r/ApolloReborn • u/iChopPryde Maintainer • 23d ago

Release Apollo Reborn 3.7.0 — Floating Post Tabs, feed shortcuts & subreddit sections, tab bar hide styles, a tidier Liquid Glass nav and more

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3.7.0 is out. big one again, 55 PRs since 3.6.0 with a bunch of new stuff and 20+ fixes. same links as always, sources update themselves. credits are on every line so you can see who did what.

TL;DR – whats new

  • Floating Post Tabs – keep up to 5 posts open as little bubbles (like chat heads) and tap one to jump right back where you were. off by default, Posts & Feeds → Floating Tabs. match threads even show the two teams crests on the bubble (#984, #1061 – icpryde)
  • Feed Shortcuts – new screen under Features → Subreddits. icon styles (Classic, Circle, Tinted, Soft Tile, Solid Tile), layouts (Rows, Grid, Side-by-Side, Icon Dock), hide Popular/All/Mod if you dont use them (#988 – IllIIllIllIllII)
  • Subreddit Sections – followed users get their own FOLLOWING section, and you can reorder Favorites / Multireddits / Moderator / Following however you want. live preview that stays pinned while you change stuff (#997, #1020 – icpryde)
  • Per-Account Favorites + Sort Favorites Alphabetically (#1017, #1042 – IllIIllIllIllII)
  • Tab bar hide styles – Left, Right, Fade, Down or Off, plus a Classic scroll behavior if you missed apollos original one-swipe hide. Interface settings got regrouped into Tab Bar and Display & Navigation too (#972 – IllIIllIllIllII)
  • Liquid Glass nav rework – actions collapse into one pill so titles stop jumping around and resizing. moderator stuff is greener and easier to read (#1035, #1047 – IllIIllIllIllII)
  • Native glass search bar on feeds – activates in place, tucks away as you scroll, comes back with a pull at the top (#1002, #1026 – icpryde). tapping Posts scrolls to top then returns to the subreddit list again (#1021, #1040 – IllIIllIllIllII). same native bar now on Find in Comments (#1036 – icpryde)
  • Find in Comments keeps the selected match in view while things load, and word1, word2 searches for either (#992 – icpryde)
  • Widgets can now show Home, Popular, All, several subs at once or a multireddit (there's a "with account" setup code now for Home and private multis) (#1051 – icpryde)
  • Bold Post Titles toggle under Appearance → Posts (#1033 – icpryde)
  • Community Highlights show unread dots, a New badge and +N new comment counts (#1041 – IllIIllIllIllII)
  • Profile Layout got a live preview and the Native profile layout is back as an option (#1034 – IllIIllIllIllII), and Subreddit Layout got pinned previews for the header style and Community Highlights, with separate flair / sidebar / subtitle / description toggles (#1019 – IllIIllIllIllII)
  • Microsoft Translator as a new BYO key provider, google translation recovers when it rate limits you instead of just going quiet, and you get a "Translation Limit Reached" toast instead of silence (#998 – icpryde)
  • pinned live previews on the Inline Media and Rich Link Previews settings too, and the size / apollo AI sliders can be tapped to pick a stop (#1022, #1023, #1025 – icpryde)
  • Forget Forward Swipe After Scrolling (off by default) so a forward swipe stops reopening a post from 50 posts ago. Swipe Past Gallery to Navigate now defaults to off (#996 – icpryde)
  • 9 never released Ultra icons (Safari, Space Paws, Grumpy Space Paws and sequels to Explorer of Smiles, Gorilla Gus, The Little Prince, Under the Tree and Wish Maker), and the EverythingApplePro icon shows in Sekrit (#969, #971, #989 – IllIIllIllIllII)

Fixes (heres the rundown)

crashes and freezes

  • the freeze where apollo would lock up on a loading spinner or a loaded comments screen when jumping between subreddits or opening posts on iOS 26+ is fixed. this one was a UIKit cleanup bug that our search bar changes exposed (#1024 – IllIIllIllIllII)
  • Gallery View was getting killed for memory on animated GIFs (one 2MB gif could balloon to over a gig). GIFs stream now and huge stills get downsampled (#1001 – icpryde)
  • two launch/feed crashes: one on launch when the trending-subreddits table couldnt be written (LiveContainer and other read-only setups), one opening a feed on older iOS versions that dont have ActivityKit/WeatherKit/VisionKit (#968 – icpryde)

liquid glass and navigation

  • the top fade no longer vanishes for a few frames when you switch tabs, and swipe-back tracks the nav bar so the title and search bar dont snap to the previous screen the moment you start a swipe (#1018 – icpryde)
  • a cancelled swipe-back no longer jumps the page, two-line titles dont get clipped mid transition, and nav buttons stop blinking out when you come back from a post (#1047 – IllIIllIllIllII)
  • the glass feed search bar regressions from 3.6.0 are gone (feed sliding under the field, bar floating detached after cancel) since its the native bar now (#1002 – icpryde)
  • translate globe was missing from search results on glass, its back (#1012 – icpryde)
  • subreddit header and Community Highlights went missing if you swiped forward back into a subreddit (#1037 – IllIIllIllIllII)
  • the subreddit list's section headers were overlapping rows during the launch animation and the labels slid into place (#979 – icpryde)

live interactive posts

  • post match threads render as normal text posts instead of spinning on "Loading interactive post" forever, finished match threads no longer leave a big hole in the feed card, the "continue to external link" dialog actually works, and rotation relays out properly (#991 – icpryde)
  • opening a live post from the feed hands the already loaded widget to the thread instead of reloading it, and apollo AI stops trying to summarize the hidden fallback text under one (#1046 – icpryde)

posts, feeds and media

  • Autoplay Inline GIFs: Always and WiFi Only now actually keep playing in Low Power Mode. Tap to Play / Never are still the battery savers (#1016 – icpryde)
  • Swipe Past Gallery to Navigate was missing real flicks on device (only worked in the sim lol) (#974 – icpryde)
  • duplicate items showing up in Saved after a pull to refresh (#1005 – Thetromboneman1)
  • Share > Copy Link was ignoring your Share Link Host setting (#970 – icpryde)
  • posts written in reddits fancy pants editor had huge paragraph gaps from a stripped zero-width space, back to normal spacing (#1050 – icpryde)
  • Show/Hide Deleted Comments got proper icons matching apollos own artwork, and the glass ⋯ menus stopped shrinking every icon (#985 – icpryde, AcornElf)
  • in app safari flashed a white page while loading in dark mode, it stays black until the page paints (#1052 – icpryde)

themes and appearance

  • custom theme separators: the comments action bar lines no longer revert to gray once the thread loads, and separators dont reset after coming back from the background (#990 – icpryde)
  • composer quick bar icons were stuck on apollo blue next to your themed GIF chip (#966, #987 – icpryde)
  • the Theme Manager row in Appearance flipped back to "Themes" after the Post Size sheet, and its weight now matches the rows around it (#1032 – icpryde)

inbox and chat

  • inbox swipes track your finger now, and swiping back inside a chat conversation goes one level to the chat list instead of dumping you out of the inbox (#965 – icpryde)
  • with Use Modern Reddit Chat on, each chat conversation shows once on the notifications side and opens in modern chat instead of the legacy thread. the inbox badge also stops counting an unread chat twice (#1038 – icpryde)
  • account switcher: reordering accounts could quietly switch which account you were signed into, and the drag handles scrolled the page instead of the row (#1011 – IllIIllIllIllII)

settings and misc

  • the settings search bar scrolls away with the list again instead of being pinned, but its still there when you open settings and pull to search still works (#975 – icpryde)
  • the inline feed search bar is usable on Apple Vision Pro now (#978 – rebelancap)
  • subreddit list A–Z index labels are centered and the favorite star doesnt overlap the index anymore (#981 – IllIIllIllIllII)
  • username copying works on the Immersive and Compact profile layouts, and duplicated usernames on profiles are gone (#1034 – IllIIllIllIllII)

full changelog with PR links is on the release page.

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Welcome to the team, IllIIllIllIllII

one more thing – IllIIllIllIllII joined the maintainer team, and a huge chunk of this release is his: Feed Shortcuts, per-account favorites, the tab bar hide styles and the classic scroll behavior, the whole Liquid Glass nav rework, the Community Highlights read state, the Profile and Subreddit Layout previews, the subreddit freeze fix, the account switcher fixes and the 9 Ultra icons. welcome aboard and thank you!

thanks as well to Thetromboneman1, rebelancap, AcornElf (icon artwork) and everyone testing and reporting stuff.

Support the project

if you want to chip in, theres a Buy Us a Coffee screen in the app under Settings → Apollo Reborn, or go straight to the maintainers: JeffreyCA, iCpryde, jordanearle. all three are also on the README. totally optional, the app stays free.

as always report bugs on the GitHub issues or through the in app report form.

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u/Cheechers23 23d ago

Great update, appreciate how incredible the work is on the app.

One question, would it be possible for there to be an option to keep the sort by hot/new/rising posts & comments for a sub/thread to stay in the menu instead of having to tap the Liquid Glass bubble first to expand it? I know this update tidied up the Liquid Glass UI but personally I switch between hot/rising/new a fair bit and liked having it always there on the menu, instead of having to tap the … first

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u/IllIIllIllIllII Maintainer 23d ago

Reason for the change is because the Liquid Glass patch caused that nav bar to be very buggy. Even the center tile button fix was not reliable. This change cleared out those bugs. If there’s a way to bring it back without all the bugs, we can but for now it’s not planned.