Silent Phone

Every release of Silent Phone, including this one, has important fixes and enhanced performance.

Every release of Silent Phone, including this one, has important fixes and enhanced performance.

Every release of Silent Phone, including this one, has important fixes and enhanced performance.

Features:

- Dark theme support.
- French localization.
- Select multiple photos or videos to share at once.

Every release of Silent Phone, including this one, has important fixes and enhanced performance.

Improvements:
- Better support for iOS 14.

This is the minimum version that will support sending or receiving attachments after 22 March 2021 due to upcoming changes in server certificates.

Every release of Silent Phone, including this one, has important fixes and enhanced performance.

This release adds support for iOS 14.

Features:
- When on a call, we show an LED that flashes as packets are received. We now also show this LED for each participant in a conference so you can tell if someone in your conference has fallen off the Earth.

Improvements:
- If a voice memo is burned while you're playing it, we now stop playing the memo immediately.
- For dialing normal landline and mobile numbers with Silent World, we offer a dial helper that lets you dial using the normal convention for your country. For this helper, we now support Brazil and St. Pierre & Miquelon, and we now sort the list of countries better.

Every release of Silent Phone, including this one, has important fixes and enhanced performance.

- Fix bugs

- Fix bugs

- Fix bugs

- Introduces new tutorial screens on the chat view.
- Shows the total number of unread messages on the call screen.
- Status messages no longer display (null) in some rare cases.
- Incoming message sounds play back correctly when a voice message is active.
- Burn slider is now dismissed when tapping anywhere outside its area.
- The current version of a Live Photo is used when sending it as an attachment.
- Live Photos saved as videos can now be sent correctly.
- Various improvements regarding avatar generation.
- App appearance is now reset correctly when contact selection view is dismissed.
- Address book contacts are now linked consistently with conversations.
- Improves message shown in the Conversations view when certain types of attachments are received.
- Addressed a number of iOS 13 related issues.
- Burn notices are sent even if the app is terminated.
- Contact cells are now properly highlighted on selection.
- Keyboard no longer flashes from opaque to transparent.
- Fixes rare issue where preferences weren't being stored correctly.
- Fixes rare issue where burning the last message of a conversation could lead to a crash.
- Fixes rare issue where quickly tapping on the new group chat button could lead to a crash.
- Fixes minor issue regarding link selection on the chat view.
- Fixes a number of minor design related issues on the chat view.
- Fixes a number of issues regarding the behavior of the app when the device screen was locked.
- Performance improvements & optimizations.

- Support iOS 13
- Handle simultaneous calls between users automatically
- Allow creating 1-on-1 conversation from group members list
- Improve handling of attachments sent while offline
- Improve synchronization of burn timers when messages are read offline
- Improve reliability of delivery receipts
- Improve behavior of notifications and badges
- Show upload progress on error report submission screen

- Show when conversation partners add or remove devices - Show progress when loading many contacts - Scroll more smoothly when sending and receiving messages - Fix bugs

- Fix bugs

- Allow selecting multiple messages at once
- To burn, forward, copy, or resend one or more messages, tap and hold
- Allow recording voice messages using Apple AirPods
- Add haptic feedback when starting or canceling voice messages
- Notify only once when receiving many offline messages
- Upload and download attachments at the same time
- Automatically cancel attachment downloads
- Remove "poof" sound and animation when burning messages
- Improve look of login screen
- Improve quality of avatars displayed on call screen
- Fix passcode screen on iPhone XS Max devices
- Fix marking messages as read when on conversation info screen
- Fix handling of too-big attachments
- Fix call screen on iPad devices
- Fix avatars sometimes not displaying on group status events
- Fix countdown on short burn times
- Fix inadvertent display of "Now" burn time
- Fix duplicate message seen when forwarding
- Fix animation seen when turning on location sharing

- Add high definition audio for calls on mobile networks
- Add support for iOS 12 Grouped Notifications
- Add support for replying to messages directly from notifications
- Add detailed network information to in-call advanced info screen
- Add support for conversations with self for note taking or file transfer
- Send forwarded messages and messages from other apps automatically
- Improve power efficiency in background while on calls
- Improve handling of concurrent attachment uploads and downloads
- Improve handling of failed network requests
- Improve generic attachment preview images
- Improve and update translations
- Fix audio playback view sometimes not appearing when opening audio messages
- Fix tapped notifications sometimes not opening while viewing an attachment
- Fix caller information from address book sometimes not being displayed on call screen
- Fix unprompted video when call is started directly from search results
- Fix pending sent attachments sometimes becoming stuck after force-quit
- Fix newly-created empty conversations showing wrong time after force-quit
- Fix placement of action menu for long press on pending attachments
- Fix actions available for long press on sent group messages
- Fix voice-over actions available for group status messages
- Fix ZRTP details sometimes being displayed on PSTN calls
- Fix rare UX issues that may happen immediately after provisioning
- Fix crash when recording voice messages while sibling leaves group
- Fix rare crash when uploading debug log files
- Fix rare crash on conversations with users without avatars

- Add animated GIF attachment feature
- Add support for diacritic-insensitive contact search
- Continue conference audio between participants when host is on an external call
- Improve attachment upload speed
- Improve UI performance when decrypting attachments
- Fix send button not appearing correctly when forwarding a message
- Fix mistaken display of `Unknown` conversations
- Fix crash when phone receives incoming call before login

- Add feature to send any file using the Document Picker
- Add feature to start a call directly from contact search
- Add feature to mute a conversation
- Add feature to block a conversation
- Add feature to quickly start an audio recording within a conversation
- Add feature to select and delete multiple conversations at once
- Add feature to create a group when sharing a file
- Add an audio tone when trying to make a call
- Add an information view for single and group conversations
- Increase minimum iOS version support to 11.0
- No longer save generated avatars in the Address Book
- Remove redundant forward button while a message is being sent
- Remove redundant re-send option when an attachment is uploading
- Improve Silent Phone service connectivity
- Improve device contact discovery and integration
- Improve contact saving process
- Improve UX when changing a group name
- Improve conference call UI
- Improve system audio handling with Silent Phone calls
- Improve handling and updating of avatar images
- Improve conversation titles for Silent World calls
- Improve cleanup of attachment files
- Improve UX when trying to call without microphone permission
- Improve UX when trying to start a call or conversation without a network connection
- Improve translations
- Improve various strings
- Fix crash with and improve attachment preview downloading
- Fix crashes related to group conversations
- Fix crash when muting a conversation on an iPad
- Fix crash related to FaceID
- Fix issue with attachment previews flickering
- Fix UI issue with burn slider
- Fix UI issues with message texts and labels
- Fix UI issues with crypto view during Silent World calls
- Fix various typos and grammatical errors

- Fix error that sometimes prevented detecting when the messaging security association had been lost with partner, leading to undecryptable messages
- Fix crash at provisioning when many sibling devices exist
- Fix crash when coming to foreground while receiving multiple attachments
- Fix issue potentially causing crash in background
- Fix issue causing conversation view to sometimes freeze
- Fix issue where attachment sent while offline fails when sent once online
- Fix issue potentially causing a newly selected group avatar image to update incorrectly
- Fix issue in conference call, where host user audio is heard by conference and outgoing call when answered
- Fix issue where conference call UI is not updated appropriately when call is placed on hold
- Fix outgoing call event burn time not displaying countdown
- Optimize avatar generation logic to reduce unnecessary image updates
- Fix other crashes that would have appeared to happen randomly
- Update certificate authority pinning

- Allow creating group when forwarding messages or attachments
- Add feature on call screen to show detailed cryptographic information
- Enhance privacy with secure splash screen in system multi-task view and launch image
- Show account information in left side menu
- Add option for whether to store calls in native recent call list
- Improve UI/UX of incoming message alerts
- Support iPhone X Face ID for application lock screen
- Identify parties who change the burn time in group conversations
- Show creator of group to other members when it is formed
- Add upload progress bar to message bubble when sending group conversation attachments
- Improve UI and graphic design of left side menu and group conversation events
- Add localization support for burn timer
- Fix crash that occurred on launch
- Fix bug that froze the UI and caused a crash
- Fix crash when changing group burn time
- Fix rare crash when processing malformed message data
- Fix bug that caused group members to involuntarily leave group conversations
- Fix auto-scroll to last unread message in conversation threads
- Fix bug that prevented receipt of first message after coming online
- Fix bug that prevented forwarding of text messages
- Fix rare bug which created orphaned group conversations after sibling sync failure
- Fix sent message not appearing on sibling device
- Fix back to call strip sometimes being hidden when returning from background
- Fix incoming message incorrectly marked as read while on call screen
- Fix group creation status events displayed out of order
- Fix messages synced to sibling devices sometimes incorrectly not marked as read
- Fix message status on sibling devices to update from Synced to Delivered
- Fix accessibility bugs in conversation thread view
- Fix bug preventing badge updates for unread messages in conversation list
- Fix display of user name in group conversations when sharing location
- Fix bug causing burn timer to be stuck to zero
- Fix status stuck on Preparing... on incoming messages with an attachment
- Fix disparity in burn time resolution between sender and receiver in group messages
- Fix proximity sensor remaining engaged after navigating away from call screen
- Fix contacts search to prevent matching on non-English locale numbers
- Fix thumbnail not rotated to landscape in video call on iPad
- Fix layout issue in conversation thread view after dismissing keyboard
- Fix graphic artifacts in left side menu animation on iPhone X
- Fix minor graphic display issue in menu button
- Remove unencrypted message text from debug log that is stored when enabled
- Improve robustness during conference calling
- Improve side menu accessibility
- Improve UI responsiveness when opening group members view
- Improve error reporting to sender when attachments fail to send
- Improve attachment thumbnail display and compatibility across all platforms
- Restrict debug log files, when enabled, to 7 days and 30MB of storage
- Improve German and Spanish translations
- Improve general responsiveness

- Add support for German and Spanish language and localization
- Add support for iPhone X
- Fix crash when saving received video to Photo Library
- Fix crash when deleting device in devices view
- Fix crash when sharing received location in map view
- Fix crash when receiving incoming call while on a video call
- Fix issue where music playing on device does not pause when starting to record audio message
- Fix display name of incoming call from SSO user while on a video call
- Fix bug reporting error when creating new directory
- Fix tutorial screen header view layout issue for devices running iOS 10
- Fix avatar background view not resizing correctly on iPad after screen rotation

- When local address book avatar exists for contact, use it preferentially
- Fix handling of video calls when one party has denied camera permissions
- Fix intermittent errors in badge count of unread events
- Fix intermittent crash while searching for new users
- Improve detection of users within the same organization for search UI
- Show placeholder before actual avatar loads fully
- Fix burning of messages when sender is offline
- Remove local user from search results
- Improve messaging reliability during keying events
- Fix handling of errors for groups that don't exist locally
- Prevent sending too-large messages containing large Unicode characters
- Correctly handle errors after trying to send too large a message
- Allow panning, scaling, circular cropping images when selecting or capturing avatar
- Improve reliability of message failure reporting
- Improve reliability of display of caller ID information
- Fix intermittent failure when setting avatar
- Improve performance of avatar handling
- Add special UI support for MP3 attachments
- Show activity spinner while downloading received audio attachment
- Fix UI issue after pausing and resuming audio attachment playback
- Fix inability to open notification while on call on certain screen sizes
- Fix last message shown in conversations list when burning messages
- Fix positioning of navigation bar on iOS 11
- Fix size of button to add group member on iOS 11
- Fix visibility of menu buttons when viewing attachment on iOS 11
- Fix flash of "unsupported" error when opening attachment on iOS 11
- When creating new contact, avoid populating first name field with phone number
- Fix position of image attachment thumbnails on iOS 11
- Add feature to mute individual call legs in conference manager
- Add global mute feature in conference manager
- Detect bad network quality while on call and display warning
- Add dropout tone visual indicator
- Disable audible dropout tone when not receiving media packets
- Add debug logging to help when reporting issues
- Fix intermittent issue when a member device removes itself from a group
- Add tutorial screens to quickly onboard first-time users
- Prevent changes to device clock from circumventing passcode lockout time
- Fix issue allowing expired users to retain partial service
- Add support for do not disturb (DND) mode
- Synchronize burn time granularity across platforms
- Improve wording on empty PSTN conversation background
- Fix crash on startup leading to missed calls
- Fix rotation of contact photos when sharing
- Fix failing requests after device deletion leading to temporary blacklisting
- After remote wipe is detected, reset application without 30 second countdown
- Fix ability to open Microsoft Office documents on iOS 11
- Offer TouchID passcode unlock after app starts while TouchID is not available
- Improve accessibility support

- End all calls in conference when FaceTime call is answered with `End/Accept`
- Fix proximity sensor sometimes remaining active after ending all calls
- Fix loss of conference bridge audio during incoming FaceTime call
- Fix ordering of events in group threads
- Fix in-circle calls sometimes incorrectly displaying as PSTN-style calls
- Improve reliability of call reception by correctly unregistering when in background
- Fix reception of unusually large messages
- Fix corruption of certain too-large messages when sending
- Show detailed message delivery/read status for sent messages on sibling devices
- Fix group events sometimes not showing which user joined
- Avoid hanging UI when burning messages in group
- Allow answering call from in-app passcode lock screen
- Preserve speaker state on second call when first call ends
- Prevent formation of duplicate conversation threads

- Show composed rather than received time of incoming messages
- Remove lock screen notification when message is read on sibling device
- Fix playback of message notification tone while in background
- Fix flashing LED message notification while in background
- Fix collapse of messaging bubbles after viewing attachment
- Fix broken conversation UI after landscape video call ends
- Fix sent message bubbles temporarily cutting off trailing text
- Fix broken UI after canceling passcode entry during conference call
- Fix keying problems related to messages going to oneself
- Fix crash when searching for other users

- Add group messaging with attachments and burn
- Synchronize UI/UX across all platforms
- Add left navigation drawer with settings and account details
- Integrate contacts into search & remove separate contacts screen
- Show contact discovery matches when searching
- Improve UI for switching between keyboard and numeric dialpad
- Hide local non-SC contacts when Silent World is disabled
- Detect and display exact-match users while searching
- Show device additions and removals in conversation threads
- Remove navigation tabs along bottom
- Show local and matched SC contacts before typing search query
- Show organization name as title of organizational directory
- Show connection state as color on hamburger icon
- Remove local conversations from new conversation search results
- Add support for SP as instant message type in native contacts
- Sort contact search results by name
- Reconcile separate UI for sending files with normal search
- Add error reporting when messages fail to send
- Use native Apple UI for numeric dialpad
- Support contact discovery on devices with thousands of contacts
- Support placing video call directly from native contacts
- After failed passcode entries, do not offer fingerprint unlock
- Allow dialing local contacts via Silent World from search
- Support handling video call invitations from CallKit screen
- Allow skipping countdown to wipe when device is deleted
- Add accessible "copy" action on certain conversation elements
- Automatically reconnect to conference call when private call ends
- Correctly match local contact names to numbers in conversations list
- Remove handling of favorites
- Remove setting to disable dropout tone
- Remove setting to disable packet reception LED
- Remove setting to disable TCP firewall traversal
- Remove setting to select alternate cipher suite
- Remove setting to select alternate SAS display type
- Add help and support links in navigation drawer
- Fix handling of certain usernames beginning with "sile"
- Fix loss of party in conference when answering incoming call
- Fix UI displayed for incoming calls when in conference
- Fix refresh issue delaying display of new devices on account
- Show updated avatar photo for local account immediately
- Fix call and back buttons sometimes becoming unresponsive
- Remove extra space added in front of last name when adding contact
- Support pull-down display of alias on threads with no messages
- Fix intermittent corruption after wiping app data leading to crash
- Fix audio failing to recover after FaceTime call ends
- Fix sending of file attachments when SP is not running
- Fix handling of video with multiple active calls
- Show better error when calling invalid aliases from native contacts
- Fix search results not narrowing when adding characters
- Fix incorrect search results after backspacing
- Fix local contacts intermittently failing to match search
- Fix speakerphone being disabled when moving call out of conference
- Fix incorrect search results when local contacts share phone number

- Fix no audio on incoming Silent World calls when in background

- Improve reliability of background messaging and keying operations
- Improve tracking of sibling devices
- Improve error checking on missing or inaccessible files

- Fix email contact discovery for periods in username part of address
- Fix email contact discovery for uppercase letters in address
- Fix message time handling when receiving dates in the future
- Fix message time handling for devices set to Thai Buddhist calendar

- Fix issue allowing bypass of passcode lock while on call
- Fix loss of audio when one party leaves conference call
- Fix crash when returning from contact search
- Fix crash when entering DTMF digits on call
- Fix issue leading to errors in dial string when returning call from native recents

- Allow linking email addresses from Silent Phone in the native call history with contacts
- Allow calling to email addresses from the native call history in Silent Phone
- Remove stray internal prefix visible on incoming calls from an SSO-based user
- In native call history for calls with SSO users, show meaningful alias for remote user rather than opaque internal identifier
- Fix crash that occurred while updating our app badge while on the lock screen or onboarding screen
- Fix issue where pressing the hangup button multiple times caused iOS to continue to show the "return to call" option after the end of the call

- Fix failing incoming FaceTime calls after making or receiving a Silent Phone call
- Fix loss of conference call audio when declining incoming call
- Fix loss of audio when on a call with a call on hold when an incoming call is received but the party hangs up before the call is accepted or declined
- Fix ringtones and text alert tones causing the loudspeaker to activate inadvertently when on a call
- Fix delayed appearance of unread message badge in tab bar when on other tab and phone is locked
- For accounts without Silent World, show a local error when calling a PSTN number rather than proceeding and receiving a verbal error
- Fix looping of decryption failure error messages
- Add remote decryption failure information to message details
- Fix messaging verified state not being shown when it should in some cases
- Remove diagnostic info shown on long-press of conversation list entry
- Remove stray item from settings accessibility view
- Fix incorrect results appearing when searching in the Contacts tab
- Fix incoming call alert tone not playing when on a call
- Fix race condition sometimes leading to loss of keying data when a secure call completes with a party at the same instant as a message is exchanged with that party

- Add native dialer integration with CallKit
- Silent Phone calls are no longer interrupted by native calls or alarms
- Silent Phone calls can be answered directly from lock screen
- Add in-app lock screen
- Support TouchID unlocking
- Support locking Silent Phone after a delay
- Support wiping Silent Phone data after a number of invalid entries
- Support exponential backoff delay on invalid entries
- Support answering call without unlocking
- Allow saving current conversation partner to Contacts
- Swipe right on an entry in the conversation list to add to Contacts
- Add support for displaying middle name field of contact entries
- Add support for emails in Silent Phone contacts and contact search
- Add support for email-based contact discovery
- Add native iPad layout
- Fix dropped Silent World calls on network changes
- Fix dropped calls when changing networks across regions
- Fix dropped calls immediately after answer due to second device on account
- Fix crash when switching to incoming video call from conference call
- Better support iOS 10
- Move display of directory search results to top of results list
- Add shortcut to number dialer in bottom tab bar
- Add editing of contacts from within Silent Phone
- Add ability to view username of partner by pulling down in conversation
- Improve scrolling behavior in conversations
- Add onboarding screens before login
- Support peek and pop for links in messages
- Fix messages sometimes disappearing after being sent
- Fix intermittent crash when deleting messages
- Fix long post-dial delay after startup when many recent conversations lack avatars
- Fix issue that caused numbers to be stored in wrong field in contact entries
- Fix incorrect display of some non-latin characters
- Fix avatar not appearing for received messages
- Fix avatar not matching for certain contacts with a Silent Phone username
- Fix issue that caused Silent Phone to vibrate only once for incoming calls
- Fix inability to navigate while on dial pad when remote side disconnects call
- Fix crash when performing manual burn of last message in conversation
- Fix incorrect display of Read state on synced messages on sibling devices
- Fix issue that caused one-way audio after certain network failures
- Fix issue that made it difficult to close the view attachment screen
- Fix timestamp in call recents log to show start time rather than end time of call
- Fix burn icon mistakenly appearing when tapping link in message
- Fix inadvertent scrolling to bottom of thread after opening attachment
- Fix location not being sent immediately after allowing permission
- Fix message display to rely on creation time rather than received time
- Fix issue that prevented sending messages when device had unusually many contacts
- Fix avatar persisting after wipe of Silent Phone data
- Fix issue preventing calls to SSO users from Favorites
- Allow searching contacts by company name
- Allowing adding avatar while creating a contact
- Improve reliability of message burning
- Improve speed of recovery from network failure
- Improve UI responsiveness when messages are being sent and received
- Fix issue where audio player would not reopen while playing audio
- Improve accessibility of user interface
- Silent Circle now supports Circle-in-Circle to fully isolate enterprise environments

- Better support iOS 10
- Fix ugly display of user UUID in directory search results for SSO users
- Fix bugs

- Enable burn functionality for call bubbles
- Improve message history and received message display and notifications
- Improve background avatar image
- Device name and users are now visible by tapping the user’s avatar in the conversation view
- Able to re-key devices and see username within the conversation view
- Various bug fixes and crashes

- Fix inadvertent message deletion after reading message while offline

- Fix display of UTF-8 characters in ZRTP cache name on call screen
- Improve reliability when lock button is pressed while receiving messages
- Improve reliability of message reception for users with many existing messages

- Fix delivery of messages with iOS 9.3.3 update
- Allow searching directory by both first and last name
- Improve username search and conversation formatting
- Improve conference calling
- Improve conversation thread and text entry box formatting
- Fix multiple attachment viewing and sending
- Fix labeling on Contact button
- Improve theme, style, syntax and branding
- Improve VoiceOver scrolling through Contacts list
- Improve video mode UI
- Fix speaker when Bluetooth headset switched off
- Fix automatic switch to speaker when opening video
- Improve conversation scrolling
- Improve call error when the error message is too long
- Better error handling with attachments
- Fix various minor bugs and crashes

- Improve security of attachment handling