Release Notes

Version 1.8.0

November 2026

Improved

• When an album limits screenshots, its photos and videos now also show black in screenshots and screen recordings of the family feed and the album grid, not only in the photo viewer.
• Fixed a crash when adding photos with the app in Japanese, Korean or Chinese.
• Buttons like Next, Continue and Share are a little taller, so they're easier to tap.
• Behind-the-scenes work so I can spot and fix problems faster.

Version 1.7.0

October 2026

New

• Catch up on the latest changes in a short What’s New tour after an update. You can open it again from Settings.

Improved

• Suggest and vote for ideas from Feature Requests, with shipped ideas in their own section.
• Feature-request identity and cached ideas reset on sign-out, and refreshes preserve the latest votes.

Version 1.6.0

October 2026

New

• Ready for iPhone Duo, so your family photos look lovely on both screens.

Improved

• Adapted the family feed, albums, photos, memories, setup, sharing, and settings for all four iPhone Duo display layouts. Sheets and controls respond to the cover and inner screens in portrait and landscape.
• Have more than one child? Add them all when you sign up, and each one gets an album of their own.
• Inviting family is clearer: see a preview of the email they'll get, pick them from Contacts, and resend or cancel pending invitations from the Family screen.

Version 1.5.0

October 2026

New

• Make it easier for grandparents and relatives to keep up: share a private album link, and they can tap it to see photos and videos on any device without installing an app or creating an account. Create a link for each recipient, optionally expire it after 30 days, and revoke it any time.
• Invite relatives to receive photos by email directly from the sharing flow. Each photo email includes a link to browse the full album, so they can catch up from their inbox without you sending the same photos again.
• Fix a typo or add a forgotten detail: you can now edit the words of your own posts and comments. Tap ⋯ on your post and choose Edit Caption, or touch and hold your comment and choose Edit. A quiet "edited" next to the time of a post, or the name on a comment, lets everyone know it changed.
• Make photo collages from the Memories tab: choose 2–6 photos from an album, try Grid, Spotlight or Strips, and share a high-resolution image with your family.

Improved

• Album photos and videos now stay in date order, newest first, with an option to show oldest first. Removed sort options that did not yet work correctly.
• Find Share without an app in the family invitation screen or album menu. Choose an album, then create a browser link or invite someone by email from the same place.
• Set album permissions once, and they stay in sync across your family's devices. Choose who can post, comment and react, save and share photos, or change the album audience; photo-viewer capture protection follows the album settings too.
• Choose which updates arrive by push or email, with preferences saved to your account so you do not need to set them up again on another device. Email alerts are opt-in, and failed changes keep your previous settings.
• Sharing restrictions also follow photos opened from notifications and used in collages or sticker exports.

Version 1.4.0

September 2026

New

• A personal thank-you for Premium subscribers, with a note from me in Settings and a quick way to leave a review.
• A gift for the families who joined early: free Premium until 1 January 2027, with a personal thank-you note from me.
• Want to support Our Family Album? Explore subscription plans from Settings, even if your family already has gifted or shared Premium.
• Write a review directly from Settings. Your support helps other families find the app.
• Home Screen widgets: see your family's latest photo, a grid of recent photos, or this week's photos at a glance, in small, medium and large sizes.

Improved

• Completed translations for the Premium thank-you note, account creation and album-save recovery, and camera and photo-library permission prompts in all 12 supported languages.
• Settings now clearly separates your Premium gift from optional subscriptions, with distinct icons and explanations translated into every supported language.
• Review buttons in Home and About open the App Store review page directly.
• Premium access is recognised more reliably when subscription and family status are still loading.
• Selecting and clearing a group of photos now works correctly when the group includes videos unavailable on the free plan.
• Memory cards show their full date and photo count instead of cutting them off.
• Tapping two buttons on a post at once no longer opens the same photo twice.

Version 1.3.0

September 2026

New

• Say hello to Premium: unlimited photos and videos, and one subscription covers your whole family. Thank you for helping this small family-run app grow.
• Every family keeps 20 free photos each month, so everyone can keep sharing their favourite moments.

Version 1.2.0

September 2026

New

• Join a family at any time: from the Family screen or Settings, type in the invite code you were sent or scan its QR code. Until now the code could only be used while creating your account, so an invite that arrived after you had already signed up had nowhere to go (thanks Lori for reporting!).
• Family invitations sent to your email now appear in the Family screen and Notifications, where they can be accepted or declined.
• Family invite links now open directly in the app and carry the invitation through sign-in or account creation.
• Choose who sees each album: everyone in the family, including anyone who joins later, or only the people you pick. Change it any time from the album's menu.

Improved

• New accounts automatically find invitations sent to their confirmed email address.
• If your email still needs confirmation, the app explains why and lets you resend the confirmation message from onboarding or Settings.
• Expired, used, or withdrawn invitations no longer leave unusable actions behind.
• Albums now have an Add button, so you can add photos to an album that already has some.
• A family with no albums yet is now invited to create one, from the feed and when adding photos.
• Home banners now stay hidden until there is something in the family feed.
• An invite that cannot be used now says why, whether you answer it from a notification, from Settings, or while creating your account. Before, Join could quietly do nothing and leave you wondering, and a notification's invite would disappear from the list even when it had not been accepted.
• Uploading more than 20 photos at once no longer fails; big selections are shared as several posts.
• Renaming an album now sticks, instead of going back to the old name, and Home's album filter shows the new name.
• Deleting an album now actually deletes it, and Home goes back to showing all albums if it was filtered to that one.
• Closing Apple's account alert while signing in with Apple no longer shows an error message.

Version 1.1.0

August 2026

New

• An album cover with no photo behind it wears a faint photo mark, instead of an empty gray square.

Improved

• Children are no longer offered when you pick who to invite to an album; albums are shared between the grown-ups.
• The notifications bell only lights up when something is waiting to be read.
• Scrolling the feed is smoother, especially through posts with videos.
• Photos and family members' faces show up faster while browsing.
• The app is lighter on memory and battery during long browsing sessions.
• Post cards no longer briefly show the wrong person's profile photo while scrolling fast.
• On iPhones with a home button, the tab bar no longer sits on the very edge of the screen.
• Jumping through the feed by date now plays the right video.

Version 1.0

July 2026

New

• First public release of FamilyAlbum: a shared family photo feed.