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.

Version 9.2.0
In this update, we're thrilled to bring you several improvements and fixes to enhance your experience:

Situational Awareness Enhancements:

Responses on maps are now more clearly visible, providing a better understanding of user statuses.
Tapping on a user response on the map reveals all the details.
Situational Awareness messages are now included in backups. Additionally, you can now retry sending if they failed previously.

Improvements:
The map no longer crashes when multiple users are sharing their live location.
The expiration time of ephemeral keys is now configurable, enabling server admins to extend the validity of ephemeral calls.
Threat detection now reports additional jailbreak techniques ant tools.
Resolved a bug where users, in a specific use-case, were not prompted for critical notifications permission.
We've addressed a visual issue with code blocks in message bubbles, ensuring a smoother and more polished chat experience.


We're committed to providing you with a secure and seamless messaging experience.

Stay secure and connected!

What's New in v9.1

We're thrilled to introduce exciting new features and improvements in our latest update! Here's what's waiting for you:

1. Situational Awareness: Admins can now initiate situational checks in chatrooms, receiving participant responses along with their live locations.

2. Map Drawings: Express yourself on the map! Users can draw shapes, lines, and add points, making map interactions more dynamic and collaborative.

3. Offline Maps: No connection? No problem! Mark regions on maps to download and access them offline, ensuring you stay connected even in remote areas.

4. Emergency Signals: Your safety matters. Activate Emergency mode to send SOS signals with your location to designated responders. Even if their phone is muted, they'll receive an audible alert.

5. Refreshed Design: Enjoy a sleek new look across the entire app. We've refreshed the design for a more modern and user-friendly experience.

6. Edit My Account Page: Personalize your profile! The new edit my account page includes an option to change your avatar color, adding a touch of uniqueness to your identity.

7. Admin Control in Chatroom Calls: Admins now have the power to mute participants during chatroom calls, ensuring smooth and controlled communication.

8. Other Improvements: We've made several additional enhancements for a smoother experience:
- Message info now includes read timestamps.
- Improved message delivery reporting.
- Enhanced upload progress visibility for all files.
- YubiKey support now extends to USB-C, offering more flexibility and security options.

Stay secure and connected!

New Features:

- Secure Messenger Lockdown: Now you can choose to lock the app immediately when it goes into the background or set a delay for added security.

Bug Fixes and Improvements:

- Backup WiFi export: Fixed issue with invalid QR code
- Crash Fix: We've resolved a crash issue related to mentions in chat drafts.
- Crash Fix: Fixed a crash that occurred when receiving incoming expired messages.
- Avatar Display: Sometimes, the user menu button (avatar) was not displayed. This has been fixed.

Thank you for using our app! We're committed to your privacy and security.
If you have any feedback or suggestions, please don't hesitate to contact our support team.

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!

In this update, we've made important enhancements to elevate your experience and ensure a more secure environment:

Improved Security:
We take your privacy seriously. Our app now has the ability to detect when screenshots are taken and promptly report them to our admin dashboard. Rest assured, we're actively working to safeguard your data and ensure a secure user experience.

Enhanced Search:
We've fixed the scrolling issue between search results, making it easier and smoother for you to navigate through the messages and find exactly what you're looking for.

As always, we value your feedback and suggestions. If you encounter any issues or have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to our support team.

In this update, we've made important enhancements to elevate your experience:

- Enhanced Search:
We've fixed the scrolling issue between search results, making it easier and smoother for you to navigate through the messages and find exactly what you're looking for.


As always, we value your feedback and suggestions. If you encounter any issues or have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to our support team.

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 improved the calling experience. You will see who is talking by seeing the talking person indicator. Hand raise feature will help you to notify others you want to speak. Call screen will also show status of muted microphones. App will switch to fullscreen when someone starts sharing their screen.
* Messaging improvements include "code snippets" so you can read formatted code. Animated GIFs are now supported.
* Shortcut to retry biometric unlock.
* Faster caller name resloving on incoming calls.
* Overall stability improvements.

- Encrypted backup export/import. You are now able to securely transfer your messages between devices and across platforms though an encrypted backup file that can be stored on your phone. For even easier migration, we have added direct WiFi transfer. Backups are never synchronized to the server or any external service and are under your full control.
- Message reactions. You can now react to each message.
- You can now change names of your devices under settings tab.
- .log files can now be previewed inside the app in the built-in text viewer.

- Removed annoying paste permissions dialog

- added 4 new ringtones
- added support for direct login

Public chatrooms!
- We are introducing a new type of chatrooms - public chatrooms.
- You are now able to join a chatroom just by opening a link.
- Admins can protect public chatrooms with a PIN and also manage users permissions inside the chat.

Search for a message within a chat.
- Tap on chat title and choose "Search" to open a search field, where you are able to find every message in the chat.

We have also added a video recorder, so you can record and send short videos directly in the app.

* Video playback sound will be output to the speaker by default
* Navigation buttons in document viewer are now visible
* Access to Photos (permissions) can be managed without restarting the app
* Conference video streams can now be rotated to landscape
* New mapping component
* Biocoded Evidence live-streaming component is updated to be more performant with better video quality
* Overall stability improvements and bug fixes

- Improved sending of larger files especially videos
- Overall stability improvements

* Have you ever missed an important conference meeting? Chat rooms have two new features for you:
- User can send a kind request-to-join a conference meeting notification
- If presense at a meeting is highly required, chat room admins can send a critical notification, which rings even when the user's phone is on silent (available only on private servers with the feature enabled)
* You are now able to mute new message notifications on chatrooms
* Environment configuration: system administrator can let you know about the information sensitivity shared on the system
* Calls are now getting connected much faster
* Stability improvements

* Biocoded has new photo viewer, now you can see and scroll through images much faster
* You can now select different tone for the "New message" notifications
* We have also added support for displaying movable location pins, which can be sent from desktop clients
* Registered users are now able to completely delete their account from server (Settings -> Privacy)
* Stability improvements

- 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.

- User mentions in messages
- Application locking
- FaceID or TouchID
- Yubikey
- Send short videos from gallery
- Location history
- We added more bugs so we don't loose our jobs

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.

improvements and bug fixes

* Overall improvements on messaging events. Read reports will be delivered and visible on all chats now.
* Messages with expiration have a more streamlined user interface and are available on all chats now.
* Improved location sharing with real-time location sharing upgrade. Location sharing is supported on all chats now. Location sharing can be enabled for a preset duration, after which it will automatically deactivate.