Optimized for iPhone Duo. Opened flat on a dual-screen phone, and on iPad, the feed and profile now sit in a centered column, so photos and videos are no longer huge and you scroll less. • A finished call no longer leaves the next one saying "Connected" before the media is flowing. • Calls over your relay keep playing when a single audio frame is lost, instead of freezing. • Undo after deleting a relay now puts it back in its circles. • An Instagram import interrupted by an update picks up where it stopped.

2.0.1 — Lighter on your storage. • Haven now saves your circles, contacts and messages in less than half the space, so each save writes far less to your device's storage. Your existing data carries over automatically. • Network activity no longer piles up in a disk cache, which cuts background disk writes even further.

2.0.0 — Lighter on your phone, clearer about who sees what. • Your relay does the heavy lifting: when your circle has a relay, photos and videos go up to it once and friends fetch them from there. Your phone no longer streams media to each friend, so it stays cooler and easier on the battery. • Haven stays out of the way: during calls, or when your device is hot or in Low Power Mode, big background transfers pause and pick up again later. • Always know who sees a post: the composer names the circle a post reaches, and the Post button says so too. Replies are marked as visible to the circle, and profiles and member lists have a Message button for writing to just one person. • New friends connect and see each other's posts in seconds instead of minutes. • Faster launch, smoother scrolling, and taps that respond right away. • Honest sync status: real counts of what's sending and receiving, and progress that actually moves. • More reliable screen sharing on calls.

1.8.11 — Better video calls. - Everyone on a video call now sees their own mirrored camera preview in the corner, so you can check how you look while you talk. - With your camera off, the preview shows a camera-off icon instead of an empty box.

1.8.10 — Moving to a new iPhone keeps you you. - Restoring a backup onto a new iPhone now brings your Haven identity with it, instead of quietly starting you over as someone new (Settings ▸ Identity & backup ▸ Include in device backups). - A new or restored device gets your whole history from your other devices through your relay — the old phone no longer has to stay open next to it. - Switching identities keeps each one's posts and messages, and a feed set aside on this device can be recovered in Settings.

1.8.9 — A clearer name on the App Store. - Haven is now listed as "Haven Private Circles", so the name says what it is where people search. The app on your device is still just Haven. - No changes to the app itself in this one.

1.8.8 — Full-screen photos: the song plays on, and zoom follows your finger. - Tap a photo on a post with music and the song keeps playing, with its own mute in the corner. It steps aside for a video with sound of its own. - A zoomed photo now follows your finger instead of jumping when you let go, and double tap zooms where you tapped. The song's name no longer covers the dots at the bottom.

1.8.7 — The song keeps playing when you open a photo full screen. - Tap a photo on a post with music and the song now plays on instead of stopping, with its own mute button in the corner. It steps aside by itself for a video that has sound of its own, then comes back on the next photo.

1.8.5 — Add friend opens instantly. - Tapping add friend no longer freezes the app. The invite sheet was building its link and QR code while the screen was drawing, which could lock everything up long enough for the system to close Haven. Both are prepared in the background now, so the sheet opens straight away.

1.8.4 — Calls behave, photos stay put, and everything keeps moving. - A call that just ended no longer hangs up the next one. A goodbye from the previous call could arrive a second into the new one and stop the phone ringing, while the caller heard nothing but a dial tone. - A photo you sent in a conversation no longer disappears the next day. - A connection request no longer empties everything older out of Activity. - One unlucky moment reaching a relay no longer takes the app off the air for two minutes. - The app never talks to its engine on the main thread now, so scrolling and typing stay smooth while it syncs in the background.

1.8.3 — No more freeze on open, and your videos name their songs. • The few-second lockup right after opening Haven, or coming back to it, is gone — and with it the overnight crash it was causing in the background. • Your phone stays cooler: the feed no longer redraws every post while a photo or video is still downloading. • Song credits on videos: post a video with music in it and Haven names the song as a small credit — the video keeps its own sound. Older videos get theirs the first time you play them, and Settings → Song credits can rescan the ones you imported. Only a short audio fingerprint goes to Apple's Shazam service, never the video; switch it off in Settings if you prefer. • On the Mac, Haven is now built for Apple silicon only, and the download is smaller.

1.8.1 — Smoother feed, cooler phone. • Scrolling the feed is smooth again, and Haven no longer heats up while you browse photos and videos already on your device — even large libraries you brought in from Instagram. • You control your offline invite links now: choose how long a link stays valid — 7 days, 30, 90, a year, or never — and regenerate one any time to retire the old link. • Plus a networking fix so the app works less hard when your connection changes.

1.8.0 — Add friends without being online together. • Invites now work offline: accept a friend's invite while their Haven is closed — they get the request the next time they open the app, can approve it even after you've gone offline again, and the friendship completes on its own. No more coordinating "are you online right now?" • Nothing new to set up: invite links quietly carry everything needed, and relays store only sealed envelopes they cannot read. • Posts, reactions, and comments now keep trying until they are delivered. Content no longer waits for an app restart after a rough network patch — switching Wi-Fi to cellular, toggling a VPN, or waking from sleep now recovers on its own, immediately. • Under the hood: connections that silently died are now detected and replaced within seconds, and everything you author retries with backoff until it reaches a relay.

1.7.0 — Calls, rebuilt to be trustworthy. • Answering now always takes effect: a call can no longer connect "underneath" your ring screen — accept works the moment you tap it, on every platform. • Callers only see "Connected" when the other side has actually answered — never before, and never stuck on "Calling…" while audio is already flowing. • Unanswered calls end cleanly after a minute on both ends — no more phantom calls that ring forever. • The desktop call screen was rebuilt: full-screen stage, picture-in-picture camera, live speaker highlighting, device pickers — and minimizing docks the call into a tab so you can keep browsing. • Faces everywhere: contacts' chosen emoji and photos now appear in calls and threads on desktop. • Includes the 1.6.1 stability wave: the multi-device circle key fork is fixed for good, an iPhone launch crash is gone, roster changes finish in seconds, and photo previews cross satellite links.

1.5.0 — Bring your Instagram archive with you. • Import from Instagram, in Settings. Ask Instagram for your export, then hand Haven the .zip when it arrives days later. Nothing publishes until you have confirmed a preview of exactly what was found — how many posts, the dates they span, the total size, and anything the archive references but is missing. • Your history arrives as history. Posts and reels keep their original dates and go up silently, so nobody's feed is flooded with years of your past. A carousel stays one post rather than becoming twenty. Stories are off by default, and turned on they are kept on your own profile instead of published to your circle. • Imported photos and videos go through Haven's usual optimizer, with a poster still cut for every clip, so they behave like media you posted by hand. The import runs in the background, survives the app being killed, and resumes where it left off. • Song suggestions. Open the song picker with nothing typed and the top tab suggests tracks drawn from what the photo shows and what the caption says — in the composer, the post editor, DMs and stories. A reel that shipped with its soundtrack gets the real song named on it. • Feed videos keep their soft blurred edge wash for the whole loop, matching photo posts. • Replying to a story attaches a story reference in the DM: tall portrait crop, tap opens the real story with progress and music. Expired ones become "Story no longer available".

1.4.2 — Battery: stop multi-hour Background drain. • Fixed a case where Haven could stay warm for hours in the Background with no messages or circle activity. A cold wake from push or background refresh no longer runs the full foreground sync/Multipeer path. • Pocketed phones park timers and nearby discovery immediately so iOS can suspend the app after a quick empty poll. • Continues the 1.4.1 battery work (slim push wakes, no media-backup re-arm loop while pocketed).

1.4.0 — Haven in your language. • Full localization in six languages: Japanese, German, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Italian — the whole app, across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. • New Feedback & Support: contact the developer directly from Settings, and a gentle in-app way to leave a rating. • Activity rows and notifications about reactions or replies on your comments now open the post they belong to, with the comment highlighted. • Media reliability: fixed a case where a large chunked file could become permanently unreachable. • Cross-platform polish and reliability improvements throughout.

1.3.0 — share into Haven from anywhere. • Share sheet: send photos, videos, links, text and files to Haven from any app. Pick a circle for a post, open the story editor, or send straight to a conversation without leaving the share sheet. • Your recent conversations now appear in the row at the top of any app's share sheet, so a photo is two taps from being sent. Locked circles never appear there. • Files arrive intact — PDFs, zips, documents — and can be opened on the other side.

What's new: • Posts you author now reach your own other devices instantly — no waiting for the next sync • Voice and video calls are sealed and signed end-to-end, exactly like your posts and messages • Shared photos and videos are verified against a fingerprint of the original, so nothing can be swapped in transit • Relay and mailbox access is limited to your circle's members • A top-to-bottom security audit, with hardening throughout — same private, serverless Haven Native on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

What's new: • Photos and videos now fill the width of the feed, with a soft blurred version of the same shot behind them — no more tall photos squeezed into a sliver • A post with several photos is now a swipeable carousel instead of a grid of thumbnails • Share a post as a link that opens straight to it in Haven — on iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Android. The link is built so the website never learns which post it points to • If your circle doesn't have a relay yet, Haven now offers to help you set one up, and explains plainly what a relay can and can't see • Calls are opaque now — your feed no longer shows faintly through an active call • The in‑call minimize button sits clear of the Dynamic Island and the screen's rounded corners Native on iPhone, iPad, and Mac — with Android and Windows/Linux desktop apps too.

• Relays you delete now stay deleted — they no longer come back on their own. • Your own always-on relay (e.g. a home NAS) now recognizes all of your devices, so your messages and DMs flow through it reliably. • Posting large videos no longer crashes the app, and media reaches an available relay so friends can load it even when you're offline. • Smoother post camera: portrait videos record right-side-up, the shutter stays put when you rotate, pinch to zoom, and the filter tray is tidied away until you want it. • Reliability and battery improvements.

Stability fixes. • Relays you delete now stay deleted — a relay no longer reappears just because someone else in your circle reopens the app. • Continued performance and reliability improvements, including the memory/heat fix from the last update.

This update fixes a crash and the associated device heating. • Fixed a networking bug that could make the app use more and more memory over a few minutes and then crash — and that was also the main cause of the device warming up. Haven now stays fast and cool during long sessions. • Smoother scrolling throughout the app. Includes the reliability improvements from the previous update: fewer missed posts and messages in circles, faster media loading, clearer video calls, and the storage and "keep my own posts" options in Settings.

This update makes Haven more reliable and much easier on your battery. • Fixed a bug where some people in a circle could miss posts, stories, or messages even after everyone was connected. • Big reduction in device heating and battery use when the app is open but idle. • Photos and videos load faster and use less data — they now come from your circle's relay first. • Smoother, clearer video calls with fewer audio drop-outs. • Posts kept on your relay stay available longer. • New: Settings now shows how much storage Haven is using, plus an option to always keep your own posts as a personal archive. • Relay and stability improvements.