LFC Echo

This release is a bug fix update to keep your experience as smooth as possible. We will be back soon with a much bigger update. #StaySafe

This release is a bug fix update to keep your experience as smooth as possible. We will be back soon with a much bigger update. #StaySafe

In our first autumnal update, we would like to announce a big update to Voice Over Mode. This one is for our accessibility users, and it now actually works and rather well too! There are still improvements for us to make, and we will be continuing to work on this over the coming months, but for now we hope you like the new experience, and if you have any comments, please use the App Feedback option in “My Account” to let us know.

We have also fixed a bunch of bugs, including the black screen issue when trying to play a video, reported by a small number of users.

#StaySafe

New for this release: Home screen Widgets!

Yes, you can now add your very own news widget to the home screen to live with all your apps.

You can choose from small, medium and large widgets, and you can customise the widget by flipping it over and selecting your favourite news topic.

You can even have multiple versions of the widget side by side, running different news topics and at different sizes!

We have also included some behind the scenes fixes and upgrades to keep your experience silky smooth.

Just a small update to keep thinks moving forward, improvements for this release include:
• More improvements to a battery drain issue some users are experiencing. We will continue to monitor this going forward.
• The app will no longer require your location, or ask for permission to use it.
• The usual bug fixes and some polishing.
Commenting update: It’s still being worked on and we hope to switch the service back on again soon.

This update marks a big change for User Accounts and Commenting going forward in order to address a number of issues. In this release, we have updated the user accounts back end, what does this mean for you?
• You will be automatically logged out of your account upon installation, so you will need to log back in again. We are sorry for the small inconvenience but it is a necessary step to ensure your data security. If you don't remember your login details, you can use the "Forgot Password" feature to reset it.
• Commenting on articles is temporarily suspended. This feature is getting a huge overhaul, and will be turned back on again as soon as possible, we are very sorry but this is just unavoidable at this time due to the new user account security.
Also in this update is a fix for a small number of users that have been experiencing battery drain while the app is not being used. We will continue to monitor this issue going forward, if you are still experiencing battery drain in the background with this release, please use the in app feedback to get in touch.

We have added a new feature in this shiny new release:

"Manage Your Storage". This will allow you to free up valuable room on your device, as well provide you a way to remove saved content much faster. You can find this feature in the My Account section.

As always, we included some fixes and behind the scenes work preparing the app for future updates.

We are back with a small, but notable update. In this release you will see:

- Sign in With Apple. Yes you can now use your Apple ID to login and get access to all the apps features.
- Following an author has been updated, now tap on the author’s name to see their bio and all their recent articles.
- Commenting got some love, did you ever see comments cutting off? We did too, but you won’t now. Also we improved the “Blocked Words” filter, so please be friendly to your fellow commenters.

Of course we included some other bug fixes and laid the foundations for more to come.
StayHome - StaySafe - ProtectTheNHS

This update is very much a maintenance release, fixing some issues and laying some foundations for future updates.

Whats new in this release:
- This update provides some much needed back end changes to make your experience faster and more robust
- We have made some smaller design changes here and there in order to improve discoverability of features
- We have laid the foundations to support Sign in with Apple, so you can use your secure Apple ID to register and sign into a free account.

A quick bug fix release to address an issue that prevents some users from seeing any content. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Just a quick fire update to resolve an issue a small section of users have been seeing, we’ll be back with a bigger update shortly. TTFN

Happy New Year! So, we would like to announce a huge new update to kick off 2020, but this one is just a boring old bug fix release. Fear not readers, the code heads are beavering away on some shiny new things, so stay tuned.

This update is all about fixing things, our little elves have been busy behind the scenes sorting out a lot of things that were wonky.

• Dark Mode will now respond no matter where you are in the app - because, well it should do - our bad.
• Have you been in an article and seen content jumping up and down? No... okay well you won't now either.
• Lots of minor fixes here and there, too many to mention and mostly only the developers understand.

Here is a super fast update, to fix a known iOS 13.1 issue. So if you have been browsing an article and suddenly you were whisked off to a whole new page without consciously tapping a link... then this build is for you, because we stopped that. Now browsing and tapping is what you would expect. Sweet!

We have made some more improvements to the app to help with your experience.

• Dark Mode for iOS 13 now works in tandem with your devices dark mode setting, but can also still be on/off independently.
• We updated the tablet view for Discover and made some minor tweaks for the iPhone view while we were at it.
• At the bottom of articles we added a list of all the tags associated with that story so you can find related content more easily.
• Speaking of the bottom of an article everything there, now loads with a snap, no more waiting for content to load.

We also improved some additional minor UI elements and fixed some bugs as well. Nice!

We have a big update for you today, here are just some of the highlights:

• Dark Mode! Yep we support iOS13 Dark Mode setting! If you don't have iOS 13, you can still use dark mode by setting it manually in the app under the "My Account" tab.
• Saving a Tag! Finding related content using tags is great, but now you can save your favourite tags to get to that content even faster.
• Discover Updates! Access your saved Tags and saved Authors from the Discover view and we also gave Discover a quick lick of paint too.
• Stability improvements across the board, especially for legacy iOS devices.
• Many smaller UI and code improvements to make your experience better.

We have even more in the pipeline as well, exciting times, so stay tuned!

Another quick fire release to fix some bugs and issues which some users have been seeing. Stay tuned we have a big update coming very soon.

A quick fire update to correct some issues with the new app.

- We have fixed the Live stories issue where some users didn't see the live content load.
- We have improved Podcasts to play in the background.
- We have also cleaned up some UI issues, and fixed some minor bugs.

We have been promising a big update has been coming for a long time, and now finally we can say it's here! Below are just a few highlights available in our all new app
• Brand new Tap a Tag feature! Just like reddit you can tap tags in article teasers or articles in order to discover more related content, it's a whole new way to navigate and find the content you like in the app!
• An all new cleaner design for iPhone and iPad to help you find and read articles that interest you.
• You can now select the contrast colour of the type in articles, giving you a more personal reading experience
• A new comment history section has been added to My Account, so you can find all the comments you made in past articles.
• Speaking of comments, we have completely over hauled the experience to make it easier to see the latest comments first, a better way to see replies to comments and subscribe to your comment, so if you get a reply we'll notify you.
• The app has been rebuilt from the ground up to work on modern frameworks and architecture in order to fix all those annoying bugs in the previous version of the app

We aren't stopping there, we have even more new features on the way and enhancements to olds ones, stay tuned it's going to be a big couple of months!

We have been promising a big update has been coming for a long time, and now finally we can say it's here! Below are just a few highlights available in our all new app
• Brand new Tap a Tag feature! Just like reddit you can tap tags in article teasers or articles in order to discover more related content, it's a whole new way to navigate and find the content you like in the app!
• An all new cleaner design for iPhone and iPad to help you find and read articles that interest you.
• You can now select the contrast colour of the type in articles, giving you a more personal reading experience
• A new comment history section has been added to My Account, so you can find all the comments you made in past articles.
• Speaking of comments, we have completely over hauled the experience to make it easier to see the latest comments first, a better way to see replies to comments and subscribe to your comment, so if you get a reply we'll notify you.
• The app has been rebuilt from the ground up to work on modern frameworks and architecture in order to fix all those annoying bugs in the previous version of the app

We aren't stopping there, we have even more new features on the way and enhancements to olds ones, stay tuned it's going to be a big couple of months!

We have been promising a big update has been coming for a long time, and now finally we can say it's here! Below are just a few highlights available in our all new app
• Brand new Tap a Tag feature! Just like reddit you can tap tags in article teasers or articles in order to discover more related content, it's a whole new way to navigate and find the content you like in the app!
• An all new cleaner design for iPhone and iPad to help you find and read articles that interest you.
• You can now select the contrast colour of the type in articles, giving you a more personal reading experience
• A new comment history section has been added to My Account, so you can find all the comments you made in past articles.
• Speaking of comments, we have completely over hauled the experience to make it easier to see the latest comments first, a better way to see replies to comments and subscribe to your comment, so if you get a reply we'll notify you.
• The app has been rebuilt from the ground up to work on modern frameworks and architecture in order to fix all those annoying bugs in the previous version of the app

We aren't stopping there, we have even more new features on the way and enhancements to olds ones, stay tuned it's going to be a big couple of months!

In this update we have again been fixing some issues and bugs. We have also provided a way for you to delete your account from the My Details section, and removed some unimportant profile sections. We are still working very hard on a much bigger release so stay tuned!

This update includes lots of behind the curtain changes, stay tuned as we are working very hard on a big release for later on this quarter.