Release Notes

What's
new.

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v1.8.5Latest
8 July 2026

Emoji icon rendering fixes.

Fixed

  • Removed a faint translucent rectangle that appeared behind emoji tile icons in every icon style — the glossy sheen highlight is now clipped to the emoji's own shape.

Changed

  • Emoji tile icons now size consistently: every emoji fills the same proportion of the tile and sits optically centred, instead of some emoji rendering larger, smaller, or off-centre at the same Icon Size.
  • Raised the Icon Size range for emoji up to 22 (was 19), with each larger step staying visually distinct.
v1.8.4
3 July 2026

Popover positioning fixes for magnified and auto-hidden Docks.

Fixes

  • Tile popovers now clear magnified Dock icons instead of opening on top of them
  • Popover anchoring reads the Dock's own preferences, so it lands correctly with auto-hidden Docks and Docks on any edge
v1.8.3
3 July 2026

Fixes tile icons rendering stale in the Dock after an update.

Fixes

  • Updated tiles now refresh the Dock's icon cache, so new icon designs appear immediately instead of the Dock keeping the old render
v1.8.2
3 July 2026

Icon polish and self-healing tiles.

Icons

  • Refined Dark icon style so deep tints stay visible, plus a subtle Liquid Glass sheen on tile glyphs

Reliability

  • Broken pinned tiles now repair themselves automatically on launch
  • Tile migration retries until every tile succeeds instead of giving up after one attempt
  • More reliable Dock reads right after login, so pinned tiles are never missed
  • Two tiles with the same name no longer overwrite each other behind the scenes
v1.8.1
2 July 2026

Guards against running from Downloads.

Reliability

  • Detects when macOS runs the app from a read-only location (e.g. straight from Downloads) and offers to move it to Applications, so creating tiles can't silently fail
v1.8.0
2 July 2026

Liquid Glass depth for tile icons.

Icons

  • Tile icons pick up an emulated Liquid Glass treatment — surface sheen, glyph shading, contact shadow, and a specular highlight — in the Dock and in every in-app preview

Improvements

  • Tidier button labels in Software Update and Missing Apps settings

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