In the next update, the editor will dismiss instantly, and the app will have a new toast system for showing progress + success, and failure (failure will be automatically saved to the draft)
Ice Cubes 2.0 is out, and in time for the iOS 26 release later today! It's a considerable app refinement, even faster and better than before, especially on iOS 26. The iOS, macOS, and iPadOS are now all unified behind the same interface, and all-new Liquid Glass controls are used where appropriate. And like before, you can tweak basically everything, from the font used to display posts to haptic feedback and sound effects!
Since Masotodn will soon support platform/native quote post, I'm refining a bit the experience in Ice Cubes. The rocket is gone (🪦), and instead we're going back to a standard repost icon. The button will now show a selection menu to boost or quote. A new settings in display menu will allow you to set it to a boost or quote default too, so you can skip this menu if you wish.
Lille trick in Ice Cubes timeline: While the app doesn't have (yet) fully automatic timeline sync, it does use the Mastodon marker API. 1. Whenever you put the app in the background, the marker will be sent. 2. On another device with Ice Cubes launched, hit the timeline top menu button -> Resume. It'll restore your timeline position on this device.
- There is a new wide layout option to remove most of the horizontal margins. - New share as image screen with a preview, it’ll also ensure all medias are loaded before saving/sharing as an image. - When selecting “Select Text” from the post context menu, it’ll now open with all the text as selected.
I'm working on something that will improve the app’s scroll and memory footprint. One of the biggest culprits is the streamed posts. If you follow a lot of stuff, many posts can be streamed while you read your timeline.
I’m working on a new behavior that would keep increasing the counter live, like it is right now, but you’ll need a pull to refresh to display those posts. They’ll not automatically appear at the top of your timeline anymore.
Masterplan & Roadmap for the upcoming weeks/months.
Done:
- Save/restore cache and position of all timelines - Better timeline position saving/restoring. - Compose at a tab at the bottom. - Better tags suggestion in the editor. - Improves video playback. - Improves profile filters - Lists and followed tags tabs. - Sidebar customization. - Timeline content filter.
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Planned:
- Onboarding. - Signup/account creation. - Search your timelines - Automatic home timeline sync.
@BeAware@mstankiewicz The reason this works is because the timeline size has been reset. It get slower the more posts you have in a timeline. You can also hit the “refresh” in the top menu for the same effect. Apple is working on a fix so it should be back to normal in an upcoming beta.
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