We’ve completely rebuilt Signal Kiosk’s background engine to make your reading experience faster, smoother, and lighter on your battery and more reliable.. Re-Engineered Background Sync: Always Fresh, Zero Battery Impact More Accurate Badges: Your Home Screen unread badge now updates in real time while your phone is locked. When you open Signal Kiosk, your articles are already waiting for you, no loading delays or badge jumps. Instant Background Updates: We completely transformed how articles update in the background. Content processes in milliseconds, making refreshes up to 500x faster. Subscribing to YouTube Channels Improvements Paste Any YouTube Link: Adding your favorite creators is now effortless. Simply paste any YouTube link—channel handles (@channel), custom URLs, user pages, or video links—and Signal Kiosk handles the rest. Instant Video Feeds: New video uploads appear seamlessly alongside your news and blog feeds, complete with video previews and one-tap playback. Faster, Smoother & More Reliable Seamless Multi-Device Sync: iCloud sync between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac is faster and more reliable than ever. Overall Speed & Polish: Enjoy faster app launches, smoother scrolling, and enhanced stability across all your feeds.

Rebuild background/CloudKit sync for faster, more reliable feed freshness and accurate unread counts.

Additional speed and quality improvements. Improvements in preparation for iOS 27 and Apple Intelligence (stay tuned richer AI experiences)

Additional Apple Intelligence integrations in preparation for iOS 27.

Bug fix - Refresh on Inbox during sync AI improvements in the Signals and Search tab. Please share your feedback on our support hub.

AI improvements in the Signals and Search tab. Please share your feedback on our support hub.

Focus Channels Curated Workspaces: Create custom channels to group and organize your favorite feeds, helping you separate work, personal interests, and breaking alerts. Story Threads: Automatically group related articles together as they develop, making it easy to catch up on continuous news coverage without feeling overwhelmed by individual items. Smart Signals & Rules Engine Keyword & Source Triggers: Set up automated rules to scan incoming articles. You can flag items, mark them as high-priority, or trigger instant push notifications based on specific topics or authors. Interactive Control Center: Track, manage, and toggle all active search triggers in the updated Signals tab. Media & Rich Images Complete Image Recovery: Resolved CDN and server blocking issues so that media headers now load reliably for major publishers. Smart Image Parsing: The parser now reads embedded article cover images directly, ensuring your feeds display clean thumbnails instead of dark placeholders. Snappy Performance Zero-Lag Navigation: Offloaded heavy calculations (such as feed and folder unread counts) to the background, keeping the user interface fast and fluid. Optimized Image Loading: Enhanced caching mechanisms prevent stuttering and frame drops when scrolling through media-rich lists. Refined iCloud & Onboarding iCloud Setup Shield: A clean, single-tap onboarding step lets you decide between local storage and seamless iCloud sync right away. Instant Background Recovery: Re-installing the app or adding a new device now restores folders, feeds, and channels silently in the background without locking your screen.

Improvements to iCloud syncing with multiple devices. Misc performance improvements.

Bug fixes and adjustments for iOS 26.5 release.

Bug fixes: Cleanup / sync timing issue showing previously downloaded articles. Improved AI functions on Signals tab, Generation function.

Better AI Content Handling The on-device AI is now more resilient in iOS 26.4 when analyzing news articles on sensitive topics like politics or global conflicts. Articles that previously might have been skipped are now processed successfully, giving you more complete briefings and signal coverage. Smarter Background Syncing Signal Kiosk now refreshes your feeds more reliably in the background. You'll see updated article counts and new content waiting for you when you open the app, even after extended periods away. Following Tab Improved The Following section in Signals was often showing empty results after iOS 26.4. We've fixed this, your favorite feeds now properly generate signals, connections, and briefings. The system looks back further in time and needs fewer articles to surface insights, so even if you only follow a handful of feeds, you'll see meaningful intelligence.

Faster Background Updates The app now reliably checks for new articles in the background throughout the day, not just overnight. You'll see fresh articles and updated badge counts when you return to the app. Improved Multi-Device Sync Cross-device sync via iCloud is faster and more efficient, with reduced data transfer when backgrounding the app. The Mac version no longer experiences slow sync times on launch. Smoother Mark All Read Tapping "Mark All as Read" is now instant — no more momentary lag when marking large numbers of articles. Streamlined Toolbar The "Mark All as Read" action is now a single tap directly from the toolbar instead of requiring a menu. Bug Fixes - Corrected issue where local cache may sync to iCloud when it should remain local.

Faster Background Updates The app now reliably checks for new articles in the background throughout the day, not just overnight. You'll see fresh articles and updated badge counts when you return to the app. Improved Multi-Device Sync Cross-device sync via iCloud is faster and more efficient, with reduced data transfer when backgrounding the app. The Mac version no longer experiences slow sync times on launch. Smoother Mark All Read Tapping "Mark All as Read" is now instant — no more momentary lag when marking large numbers of articles. Streamlined Toolbar The "Mark All as Read" action is now a single tap directly from the toolbar instead of requiring a menu.