enhanced Dark Mode rendering • Faster, more stable homepage loading • Improved loading indicator behavior • Bug fixes and performance improvements • More enhanced features on the way! Thank you for your continued support helping improve Sheild!

New Stability and performance improvements: • Fixed navigation edge case with mailto: links causing WebView stalls • Improved handling of non-web URL schemes (mailto, tel, etc.) • Refined loading state logic to prevent UI blocking and spinner hangs • Optimized homepage loading flow for instant rendering • Improved Dark Mode behavior on dynamic and media-heavy content Thank you for your continued support helping improve Sheild!

• Refined toolbar UI (button sizing, spacing, and layout consistency) • Enhanced Dark Mode engine with improved handling of dynamic DOM content • Fixed media overlay issues affecting videos, images, and iframes • Improved CSS/JS targeting to prevent unintended background application • Stability and performance improvements

• Improved local AI response handling and completion. • Fixed WebView layout so page content no longer appears under the URL bar. • Better inset management in for correct page positioning.

+ Important New Feature Improvements & Major Critical Bug Fixes + Intelligent Download Support • Direct File Handling: You can now download files (ZIP, APK, PDF, and more) directly within the app. • Privacy-First Downloads: Files are saved to your device's local Documents folder without tracking your download history. • Quick Preview: Open and view your downloaded files immediately with the new built-in previewer. + Smoother Navigation * Smart Back/Forward: We’ve overhauled the navigation engine to skip over "blank" and invalid pages automatically. No more getting stuck on redirect loops! * Crash Fixes: Resolved the "Error -999" and "Frame Interrupted" issues that previously caused annoying error popups during site transitions. + Polished User Interface • Central Activity Loader: A new high-visibility central spinner keeps you informed during page loads and downloads, even when your toolbars are hidden. • Dynamic Toolbar Dimming: Navigation buttons now intelligently dim when there’s no valid history to go back or forward to. • Enhanced Smart Dark Mode: Improved logic to ensure your dark/light preferences apply instantly and consistently across all tabs. + Stability & Privacy * Ephemeral State: Internal error tracking and temporary URL blacklists now reset automatically to ensure a fresh, private browsing session every time you navigate.

• New Dynamic Home Dashboard Features: • Persistent Storage: Your top sites are saved in UserDefaults (Swift), so they never disappear. • Dynamic UI: 4-across grid with automatic wrapping and smart "X" buttons. • Smarter Private AI: more thorough, accurate, and complete responses. • Intelligent Communications: JS/Swift Add sites, open AI, or hide toolbars, and render the saved data. • Performance & Privacy: • Professional UX: Toolbars that toggle with a tap and a grid that stays sharp on any screen size. • UI Polish: Show/ Hide Toolbars URLbar for a truly full-screen experience. • One-Tap Review: Love Shield? Rate directly from the Settings page to help stay independent.

• Dynamic Home Dashboard • An all-new homepage features a compact Action Grid and Top Sites layout. Access Private AI, Burn History, and your favorite sites in a single tap—all while keeping your open tabs organized below. • Smarter Private AI • Long-Press Power: Take control of AI responses with long-press actions to share or copy. • Persistent Sessions: Your AI conversations now save automatically, so you can pick up right where you left off. • Precision Browsing • Find in Page: Search and highlight text instantly on any website. • Enhanced Selection: Refined text selection—tap individual words for easier copying and privacy-first actions. • Performance & Privacy • UI Polish: Fixed the URL bar background "sticking" during auto-hide for a truly full-screen experience. • One-Tap Review: Love Shield? Rate us directly from the Settings page to help us stay independent. • Bug Squashing: Smoother navigation, cleaner Settings, and optimized local model loading.

* Critical Bug Fix: URL bar now reliably receives focus on iPhone — typing and search work again. * Glass/Blur UI improved: Rounded corners restored on URL bar with shadow while keeping transparency effect. * Touch responsiveness: Tap gestures and AI input now fully tappable even with transparent toolbars.