Improvements
- For group chats, you can now set when new members can view the chat history.
- Event descriptions now support text formatting as well as mentions of people, groups, songs, and wiki pages.
- Notifications for service requests, cancellations, and similar matters can now be customized.
- For confirmed roles, a reminder will be sent via push notification the day before the event.
- Post moderators can now archive other people’s posts. Under “My Posts,” you can see who archived them.
- A pop-up explains the new formatting and linking options.
- The icons for group meeting places are now displayed in the selected color.
- Error messages now display an info icon to make it clearer that they can be tapped.
- Test push notifications can now be sent to all connected devices from the Support section and in the notification settings.
- [iOS] The app now requires at least iOS 16.4.
Fixed errors
- The shadows of cards in bottom sheets with action buttons are now displayed in full.
- When archiving a post, the option to discard it is now labeled “Cancel” instead of “No.”
- Notification settings now detect changes to system permissions immediately upon returning to the app.
- After switching accounts, chat notifications reliably open the corresponding chat.
- Bottom sheets with input fields now maintain an appropriate spacing when the keyboard is open.
- On the support page, subheadings are now displayed with the correct spacing.
- The camera icon in the chat overview is now displayed flush with the text again.
- A clear note is now displayed during a ChurchTools update.
- When you insert blank lines in chat messages, a blank line is now preserved again.
- You can now invite people to ChurchTools even if you don’t have global permissions, as long as you have the appropriate group permissions.
- The chat overview now reliably displays the most recent messages again and sorts chats based on their most recent activity.
- The group details view correctly displays the status of the next group meeting.
- If you try to accept an invitation to a chat that the person who sent it has since deleted, you’ll now see a clear error message, and the invitation will no longer be displayed.
- A bug that caused the chat text input field to appear behind the navigation bar has been fixed.
- If a group mention such as “All members” or “Members of a Role” has more than 10 members, the number of additional members in the group is displayed. Tapping the number takes you to the corresponding list view of group members.
- For pop-ups with buttons, a minimum spacing has been added so that the buttons are not directly at the bottom of the screen.
- Mentions of people in content now open the native person profile directly.
- For longer posts in the feed, the area where the post is hidden with a white background is now shorter and no longer extends across the entire post.
- Chat connections are paused in the background to reduce battery usage.
- Chats can be reopened from the groups and contact details pages.
- Date headers in the birthday list now display correctly even when scrolling.
- The “Text” field type is now supported for group meeting feedback.
- Members of open groups can now withdraw (from) the group on their own, regardless of their Role or how they joined.
- When you manually enter a location in a calendar event, the screen returns directly to the event after you tap “Done” or “Cancel.” If you cancel, any location data you entered will not be saved.
- The currently set person status is displayed again during editing.
- Option menus display text in full even when bold is enabled.
- Notifications now reliably open the corresponding chat after switching accounts.
- [Android] The app no longer restarts when connecting or disconnecting a Bluetooth keyboard.
- [iOS] When you cancel meeting requests, the keyboard now closes so that the prompt to discard the changes appears immediately.
- [iOS] Formatting and mentions now work on iPhones running iOS 16.4 or later