Changelog — EmoBay

New

• Weather cards in iOS are now live and collapsible: a compact view by default, with one tap to expand for more details.
• Artifact menu: long-press a weather card to Show/Hide Details, Copy Summary, or Copy Location (with subtle haptics on copy).

Improved

• Faster, more reliable weather: the card shows up immediately and fills in as soon as the forecast is ready.
• More accurate forecasts and units, with improved handling across different weather conditions.
• Better location fallback so weather works even when precise coordinates aren’t available.
• Web app artifacts were updated for the new weather event format and improved rendering.
• Message Bubble Handling: Fix potential logic hindering real-time rendering of message bubbles.

Fixed

• Improved failure handling when the weather provider returns incomplete data, reducing “no weather” cases.

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Improved

• Onboarding flow: New users are now guided through personalization immediately after registration, instead of waiting until their first chat message.
• Login experience: Simplified email verification interface by removing the back button; users can still change their email using the "Change email" option.

Fixed

• Onboarding: Fixed an issue where existing users who hadn't completed onboarding weren't prompted to do so on app launch.
• Profile: Fixed an issue where switching accounts could show the previous account’s profile photo.

Improved

• Daily Check-in: smoother scrolling on older iOS versions and a more reliable save experience.
• EmoBay Chat: more stable multi-line input, fewer layout jumps, smoother resizing while typing/editing, and a subtle scroll indicator for long messages.
• Daily Wisdom: full-length quotes on Home, improved wrapping for long quotes, and readability improvements for widgets.

Fixed

• App Review: cleaner “Review EmoBay” flow and more reliable triggering of the system review prompt.
• Daily Wisdom: fixed quote formatting issues (for example, doubled quotation marks).

New

• “Review EmoBay” in Settings — rate in-app or write a review on the App Store.

Improved

• Onboarding: smoother first-run experience with clearer permission guidance.

Polish

• Profile: improved birthday picker experience.

Release

• v1.0 officially launched on the App Store.

Improved

• Guest experience: improved guest sign-in/session handling and reliability.
• Apple subscriptions: improved verification and server-side subscription linking.

Removed

• Removed older health trends endpoints.

Added

• Safety Supervisor: added a server-side safety classification service.
• Timeline: added timeline entries and photo listing with persistence.
• Legal pages: added Privacy Policy and Terms pages.

Improved

• Chat and calling: backend improvements for stability and behavior.
• Prompting: improved response formatting guardrails.

New

• Daily Wisdom: introduced a daily wisdom feature with persistence.
• Push notifications: added device registration, preferences, and notification delivery support.
• Account deletion: improved account deletion with email verification.
• Profile avatars: added avatar upload and profile avatar display.

Improved

• Daily check-ins: improved check-in logic and reliability.
• Billing events: expanded server-side webhook handling to support new features.

Release

• Public beta: a more complete build opened up for wider testing.

Improved

• Brand refresh: updated app icon and overall visual identity.
• Reliability: strengthened core app plumbing and service integrations.
• Calling: improved transcript stability and removed duplicate history items.
• Build configuration: simplified configuration to reduce production build risk.

New

• Daily check-ins and journaling: introduced check-ins and journal entries with persistence.
• Replies: improved reply context so conversations thread correctly.
• iOS sign-in (OTP): added email code sign-in flow support for mobile.
• Chat visibility: added the ability to hide/show chats.
• Calling: added dedicated calling pages.

Security

• Hardened mobile-facing routes and removed hardcoded credentials.

Security

• Framework upgrade for a security fix (Next.js 15.5.7, CVE-2025-66478).

Fixed

• Prompt/version metadata export for consistency.

New

• Billing: added server-side checkout for subscriptions.
• Billing reliability: added a v2 subscription status flow plus repair tooling for edge cases.
• Support: added in-app support contact flow.

Improved

• Billing: improved cancellation flow.
• Billing: improved plan mapping and webhook handling.
• Subscription management: clearer plan status and a more resilient sync flow for account edge cases.
• Support: improved dialog accessibility and styling.

New

• Chat prefill: improved “start a chat” flows by supporting pre-filled messages.

Fixed

• Fixed a routing typing issue on the chat page.

New

• HK university verification: added a verification and checkout flow for eligible promotions.
• Eligibility checks: improved promo validation and messaging during checkout.

New

• Public stats: added a cached endpoint for aggregated usage metrics.

Improved

• Attachments: improved image upload reliability, clearer validation messages, and better support for HEIC photos.
• Attachment previews: improved preview handling for a smoother send experience.

Fixed

• Chat attachments: improved how attachments are submitted and processed to reduce upload-related failures.

Improved

• Guest upgrades: unified upgrade flow supporting both sign-in and account creation.
• Guest experience: more reliable guest detection and feature gating across the app.
• Promotions: introduced email verification flows for eligibility-based offers.

New

• Multi-currency: added regional pricing support across multiple currencies.
• Plan changes: added a pricing preview so you can see a clear breakdown before switching plans.

Improved

• Subscription management: redesigned pricing cards and simplified plan management.
• Memory: improved controls and clarity, including the ability to pause Memory without deleting data.
• Chat history search: significantly faster semantic retrieval for long-term context.

New

• Chat history semantic indexing (embeddings): indexed messages to improve long-term recall and relevance.
• Memory: added an indexing status endpoint and progress indicator for your history.

Improved

• Indexing reliability: enabled safe re-indexing so older messages can be re-processed when needed.

New

• Health Trends: introduced opt-in trend reports and settings to help you reflect on patterns over time.

New

• Memory: introduced an opt-in personalization layer with consent, controls, and a dedicated Memory page.

New

• Realtime calling: added low-latency voice-to-voice calling (WebRTC) with automatic fallback when unavailable.

Improved

• Auth UX: improved redirects and refined overall UI across auth + chat + calling.

Release

• First TestFlight beta (v1.0): an early build used to validate basic end-to-end flows.

Improved

• Calling performance: improved responsiveness and reduced noisy production logging.

Fixed

• Calling: fixed duplicated items in call history.

Added

• Feedback: added an in-chat feedback prompt and improved message deduplication.

Improved

• Attachments/input: improved modal behavior and performance for the multimodal input experience.

New

• Calling: introduced the initial calling experience and UI.

Security

• Internal hardening to ensure server-only code and credentials stay server-side.

New

• Speech-to-text: added voice dictation with transcription in the input UI.

New

• Guest mode: added guest access and improved guest account handling.

Improved

• Under-the-hood model provider migration to improve stability and operations.

New

• Initial baseline (v2) of EmoBay webapp launched.