## Luney Version 1.7.2 Release Notes ### New **iPad & iPhone Duo Layouts** * **Side-by-Side Views:** Chats, Groups, Notifications, and Settings now display lists and active views side-by-side on larger screens. (Toggle in Settings › Preferences). * **Persistent Chats & Previews:** iPhone Duo keeps active chats open when closed. See live post previews (formatting, media, polls) while typing on iPad or an opened Duo. * **Context Details:** Tap the info button in side-by-side chats/groups to view pinned messages, media, and members. * **Smart Navigation:** Duo tabs dynamically snap to the side to maximize space. Menus now appear as compact cards near taps instead of full-width sheets. * **Keyboard & Mouse:** Navigate using ⌘1–4 (tabs), ⌘F (search), and ⌘K (jump to chat). Right-click for long-press menus. **iPhone Duo "Tabletop" & "Book" Modes** * **Tabletop Mode:** Prop your half-open Duo on a table to view Reels, Events, or Voice Rooms on the top half, with controls/chat on the bottom. * **Albums:** Play an album as a photo frame on top, or hold the Duo like a book for a two-page "Photo Book" or Progress Compare layout. **Live Lobbies & Audio** * **Lock Screen Integration:** Minimized lobbies transition to the Dynamic Island and Lock Screen with quick controls. * **Background Listening:** A persistent in-app bar shows active speakers and controls, allowing background browsing. * **Smart Controls:** Listeners can raise hands and hosts can end lobbies directly from the Lock Screen. * **Host Handoffs:** Manually transfer hosting before leaving, or auto-handoff to the longest-tenured speaker if a host drops. * **Event Lobbies:** Start a Live Lobby directly from an event page 30 minutes before it begins. **Messaging, Media & Events** * **Drag, Drop & Files:** Drag media directly into chats on iPad/Duo. Upload photos and videos straight from the iOS Files app. * **Slideshows:** Play albums as screen-on slideshows. Shared albums automatically update live as friends add photos. * **Event Smarts:** Tap a location for Maps directions or a time for Calendar sync. Event times auto-convert to your local time zone. Auto-reminders trigger 1 hour before start times. ### Changed * **OS Requirement:** Luney now requires iOS 17 or later. * **Security & 2FA:** Accounts securely lock across devices until authenticated via 2FA. New alerts trigger for web/external logins, which can be remotely logged out in Active Sessions. * **Privacy:** Location data is now automatically stripped from video uploads. * **Safety:** Trigger Panic Mode manually without waiting for a countdown. "Close to Hide" (Duo) instantly disguises Luney as a calculator without triggering a Trusted Circle alert. * **Lobbies:** Rooms with only one person now auto-close after 15 minutes. * **Profiles:** User profiles display total friend counts and mutual connection visibility. ### Fixed * **Sign-in:** Apple Sign-in now automatically utilizes shared names/handles without manual entry. * **Messaging:** Resolved unexpected messaging errors, generic notification banners, and groups incorrectly showing as unread. * **UI/UX:** Fixed iPhone Duo empty space rendering, Live Lobby landscape layouts, and Tabletop reel playback boundaries. Lobbies now close reliably 5 minutes after everyone leaves or loses signal. * **Social:** Friend requests and Community Pulse statuses now update in real-time without requiring manual refreshes. ### Removed * "Redeem a code" has been removed from Settings; promo codes are no longer supported.

## 1.5.0+49, 2026-09-24 ### New Your profile has a Gallery, for photos you want to keep without posting them, and new tabs: All, Posts, Photos, Albums and Reels. Choose who sees each photo, blur what you'd rather hide, add a title and an image description, and let friends like, react, comment and tag. Pin favourites, search your photos, see your photos from this day in past years, and find every photo you're tagged in under Privacy. Sort photos into albums, each with its own cover and audience. Share an album so friends add their photos too, or turn on a link so people without Luney can see it on the web. Everyone in a shared album can caption its photos and is told when someone screenshots it. The owner can let everyone save the photos, or pause new ones. - Voice notes in DMs and group chats, up to 2 minutes. Your phone writes a transcript without sending your voice anywhere. Drag to any part, play at up to 2x, and search chats by what was said. - Set a status: an emoji and a short line under your name, for friends or everyone, that clears itself when you choose. - Take a break: pause notifications for an hour up to a week, show as offline and leave an away note. Safety alerts still come through. - Daily time reminder: pick how much time a day is enough and get a heads-up when you pass it. It's counted on your phone only. - Chat folders: sort your chats into your own folders. - Schedule a post up to 60 days ahead. It goes out even if your phone is off. - Hidden words: comments on your posts and photos that use words you list are hidden from everyone else. - Limit new accounts: stop accounts less than a week old commenting or messaging you. Friends always can. - Guestbook: friends leave a note on your profile, and you approve each one. - Invite friends and get a thank-you code when they join and take part. Redeem codes from Luney events in Settings. - Quiet hours can be different each day. ### Changed - Download my data includes everything new in this update. - Luney removes where a photo was taken from every photo before it uploads, and is cleaning older photos too. - Group post drafts keep their photos. - Reactions give the same light tap as a like. - Any number of chats can come through during quiet hours. - Tapping Joined on a group asks before you leave it. ### Fixed - Messages with a button close on their own after a few seconds (they stay with a screen reader on). - The switches for achievements, friendiversary cards and trusted circle requests now save.

## 1.4.4+48, 2026-09-20 ### New - Messages you send with no connection now wait and send themselves when you are back online, even if you have left that chat or closed the app. They show a small clock until they go. Photos still need a connection at the moment you send them, and a message that has waited more than 12 hours asks before sending. - Each group has a simple choice for its chat notifications: All messages, Only mentions, or Nothing. Long-press the group on the Groups tab or in Your groups and tap Notification settings, or tap your own photo inside the group. - The GIF picker starts with a row of the GIFs you sent most recently. - A profile photo or banner that the check on your phone reads as explicit is not accepted, because those show everywhere your name does. The picture never leaves your phone for that check. If it got it wrong, tap Ask for a review: a person on the Luney team looks at it and, if it is fine, puts it on your profile for you. You get a notification with the answer. A picture the team has already reviewed and turned down is recognised next time, so it is refused straight away. The same check covers a group's photo and the photo or banner you wear inside a group, and you can ask for a review of those in the same way. When you create a group, the photo is sent for review once the group exists. ### Changed - GIFs in chats load much faster. The app now picks the lightest version of each GIF, shows a still frame straight away at the right size so the chat does not jump, and starts loading a GIF the moment its message arrives. Tap one to see it at full quality. That includes GIFs from your favourites. Only GIFs sent from now on are affected. - If Luney moderation removes your profile photo or banner, the inbox notice says which and why, and adding a new one tells you when you can if there is a wait. ### Fixed - Trending hashtags on the search screen count posts again, not only reels. A tag from posts shows up once at least three different people have used it, and only the number is shared, never who posted or what they wrote. - Message pop-ups inside the app now stay quiet for chats and groups you have muted, and follow each group's notification choice. - If Luney moderation changes your name, handle, photo or banner, or your VIP status changes, the app shows it straight away instead of after a restart.

## 1.4.3+46, 2026-09-17 ### New - Find help entries can carry more details, like a weekly drop-in programme or session times, behind a More details link on the card. - Settings > Notifications has a new switch, Mentions cut through muted chats. It is off, so a muted chat stays silent, mentions included. Turn it on and an @mention in a muted chat still notifies you. ### Fixed - "Here now" stops counting you as soon as you open another screen over the group, not only when you leave it. - In-app message toasts for a chat you just left work again; they stayed muted for that chat until you opened another one. - Group cards on the Groups tab no longer cut the member count short on tablets. - "Here now" updates the moment someone opens or leaves the group, on the group screen and in the lists. - A bad connection at launch no longer signs you out. Only the server saying the session is gone does. - Edit details on a group's Details tab: the back button on the settings screen works again. - Tapping a mentioned name whose handle has an underscore could do nothing; it opens the profile now. Typing @ and a name with a dot in it keeps the suggestions open so you can pick the person. - Screen readers: every switch on a group's settings screen says what it is for, the photo and poll buttons in the group post composer have names, and the small close and remove buttons across Home cards, the weekly prompt thread, poll options and the chat help card are easier to hit. - More of the app follows your language: policy titles on the review screen, "earned 2 days ago" lines, the GIF favourites limit sheet, invite link statuses and a few headings that were still English. - Saving quiet hours works again. Since it shipped, flipping the switch or changing a time saved on the server but showed an error, so the screen never caught up. - With App Lock and the Panic Mode calculator both on, the calculator PIN opens the app. App Lock no longer asks for its PIN straight after. - Notices about group join requests, both the "asked to join" one and the approved or denied one, now follow your notification settings, quiet hours and Panic Mode's hold like everything else. - "Here now" on a group counts the people who actually have that group open, not everyone who is online somewhere in the app. One member online used to show as 1 here now on every group they share with you. The count shows on the Groups tab cards as well. - A chat left open while your phone was locked now shows the messages that came in meanwhile. Before, a group chat stayed as it was until you restarted the app. The same goes for comments on an open post, the lobbies list, the notifications inbox and the bell badge. - One notification when someone mentions you in a chat. It used to send the message and a second "mentioned you" notification. - Your notification settings apply to every notification again: the switch for each type, quiet hours, and Panic Mode's hold. Friend requests and accepts no longer notify twice, and the stray "did something" notification is gone. - Group chat: the banner keeps its size while you type a longer message. The text box grows instead. - Message pop-ups for a chat come back while another screen is open over it, like a profile or a photo. They used to stay silent until you closed the chat itself.

## 1.4.1+45, 2026-09-16 ### New - Panic Mode can open the app as the calculator every time. Settings > Safety > Panic Mode > Start in the calculator. Luney comes back when you type your PIN and press =. Your Trusted Circle is not told when you open the app; typing 911 or 999 still alerts them. - Panic Mode can hold notifications while you are covered. Settings > Safety > Panic Mode > Hold notifications while covered. No push notifications while Panic Mode is active, or while Start in the calculator is on and the app is closed; your inbox still fills, and a friend's safety alert still comes through. - When your PIN opens Luney after being covered, one line says how many notifications came in meanwhile, with a way to the inbox. - With Start in the calculator on, the app switcher shows the calculator as well, not the last screen you were on. Come back within half a minute and no PIN is needed. - When you delete your account, you can tell us what didn't work and whether we may email you about it. Both are optional, and Skip takes you straight on. Anything you write is deleted along with the account, or right away if you decide to stay. ### Changed - Five wrong PINs in a row on the calculator pause the check for a minute. Nothing shows; it keeps doing sums. ### Fixed - The Panic Mode calculator fills a tablet screen instead of sitting in the middle third of it. Phones look the same as before. - The back button over a group's photo has a name for screen readers and a bigger tap area. - After Sign out other devices, the list of devices updates on its own and the question card goes away. You no longer have to pull to refresh to see it worked. - The unread count on the Groups and DMs tabs no longer breaks past one digit. It grows to fit and stops at 99+. - Typing anywhere in the app now starts with a capital letter, the way the keyboard does everywhere else: posts, comments, replies, group posts, icebreaker and prompt answers, events, lobbies, feedback, reports and notes. Chats already did. Handles, emails, passwords, codes, links and search boxes are left alone on purpose. - Group photo: a new crop screen. Drag the frame to move it and pull a corner to resize it to any shape. Rotate is still there.

## 1.4.0+44, 2026-09-13 Find help near you A directory of LGBTQIA+ crisis lines, clinics, housing, legal help and community spaces, country by country. Every place was checked by a person. Settings > Safety, or the new card on Home. It works without signal: the list is kept on your phone. Each place says whether it is open right now, with Call, Text, Chat, Website and Directions buttons where the place offers them, what to expect on a first visit, and the ages it serves. A text line or web chat with different hours says so, and a phone line that costs money to call says that too. Search finds topics like HRT or name change, and a place can carry a description in your language. Switch to Map to see the world, tap a country, then a region, then a pin for each city. The map is drawn by the app, with no map service involved. Save places to a list that stays on your phone, share one into a chat, or use "Something wrong?" if a place has closed or moved. Also new Links in chats show a preview card. Luney fetches the page for you, so your phone never touches the link until you tap it. Turn previews off for yourself, or for a whole group. Your profile has a new look: one card for your photo, name, pronouns and bio, quick tiles underneath, your photos and reels in one gallery, and your posts grouped by month. Settings > Privacy > "What people can see of me" turns your settings into plain sentences and tells you what changed since you last looked. From there you can see your profile exactly as a stranger sees it. A card on Home asks you to look every few months. Groups show how many members are around right now. A number, never who. Whoever runs the group can turn it off. Reporting a message in a DM can include the messages around it. You pick the days, preview exactly what would go, and only that is sent. Remind me to reply: flag a conversation and it nudges you in an hour, eight hours or tomorrow. It never marks anything read. Group admins can write a welcome message that every new member sees. If your group has nobody but you holding a role, the group page offers to name someone or hand the group over. Blocking now hides you properly: a blocked person cannot open your profile or autocomplete your handle. The Blocked list explains what they can and cannot see. Chats can show the other person's local time, so you know whether it is a reasonable hour. Off until you turn it on. Quiet hours can let up to two conversations through. Give up a handle and it stays yours for 30 days, with a one-tap way to take it back. If moderation changes your handle, name or bio, your inbox says what changed and why. Tag a friend on a photo after posting, save your own photos to your phone, or share a post or reel as a card in five looks. Changed Dates follow your language's format everywhere. If your language and your habit disagree, Settings > Preferences > Dates lets you pick day first, month first or year first. Muting a group now silences it fully, including your inbox. Every post and photo on a profile has a three-dots button, so Save, Share, Edit and Delete are one tap instead of a long press. Fixed Screens that cannot load now explain themselves and offer Retry instead of showing an error. Group changes, votes and profile edits appear everywhere at once instead of after a restart. Several screens open quicker and keep their place when you come back. Screenshots are blocked again.

## 1.3.0+43, 2026-09-03 ### New - If a report on one of your posts is being looked at, the post shows a small "Under review" label to you while it is hidden from others. Nothing is removed until a person decides. - Quiet hours: pick a nightly window in Settings > Notifications and your phone stays silent between those times. Everything still lands in your inbox, and when the window ends you get one summary instead of a pile of pings. Safety alerts always come through. - Mute posts from a person: long-press any of their posts and pick "Mute posts from @handle". You stay friends and they are not told; their posts and reels just stop showing up for you. Undo under Settings > Safety > Hidden content. - Jump to a day in any chat: tap the date pill while scrolling, or the calendar button in chat search, and pick a day. - A small "Draft saved" check appears next to the title while you write a post, so you can see the autosave happen. - Search inside group chats, the same way DM threads already could, and in both chats a new "Search older messages" step looks through the whole history, not just what is loaded. - Undo send: turn it on in Settings > Preferences and every message waits five seconds with an Undo button before it goes out. - Send with Enter: a new chat preference for hardware keyboards and iPad. Enter sends, Shift+Enter starts a new line. - Sort comments: Oldest, Newest or Top from the chip at the top of the comments sheet. - Muted words: add words or phrases in Settings > Preferences and any post or comment containing them is covered until you tap it. Nothing is removed from your feed. - Posts show a small "edited" note when the text has changed; tap it for the time. - Accessibility has its own place in Settings: text size, the new Bold text and Increase contrast switches, and Reduce motion all live there now. - Data saver: a new switch in Settings > Preferences. On mobile data, photos load lighter and reels wait for your tap; Wi-Fi is untouched. - Forward a message: long-press any message in a DM or group chat and send it, photo included, to another chat or group. - Paste a picture straight into the box: an image on your clipboard, or one your keyboard offers, lands in the post or message as a photo. - Deleted a post by accident? You now get a few seconds to tap Undo before it's really gone, in the feed just like in groups. - Long-press someone's avatar in your notifications, the DM list or the new-message picker to peek at their profile without leaving the screen. - Text size setting: make Luney's text bigger or smaller from Settings → Preferences, without touching your phone's global setting. It follows your account across devices. - If you've asked us to delete your account, the Privacy screen now shows a countdown to the deletion date with a one-tap way to keep your account instead. - Password reset without leaving the app: type the 6-digit code from the reset email straight into Luney. The email link still works too. ### Fixed - Liking a comment shows at once. It used to appear only after closing and reopening the comments. - Paragraphs and line breaks in posts, comments, DMs and group chats stay as you wrote them. They were flattened into one block on screen. - Screen readers now announce every icon-only button (back, close, clear, delete, send). ### Changed - Writing a post: "Who can comment" is now just your usual setting (Viewers, Friends of friends, ...) or Off, the separate Friends chip is gone, and both that row and "Who can see this?" explain the option you picked in plain words. - Double-tap a photo to like the post, in group posts and in the fullscreen viewer too, with the heart burst you'd expect. - Pull down to refresh on Settings, Notification settings and Privacy: handy after changing a permission in your phone's Settings, the banners update right away. - Reduce motion now covers the newest animations too: reel text entrances, poll result bars and rolling counters hold still when it's on.

## 1.2.0+42, 2026-08-29 ### New - Posts: attach up to six photos at once (VIP: twelve), in the feed and in groups. They show as a swipeable carousel; tap to view fullscreen and swipe through. Give each photo a description (screen readers read it, everyone sees it as a caption) and drag thumbnails to reorder them before posting. - Reactions on posts: long-press the heart to react with any emoji; reactions show as chips under the post text. - Photo tags: tag friends in your photos from the composer; they get a notification and the photo shows up on their profile. Anyone can remove their own tag. - Polls: add one to any post, in the feed or in a group, with up to four answers and a time limit. One vote per person, change it whenever, results show as bars, and you're told the result when it closes. - Pinned comments: keep one comment at the top of your post's thread. - Post drafts: closing the composer with something unposted offers to save it, and the save icon parks a draft any time. Photos, descriptions and polls come back when you resume. - Saved collections: long-press a bookmark to file the post in a collection, and switch between your collections at the top of the Saved page. - Sign-in alerts: you're told when your account is signed in on a new device, with a one-tap way to sign out everywhere else if it wasn't you. - Reel editor: cut and arrange. Split a clip and every piece is its own clip with trim handles; drag a piece to reorder it, or drop it on the new VIDEO 2 layer to play it full-screen anywhere in time, even past the end. Split asks which layers to cut (video, sound, Video 2, text, stickers), the sound stays linked to its clip unless you unlink it, and the preview plays exactly what you'll get, with a Cut, Crossfade or Dip-to-black between clips. - Reel editor: text gets fonts, an outline, a background and an entrance animation. - Profiles: tap an identity chip to read what that label means, and tap an interest to open its hashtag, groups included. Match Nudge shows the interests you share. - Chats: the day label floats at the top while you scroll, so you always know which day you're reading. Photos in DMs and group chat can carry a description too. ### Changed - Comments: the on/off switch in the composer is now a three-way choice, everyone, only friends, or nobody. - The fullscreen photo viewer swipes between a post's photos and shows their descriptions along the bottom. - Interest chips are the same colour everywhere: full profile, quick profile sheet and Match Nudge. ### Fixed - Saying no to camera or photo access showed an error; Luney now explains which permission is off and offers to open Settings.

## 1.1.3+41, 2026-08-29 - Fixed: push notifications did not work at all for anyone who joined before we started asking permission, and there was no way to turn them on. Luney now asks, and Settings >> Notifications tells you if your device is blocking them.

## 1.1.2+40, 2026-08-28 ``` Chats show which day a message was sent Every message showed a bare clock time, which is fine in the moment and no help at all on scrollback: a conversation from last month read "22:05" all the way down, with nothing saying which day any of it happened. There is now a date separator between days, marked Today, Yesterday, or the date. ``` - Groups and chats now let go of their live connections when you leave them, instead of holding on to every one you opened until you restart the app. - Chats now show a date separator between days, so scrolling back you can tell when something was actually said instead of seeing a bare time on every message. - Fixed: the emoji and GIF panel no longer gets cut off at the bottom of a group chat, and no longer breaks up when you drag it to resize it. - Fixed: your notification settings for friend requests now actually apply. Turning them off had no effect before. - Fixed: someone cancelling and re-sending a friend request no longer notifies you every time, and no longer leaves duplicate entries in your notifications. - Fixed: if someone cancels a friend request, it no longer leaves a notification asking you to accept a request that is no longer there. - Fixed: someone can no longer repeatedly add and un-add you to make the Accept button flash on your profile. - Search results no longer include test accounts or people who signed up but never finished setting up their profile. - New: Settings > About > Credits, listing the services, tools and open-source projects Luney is built on. - Download My Data now includes 14 more kinds of information, including decorations you own, groups you asked to join, polls you voted in, and restrictions on your account. - Download My Data now also includes your sign-in history, the devices signed in to your account, and where your messages were sent from. - New: you can turn off crash reports in Settings > Privacy > Diagnostics. - Fixed: the version shown on the launch screen was stuck at 1.0.0 and now matches the version you are actually running. - Group admins can now remove a blur the automatic check got wrong, on group posts and group chat photos. - Group admins can also put a blur back if they remove one by mistake. - New group role permission, "Manage photo blurs", so you can let someone fix a wrong blur without letting them delete posts. - You can now remove a blur from a photo you sent in a DM if the automatic check got it wrong, and put it back. - Tapping a blur entry in a group's audit log now takes you to the post or message it happened to. - Fixed: a group's audit log showed "deleted a message:" with nothing after it when the message was just a photo. It now says "deleted a photo". - You can lift a blur you added to your own group photo yourself, and put it back afterwards. - Sending your first photo is quicker: the sensitive-photo check now gets ready while you are still picking.

``` Finding a GIF is a lot easier The GIF picker now opens on browsable categories, with Trending first, instead of one long wall of GIFs. Tap a category to browse it, or search to look through everything at once. Read receipts are clearer A receipt that said "Seen 22:05" under a message you sent two nights earlier looked like it was read minutes later. Receipts now show the date whenever the read did not happen today, so "Yesterday 22:05" and "25 May, 22:05" say what they mean. Also in this version - The selected tab is underlined properly again instead of showing a small dot. - The GIF search box now credits KLIPY, who power GIF results. ``` - The selected tab in the emoji picker, group settings, and staff inbox is underlined properly again instead of showing a small dot. - The GIF picker now opens on browsable categories, with Trending first, instead of a wall of trending GIFs. Tap a category to browse it, or just search to look through everything. - Read receipts now show the date when a message was read on a different day, so "Seen 22:05" under a two-day-old message no longer looks like it was read straight away. - The GIF search box now credits KLIPY, who power GIF results.

## 1.1.0+38, 2026-08-25 ``` Potential explicit photos now post behind a blur Photos and GIFs that look explicit go up blurred and labelled "Possibly sensitive", so nobody gets caught out mid-scroll. Tap to reveal, and tap the eye in the corner to hide it again. The check happens entirely on your phone. Your photos are never uploaded anywhere to be scanned, no score about them is stored, and nothing is ever blocked or deleted. It is deliberately tuned to stay out of the way, so beach shots, gym selfies, lingerie and drag looks are left alone. Also in this version - Groups now show you which tab the new thing is on. A small dot appears on Chat, Posts, Events or Lobbies instead of you checking each one. Admins get a dot on Members when someone is waiting to join. - You can re-hide any photo you revealed, not just automatic ones. - Fixed: messages containing an @mention now send. Mentioning someone in group chat or a DM used to fail with an error. ``` - Contact us now has a button straight to your support tickets, with a badge when the team has replied. - Fixed: "Rate Luney" in Settings now opens the store listing instead of showing an error. - Text spoilers can be hidden again after you reveal them, the same as photos. - Group tab dots now cover Events too, and admins get one on Members when someone is waiting to join. - Fixed: you can re-hide a photo you revealed. Tapping a blurred photo used to be a one-way door, with no way back short of leaving the chat and returning. Revealed photos now have a small eye button in the corner that puts the blur back. - Groups now show you which tab the notification came from: a small dot appears on Chat, Posts or Lobbies instead of you having to check each tab to find what is new. - New: photos and GIFs that look explicit now go up behind a blur, labelled "Possibly sensitive", so nobody gets caught out mid-scroll. Tap to reveal. The check runs entirely on your phone: your photos are never sent anywhere to be scanned, and nothing gets blocked or deleted. It is tuned to stay out of the way, so beach shots, gym selfies and lingerie are left alone. - Fixed: messages with an @mention now send. Mentioning someone in group chat or a DM (including the "Say hi" button) failed with an error, and the mention notification now opens the chat at that message.