- Allow wide range of interface scale options.
- Show opened chat name in the window title.
- Bug fixes and other minor improvements.
- Fix updating on macOS older than 10.14.
- Media with spoiler effects.
You can wrap photos and videos you send in a fuzzy cover
by selecting media in the attachment menu
and tapping (...) > Hide With Spoiler.
- Setting pictures for your contacts.
You can choose your own picture for
a contact – only you will see it on their profile.
- Suggested profile pictures.
When editing your contacts, you can suggest
a photo for their profile. It will take them just two clicks
to add the picture you suggested.
- Public profile pictures.
If you only allow certain users to see your profile photos,
you can set a public picture for everyone else.
- Ultimate profile picture privacy.
You can set 'Who can see my profile photos' to 'Nobody'
and add some users or groups as exceptions.
- Member list privacy.
Owners of large groups can hide the list of members.
- Send photos and video files hidden by a spoiler effect.
- Set a public photo for those who are restricted to see
your profile photo in the Privacy Settings.
- Bug fixes and other minor improvements.
- You can set a Global Auto-Delete Timer
for all new chats and groups you create.
- New messages will be deleted after 1 day, week, month,
or a custom duration you choose.
- The new menu in Settings > Privacy & Security > Auto-Delete Messages
also lets you set up Auto-Delete for any of your existing chats faster.
- Admins of groups with 100+ members can organize discussions
into separate topics.
- Topics now have a two-column layout
that keeps recent chats easily accessible as you browse topics.
- Previews of topic messages in the chat list work like a button,
click to jump to the last updated topic.
- Up to 5 topics can be pinned to the top of the list.
- Each topic now supports multiple pinned messages.
- The View as Messages mode now shows
which topic each message belongs to.
- Badge counters for topics you never opened
will have a lighter, less distracting color.
- A new General topic is now included by default,
containing service messages and the earlier message history from the
group.
- Admins can rename the General topic.
- Large groups can enable Aggressive Filtering in Manage Group
> Administrators to remove more spam with automated algorithms.
- Admins help improve filtering
by reporting any false positives in Recent Actions.
