Signal iOS Releases

What’s new?

Overview of recent Signal iOS app updates and main changes
Dates refer to beta releases, which are rolled out to stable versions one week later.
Released features only. For in-development features, see News.
Maintained by AboutSignal. Not official release notes.

8.10

Updated UI for View Once media

April 30, 2026

View Once media viewer for iOS 26 modernized: no longer dark mode only

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8.9

Expanded localization support

April 25, 2026

Expanded localization support for Bulgarian and Lithuanian
New setting to disable message sent sound (Settings → Notifications → Sounds)

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8.8

Collapsed events

April 17, 2026

Unicode 17 emoji: new emoji from Unicode 17.0 available in Signal
Thread header redesign
Collapsed events: in-chat notifications (calls, group updates, members leaving/ joining) now be grouped together. Read more

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8.7

Apple's Enhanced Security

April 9, 2026

Enabled Apple's Enhanced Security feature

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8.6

Bug fixes & technical improvements

April 2, 2026

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8.5

More Liquid Glass design

March 26, 2026

More improvements to Liquid Glass design, including redesign toasts with icons
Accessibility improvements for Get Started screen
Added support for AVIF images

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8.4

Shortcuts during group calls

March 19, 2026

Convenient shortcuts to open chats or view profile details during group calls
Accessibility improvements for quote previews

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8.3

Member labels

March 12, 2026

Member label: describe yourself with a member label in groups. Group admins can also choose who is allowed to set a member label. Read more

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8.2

Group improvements

March 5, 2026

You can now leave a group from the chat list

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8.1

Design link previews

February 27, 2026

New design for link previews

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8.0

Signal Secure Backups

February 19, 2026

Signal Secure Backups are now available to everyone. You can use them to back up all your chats and 45 days of media for free; or all chats and media for a monthly fee. Read more
Improvements to Liquid Glass design

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