- Bug fixes, reliability improvements, and UI polish.
Buko
Release Notes
What's new in Buko
This page includes pre-release TestFlight history. Bot preview work is excluded because Bot integrations are not part of the current iOS release. Kit references mean official first-party features compiled into and reviewed with the app; public Kit development and third-party submission are not open.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Improved performance in conversations with long message histories.
- Added screen sharing for group calls on macOS, with full-screen and window selection.
- Added in-app previews for text, Markdown, PDF, and audio attachments.
- Expanded desktop drag-and-drop attachment support across the conversation view.
- Improved voice, video, and group call reliability across multiple devices.
- Added categorized support tickets and an operator inbox in Bulletin.
- Added a multiline message composer with paste and drag-and-drop support.
- Improved Google sign-in reliability on iOS.
- Improved Android cold-start image sharing.
- Added incoming-call alerts and ringtone support on macOS.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Bug fixes, reliability improvements, and UI polish.
- Added announcement editing, pinning, deletion, and search in Bulletin.
- Improved profile privacy for Sign in with Apple users.
- Added image attachments to Bulletin announcements and refreshed its presentation.
- Added Bulletin for official announcements and private feedback.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Improved message sending reliability and recovery.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Improved message sending reliability and recovery.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Improved conversation history loading after signing in on a new device.
- Restored messaging immediately after unblocking a contact.
- Improved real-time message and reaction synchronization.
- Improved message sending reliability and recovery.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Accounts with no activity for a year may be deleted after an email warning.
- Groups and channels can continue for remaining members after an owner's account is deleted.
- Added explicit contact management and tightened Moments privacy.
- Improved message sending reliability and recovery.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Improved message sending reliability and recovery.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Improved message sending reliability and recovery.
- Improved message sending reliability and recovery.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Added explicit contact management and tightened Moments privacy.
- Improved message sending reliability and recovery.
- Improved QR scanning reliability.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Improved message sending reliability and recovery.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Improved message sending reliability and recovery.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Improved message sending reliability and recovery.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Added explicit contact management and tightened Moments privacy.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Improved message sending reliability and recovery.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Added explicit contact management and tightened Moments privacy.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Bug fixes, reliability improvements, and UI polish.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Bug fixes, reliability improvements, and UI polish.
- Bug fixes, reliability improvements, and UI polish.
- Bug fixes, reliability improvements, and UI polish.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Improved message sending reliability and recovery.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Improved message sending reliability and recovery.
- Improved message sending reliability and recovery.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Improved message sending reliability and recovery.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Restored the compact attachment menu for quicker sharing in chats.
- Simplified status filters for easier tracking.
- Routine reliability and polish improvements.
- Chat drafts now persist more reliably, including replies, edits, mentions, and composer state.
- It is easier to find and clear saved chat drafts.
- Refreshed artwork for official built-in features.
- Improved macOS compatibility for official built-in features.
- The official built-in feature catalog now completes its first load more reliably.
- Wide layouts now open the settings area more cleanly from Me.
- Calls are more reliable, with improved handling for media permissions, ending calls, and multi-device 1:1 acceptance.
- macOS now supports outgoing and group calls, including group screen sharing when available.
- Chat now retries messages automatically when reconnecting from a cold start.
- Added mobile message sharing and improved Discover navigation.
- Local conversation history and media retention are more robust and easier to search.
- Added a Discover catalog experience with localized curated content and rich cards.
- Active calls now stay available when you leave the call screen.
- Official built-in features now fit more naturally into Chats with steadier ordering.
- Refined Chinese welcome copy and aligned modal styling with the app theme.
- Improved reliability and localization for official built-in feature discovery.
- Refreshed artwork for an official built-in feature.
- Bug fixes, reliability improvements, and UI polish.
- Official built-in features now appear directly in Chats for a more unified experience.
- Improved group call reliability when people leave and rejoin.
- Fixed cases where a third person could be blocked from joining a group call.
- Improved sign-in compatibility for optional login details.
- Improved reliability for Apple sign-in.
- Improved reporting for unexpected voice recording failures.
- Conversation search is now easier to open and share from its own screen.
- Improved call reliability when busy states get stuck.
- Android compatibility and messaging polish updates.
- Calls are more reliable, with better handling for incoming rings, outgoing retries, and duplicate dials.
- iOS incoming call alerts now coordinate more consistently with the system call screen.
- Added an in-app fallback when an incoming call alert is missed.
- Improved wide-screen settings and Me page navigation.
- Profile, contact, invite, and account flows received validation and reliability polish.
- Added privacy settings for groups.
- Improved the group invitation confirmation flow.
- Kept the mobile emoji panel open after sending a message.
- Improved CJK message search behavior.
- Strengthened chat send, resume, and ordering reliability.
- Added safeguards for high-risk space requests.
- Added group invitation inbox, member posting controls, and richer group message controls on iOS.
- Added message reactions on iOS with more reliable syncing across active sessions.
- Improved reply, conversation, and retained message search flows.
- Made group pins and announcements more consistent and dependable.
- Improved multi-message actions plus media group forwarding and deletion reliability.
- Added clearer group governance tracking for admin actions.
- Improved Android input panel transitions for a smoother messaging experience.
- Improved mobile chat composer stability when switching panels or dismissing the keyboard.
- Restored compact attachment actions on mobile.
- Smoothed emoji panel behavior and transitions on mobile.
- Smoother mobile switching in the chat composer.
- You can now capture photos directly from chat attachments.
- Improved initial chat loading with a more focused recent message sync.
- Updated chat translations for better wording and polish.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Bug fixes, reliability improvements, and UI polish.
- Bug fixes, reliability improvements, and UI polish.
- Bug fixes, reliability improvements, and UI polish.
- Bug fixes, reliability improvements, and UI polish.
- Bug fixes, reliability improvements, and UI polish.
- Contact removal is now easier to find from profiles.
- Call entry points now appear only where supported.
- Improved rich card loading and follow-up interactions.
- Improved handling when adding contacts runs into business account issues.
- Improved wide-screen chat navigation so panes open, close, and restore more reliably.
- Refined chat layout behavior for large displays with smoother route handling.
- Routine reliability and polish improvements.
- Restored media previews in Moments.
- Smoothed wide-screen pane transitions and navigation behavior.
- Improved reliability when opening detailed views.
- Improved chat navigation reliability.
- Improved navigation stability around the Me area.
- Routine reliability and polish improvements.
- Improved reliability when viewing and sharing Moment media.
- Chats and contacts now appear faster at startup by loading saved data first.
- Chat lists stay more up to date across app sessions.
- Restored the iOS swipe-back gesture for smoother navigation.
- Improved group avatar fallback colors for a more consistent chat look.
- Messages now wait for chat connection before sending, improving delivery reliability.
- Calls handle audio routing more reliably before connection and after speaker changes.
- Chat syncing status is clearer and less noisy while conversations update.
- Navigation feels smoother across iOS and wider layouts.
- QR scanning starts more reliably and uses better camera defaults on desktop.
- Moment image rendering is more stable.
- Unsupported scan options are now hidden where they cannot be used.
- Chat sync status in the header now updates more smoothly.
- Navigation transitions feel smoother on iOS and wide layouts.
- QR scanning now starts more smoothly and uses a better camera on desktop.
- Moment images render more reliably.
- Unsupported scan options are now hidden for a cleaner experience.
- Smoother navigation on iOS and wider layouts.
- QR scanning now behaves better across devices and hides where unsupported.
- Improved image rendering reliability in moments.
- Fixed a macOS launch crash for a more reliable startup.
- Added a group call action in group info.
- Improved group role badge alignment.
- Made the photo viewer full-bleed with a black background.
- Profiles now include quick call actions.
- Group calls better remember and restore speaker routing.
- Navigation feels smoother when opening chats, switching tabs, and moving through Me pages.
- Improved voice message quality and compression for smoother sharing and playback.
- Improved voice message recording for clearer speech.
- Smoothed transitions in the Me section.
- Improved chat connection reliability when sending messages.
- Refined incoming call behavior and cleanup after system hangups.
- Bug fixes, reliability improvements, and UI polish.
- Improved call reliability by reducing stale callbacks after calls end.
- Made call acceptance handling more robust for a smoother calling experience.
- Improved call handling reliability with updated calling support.
- Improved calling reliability and polish.
- Improved call reliability when handling unexpected calling events.
- Bug fixes, reliability improvements, and UI polish.
- Calls now end more reliably when you hang up from the lock screen.
- Improved navigation polish so the home view stays consistent across tabs.
- Improved lock-screen call audio reliability.
- Smoothed transitions between Home tabs.
- Improved call handling when answering from the lock screen.
- Improved call reliability across devices, including smoother declines and fewer stale ringing states.
- Stabilized incoming call delivery on iOS.
- Refined web calling behavior for more consistent audio handling.
- Routine reliability and polish improvements.
- Improved call reliability, including smoother cancel, end, and audio session handling.
- Fixed race conditions that could affect call, chat, and routed message lifecycles.
- Improved direct message and group call stability across multiple app instances.
- Routine reliability and polish improvements for messaging and calls.
- Added explicit contact management and tightened Moments privacy.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Improved message sending reliability and recovery.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Improved QR scanning reliability.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Contacts now handle empty states more cleanly.
- My Card sharing gets smarter slug suggestions and smoother basics.
- Avatars now render more consistently with polished circular sizing.
- Apple sign-in interruptions are handled more gracefully.
- Added explicit contact management and tightened Moments privacy.
- Improved voice, video, and group call stability.
- Improved message sending reliability and recovery.
- Polished profiles, avatars, and My Card details.
- Polished chat and navigation UI details.
- Routine updates and reliability improvements.