Slack for iOS – release notes

Slack 19.09.10

16 September 2019

Bug fixes

  • Fixed: Replying to a notification works much more often than it used to. 99% of the time, in fact, which is so close to 100% we can almost smell it.
  • Fixed: Swiping between channels with two fingers now will now include the “Threads”view, but only, smartly, if you’ve used that view recently.
  • Fixed: Custom emoji weren’t always rendering correctly in bots and attachments sent via the Slack API. Now? Emoji = :100:.

Slack 19.08.21

10 September 2019

Bug fixes

  • We’ve tuned the engine and given the interior a thorough clean. Everything is now running smoothly again.

Slack 19.08.20

26 August 2019

What’s new

  • If you, like all rational people, arrange your phone screens by colour, you’ll now be in quite the quandary, as we’ve added a couple of extra background hues for the app icon. You can find them under Settings -> App icon – just under Dark mode, which is useful, as the new shades work particularly well with that.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed: When selecting a new profile picture, users were being asked to confirm that picture twice. We now respect your ability to recognise your own face the first time around and will not ask you again.
  • Fixed: Uploading slow motion videos is now 100% more successful.
  • Fixed: Custom emoji uploaded on desktop are now, vitally, transferred at lightning speed so that they're immediately available in the iOS app.

Slack 19.08.10

12 August 2019

Bug fixes

  • Fixed: When viewing your starred items, unstarring an item will now remove it from the view rather than making you close and reopen the list.
  • Fixed: A crash that could occur when a message contained a highlight word, an @-mention and certain non-English characters. We’ve fixed it, completely.

Slack 19.07.30

29 July 2019

Bug fixes

  • Occasionally, some users were unable to sign in. Given that that's the very first thing we want people to be able to do, we squished the bugs we knew about… but if you ever find more, let us know.
  • Fixed: Many Slack apps that use BlockKit show confirmation dialogues to allow you to confirm your action and, in some cases, those weren't working. They are now.
  • Fixed: Users who attempt to confirm their email address after their original email link has expired can now resend that email and then confirm it, and thus log in. Again, people being able to log in to an app is a very important part of the user experience. We’re committed to ensuring they can do that. Back in business!

Slack 19.07.20

15 July 2019

What’s new

  • As of this update, we’ve removed 3D Touch functionality from a few places inside the app – channel names and DMs – where, let’s be honest, it simply wasn’t doing what it should do. 3D Touch still works on the icon on the home screen and when quick-replying to a notification, as it’s perfectly up to scratch there. (N.B. “Scratch” is not a valid gesture, please don’t go scratching your device on our account.)

Bug fixes

  • Fixed: When viewing the channel details screen in dark mode, the area showing the channel title is now, like everything else, also in dark mode.
  • Fixed: Where two channels or users had the same name, they’ll no longer randomly switch places with each other in the channel/DM list.
  • Fixed: Opening a thread containing a message with a link that contained certain characters made everything crash. And yes, seeing as you asked, that one was satisfying to hunt down. And to fix.

Slack 19.07.10

1 July 2019

What’s new

  • The first message in a channel or direct message now includes a date header, so you can tell what day it is (or was).

Bug fixes

  • Fixed: Where sharing a file from Slack to another app did not on occasion work, it now works.
  • Fixed: And sometimes, when sharing a file did work, it would change the file name from words to a series of numbers. Great for robots, terrible for humans.
  • Fixed: Messages that included the same custom emoji more than once with no space between them were only displaying that emoji once. So :emoji::emoji: was only appearing as :emoji:. You now receive all the emoji you desire, and no fewer than you deserve.

Slack 19.06.20

17 June 2019

Bug fixes

  • Fixed: Where you were promised the ability to add a link to an emoji through the Slack API so that people could tap that emoji and be transported to the link, we were not making good on that promise. We’ve fixed the bug preventing it from working and everything’s rosy now.
  • Fixed: Some custom bot names were not being displayed correctly, but now they are.
  • Fixed: The list of apps in a group conversation would sometimes show the list of users instead of apps. And apps aren’t people, are they?
  • Fixed: Some message buttons wouldn’t display a confirmation dialogue when tapped, which was a bit odd and slightly confusing. Now it’s been fixed.

Slack 19.06.10

3 June 2019

What’s new

  • Typing Cyrillic characters now allows you to find users or channels containing those characters as easily on iOS as it has been for a while on desktop.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed: When starting a group conversation that included one or more single-channel or multi-channel guest users, sometimes previously selected users were being deselected. Not any more. Now you’re all in that together.

Slack 19.05.21

28 May 2019

Bug fixes

  • We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.

Slack 19.05.20

20 May 2019

What’s new

  • Want to upload multiple images at the same time from the message box? In both channels and threads? Of course you do. And now, you can! Hurrah.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed: In some fonts, using asterisks to make part of a sentence bold would result in all of the text after the bold words *also* being in bold. While we like to believe that fortune favours the bold, it has come to our attention that this is not what that phrase means. So we fixed it.

Slack 19.5.1

6 May 2019

What’s new

  • This is the last release that will support iOS 10 and therefore the last version that will run on 32-bit devices such as the iPhone 5, iPhone 5c and fourth-generation iPad. To continue receiving Slack updates, please upgrade to iOS 11.1 or later.

Slack 19.4.2

23 April 2019

What’s new

  • Olá, hola and nice to see you (to see you nice). From today, Slack supports three new languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Latin American Spanish and UK English. You can change this in the settings menu under, not unexpectedly, “Language”. Jolly good! Carry on, everyone.

Slack 19.4.1

8 April 2019

Bug fixes

  • Links in some Slack app buttons were not working, taking you nowhere instead of the expected somewhere. They now whisk you away to the URL you thought they would take you to in the first place.

Slack 19.3.2

25 March 2019

Bug fixes

  • Fixed: Screenshots and other .png images sent over Slack were looking blurry. We applied a little focus and now we’re in the clear. If the blurriness persists, you might want to consider an eye test.

Slack 19.3.1

11 March 2019

What’s new

  • Dark mode can now be switched on (or off) in the Settings menu. Yes, it’s been a long road, but there’s finally dark at the end of the tunnel. N.B. This is mobile-only for now, with desktop coming later – thank you for both bearing with us and for continuing to expect more of us.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed: The text welcoming you to Slack the very first time you launched the app didn’t quite fit the screen on smaller devices. Not the biggest problem in the world (literally), but first impressions count.