- Notifications now clear once read: the badge on the bell and on Chat disappears after you read them. - Secret chat messages no longer appear in the home notifications list. - Fixes and stability improvements.

• New "Motori" (Motors) category in listings (cars, motorbikes, scooters, bikes, spare parts, boating and more). • Listing photos now open fullscreen with zoom: you can finally swipe through all the photos you posted. • Expired stories no longer stay in the chat bar after 24 hours. • Secret chat: if you change the self-destruct timer during a conversation, the new value is applied right away. • Minor fixes and stability improvements.

• Expired stories no longer linger in the chat bar: they now disappear correctly after 24 hours. • Secret chat: if you change the self-destruct timer mid-conversation (e.g. from 30 seconds to 1 minute), the new value is now applied right away. • Minor fixes and stability improvements.

Stability hotfix. Stories: when the app had been open for a long time, publishing a video story sometimes failed with an authorization error. The session token is now refreshed automatically before every upload, so stories work again without having to sign out and back in. Chat requests: when you send a message request to a private account, you now always get a clear notice if something goes wrong. You can retry right away without leaving the screen. Invite a friend: the "Download on the App Store" button on the invite page now correctly opens the app's official store page. Small stability polish on photo and video uploads.

v1.1.16 - Secret chat is alive, listings in the widget Stickers in secret chat. You can now send ElleLost stickers (Animals, Hearts, Objects, Actions) in secret chats too. The self-destruct countdown starts only when the other person opens the sticker, the same way it works for text messages. Reply to a message. Long press a message in secret chat and choose Reply. A preview of the message you are replying to appears above the input, and your reply arrives with the quote inside the bubble. Same pattern as the regular private chat, in ephemeral version. Home Screen widget, now with marketplace listings too. The Near You widget used to show only lost items. Now it mixes in the latest Sale, Adoption, Request and Exchange listings within 5 km from your location. A LISTING or LOST badge tells them apart at a glance. Deep link in the widget. Tap a listing in the widget and the listing page opens inside ElleLost. Tap a lost item and the lost item page opens as before. Under the hood. The widget fetch now runs in parallel on the two database collections, sorts by distance and then by date, and picks the top five results.

NEW LISTINGS AND ADOPTIONS section in the bottom bar. 4 listing types: Sale, Adoption, Wanted, Swap. Categories: animals, pet accessories, general items. Integrated checkout for sales with amount held in escrow until receipt is confirmed. Automatic chat between buyer and seller on payment confirmation. New "My listings" screen with Published and Purchased tabs. Automatic AI moderation on title, description and photos. Community reporting system.

Stability and performance improvements. Smoother integration with the Apple Watch companion app introduced in version 1.1.13. Internal optimizations for a more fluid experience when posting, searching, or replying to a lost report in your area.

ElleLost is now on Apple Watch — with Chat! Native Watch app with 4 tabs: - Nearby: lost items within 5 km with photo, distance, quick actions (Seen here, Found, Open). - Chat: read your private conversations and reply from your wrist with 6 preset quick replies or dictate with Siri. - Search: quick search via dictation. - Profile: iPhone sync status and cache. Complications on the watch face (4 families) with nearby lost items count. Custom push notifications on Watch with item photo and Open/Seen/Found buttons directly from the notification. Smart iPhone-Watch sync: photos pre-cached as optimized thumbnails, offline cache, low battery impact.

Screenshot block on iPhone in private chats, secret chats and stories. When you try to take a screenshot in these sections the image is saved completely black. Same technique used by Signal and WhatsApp. Secret chat hotfix: Correct username: the secret chat now shows the real name or username instead of the generic fallback. Screenshot alert in the right place: if you take a screenshot inside the secret chat the warning now appears only there and no longer in the normal private chat too. Separate anti-spam lock between normal and secret chats.

SCREENSHOT MESSAGE LOCKED When someone takes a screenshot in chat, the other user gets a warning that NO ONE can delete. Visible forever to both. Telegram-style, but on every 1-to-1 and secret chat. LOCATION REQUIRED TO PUBLISH To publish a lost item or missing person you must now set the location (tap "My location" or pin on the map). Without coordinates nearby users can't help — the block is for your own good. PHOTOS IN THE WIDGET The first photo of your listing is now shown in the iOS widget. New listings save the pre-resolved URL, legacy ones load on the fly. NO CONTACTS IN DESCRIPTIONS If you add phone, email, links or social handles in the description, a dialog asks you to remove them. On ElleLost you only chat inside the app — secure, encrypted, screenshot-protected. AI CONTENT FILTER Nudity, weapons and violence are automatically detected and removed. Extra protection for minors in the school-books section. What happens on ElleLost stays on ElleLost.

- Screenshot alert in secret chats — like Telegram, the other person sees if you capture - Black screen during screen recording (bank-style privacy) - 24h Notes with clickable links: share music, photos, videos - "Invite friends" ribbon on home: a bigger community helps you find faster - Message requests fix: no more "Pending" loops - Full iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 compatibility - Bug fixes and performance improvements

v1.1.8 — School Books Marketplace NEW — SCHOOL BOOKS A dedicated home section, active every year from June 1 to September 30, to manage school textbooks in your local community. - 3 modes: LOOKING FOR · SELLING · SWAPPING - Full listing: title, author, ISBN, subject, school, grade, condition and up to 5 photos - Filters by school level (elementary, middle, high school, technical, vocational, university) and by town - Direct in-app chat with the seller - Secure payment via Stripe with Apple Pay support - 95% to the seller, a small 5% platform fee - Payment released to the seller only after the buyer confirms receipt of the book FIXES - Fixed the bug preventing group photo updates in private groups

Bug fix: chat display name preference. If you set a username (@handle) and chose to display it in your profile, other users now see it in chat instead of your real name. Applies to: private chats, group chats, lost item chats, and scheduled messages. For conversations opened before this update, the corrected name will appear starting from the next new message sent.