What’s New in Version 2.7? • A compact message bar that expands when you start typing. • A new context indicator showing estimated usage and remaining space. • A refined attachment menu with camera, photos, and image files. • Improved memory management and device-aware model limits. • Simpler Siri, Shortcuts, and widget settings. • Fixed app-switcher previews being hidden for unprotected chats. • Stability and interface refinements throughout the app.

What’s New in Version 2.6? - Protect individual chats with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode. - Simplified settings with a dedicated Advanced Options section. - Improved switch visibility in light and dark mode. - Cleaner chat metrics, with detailed performance just a tap away. - Refined interface details for a clearer, more focused experience.

What’s New in Version 2.5? - A cleaner chat interface with refined navigation and a roomier message composer. - Native Liquid Glass controls on iOS 26 and later, with support for older iOS versions. - More personal greetings, smoother animations, and a refreshed launch experience. - Clearer voice controls, improved readability, and better accessibility.

What’s New in 2.4? - Meet Lapis Agents (PRO): personalized assistants with custom instructions and local tools. - Ask, summarize, translate, and rewrite with Siri and Shortcuts—without opening Lapis when Apple Intelligence is available. - Discover Lapis actions in Spotlight and configure quick access to Live. - Explore live memory and battery charts, thermal status, and response metrics. - Enjoy smoother scrolling that lets you read earlier messages while replies generate. - Regenerate responses with another on-device model. - Share text from other apps into a new conversation. - Browse project conversations directly in the sidebar. - Export chats as beautifully formatted PDFs, Markdown, or plain text. - Improved draft preservation and reliability.

What’s New in Version 2.3 - New Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, plus Control Center controls. - New Shortcuts actions to ask questions, summarize, and translate text. - Background model downloads with optional completion notifications. - Live Activities and Dynamic Island support for download progress and Live voice controls. - Improved Apple Intelligence availability detection and recovery after iOS updates. - Clearer model status messages and overall stability improvements.

What’s New in Version 2.2? LAPIS 2.2 makes your local AI experience more organized, natural, and reliable. What’s new: - Projects to organize related conversations and AI work. - Enhanced Voice Mode with faster, smoother, and more natural conversations. - Apple Foundation Models integration on compatible devices. - Local MLX inference with support for popular open-source models. - Lapis PRO with the complete model catalog, vision, voice, longer context, advanced parameters, and custom Hugging Face models. - Improved model loading, memory management, downloads, and long conversations. - Performance, stability, and UI improvements. Your device. Your models. Your data.

What’s New in Version 2.0? LAPIS 2.0 is a major upgrade, rebuilt around Apple’s MLX framework to deliver faster, more efficient, and more reliable on-device AI. What’s new: - Native MLX inference across supported language and vision models. - Improved model loading and unloading with safer memory management. - More reliable vision conversations and image processing. - Redesigned model downloads with accurate progress, speed, and status information. - A greatly improved Live Voice experience powered by Apple’s native speech technologies. - Clearer voice output, faster responses, and smoother conversation flow. - A cleaner, calmer Live Voice interface with refined orb animations. - A more consistent and polished interface across chat, model management, and settings. - Improved animations, transitions, typography, and haptic feedback. - Better handling of long conversations and multimodal prompts. - Extensive stability improvements to prevent crashes during model loading and inference. - Internal architectural improvements that make LAPIS easier to maintain and expand. LAPIS 2.0 feels faster, more dependable, and more at home on iPhone and iPad—while keeping your AI experience private and on your device.

What’s New in Version 1.4 The overall experience has been refined so the interface feels smoother, more familiar, and more responsive. Live Voice Mode has taken a big step forward (clearer audio, faster reactions, better flow) still in preview, but now genuinely worth trying. You’ll also notice improved animations and more precise haptic feedback throughout the app. Finally, an issue affecting certain models—where responses degraded into “…” after several interactions—has been fixed.

What’s New in Version 1.3 This update brings upgraded voice output in Voice Mode (still in preview) with clearer, more natural voices. We’ve also added new recommended models that are lighter and faster to run on-device. Several user-reported bugs have been fixed, load times are shorter, and the overall experience should feel noticeably smoother.

What’s New in Version 1.2 A faster and smarter update focused on efficiency. This release introduces a new default LLM model that’s significantly smaller, faster, and more resource-efficient. Downloads and updates now complete much quicker, and token inference speed has improved noticeably across the app. Default parameters have been fine-tuned for better performance, smoother interaction, and reduced device load. Several user-reported bugs have also been fixed to keep everything running clean. Designed to give you a better offline, private, and on-device AI chat experience—now with less weight and more power.

What’s New in Version 1.1 We’ve listened carefully to your feedback and refined the Lapis experience. This update includes minor bug fixes and performance improvements across the app. On Mac and iPad, you can now send messages by pressing Enter, making conversations smoother and faster. We’ve also optimized performance on devices with lower resources—so larger models should now run more efficiently and with improved stability.