Menus and selected dishes sync in the background, so cached menus open quickly and shared menus stay up to date. Dish images recover quietly after network interruptions and remain available across app updates. Dish selection pages use clearer titles and a simpler layout. Menu and history lists scroll smoothly, with clearer titles and better mixed-language recognition.

My Order now expands higher and keeps totals and actions clear of the home indicator, including in the sample menu. Dish photos now default to ChefBear standard style. Pro members can opt in to choosing image backgrounds. Online recommendations explain how each dish matches your preferences; phone sign-in uses the system numeric keyboard.

On iPad and other wide screens, both mainland and international phone sign-in now use a familiar three-column number pad with gentle tap feedback. Switching between mainland and international sign-in continues securely inside ChefBear, with automatic rollback if activation fails. Camera preview preserves the camera aspect ratio on wide screens instead of stretching the image.

Mainland China phone sign-in now changes the service region only after verification succeeds and continues seamlessly without reopening ChefBear. The phone form is now compact and keyboard-safe, accepts digits only, and combines legal consent into one clear row. Returning from sign-in now reliably restores the welcome screen instead of leaving its action button spinning.

Non-English menus now receive complete English names and explanations when ChefBear is used in English. Missing dish images now resume automatically after opening or returning to a menu, refreshing access, or changing restaurant settings. Transient image failures now recover with bounded backoff, preventing both stalled queues and wasteful repeated requests.

Fixed navigation after recognizing a menu again, preserving the three main tabs. Dish images resume automatically without waiting for the quota display to refresh. Improved recognition-session isolation and recovery when returning to the menu.

Account deletion now removes menus, orders, taste data, generated images, pending image requests, and orphaned caches after server confirmation. Registering again on the same device starts a completely fresh taste and sample-menu onboarding flow while keeping language, appearance, and camera preferences. Interrupted deletions resume safely on launch, and stronger identity boundaries prevent data or in-memory state from carrying between accounts.

ChefBear now recovers gracefully when app verification, subscription sync, or cloud services are slow, instead of leaving loading or image requests stuck. iCloud photos can finish downloading safely on weak connections, with bounded waiting, cancellation, and complete cleanup of partial files. Secondary pages now have a finger-tracked, cancellable edge swipe, while history, forced updates, and dish-image queues are more reliable and efficient.

Old ChefBear menus and taste preferences are now automatically assigned to your verified account, without repeated recovery prompts. Menus created before sign-in are safely adopted by the next account that signs in successfully, so new data is never left without an owner. Stronger account isolation prevents one account from claiming or deleting data that already belongs to another account.

Fixed the photo crop screen so every corner handle remains fully visible and easy to drag, including along the bottom edge. Improved cloud recognition reliability: ChefBear now keeps App Attest as the primary check and performs one secure compatibility retry when installation verification fails. Network, sign-in, and app-verification failures are now distinguished, with clear localized guidance instead of incorrectly reporting an online device as offline.

Refined the restaurant-type picker with balanced actions, a clearer footer, reliable safe-area spacing, and better small-screen scrolling.

A refreshed, more polished membership page that matches the Settings design. Monthly subscribers can now upgrade to yearly right inside the app, in one tap.

Fixed the freeze in Settings → Language. Picking a new language no longer locks up the UI mid-animation; the app updates the locale smoothly without rebuilding from scratch.

Fixed the freeze in Settings → Language. Picking a new language no longer locks up the UI mid-animation; the app updates the locale smoothly without rebuilding from scratch.

Picking a restaurant type after a scan now actually re-renders the dish photos in that style. The "Use this" button also sits comfortably above the home indicator instead of hugging the edge. Plus the earlier hot-fix that restored AI dish photo generation (the Grok Imagine endpoint regression).

Sharper menu and dish-photo scans — your first 20 scans each month (50 for Pro members) now run on our latest vision model for cleaner OCR on busy menus and low-light shots. Redeeming a ChefBear Pro code now opens the App Store's official redemption sheet, so any offer code lands with a single tap.

AI dish images now match the venue: pick fine dining, casual, fast food, or street food after a scan and the rendered photos use lighting, plating, and backgrounds that fit the restaurant. The first 15 weekly images for free users are also upgraded to 1024² high quality. The ChefBear Pro page consolidates image and nutrition-scan quotas into a single panel with live reset countdowns. Finishing the chef-bear.com UX survey now mints a one-month Pro code you can redeem in the app's Redeem dialog. Nutrition scans are more grounded too — the prompt now anchors estimates to common recipes instead of worst-case guesses. Plus a hotfix: Pro and own-key users now correctly receive the full premium endpoint output instead of standard thumbnails, and no longer see the upgrade prompt against the feature they pay for.

Menu items page reads with the menu now: the "All Dishes" list keeps the menu's original order instead of a personalized re-rank, so comparing the app to the physical menu in front of you is one-to-one. The 3 ChefBear AI picks still appear in their own strip at the top, and they're also kept in their original position in the list (copy, not cut). Recognition history hides the language pill when detection returned UNKNOWN — no more meaningless tag on undetectable scans. Glass dialogs with a text field (Redeem code, Dev password) now lift fully above the soft keyboard so the action buttons stay visible while typing.

Dish recognition page now nudges you to upgrade gently. The old usage bar is gone — when free quota drops to 10 images or fewer you get a friendly "Upgrade ChefBear — 10× the quota" prompt, and once it's used up, dishes without an image show a flat dish-icon placeholder that taps straight into the upgrade flow. Liquid-glass treatment continues across the app: Clear cache, Logout, Delete account, Delete order, Delete menu scan, the force-update screen, the Cancel-Recognition confirm and the Recognition Details sheet all moved onto the unified glass dialog / bottom-sheet templates.

Taste Profile Complete! — Finish setting up your food preferences and get a delightful confetti celebration to kick things off. Smarter Menu Scanning — Switched to Apple Vision as the default OCR engine for faster, more accurate dish recognition on all menus. Swipe to Delete — Swipe left on any nutrition scan record to quickly remove it, just like you can with menu history. Fresh Onboarding Look — A refined visual experience when you first set up ChefBear, with updated copy that feels more personal and warm. Improved Dark Mode — Adjusted color palette for better contrast and readability in low-light environments. Bug fixes and performance improvements.

-New feature! After ordering, take a photo of your real dish and ChefBear will analyze its nutrition for you.

-Now supports Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese — Chef the Bear speaks your language! -UI improvements for a smoother, more polished experience.