- Get guided help preparing PDOS applications and inquiries in the assistant. - Find verified travel updates on Home and Advisories, with recent news available in chat. - Hear assistant replies read aloud, with smoother voice turns and language adaptation. - Get location-aware assistance when location access is already enabled. - Improved support messaging and clearer English and Filipino labels.

- Cleaner Home, member and Settings screens make common tasks easier to find. - More reliable message retries preserve replies and avoid duplicate sends. - Clearer submission receipts and improved PDOS, inquiry and seafarer forms. - Open older Travel News notifications directly, with clearer loading and retry states. - View congregation service schedules when available. - Improved phone layouts, accessible controls, and English and Filipino labels.

- PDOS country selection stays available during temporary service outages. - Rebuilt for iPad. The app now runs full screen in portrait and landscape and in Split View, Slide Over and Stage Manager. Sheets open as centered cards. - iPhone now stays in portrait for steadier forms and sheets. - New notification inbox and Travel News, with upcoming PDOS and seafarer records on your dashboard. - Review PDOS, seafarer registration and requisition history in My requests, with a PDOS progress tracker. - Choose your local congregation with the new church picker, including congregations in the Middle East. - Review and choose whether to share your chat and voice input with the AI provider before using the assistant. Voice conversations now use OpenAI transcription and speech. - Inquiries show a reference number, and you can continue the conversation with MFA staff. - Forms are easier to fill in: better keyboard handling, native date pickers and clearer validation. Your drafts can be resumed. - Improved English and Filipino labels, dark mode and accessibility, and faster recovery from network errors. - Updated in-app privacy, terms and support links for the MFA portal at mfa.mcgi.org. - We collect less about you: forms no longer ask for passport numbers, date of birth, previous religion, seafarer ID numbers or health conditions.

Restores AI Assistant chat and voice on mobile devices, improves AI consent synchronization, and strengthens chat reliability and error handling.

Introduces a refreshed, more accessible experience with clearer navigation, improved support and advisory journeys, enhanced chat and messaging, streamlined PDOS, inquiry and seafarer forms, better English and Filipino localization, and improved reliability across sign-in and submissions.

Modernizes the app experience with clearer navigation, improved messaging and inquiry workflows, refined PDOS and seafarer submissions, stronger accessibility, and more reliable version-aware mobile submissions.

Improves the mobile experience across iOS and Android, with clearer navigation, more stable church locator clustering, refined member screens, and smoother AI chat and inquiry flows.

Improves the mobile experience across iOS and Android, with clearer navigation, more stable church locator clustering, refined member screens, and smoother AI chat and inquiry flows.

New Design & Interface Visual Update: New app icon, refreshed brand colors, and Inter typeface for improved readability. Streamlined Navigation: Reduced to 5 clean tabs. Tap a tab to scroll to the top; swipe from the screen edge to go back. Home Screen: Redesigned as a clear launchpad for your most important updates. Feel: Smoother animations and gentler haptics throughout. Reimagined Messaging Cleaner Layout: Consecutive messages group together, avatars show beside texts, and date separators organize your chat history. Group Features: Use @-mentions to call out members, mute noisy threads, and check read receipts at a glance. Navigation: Tap any reply to jump to the original message, and scroll up to automatically load older history. Reliability: Message order remains stable on refresh, failed sends can be retried with one tap, and network errors are clearly labeled. PDOS & Inquiries PDOS: Reworked into a 7-card interview with a progress bar. Drafts auto-save, and your length of stay calculates automatically. Inquiries: Swipe to archive active entries, switch between views in one tap, and enjoy auto-saved drafts. Churches & Advisories Churches: Smoother bottom-sheet filtering and tap-to-expand cluster maps. Advisories: Severity tabs now include live item counts. Bug Fixes Fixed a map-zoom crash. Fixed a Google login issue where bad attempts could log out existing sessions.

Church Locator • Fixed a crash on iPhone when zooming into areas with many congregations. • Tap any large cluster — even country-wide ones — to expand it into smaller groups. • Smoother map performance worldwide, with smart clustering at every zoom level. Sign-in & Account • Fixed Google sign-in failures and the spurious error message that appeared after a successful login on Android. • Mistyping your password no longer signs you out of the app. • More reliable handling of authentication callbacks. PDOS Application • The seminar date is now optional and aligned with the official scheduling window. • Clearer form-validation messages. Stability • Fixed an intermittent crash when switching between tabs on Android. • Better behaviour on slow or unreliable connections. • Resolved a number of minor issues reported by users since 1.0.5. Accessibility & Polish • Improved screen-reader support across forms and key screens. • Refined dark mode for better readability. • Small visual fixes.

• Dark mode redesign — neutral charcoal palette that meets WCAG AA contrast on every screen, with brand colours, icons, and dividers clearly visible in low light. • Biometric unlock — sign in once, then use Face ID, Touch ID, or your fingerprint to reopen the app in seconds. • In-app messaging — receive announcements and replies from the MCGI team without leaving the app. • Mobile UX aligned with mfa-mcgi.org — consistent navigation, headings, and branding between phone and web. • Hardened core flows — steadier PDOS form behaviour, more reliable church search, and a more balanced services grid.

Improved app stability and performance Enhanced UI across key screens Better chat/voice and map reliability Minor bug fixes and quality improvements

- New Seafarer Requisition form for maritime workers to submit crewing requests directly from the app - Redesigned Inquiries flow with a streamlined, easier-to-complete submission experience - Faster Chapters directory with improved caching for quicker browsing offline - Refreshed home and dashboard layouts optimized for all iPhone and iPad sizes - Performance and stability improvements

- Redesigned layout: the app now adapts smoothly to every iPhone and iPad size, including Split View and landscape orientation. - New "Delete Account" option under Account settings, with full Apple Sign-In revocation. - Improved AI voice chat: more natural conversation turn-taking via updated Gemini Live voice activity detection. - More reliable sign-in: hardened token handling and smoother session refresh. - PDOS form refinements, updated country/region pickers, and map polish. - Performance and stability fixes throughout.