What's new: • Location: share where you are from the attachment menu — your contact sees it on a map. • Disappearing messages and view-once photos; protected chats can't be captured with screenshots or screen recording. • Chat folders, polls and GIF search. • New White theme, messages in a solid theme color. • Calls: if the other person's connection drops, the call ends on its own. Plus minor fixes.

More reliable calls: • calls connect faster and no longer drop mid-conversation; • you hear the other person right away, with no silence at the start; • calls are more stable on restricted networks without a VPN. Plus minor fixes and performance improvements.

Home Screen widgets: your unread count and recent chats — tap a face to open the conversation. • Choose your app icon: Classic, six colors, plus New Year and Halloween — in Appearance • Appearance: themes, accent color, scheduled night mode, text size • Stories now sit in the Chats header as a compact stack • Translations in the community chat arrive more reliably • In groups: wave hello to newcomers with one tap • Fixed: video messages no longer start playing on their own

Share to Orbeo from any app: a photo, a video, a file or a link goes straight into a conversation — Orbeo is now in the system Share menu. • Music and video links play inside the app, no detour to a website • All attachments of a conversation in one place: photos, files, voice notes • Voice and video messages: drag to seek, 1x / 1.5x / 2x speed and a clear play button • A video message keeps playing when you leave the chat: it moves into a small window you can drag around • In your own channels: delete comments and ban people • Fixed: a message sent twice, and calls dropping after a long conversation

Browse — a new tab with posts from public channels in one feed. Like a channel? Subscribe in one tap. Nobody can post into the feed itself: only channels publish, and every post can be reported. Calls • The screen rotates when you turn the phone. • Your own camera window can be dragged and no longer covers the other person. • You can see when someone shares their screen from a computer. Forwarding • A channel post is signed with the channel name, not with whoever wrote it. • A photo caption is no longer lost — the text travels with the picture. • Saved messages are called "Saved" in the picker. Small things • Swipe a row in the chat list to delete; swipe harder and we ask right away. • On a long post the emoji row opens where your finger is. • Channel avatars show up in search. • Settings now has a "Rate the app" button.