Status privacy policy, DApp opt-in and more! An important value at Status is transparency, but sometimes development moves so quickly that we don’t have the opportunity to pause, document, discuss, and disseminate the various components of the mobile app.

One way to help address this is by adding a privacy policy to the app, to let our community know what services we use to make Status work, and how personal data is used. It is also an important reminder that we do have some centralized dependencies and employ services that may expose user info. This is just one step, but an important one, to be true to our principles and provide informed context to our users as we make progress toward our goal of being fully decentralized.

With 0.9.26, we are also beginning to introduce the the ability to grant web3 access to the DApps you choose to use. Permissions are granted on a per DApp level. This doesn’t work with all DApps yet, but does work with both our test and ENS DApps. Going forward, DApp authors will need to add support for this, but based on community feedback we anticipate that this change in approach will be adopted quickly. Read more from MetaMask about our collaboration on driving this initiative.

Also, with 0.9.26 we’ve got sound! Sound has been enabled for message notification.

Check out all the additions, updates and fixes in this Beta release — with over 160 commits from 29 contributors!

Known Issue

In some cases when chatting the app may show a “Connecting to peers” warning message. If the issue persists it can be resolved by restarting the app.

Added

Introduce extended DApp API #5042

Webview loading indicator

Modal wallet from chat and Dapp browser #5256

Auto show existing tokens in wallet after account recovery #4842

Allow user to remove custom avatar

Play a sound for new messages

Added privacy policy #4932

Implement web3 provider Opt-in access #5260

Changed

Better transaction state updates #5138#4851#4865

Disable default auto capitalise in password input #5154

Consistent time and date formatting #4558

Improve browser security warning #4380

Removed the 21 character limit from the transaction amount field #4404

Refactored wallet #5373

Updated app copy #5346

Improved validation in account recovery. We now show a warning if any words are not from our mnemonic dictionary #5310

Add dismiss button to “Add to contacts” badge

Persist state for browser session #5278

Align recovery phrase words correctly #5058

Fixed

Fixed an signing issue when navigating back from transactions #4826

Fixed incorrect amount validation in wallet request #5171

De-duplicated home screen Dapp listings #3604

Fixed “Doesn’t support name” error #5131

Onboarding wallet issue #4724

Show correct transactions #5265

Fixed an issue involving tooltips and passwords #4952

Fixed 0 fiat bug #5356

Fixed balance in asset field when value too long #3911

Using correct error code for image picker component #5243

Showing gas info in unconfirmed transactions #5224

Correctly passing gasPrice param #5568

Messaging/transacting take too long to be processed #5293

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iOS: Within TestFlight, make sure you see Version 0.9.26 and tap ‘INSTALL’

Within TestFlight, make sure you see Version 0.9.26 and tap ‘INSTALL’ Android: If you are not automatically asked to update, go to Status.imin the PlayStore and click ‘Update’

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