Familiar 1.5 is the biggest update yet. Pair with your server • Scan a QR code from Familiar Server, open a pairing link, or pick your server from the list Familiar finds on your Wi-Fi. Required for servers set up with Familiar Server. • Recent servers: switch between up to five servers in one tap. Your music, away from home • Your favourites are kept on your iPhone by default, and so are any playlists you choose to keep. They stay up to date in the background. • When the server is out of reach, Familiar says so, and keeps playing what's on your phone. • Each server gets up to 8 GB on your iPhone, and Settings › Downloads shows what each one holds. • Lossless tracks download as AAC at about a quarter of the size. You can switch back to originals in Settings. • Downloads show on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a stop button. Finding and playing • Artist pages open on a slideshow of freely licensed photos. • Tap the artist or album in the player to go there. • "Playing from" takes you back to where the music came from. • Search sits at the top of every list (Artists, Albums, Tracks, Favorites) and searches what that screen shows. • Make, edit and delete smart playlists on your iPhone. • Favorites can be a grid of covers. • Weighted shuffle presets now apply to Favorites. Ambient mode • A new synthesiser: twelve-voice pads, a melody composer, eight instruments and six presets, now on iPhone too. Fixes • Downloads are no longer re-fetched after updating. • Many smaller fixes to the lock screen, downloads and the full player.

A compact transport on iOS 26, so playback controls stay reachable from anywhere in the app. Faster library browsing, with artists grouped by album. Offline downloads and playback reliability improvements throughout.