Biocoded

In this update, we've addressed several issues related to the Map functionality that were causing the app to crash.

We have fixed connectivity issue where some devices failed to connect on non-updated servers.

We're excited to introduce a fresh and improved experience with our latest update!
Here's what's in store for you:

1. Introduction of User Side Menu: We've introduced a brand new feature - the user side menu. This menu makes managing your profile easier than ever before. You can now update your status text, presence, and profile image with just a few taps.

2. Refreshed Look: You'll notice a sleek new look throughout the app, featuring all-new icons and fonts for a modern and unified design.

3. Redesigned Chat Bubbles: Say hello to our redesigned chat message bubbles, enhancing your messaging experience with style and clarity.

4. Consistent User Avatars: Your avatar color is now consistent across all platforms, ensuring a seamless and recognizable presence.

5. Streamlined Settings and About Page: We've moved your settings from the bottom tab bar to the new side menu, which also houses our new About page. This provides easy access to personalize your app experience and learn more about us.

6. Enhanced Camera: iPad users, rejoice! We've introduced a new camera for iPad, and improved rotation for iPhone cameras for capturing those perfect moments.

7. Permissions-Based Features: Some app features will now adapt based on permissions set by administrators, ensuring a secure and tailored experience.

8. iOS 15 Requirement: To bring you the best possible experience, Biocoded now requires a minimum iOS 15 version.

We hope you enjoy these exciting updates and enhancements! Your feedback is invaluable to us as we continue to improve your app experience.


Stay connected and keep enjoying Biocoded!

Get ready for an even better user experience with these new additions:

- Offline Mode: Unlock the app for reading messages even without an internet connection, perfect for when you're on a plane or in areas with limited connectivity. (Requires a YubiKey device.)

- Saved Messages: Mark important messages as saved, allowing you to quickly find and access them whenever you need to.

- Call Improvements: Enjoy a smoother and more convenient calling experience with these enhancements:
- Put Outgoing Calls on Speaker: You can now activate the speaker before the call is connected, making it easier to engage in hands-free conversations.
- Switch Microphone Modes: Choose between different microphone modes, including Voice Isolation, to optimize the audio quality during your calls.
- Switch Video Effects: Add a touch of creativity to your video calls with various video effects, including Portrait mode, giving you more control over your visual appearance.
- Incoming Call Persistence: Even if the app is locked, incoming calls will now be stored, ensuring you never miss an important call.

- Enhanced Pins Visibility on Maps: User avatars and dropped pins are now more visible, aiding easy identification and location in your vicinity.

- Dynamic Font Sizing: The app now adopts the system font size, ensuring optimal readability based on your preferences.

- Share Multiple Images: Easily share multiple images from your system gallery directly into the app, making it effortless to showcase your favorite moments.

- New Loading Animation: Experience a delightful and captivating loading animation that adds a touch of flair to your app interactions.

We're constantly working to improve your experience, and we hope you enjoy these exciting new features and enhancements. Update to v8.4 now and explore the possibilities!

Welcome to the latest update for our app! We're thrilled to introduce some exciting new features that we think you're going to love:

- Custom User Profile Images and Statuses: Your contacts are now easier to differentiate and the app has come even more alive with the addition of custom user profile images and statuses.
- File Sharing from System Share Menu: With the new ability to share a file directly into Biocoded from a system share menu, you can now share content with even greater ease.
- Forwarding Multiple Messages: We've introduced the ability to forward multiple messages at once, along with a redesigned chat selection screen to create a seamless and enjoyable experience.
- Redesigned Media and Tags View: Finding files or links within a chat has never been easier thanks to our redesigned Media view and new Tags view.
- Improved Message Order: Messages and files are now sent and received in the correct order, creating a more streamlined chat experience.
- Bad Network Connection Banner: A banner will now appear on the call screen when your WiFi connection is too slow, ensuring that you're always aware of your network status.
- Location Pin Sharing: We've added the ability to share a location pin into external navigation apps.
- Improved Contacts and Chats List: Our contacts list has been improved with a new favourite section and filter by groups, and the chats list has received several updates including chats pinning, an unread mention mark, and nicer left and right swipe actions.
- Settings Tab Improvements: The settings tab has been overhauled with unified views, a more visible Lock app button, and added contact name display options.
- Unified Search and User Interface Cleanup: We've added unified search functionality across all tabs and cleaned up the app's user interface.
- Improved Auto-Login Flow and Backup Import: The auto-login flow is now more user-friendly with a QR code scanner on the startup screen, and we've fixed issues with importing large backups and added more logging options to help you troubleshoot any issues you may encounter.

Thanks for using our app, and we hope you enjoy these new features!

- We have changed the location marker to include 2 characters
- Stability improvements

Biocoded has a new way to protect your data! Actually multiple ways. By opening Settings and Application Locking you
can set the preferred way to protect your data, is it a PIN lock, Face ID or Touch ID lock or by
using a YubiKey hardware key. You can also enable recovery keywords if desired.

Additionaly, in this new version we're introduction @mentions to Biocoded.
When you want to let someone in a group know that a message is intended for
him or her you can do that by using the @ character.

End-to-end encrypted location service now supports encrypted location history, which you can turn ON to see someones path that he or she took from the start to the current location.

And there is more - you can now send short videos directly from the integrated gallery.

We've also polished the app all around so it is more stable.

You can now update your status and let other users know when you are away or busy, so you never get disturbed while performing important tasks.

Have you ever sent something that you wished you could take back? We have got you covered, and now you can also edit sent messages. 
Feeling more expressive using photos? The way you send photos has been updated and now you can add captions to your selected moments.

+ New video calling features:
- Grid with up to 8 videos
- Now you can expand one user into fullscreen
- Video stream in fullscreen can be rotated to landscape
- Better audio and video quality
+ Other updates
- Resolved issues with voice recordings playback
- Resolved issue where app sometimes crashes while downloading multiple files
- Now you can copy & paste texts with links
- Chatroom stability improvements

+ Chat updates
- Enhanced camera for better experience when taking images
- You can send up to 15 images in one batch
- Resolved issues with message expiration interface

+ New video calling features:
- You can switch between device cameras
- Call participant names are visible on their video streams
- When user is unreachable, a busy screen is shown to notify you

Improvements
+ Resolved issue in registration process
+ Resolved issues on call screen
+ Database optimization

New features:
+ Chatrooms. Create administered end-to-end encrypted chatrooms with up to 255 people. Send text messages and multimedia messages. Create conference rooms!
+ Conference rooms. Create voice meetings with up to 255 people.

Improvements:
+ Message drafts are now available.
+ Graphical updates. Messaging pane shows an icon depending on the type of chat.
+ Mark as read. Swiping left-to-right over a conversation will reveal "Mark as read" option on the chat.

Other:
+ Redesigned push notifications.

- Fixed sending live-photos on iOS13
- Fixed not working links on iOS13

- You are now able to turn off read receipts for individual chats
- Turning on Auto-delete for past content now requires code confirmation
- Forwarding files that have not been downloaded to your device
- Fixed crash on call hangup for some users
- Fixed "messages bubbles gone crazy" bug

- Conference calls