January 22, 2026 — Beeper 💻 Desktop v4.2.495

✨ New

• Improved UI for sending audio messages, including pausing then resuming your recording

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

• Major rewrites to our audio-playback code that hopefully fixes issues like audio files sometimes not playing
• Single-line block quotes should no longer transform to Markdown (”> …”)
• Fixed instances of some Signal and Twitter chats not appearing in the inbox
• Fix shutdown in poor network conditions
• Fixed some animated stickers from Telegram not working

January 21, 2026 — Beeper 🍎 iOS (4.1.9 #5485)

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

• Fix an issue where message send status could briefly show “Seen by” before “Sent”
• Fix a crash when marking a conversation as read
• Fix an issue that could cause chats to appear unread when they shouldn’t
• Fix an onboarding issue where setup could get stuck and not proceed to the next step
• Fix an issue where a message thread could become stuck on screen
• Fix images shared via the share extension missing file extensions
• Fix the send button appearing out of place in the composer
• Improve audio playback reliability for voice messages