Folio 0.6.9

Added

• Six more wallpapers: Wallpaper & Appearance now has six abstract photographs from Unsplash beside the two Hiroshige prints, three light and three dark. Each tile shows the title, the photographer and "Unsplash License", and the full credits are in the app's third-party notices.
• Full-screen wallpaper preview: tapping a wallpaper in Settings › Wallpaper now opens it full screen on a drawn Home, with Cancel and Set at the bottom; only Set changes anything.
• Crackgate joke: Settings › Fold & Displays › Duet has a "Crackgate joke" switch, off to start with. With it on, "Show me" draws a pretend Duo hinge fault (a bright bar or line down and across the screen, in cyan or green, never red) over the screen to show friends; shake the phone to clear it. It needs Folio's gestures turned on and shows over other apps only, not over Folio's own Home. It fades in once, "A little glitchy" (on to start with) adds a few slow changes, and with Reduce Motion it just appears and stays still. Nothing flashes, nothing makes a sound, and it clears itself after 10 minutes or when the screen turns off and is never saved.
• Folio tiles in Quick Settings: two tiles, Folio Notifications and Folio Control Center, can be added to the phone's Quick Settings and open Folio's panels over the open app (they need Folio's gestures turned on and Folio's panels over other apps, as the swipe down does); and Folio's Notification Center has a button for the phone's Quick Settings.
• Pick which panels are Folio's: with the pull down from the top of any app turned on, Settings › Notifications › Panels now has "Swipe down opens": both of Folio's panels (the start), Folio notifications or Folio Control Center (the other half then opens the phone's own).
• Switch between panels: two icons in a pill at the top of each panel open the other one, so you do not close and pull down again. The pill stays in the same place at the top while the two panels cross-fade under it, on a phone, the open screen and a tablet; in a card, beside the clock or on a short window it stays inside its panel. TalkBack names both.
• Move controls in Control Center: in edit mode, press and hold a control, drag it onto another and let go to put it there. A drop on empty space puts it back, so nothing moves by itself; TalkBack gets Move earlier and Move later.
• AirPods battery without root: for supporters and Folio Dev first, Settings › Dynamic Island has an AirPods battery card with a switch, "AirPods battery (uses Bluetooth scan)", off to start with. Turned on, and with Android's Nearby devices permission (asked for right there), Folio listens for at most 5 seconds to the battery your AirPods broadcast while they are connected and the headphones card or that card is on screen, at most once every 30 seconds, and shows left, right and case in steps of 10% on the headphones card and in Settings, with where the reading came from. Other people's AirPods are ignored, nothing is stored or sent, and the permission is never used for location. This release asks for one new permission, Nearby devices (BLUETOOTH_SCAN), only when you turn the switch on; see PERMISSIONS.md.
• Storage: Settings › General › Storage shows how full the phone is, one row for each USB or SD drive that is connected, the five biggest apps when Usage Access is on, and shortcuts to Android's own Free up space, Storage settings, Files and Downloads screens. It only reads sizes and opens Android's screens; it deletes and moves nothing. It is off for everyone except supporters on the beta and Folio Dev until a later release.
• AirPods battery with root: for supporters and Folio Dev first, on a phone where root works in Settings › Advanced › System Bridge, an AirPods battery card reads the left, right and case battery that Android's Bluetooth service already holds, when you tap Refresh or, with "Show on the headphones card" on, when the headphones card appears. It runs one fixed read-only command at most every 30 seconds, asks for no new permission, keeps and sends nothing, and says in words when Android has no numbers or root is gone. Copy AirPods report puts a redacted copy of the relevant lines on the clipboard so the reading can be corrected from a real phone.
• More Control Center settings: for everyone, Settings > Notifications & Control Center has short cards for Control Center: Pages (switches for the Media and sound and Connectivity pages, and Open on Controls or the last page used), Sliders (haptic ticks while dragging), Controls (an Edit controls row that opens Control Center in edit mode, and Close after a toggle, off to start with) and Reset Control Center, which keeps your controls and offers Undo for a few seconds. The brightness slider gets an Auto chip, so you can see that dragging turned Auto brightness off and turn it back on.
• Adjust the island: Settings › Dynamic Island › Adjust island shows the island on a dimmed screen with a round handle to make it wider, arrows to nudge it into place, Fit to camera (when Android reports a wider camera than the lens the island wraps) and Reset. A phone set to a smaller minimum width can leave the island narrower than its camera area; this is the way to fix it. The width is saved per screen and orientation, the island on Home and in other apps uses it, and TalkBack gets Wider, Narrower and four Move actions. For everyone.
• Advanced island: for supporters and Folio Dev first, and for everyone in 0.7.0. Settings › Dynamic Island › Advanced island (below Adjust island) is a page of five short lists for power users: Color (Black, Graphite, Navy, Plum or a hex code of your own), Corner radius (Round, Soft, Squarer), Animation speed (Slower, Standard, Faster), Haptics (Off, Light, Standard) and Gestures (what Tap, Hold, Swipe up and Double tap do: Expand, Open the app, Dismiss or Nothing), with Reset all at the top. Every option starts as the island is today. The color is always solid, text and icons switch between white and black to stay readable, a custom color that would be hard to read is moved until it is (and the page says so), and the island stays black while it wraps a real camera hole so the lens never shows a lighter ring. Corners are never squarer than the camera hole's own curve, speed is capped so a change never reads as a flicker and Reduce Motion still wins, haptics follow Android's touch feedback switch, and one gesture always stays on Dismiss. Double tap makes a single tap wait the system's double-tap time, and only while it is set to something. Until it opens, the island stays exactly as it is today.
• Control Center without repeats: for everyone, the Media and Connectivity pages show only when the first page cannot hold what they hold (a short window, a big font size or many controls), so on a roomy screen the strip has no pages that repeat the first. While nothing is playing, Now Playing is one slim row with the title instead of a full card with dead buttons, without anything else on the page moving when playback starts. The battery ring stands clear of the page dots.
• Music widget: for supporters and Folio Dev first, Folio's own now-playing widget, added from the widget gallery under Folio. It is a slim Strip when it is short, a Card in between and a Poster with a blurred backdrop and a wave when there is room, and it reads the track from your player the same way the island does. Play, pause, previous and next are 48 dp touch targets, times show only when the player gives a duration, and the wave freezes when paused or with Reduce Motion. With nothing playing it says Not Playing in the same three shapes. (Control Center's Now Playing tile also has a scrubber with times and a spoken description, for everyone.)
• Hinge detents: for supporters and Folio Dev first, feel the Fold click as it opens and closes, with soft ticks at 45°, 90° and 135° and a firmer click when it lies flat. Light, Medium or Firm, in the Fold effect settings. With the optional root hinge angle you get every stop; without root Folio ticks once each time the Fold changes position. It replaces the single tick Folio played at halfway, and it is silent when Haptic Feedback is off.
• Smart clock ink: with Android's own wallpaper behind Home, Settings › Wallpaper & Appearance › Text on Home has a Smart clock ink switch, off to start with. It turns on its own accessibility service, separate from Folio's gestures service. With it on, the Big Clock takes a picture of Home only while Folio's Home is in front, measures the part under the clock, throws the picture away at once and picks light or dark text from what is really behind it. Only a few brightness numbers are kept; nothing is saved or sent.
• Telling same-name apps apart in setup: when two apps share a name on the Your Home apps page (two Calendars, say), each row shows its package name underneath so you know which one you are ticking.
• Pick your Home apps in setup: first setup has a new Your Home apps page after the starting point. It shows Home's grid live as you tick apps, with up to eight everyday apps ticked, one for each job Folio finds on the phone (phone, messages, camera, browser, photos, maps, calendar, Settings, and so on), and every other app under Show all apps. Nothing is applied until Continue. The first page also has Use Folio now, which puts the starter apps on Home, in place of the apps Folio first placed there, and goes straight to Make Folio Your Home.
• Two more Control Center sizes: Settings › Notifications › Control Center size now has Small and Extra Large beside Compact, Standard and Large, for tiny cover screens and big ones. Every size is checked to fit without scrolling.
• Tiles you can feel: a Control Center tile dips a little under your finger and springs back, and a slider shows its percent while you drag it. With Reduce Motion the tile only dims.
• Control Center look: Settings › Notifications › Panels › Control Center look chooses how the tiles are drawn: Clear glass (the start: see-through with a bright edge, as light as the picture behind it allows and darker only as far as white text needs), Frosted (smoky dark tiles that keep text readable over any wallpaper or app, with no plate behind them) or Solid (opaque, as before).
• Blur behind panels on any phone: over another app on a phone whose system will not blur windows (One UI turns it off), Folio's panels now sit on a blurred picture of that app: one screenshot is taken before the panel appears, shrunk at once, blurred once off the main thread and faded in, so nothing is blurred frame by frame and it stays smooth. The picture stays in memory, is never saved or sent, and is dropped when the panel closes; Blur at zero or Reduce Transparency turns it off, and a frosted glass in your wallpaper's colors stands in while it loads or if the phone refuses. This uses the screenshot capability, so turn Folio's gestures service off and on once after updating, and the service's description says so.
• Tap the status rail for Control Center: on Home, a tap on the Side Bar's status opens Control Center, as the iPhone Duo's status control does. It is off while Home is being edited or an icon is dragged, and TalkBack says what it opens.
• Pull down from any app: Settings › Notifications › Panels › Pull down from the top of any app, off to start with and available once Folio's panels over other apps is on. A pull down on the left half of an app's top edge opens Notification Center and on the right half Control Center, in place of the phone's shade, and a diagonal pull from the corner counts, which helps one-handed reach. A thin strip the height of the status bar (24 to 48 dp) takes the touches there while it is on; full screen apps and Home keep their own.
• Control Center fills the screen: instead of a corner panel, Control Center spreads across the window in pairs of columns (4, 6 or 8, never more than your controls can use), with cells close to the size you chose, and splits into three pages: Controls, Media and sound, and Connectivity. A strip of page buttons beside the grid (in the header on a short window) moves between pages, and a swipe down does too. Sizes come from the window, your size choice and the touch target, not from a device, so a phone on its side, a cover screen and the unfolded screen each fit.
• Island status: Settings › Dynamic Island now opens with a card that says why the island is or isn't showing over other apps (the gestures service, notification access, Do Not Disturb, or Android's own pop-ups taking over message alerts) and puts the fix one tap away.
• Home spaced like the iPhone Duo: rows sit a little further apart where the window has spare height, and the dock apps are a little larger. For everyone in 0.6.9.
• Smoother reply box and widget resize: the small box you type a reply in over another app rises over the app and settles back down when you send, tap outside or press Back, and only fades with Reduce Motion. Resizing a widget over apps shows them sliding out of the way as you drag the handle, and sliding back if you cancel. In Notification Center, sections and Clear also follow Reduce Motion.
• Visible actions in Notification Center: with Notification sections on, every notification has a … button for the same menu as a long press or a swipe (Open, Snooze, Notification settings, Clear), and an app's expanded list has a Clear that asks first, then clears only that app's clearable notifications. Nothing needs a gesture any more; the gestures stay as shortcuts.
• Notification sections: Settings › Notifications › Panels › Notification sections, off to start with, sorts Notification Center into Now (music, a timer running), Conversations, the rest, and a Quiet section folded away with its count, for notifications whose channel Android marks as silent. A call, an alarm, a timer, a conversation or a channel that bypasses Do Not Disturb is never put in Quiet, and a notification Android hasn't ranked yet stays in the main pile. Clear all still clears Quiet too. Over other apps, the panels show the same sections.
• Pick more rows by hand: Settings › Home › Rows now offers 5, 6 and 7 as well as 4 and Automatic. A count that doesn't fit at the usual size first tightens the space under labels, then makes icons smaller, down to 48 dp, instead of making the page scroll, so a tall screen like the Fold8 Ultra's can show seven rows. Both screens use the same number, so a screen with less room shows smaller icons. Automatic and 4 are unchanged.
• Home settles when the layout changes: after a widget move or resize that pushes apps along, an Undo, or a new Rows setting, apps and icons slide to their new places instead of jumping. Folding the phone still places them at once, and Reduce Motion and Animation Speed apply as everywhere.
• Clear Suggestions History: Settings › Search & App Library › Suggestions has a Clear Suggestions History row. After you confirm, Folio forgets what it learned from your app use (Spotlight suggestions, the App Library tile, the Suggestions widget, Smart Stack relevance) and empties your recent apps. Android's own usage data is not changed; Folio just ignores anything from before you cleared.
• Reduce Motion: Settings › Accessibility › Reduce Motion is a step between all motion and Android's Remove animations, like iOS. Pages, sheets, menus and alerts fade in where they land instead of sliding or growing, the install check fades in instead of popping, icons stop wiggling while you edit Home, and switches stop without bouncing. Remove animations turns it on too. Animation Speed still applies.
• Press and lift on icons: with the new motion on (for everyone in 0.6.9), apps, dock icons and folders all dip the same way under your finger, an icon lifts with a soft shadow while its menu is open, and after a tap it stays dipped until the app is up (half a second at most), so a slow app no longer looks like nothing happened. With Reduce Motion on the icon only dims.
• Pages that stretch, catch and land: with the new motion on, dragging past Home's first page or the App Library stretches with less and less give and springs back, like iPhone. Touching a page that is still moving stops it under your finger without opening the app there, and a flick lands with a small bounce. The first page keeps its stop when Discover opens from there. With Reduce Motion on the pages stop at the ends as before, and catching still works.
• Performance log by what Folio was doing: besides the whole run, the report gives the frame timing (p50, p95, p99 and janky frames) of the fold animation, Home swipes, folders opening, widget resizing, pages, sheets, menus and alerts opening, and moving an icon on Home, each on their own, so a slow one shows up by name.
• Copy Diagnostics beside Share: Settings › General › Advanced › Diagnostics has Copy Diagnostics next to Share Diagnostics, so the report can be pasted into a form or a chat without going through a share sheet. It is the same text a shared report holds, and nothing leaves your phone.
• Capabilities and Recent Activity: Settings › General › Advanced › Diagnostics shows what Folio can use on this phone (Standard, Notification access and Accessibility, each On or Off, and what it is for), with a button to Android's settings for the ones that are off, and Folio's own recent activity, newest first, with a Failed filter for problems it carried on from. Both are read-only and stay on the phone.
• Suggestions, any size: the Suggestions widget now goes from one cell to the whole grid. Its size menu adds 1 × 1, Row (four across) and Column (four down), and the icons keep to the size of your Home icons instead of stretching to fill the card.
• Your own picture for an app's icon: long-press an app, More › Edit Icon › Your Picture › Choose Picture, and one icon shows a photo you pick, cropped to a square. Remove Picture or Reset Icon puts the normal icon back. The picture is copied into Folio, so it keeps working if the photo is deleted; it stays on this phone and is not part of a backup.
• Focus that turns on by itself: each Focus has an Also Turn On When card with Folding (Unfolded, Cover Screen or Tent), Charging and Headphones. When one holds, the Focus turns on, the list says why, and it turns off again when the signal ends. If you turn it off yourself, it stays off until the signal changes. For everyone in 0.6.9.
• Drag the dock in edit mode: with the dock on the Side Bar, a handle under it lets you drag the dock up or down instead of using the Dock Height slider, and the handle stays on screen. For everyone in 0.6.9.
• System Bridge: Settings › General › Advanced › System Bridge has one switch that turns off every way Folio reaches past a normal app. Advanced options (off by default) add an optional root hinge angle for a smoother fold animation, with a Test button, and a one-time command to grant a settings permission.
• Fold motion: on the open screen, icons ripple out from the hinge, the wallpaper and icons move with a little depth, and a faint light travels down the hinge. Each has its own switch in the Fold effect page and all stop with Reduce Motion.
• Smoother fold: the fold effect follows the hinge back up after a partial close, and the cover builds smoothly as the Fold opens.
• StandBy tent: is detected from Android's device state on phones that report it.
• Performance log: Settings › General › Advanced › Performance log can record Folio's own CPU, memory and battery use, so slowdowns and drain can be measured instead of guessed. It stays on the phone.
• The Market keeps your sources current: Market settings has Refresh in the background (once a day, on Wi-Fi) and Tell me about updates, both off until you turn them on. The first time the Market opens it asks once, "Keep your packages up to date?", and Not Now is remembered and never asked again. A GitHub address works as a source, and one notice says how many updates the Market has.
• Packages update themselves: with Update packages in the background on, a package from your sources updates itself when the change touches none of your settings. It waits in Safe Mode and never runs beside a tap on Get. For everyone in 0.6.9.
• Bottom of Home and stronger rings: Settings has Bottom of Home with Search button, Page dots or Nothing. Dragging along the bottom still moves between pages, and the dots appear while you swipe or edit. Stronger rings gives the status rings a thicker stroke and a clearer track, and turns on by itself with Android's Bold text.
• Updated recently, with Undo: the Market's Installed tab lists the last packages Folio updated by itself, with Undo on each package's newest update while it is still the one installed. Undo puts the earlier version back and leaves Home exactly as it is. A package's own page has an Update automatically switch, so one package can opt out while the rest keep updating.
• Resize a folder by its corner: drag a folder's bottom-right corner to make it bigger or smaller, the way Good Lock's Home Up does. Folio remembers the size you leave it at, up to a bigger ceiling on the unfolded inner screen than the cover, and a folder never shrinks past what its grid needs.
• Drop an app on another to make a folder: drag one app's icon onto another's, on Home or in the dock, and the two become a new folder together, the way iOS and Android do. Dropping on a folder that already exists still just adds to it.
• Drag to reorder inside a folder: hold and drag an app over another one in an open folder to put it there instead, the way reordering works everywhere else in Folio.
• Drag an app out of a folder, like iPhone: hold an app in an open folder and drag it past the card's edge, and the folder steps aside while you carry the icon to any spot: any cell, another page (hold at the screen's edge), the dock, or onto another app or folder. The other icons make room as you go, and the folder closes when you let go.
• Sort a folder A to Z: a folder's options popup has a Sort A to Z row that puts its apps in alphabetical order in one tap.
• Make the Big Clock your own: long-press a Big Clock, then Customize, and the clock stays right where it is on Home while a bar lets you change it. Pick a Look (Classic, Thin, Bold, Tinted, Soft, Editorial or Stacked, with the hours over the minutes), then a color from one row: Automatic, a tint of your picture, the picture's own colors that stay readable, or White. Fine tune, closed until you open it and with a short line under each group that says what it does, has weight, size, typeface, shadow, date, 12 or 24-hour time with or without AM or PM, whether to show the next event or alarm, alignment, and Reset. Automatic and White work on any wallpaper; the picture's colors need a Folio picture behind Home, since Android doesn't let an app read its own wallpaper. A clock you never customize draws exactly what it did before.
• Place the Big Clock anywhere: long-press a Big Clock, then Place Freely, and drag it where you want it, a part of a cell off the grid. A dashed outline shows the cells it keeps for itself, so apps never end up underneath, and it turns red where those cells are taken. Arrows nudge it a quarter of a cell, Snap to Grid puts it back, and moving or resizing it on the grid starts it fresh. On the two-column and half-folded layouts it stays on its cells.
• Swap apps in Screenshot Mode: Settings › General › Advanced › Swap Apps chooses apps that Screenshot Mode shows as one of the phone’s own apps, with its icon and name, or swaps every app that didn’t come with the phone. A swapped app still opens the real app, and its widgets and shortcuts are hidden while the mode is on. Apps that came with the phone are never swapped, the list stays on your phone, and it isn’t part of a backup.
• A Market tab bar that glides: the highlight slides to the tab you pick instead of jumping, in the bar, the side rail and the sidebar. For everyone in 0.6.9.
• Badges that pop: when a notification count first appears on an icon or folder, the badge pops in once from a little smaller, with a tiny bounce. It does not pop when the number changes, or when a page of icons slides into view. With Reduce Motion on, it just appears. For everyone in 0.6.9.
• Badge counts that roll: when an app's badge number changes it rolls up or down instead of swapping, one digit at a time, so only the digits that changed move. For everyone in 0.6.9.
• A switch with a little squish: the thumb of a switch widens a touch while you press it and while it travels, then settles. With Reduce Motion on it settles without bouncing. For everyone in 0.6.9.
• Installs that finish with a pop: when a package finishes installing, a green check pops in where the ring was, then the row settles to its button. For everyone in 0.6.9.
• Animation Speed reaches sheets: Settings › Gestures › Animation Speed now also speeds up or slows a page sliding in, an alert, a form sheet and the Library popup. For everyone in 0.6.9.
• Smoother sheets and menus: a page sliding in, a menu or alert opening, and the Library's category popup now settle on the same springs, a touch softer for pages and with a hint of life for menus, and the icon fan lands a little more gently. For everyone in 0.6.9.
• Pages and sheets leave as they came: with the new motion on, Settings and the Market slide back out when you close them with Done or Back, a form sheet on the inner screen drops back down when you tap outside it, and an alert shrinks a little as it fades when you tap outside it. With Reduce Motion on they fade out instead.
• Page dots that stretch: with the new motion on (for everyone in 0.6.9), the active page dot stretches toward the next one as you swipe and the tail follows, so a swipe has a visible companion. Off, or with Reduce Motion on, it is the dot it was.
• Icons that land: with the new motion on (for everyone in 0.6.9), an app you move on Home or the dock lifts where it is and keeps the spot you grabbed, and when you let go it flies from your finger to its new place and settles, instead of appearing there. With Reduce Motion on it fades into place.
• Folder or make room: with the new motion on (for everyone in 0.6.9) and folders on drop, hold an app over the middle of another for a moment and a folder plate grows behind it; hold it over the edge of an app or a gap and the others make room, so you can put an app between two others again. Passing over an app no longer makes a folder by accident, and a folder that has to move along now slides with the apps instead of jumping.
• Folders and menus from their icon: with the new motion on (for everyone in 0.6.9), a folder's icon turns into the open folder and Home steps back a little while its apps settle in one after another, and an app's menu goes back into the icon when you close it instead of disappearing. With Reduce Motion on, both only fade.
• See where back goes: with the new motion on (for everyone in 0.6.9), Spotlight, Control Center, Notification Center and Market pages ease back as you swipe back from the edge, so you can see what's behind; let go and they close from there, or change your mind and they spring back. With Reduce Motion on they close as before.
• Delete apps from Folio: press and hold an app on Home, then Remove App, to delete it or only take it off Home; in the App Library the menu says Delete App. Android asks you to confirm every delete, as it does for any app. Apps that came with the phone can be hidden or turned off in App Info instead, and work apps are deleted from App Info. Folio now asks Android for permission to request deletes (REQUEST_DELETE_PACKAGES), granted with the app; see PERMISSIONS.md.
• Private While Recording: for supporters and Folio Dev first, and for everyone in 0.7.0. On Android 15 and later, Settings › General › Advanced › Private While Recording (off by default) switches Home to a private view while Folio's screen is recorded or shared: the apps you chose in Swap Apps are swapped, the island and Notification Center show the app and the word Notification instead of the message, badge numbers become dots, and Hidden Apps relock and hide their row. Widgets, Today View and Spotlight suggestions are not hidden. Everything comes back when the recording stops, and the clock keeps the real time. It adds one more normal permission, DETECT_SCREEN_RECORDING, which Android grants with the app and never asks about.
• Notification Center layouts: Settings › Notifications › Panels has an Unfolded layout choice in place of the old clock-beside-notifications switch. Full screen is how it has been (the clock beside a full-height list). Card is a smaller panel under the corner you pulled from, Notification Center from the top left and Control Center from the top right, with Home still showing behind a lighter dim. Side by side shows Notification Center and Control Center together, from either pull, on a wide screen; with a fold in the way it opens a card instead. A phone still opens one panel at a time. If you had turned the old switch off you now have Card.
• Folio's panels over other apps: Settings › Notifications › Panels has a Folio's panels over other apps switch, off to start with. When a shortcut, a Routine or One UI's one-hand operation opens the notification shade or Quick Settings, Folio draws its own Notification Center or Control Center over the open app instead of the phone's, in the Unfolded layout you chose. A tap outside, a swipe up, going Home, the screen turning off or a short wait closes it. Reply opens a small box to type in, and Options are on Home only. It never opens over the lock screen, and in Safe Mode the phone's shade opens as before. With Pull down from the top of any app off, swiping down from the top of an app still opens your phone's own shade; with it on, the left half opens Notification Center and the right half Control Center (or what you chose in Swipe down opens).
• Widgets make room (#329): moving or resizing a widget over apps no longer turns the spot red. The apps in the way move along, in order, only as far as they must, an empty cell further on takes up the slack, and when a page is full they carry on to the next page (a new one is made if there isn't one). Widgets never move, apps never go under a widget or into a row Home isn't showing, and Undo Last Layout Change puts everything back. The unfolded-only page works as before.
• Add to Home from Spotlight: search for an app and its Top Hit has a + button that puts it on Home, the same way Add to Home in an app's menu does, and tells you with a notice. Spotlight stays open, so you can add more, and the row then says On Home. An app that is already on Home says so, and an app inside a folder says which folder holds it, instead of showing a button that would do nothing.

Changed

• Early features open to everyone: the 0.6.9 features that supporters could try first in the betas (Focus triggers, Dock grabbers, Market auto-updates, folder editing, Big Clock customizing, widgets that fill exactly two rows, Island adjusting, the Control Center reorder and panel switch, Crackgate and the wallpaper preview among them) are now on for everyone, with no early access switch needed.
• The Roadmap, rewritten: the 0.6.9 section groups what is in the betas into fewer, clearer rows and adds what is still being built (Setup's Your Home apps page, Duo-style spacing, short windows, the missing-widget tile); 0.7.0 now lists StandBy 2, Spotlight Pro, the Music widget and a public Keyd page; Simple Mode and presets have their own 0.7.2 section; Later names the held ideas honestly.
• Home spaced like iPhone Duo (everyone at 0.6.9): on a phone-sized screen such as the cover, the four rows spread out toward the Duo's row spacing when the window has free height (up to 20 percent more room per row, taken only from height that is free), and the dock's apps grow from 72 to 80 percent of Home's icons wherever the dock has room. Rows 5 to 7, short or sideways windows, the unfolded screen and tablets keep their spacing, and no row or column is ever lost.
• New motion moved to Accessibility: the New motion switch (supporters and Folio Dev) is now in Settings › Accessibility, next to Reduce Motion, instead of under General › Advanced. Searching Settings for "motion" finds it there.
• Control Center's pages now go down: the next page comes with a swipe down, with Folio's page spring and a gentle fade, and an upward drag on the first page pulls the whole panel up and swipes it away (past a short distance or a quick flick; otherwise it springs back).
• On a very short window Control Center no longer cuts off its Focus row: with only two rows of room, Focus moves to the Media page. When there is more than one Controls page, each page button in the strip shows its own number, so you can tell where you are.
• Control Center is easier to leave and its pages follow your finger: a swipe down now moves to the next page (a scroll box inside each page was swallowing the drag, so pages only scrolled when they overflowed the window), there is a close button beside power, a tap on the margins around the controls closes it as a tap outside does, and the pull gives a light tick when letting go will close it. A page now turns after a drag of a fifth of its height (it was half), so an ordinary swipe is enough. The header and strip icons also grow with the font size.
• Pressing the status rail no longer lights a faint second pill above it; the press now shows on the rail's own capsule.
• Control Center is closer to the iPhone Duo's: the page strip stands beside the grid on a phone too, with the battery as a ring above the pages, and Clear glass is now the start. It is as light as the picture behind it allows, with the dim and the tiles darkening only as far as the text needs (4.5 to 1), instead of one fixed dim.
• Control Center's Frosted look no longer draws a darker plate behind the tiles: its tiles are smoky dark glass that keep text readable on their own.
• Notification Center and Control Center open and close more smoothly over Home: the blur behind them is now one picture of Home, taken when the panel opens, shrunk and blurred once, and faded in, instead of blurring Home live on every frame. Spotlight and the sheets are unchanged.
• Control Center fits without scrolling: on a short window (a phone on its side, a split-screen half) the page dots move into the header, and controls that do not fit go on another page instead of making you scroll. The panel keeps a little air above its header and below its last row.
• A new Folio on a phone-size screen starts with Home's apps at the top (Settings › Home Screen & Dock › Position › Apps), the way iPhone and iPad pack them, instead of centered. A layout you already have keeps what it has, and Reset this layout goes back to the top.
• Settings is in three groups: General and Accessibility first, then Launcher (wallpaper, Home Screen, icons, Today View, Search & App Library, Gestures & Actions), then Extensions (Dynamic Island, notifications, Focus, Fold & Displays, Side Key, Lock Cover, Tweaks). Privacy & Permissions and Support Folio moved into General.
• Settings regrouped: Reduce Transparency moved from Wallpaper & Appearance › Glass to Accessibility, beside Reduce Motion. On Layout the dock's Position menu joined the card with its Width, Space between dock apps, Align and Height, and that card is now called Dock instead of Side rail.
• Two Backgrounds now say what they are: the Background row under Folders is now Folder background, and the Background switch for the status bar is now Status bar background, so Settings search and the pages stop showing two rows with the same name.
• Home button on Home goes to the first page: press Home while Folio is already in front and it returns to your first Home page (or a Focus's own Home page). Pressed from another app it still returns to the page you left, and with a sheet, menu, folder or Spotlight open it only closes that.
• App Library opens without a flash: while the category tiles are worked out, the library no longer shows the whole A to Z list for a moment first, and it looks each app's category up once instead of on every change. Scrolling also does less work per icon.
• Swipe an incoming call away: swipe a ringing call's card up on Home and it shrinks to the pill, like a message or notice already does. The call keeps ringing, and a tap on the pill opens the card again.
• Bottom of Home says where Search goes (#325): the first choice is now called Search bar, and the note says that with Page dots or Nothing, Search moves to a round button in the bottom corner. The switch below it is now Search opens the Google app, since it covers both.
• Folio Dev has a Developer page: in Folio Dev, Settings › General › Advanced has a Developer page locked with a passphrase you set (five free tries, then a growing wait). It can show the current build's welcome page again. Release builds of Folio never show it.
• The Market lists bigger apps: an app in a source can now be up to 100 MB, up from 20 MB, so larger apps can be listed and installed from the Market. A package (a tweak, theme or effect) is still limited to 20 MB.
• A simpler folder header: opening a folder now shows just its name and one options button. Color and Add Apps used to sit under the title every time a folder opened; they're in that button's popup now instead.
• What to Test: on a beta build, Settings › Help › What to Test lists what to try, most likely broken first, with the steps. Tap It Worked, Something's Wrong (which opens a bug report with the item's name filled in) or Skip. Your answers stay on your phone.
• A setup that asks where you are from: setup now asks whether you are coming from iPhone or Android and starts Folio looking like it, with a How do you move around? page when you choose Android, a quiet extra step only on a phone that already has Shizuku or a root manager, and the rest under Finish setting up. Open it again from Settings › Help › Show Welcome Again, where Keep Things as They Are changes nothing.
• Notices that fit and stay clear: the notices in the Dynamic Island size themselves to their text (up to three lines) and stay clear of the camera and of the fold, on the cover, the open screen and half folded.
• Undo from the update notice: when Folio updates a package by itself, the notice says so with an Undo. Undo puts the earlier version back, leaves Home alone, and that version is not installed again by itself.
• Two first-use hints: once, Folio tells you to press and hold an icon to rearrange or edit Home, and, unfolded, that it is the same Home with more room.
• Focus says when it turns itself on: when a trigger turns a Focus on or off, a notice in the island says which Focus and why, and nothing is shown when Home is not on screen. The half-open fold pose is called Half Open, for a tent or a laptop.
• Setup progress and quiet confirmations: Finish setting up shows how many steps are done (1 of 2) with a tick on the finished ones, which stay where they were, and a short confirmation such as a saved layout backup is an island notice instead of a dialog you have to dismiss.

Fixed

• Switching panels no longer jumps: moving between Notification Center and Control Center slid the panels sideways and the outgoing one jumped to the other's place. They now cross-fade where they are, and the switch itself does not move.
• Market tab highlight: tapping a tab in the Market's bar or side rail lit a square over the whole tab, behind the rounded pill. The highlight now has the pill's shape.
• Long words in Settings search results: on the open screen a result such as "Folder background" broke in the middle of a word. The title now gets the wider share of the row and only the section name wraps.
• Folder app menus on light icons: the three dots at the corner of each app in an open folder were white and disappeared on white icons like Drive and Contacts. They now sit on a small dark round plate.
• Settings search results on the open screen: with a long section name beside it ("Notifications & Control Center"), a result's title was squeezed to one letter per line in the narrow list; the title and the section now share the row.
• StandBy tent title in What's New: the title was missing its colon, so the sentence under it ran on from the title; it now reads as a heading.
• Crackgate "Show me" says when it needs gestures: with Folio's gestures turned off it did nothing; it now tells you to turn them on.
• Swiping right always lands somewhere: when the Google app refuses to serve Discover to Folio (it only serves system apps and debug builds), Home now shows Today View in that spot instead of an error page, and Settings › Today View says why. Folio asks the Google app again at every launch, so Discover returns by itself if that changes. The failure page, where it still shows, is readable on light and dark glass, and Copy Diagnostics has a Discover section.
• Searching Settings for a Duet setting (Hinge detents, Fold motion, Crackgate) now opens the Duet page; it opened the list of tweaks.
• The Turn On Folio Gestures steps were English only; they are now translated, and name the gestures service the way Android lists it in your language.
• On a tablet or any screen that does not fold, the dark fold-style shading no longer sweeps across the left side while Folio opens.
• Island color shows on the cover screen: a color you picked looked black over the cover camera hole and nothing said why. The resting island still stays black there so no ring shows around the lens, but the color now appears when the island opens, and a note under the color row explains it.
• Distinct header icons: the phone's notification shade button in Notification Center now uses a phone icon, so the slider icon means only Control Center. The gear still opens the phone's Quick Settings.
• Action links in Settings, like Add Folio Settings to Home and Refresh Icons, now use your accent color; they were always blue, next to links that followed the accent.
• Today View: the unfolded choice read "Swipe to It"; it now reads "Swipe to Open".
• A quick swipe down from the top of an app opens the panel: a fast pull could be taken over by Android before Folio saw it move, and then nothing opened. The pull now counts when the touch is cancelled or lifted already far enough down.
• A swipe up in Control Center never closes it by mistake: a swipe up that started in the empty space under the controls, or in the margins beside and around them (which was read as a tap), closed the whole panel from any page. A swipe up anywhere outside the controls now ends editing if you are editing, otherwise goes back one page, and only on the first page closes it; a plain tap still closes. A swipe made the moment you change page counts against the page you are going to.
• Control Center size says when it will not show: on a phone the panel already fills the width, so the five sizes look much the same and the setting read as broken. A note under it now says they show on a wider screen, like an unfolded Fold or a tablet.
• Storage names Folio as Folio: the Storage list read each app's name from whichever launcher shortcut came first, so Folio appeared as "Folio Notification Shade". It now uses the app's own name. (Storage is for supporters and Folio Dev for now.)
• Setup carries on after you make Folio your Home: choosing Folio as the Home app sent setup back to the first Welcome page, so you pressed Continue through the same pages twice. It now picks up at the page after, or at You're all set.
• The upright open screen uses its full height with its own layout (#13): with Layout › Inner set apart for the upright screen, Home still showed the fewest rows any screen fits. It now shows the rows that fit the upright screen, and pages with apps in those rows draw taller on the other screens, so nothing is hidden.
• Widgets that came back stay "Widget unavailable" no more: a widget whose app was disabled and enabled again (the Maps traffic widget, for one) kept showing "Widget unavailable" until Folio restarted, because Home remembered the first "not there" answer. Home now looks again when you return to it and when the app changes, and a tile that still can't be found offers Choose again and Remove.
• Control Center can add a removed control back: in edit mode the "Add a control" gallery under the tiles was cut off by the new pages, so a control you removed could not be added again (and a tap there closed Control Center). The page now makes room for the gallery while you edit, and scrolls if the window is too short for it.
• A layout backup restores again after a fresh setup: Settings › General › Backup refused its own file with "This layout backup is invalid" when an app was on Home and in the dock at once, as a fresh setup puts Phone, Chrome and Messages. Restore now accepts that, the way Folio itself does; an app twice on Home, twice in the dock, or in a folder and the dock is still refused.
• The Rows menu names Automatic correctly: with a fixed number of rows chosen (6, say), the Automatic option read "Automatic (6)" even though Automatic would give 4. It now always shows what Automatic would give.
• Home no longer turns back into the Welcome: pressing Home while the Welcome was up hid it without finishing setup, and the next time the screen was rebuilt (a text size change, for one) it came back at the page you left, so Home looked like it was turning into setup. Leaving the Welcome with Home now counts as Skip for now: it stays away until you open it from Settings > Help > Show Welcome Again, which resumes at the same page, and Finish setting up still lists what is left. The first launch, Skip and Finish are as they were.
• Brightness and volume are always in Control Center: with the Media and sound page switched off and a first page too full to hold the two sliders, they were not shown at all. They now move to the top of the next Controls page, beside its first controls, and the note under the Pages switches says so. Only the beta Control Center settings could switch the page off.
• An app you turn off keeps its place on Home: disabling an app in Settings (or putting it to sleep) and enabling it again used to leave a hole where its icon was on Home and in the Dock, and the app came back only in the App Library. Its icon now stays where it was, dimmed, while the app is off, and is as it was the moment the app is back. An app you uninstall still leaves Home.
• Settings and the Market keep your page when Display size changes: with a Settings page or a Market tab open, changing Display size in Android's settings sent you back to the Market's Featured tab. The page now stays, as it already did for a font size, rotation or fold.
• Android's settings gear opens Folio's Settings: the gear next to Folio under Default apps, and a tile's long press, landed on the Market's Featured tab instead of Settings, one tab away.
• Large text in the Market and Settings: at 200% font size the Market's tab names ended in "Featur..." and the Featured banner cut off its text, so tab names now stop growing at 130% and the banner grows with its text. In Settings the back button gives way to Done instead of touching it. Past 200% (only reachable with adb) the Welcome headline no longer breaks "Welcome" in the middle.
• Large text on the unfolded screen: at 200% font size the Market's sidebar broke its tab names in the middle ("Feature" / "d"), folder names on Home sat lower than app names and ran under the Search pill, and the Android / Folio switch on the Wallpaper page cut off its text. The sidebar now grows with the tab names (they stop growing at 130%), a folder's name sits where an app's does, and the switch grows taller to hold its labels.
• A damaged saved island position, size or nudge (NaN, infinity or an absurd number in the preferences) is read as not set, so the island goes where the camera is instead of being laid out at a bad offset.
• Control Center closes the same way after a fold or display-size change: the swipe-up that closes it measured its distance and speed in the screen density it first saw, so after a fold or a change of Display size it closed too easily or too late, and a flick counted for more on a dense screen than on a coarse one. It now reads the current density each time. Pulling Control Center down again right after closing it with a swipe no longer opens it pushed up and faded.
• Now Playing in Control Center is easier to tap: previous, play and next each take a third of the tile's width and at least 48 dp of height, with the same small icons as before.
• Music widget: it can no longer be made smaller than 3 columns wide, because two columns left no room for the title beside the buttons; a very narrow window still keeps the title and the play button by dropping the next button and then the cover. The Card and Poster work out their text rows from the font size you chose, so at a large font the cover shrinks first, then the progress bar and the artist go, and the title and buttons always fit.
• Layout Backup keeps a Music widget: a backup made with the Music widget on Home left it out ("left out because its app is missing"). It is now saved and restored. Restoring a backup that has a widget this version of Folio does not know now leaves that one out, says how many, and restores everything else instead of refusing the file. (Versions of Folio from before this still refuse a backup that has a Music widget in it.)
• Supporter features show up without restarting Folio: redeeming a code or switching Early access on or off in Settings now reaches Home, the Fold transition and the widget picker straight away, instead of after the next restart.
• Editing Home on an unfolded screen no longer pushes the last row under the dock: on the upright inner screen (Fold), the + / Edit / Done bar sits in the corners beside the page, but Home still made room for it above the first row, which moved the grid down and left the bottom row half hidden behind the dock bar. The page now stays where it is while editing, unless a larger text size makes the bar's buttons reach over the grid.
• Setup puts the apps you picked on Home in the order its preview shows, with no gaps: the first-run page used to remove and add apps one at a time over Folio's own first suggestions, which left empty cells in the middle of Home and a lone app (Chrome, say) alone in the fourth row. The picked apps are now packed from the first cell. Running setup again later still keeps the apps where you put them.
• Home labels read on Folio's own light background: with no picture chosen and Text Color on Automatic, labels were white on a near-white surface. Automatic now picks dark text on the light surface and white on the dark one, like it does for a picture.
• Large text: Home's app labels and the text on the clock and date widgets follow the system text size up to 130% instead of being cut off ("Calen...", "LOCAL TIME" wrapping), the Preview bar keeps its Use as Home label and its close button when the text is large, the Spotlight web search chips wrap onto a second line instead of running off the edge ("Ask ChatGPT"), App Library category names can take two lines ("Productivity & Finance"), and a Settings title that wraps ("Notifications & Control Center") has room between its lines.
• Control Center sliders follow the phone: with Control Center open, the volume slider moves when you press the side volume keys, change the volume from the system panel or mute, and the brightness slider moves when brightness changes outside Folio. A slider under your finger is left alone and catches up when you let go. Nothing is watched while Control Center is closed.
• Open folders: the folder's name no longer lands on Home's clock and date. Home now blurs behind an open folder, fading in together with the folder's dim and card instead of switching on a moment after them, the dim is stronger (and stronger again with Reduce Transparency), and the folder card is nearly opaque, solid with Reduce Transparency, so Home does not show through the icons. The App Library's category folder gets the same dim and the same Home blur, which now also shows where Android has window blur off, and Reduce Transparency turns the blur off in both.
• Clear glass keeps text readable: Control Center's Clear glass keeps white text readable over saturated wallpapers too: it now judges how bright the picture is by its real luminance, so a bright green no longer leaves the text at 2.8 to 1; editing also ends cleanly when the last Controls page goes away, and the page dots on a short window are wider to tap.
• Short windows keep every row of Home on screen: a phone turned sideways (and a small split-screen window) no longer cuts off its second row of apps under the page controls. Home now counts the space those controls really take, splits a short window into two halves where four rows cannot stack, and shrinks icons a little further before it ever cuts a row. Windows that already cleared the controls are laid out exactly as before. With the new spacing on (for everyone in 0.6.9), the free height above and below Home is shared evenly, rows spread toward the iPhone Duo's spacing without stretching past it.
• Folio no longer crashes when you turn from landscape to portrait on the Home app: an App Library card measured very narrow for a moment during the turn could be given a negative corner size, which closed Folio. The card sizes are now never below zero.
• Notification Center on a phone on its side: in a landscape window at least 600 dp wide that is not a regular-size screen, the big clock now sits beside the notifications instead of above them, so the list is no longer cut to a card and a half. The time shrinks to the room it is given, and the list never takes more than 60 percent of the width.
• Folio's panels over other apps look like Home's: drawn over another app, Notification Center and Control Center now blur what is behind them by the Blur setting where the phone allows blurring windows (One UI turns it off, so there they dim the app more strongly instead) and use the tinted cards and glass strength you chose; before, the app showed through plain dark cards. "Folio Notification Shade" and "Folio Quick Settings" are now two separate entries instead of two names for one, so an app that lists entries by their class (a gesture app reported only seeing one) shows both. A Routine or gesture that already uses either keeps working.
• Folio's panels over other apps no longer crash Folio from the Quick Settings shortcut: with Folio's panels over other apps on, the Folio Quick Settings shortcut (and a swipe that opens Control Center over an app) closed Folio, because Control Center listened for Back in a window that has no Back. It now skips that where there is none.
• The Dynamic Island no longer risks a crash when a notification is swiped away at the wrong moment: its two short-term memories of what already popped up were used from two threads at once, and a chat app clearing a burst of notifications could corrupt them and take the island down. They now take a lock.
• The clock's shade fits the picture: when a picture behind the Big Clock is too pale or too mixed for either white or dark text alone, such as an overcast sky with branches in front, the soft shade behind the clock was always the same 40% and could still leave the text hard to read. It now gets only as dark as that picture needs, up to about 54%, so the text reaches the same readable contrast on any picture.
• Find Folio's own widgets by search: the widget gallery's search now finds Clock, Date, Big Clock and the rest by name (or "Folio"), and "No Widgets Found" no longer shows under Folio's own widgets.
• A missing widget no longer blocks a layout backup: if a widget's app was uninstalled or disabled, the backup used to stop with "Widget 7 is unavailable". It now leaves that widget out, saves everything else, and says how many widgets were left out.
• Every layout backup can be restored: a backup could save and then refuse to restore if an app, shortcut or widget had a blank name. Backups now name those by their package, so the file always reads back.
• Layout backup errors speak plainly: a failed backup showed the program's own text ("Failed requirement"). It now says a short translated sentence, with the file-too-large and made-by-a-newer-Folio cases named, and keeps the technical text in Diagnostics.
• Cancelled installs and expired codes: tapping Cancel on Android's install prompt no longer shows a failure (an update goes back to Ready, a Market install goes quiet), a supporter link can replace a code that has run out, and "Folio was updated" only appears after updates Folio installed on its own, in your language.
• Package files and old links: a package shared from a slow source now stops at four seconds instead of hanging, and says why when it can't open one (Market off, too large, too slow, not a package). Older supporter links that start with folio://early now redeem like the newer ones.
• Button Bar labels are translated: the Recent apps, Home and Back buttons of the on-screen Button Bar were always read out in English. They now follow your language, for TalkBack and for the button's long-press label.
• The Focus pill fades with Reduce Motion: the pill that shows the active Focus at the top of Home slid in and out even with Reduce Motion on. It now fades where it lands, like the other sheets and alerts.
• Arrows face the right way in right-to-left languages: the back and disclosure chevrons in Settings rows and the Market back arrow now flip in Arabic, Hebrew and other right-to-left languages, instead of pointing the wrong way. Home's page arrows keep their direction, because Home's pages stay in a fixed order.
• The clock reads the picture as it looks on Home: with Dark appearance dims wallpaper on, or Darken behind text drawing its gradient at the top, the picture under the Big Clock is darker than the file, but the clock picked its text color from the file. It now counts the dim and the gradient, so white text is no longer shaded more than it needs and dark text is no longer chosen over pixels that are really darker.
• Icon actions that open a missing app say so: an Open App or Open Shortcut action whose app or shortcut is gone now shows "App is unavailable" instead of doing nothing.
• Unavailable apps in a folder explain themselves: tapping one now shows the same "is unavailable" notice as on Home, instead of doing nothing.
• Spotlight launches count once: opening an app from Spotlight added it to Recents twice, which tilted the order of Suggestions and Recents. It counts once now.
• Cancelled folder reorder: if a drag inside a folder is interrupted, the apps go back to their saved order instead of showing an order that was never saved.
• Island, calmer and easier to reach: with Reduce Motion on, the island fades between its pill and its card instead of stretching, and the music and call bars stand still, on Home and over other apps. A tap anywhere else on Home puts an opened card away, the card no longer reopens by itself after a message or a call has used the island, TalkBack says whether the card is expanded or collapsed, and the pill's touch area reaches a little lower so it is easier to hit.
• Home no longer stays blurred behind nothing: a sheet or menu that was still open on a Home screen Android had stopped could keep the current Home blurred with nothing in front, and only force-stopping Folio cleared it. Each Home screen now counts only its own open sheets, menus and pages, and drops them when it closes.
• The Side Bar dock follows your finger when you move it (#326): in edit mode the grabber moves with the dock, so dragging it moved the dock only now and then. The drag is now measured on the screen, so the dock stays under your finger.
• Smart Rotate turns a stack again: its 15 minute wait started over every time you came back to Home, so it almost never moved. Time away from Home now counts toward the wait, and coming back after it has passed checks right away.
• Focus and widget stacks, three small fixes: a Focus you turned off by hand while its trigger held now stays off after Folio is closed and reopened, a Focus without Do Not Disturb access says "(Home only)" in the list, and Show First on a widget stack right after removing a widget no longer throws away that removal's Undo or the removed widget.
• Settings opens on the layout you are looking at (#13): held upright on the open screen, Settings started on the sideways inner layout, so the sliders changed a layout you could not see. It now starts on the upright one. Automatic rows also measure the upright and sideways open screens separately, so turning the phone no longer overwrites one with the other.
• Safe Mode stays on until you leave it, and a newer layout says so: Safe Mode no longer forgets its crashes after half a minute while you stay in it (the Market's refresh and auto-update kept resuming), and its dialog does not come back after a theme or language change. A Home layout saved by a newer Folio, after a downgrade, now says to update Folio and offers only Not Now and Restore instead of Start Fresh.
• Permissions and Privacy say exactly what Folio does: they now list everything the accessibility service does, every host Folio talks to (including the supporter worker for beta updates), that updates are checked once a day by default, and how root can grant the secure settings permission. A package that is a script now says Folio doesn't run scripts instead of asking for a newer Folio.
• Notification badges show on apps inside an open folder (#362): a folder showed its total on Home, but once open its apps had no badges. Each app now has its own badge on the top-left corner of its icon, clear of its options button.
• The dock says why it won't take an app: choosing an app for the dock greyed out any app already in a folder without saying why, so it looked broken. Those apps now say In a folder · Move it out first under their name.
• More of Folio follows your language: Discover's connection messages, the notes under Sunrise to Sunset in Appearance, the Dynamic Island's call and navigation when an app gives no name, the status rail's Airplane line, the check list for an Icon Stack and a few other labels were English in every language. They are now in Korean and Chinese too.
• Create Folder always makes the folder: picking the second app did nothing when the app came from the dock or the App Library and the page had no free spot. The folder now goes on the first page with room, or on a new page at the end, and Home turns to it. Its list also stops offering apps that are already in a folder, which did nothing when picked. Its title, its "New folder with" heading (which was nearly invisible on the dark dialog) and a new folder's name now follow your language.
• No outlines through widgets while moving an app: the faint outlines that show where a carried app could go no longer appear on the cells under a widget, which showed through the widget.
• Back closes a folder again: since folders got their own window in beta 1, the Back button and the back swipe did nothing while a folder was open; only a tap outside closed it. Back closes it again, and the back swipe shrinks it toward its icon as before.
• The island fits the cover camera (#61): on the Galaxy Z Fold8's cover screen the Dynamic Island at the camera was much taller than the lens, because Android reports the camera as a strip from the screen edge down past the lens. The island now keeps its usual height there (or wraps the hole itself where a phone reports one), on Home and over other apps, and Settings › General › Advanced › Diagnostics lists each screen's camera cutout for reports like this.
• The dock handle moves the dock both ways (#326): in edit mode, dragging the handle under the Side Bar dock downward opened Spotlight or the shade instead, so only upward drags worked. A pull down on the handle now moves the dock.
• A Focus set to turn on while charging does (#328): charging now means plugged in, as Home's status shows it, so it also works while a Samsung phone holds at its charge limit. A Focus you turned on yourself, or that its schedule turned on, stays on when another Focus's trigger fires, and the Focus list says that the higher one wins when two could turn on at once.
• One prompt at a time on a fresh start: the Turn On Folio Gestures dialog and the Finish Setting Up Folio card could open together. The card now waits until the dialog is closed.
• Big Clock colors and font (#330): with Android's own wallpaper behind Home, Customize offered only Automatic and White. The Tinted look and the color dots now come from the wallpaper's main colors (or, when Android shares none, as on One UI, from the phone's theme colors, and the note under Color says so), with a soft shade behind the time to keep it readable, also when a Folio picture is still saved from before. With Automatic the time no longer turns dark after the first change. The font choice moved out of Fine tune to sit beside Color, named Font.
• Wallpaper colors you can tell apart: the Big Clock's color row could show two dots of almost the same color, such as two periwinkle blues. Colors too close to tell apart now share one dot. With Android's wallpaper on One UI, the Wallpaper color dot for tinted icons was gray and the icons kept their old color; it now uses the same colors as the Big Clock (the wallpaper's own, then the phone's theme colors).
• Full-Width Home is centered: with the dock at the bottom and no Side Bar, the apps sat a little to the right, narrower columns hugged the left edge, and the App Library ran to the right edge of the screen. All three are now centered, and the same goes for the upright inner screen with the dock at the bottom.
• The Search button no longer squeezes the dock (#256): with Search button on Home turned off, the round Search button in the Side Bar set aside a fixed strip under the dock, much taller than the button, so in a short window the space between your dock apps shrank. Folio now keeps only the room the button really takes.
• One prompt at a time, and a truthful preview: the Turn On Folio Gestures dialog no longer opens on top of What's New (or Folio Dev's build page); it waits until that sheet is closed. The Home preview in Settings shows your phone's real battery and signal instead of a fixed 80%.
• Missing spaces between sentences: the Turn On Folio Gestures note read "over other apps.It can't read" and the Backup note "layout settings.Restore shows". Both have their space back, in English and Korean.
• "Separate sizes when upright" says what it does: the switch for the upright inner screen only ever gave it its own sizes and spacing (icons, rows, dock), and which app is where was always shared with the sideways screen. The name and note now say so, instead of promising a separate layout (#296).
• Email a Report opens your mail app: on a phone with Gmail, Email a Report could open Android's share sheet saying "No apps can perform this action". It now lists your mail apps, and if there are none it opens the ordinary share sheet, so a report can always be sent.
• Animation Speed reaches more motion: panels, the Dynamic Island, the notification shade, switches, segmented controls and the icon fan now follow Settings › Animation Speed, and they share a handful of named springs instead of numbers picked one by one, so they feel alike.
• Animation Speed reaches the rest: icons sliding aside while you move one, the dock's magnifier, Home shifting as the Fold bends, the actions sheet, a page following the back swipe, the Dynamic Island's change of shape, the side-rail island and controls stepping off the hinge now follow Settings › Animation Speed too. At the Standard speed nothing moves differently.
• System Bridge changes take effect at once: turning "Allow system access" off stops the root hinge feed right away, and turning it (or the root options) back on starts it again, instead of waiting for Folio to restart.
• A scheduled Focus you turned off stays off: a Focus on a schedule (Sleep at night, say) that you turned off, or replaced with another, no longer switches itself back on the next time Home starts or another schedule's alarm goes off. It stays off until its window ends and comes back at the next one.
• No alarm storm when the clocks go back: a Focus schedule with a time in the repeated hour no longer fires its alarm again and again until that time arrives.
• Media controls and Notification access: the island no longer risks a crash or a stuck media callback when notification access is turned off while a media session is changing.
• Less work while apps install and when offline: while any app installs or updates, only that app's icon redraws instead of the whole of Home, the status rail no longer redraws its whole self every frame when there is no connection, and a clock icon on Home redraws its hands without rebuilding the icon each second.
• The Roadmap stops retrying offline: when Folio can't reach GitHub, opening Settings › Roadmap no longer waits on the network every time; it tries again after an hour. With nothing downloaded yet, the note says the copy shown came with Folio instead of claiming it was saved on your phone.
• Dropping an app on a folder adds it: holding an app over a folder on Home used to slide the folder out of the way, so letting go swapped the two places and the app never went in. The folder now stays where it is, lifts a little, and takes the app, whether it comes from Home, the dock or the App Library.
• Even rows under a widget (#13): a widget at the top of Home now fills exactly two rows, so every row has the same spacing and the dock lines up with them, where the rows below a widget used to sit a little off. The Widget Size slider is hidden while this is on, because the widget's height is now set by the rows. For everyone in 0.6.9.
• An install cut short is put back: if Folio is killed while a package is being installed or updated, the next start puts things back as they were and says which package didn't finish installing, instead of leaving it half applied. Safe Mode now counts only real crashes, not Android closing Folio for memory.
• Native crashes and freezes count toward Safe Mode: a crash in Folio's own native code, or a freeze right at the start, now counts the same as any other quick crash, so Folio offers Safe Mode instead of starting the same way again.
• Updating a tweak keeps your settings: updating a tweak package from the Market turned a screen you had turned off for it back on, cleared its options, and put Duet's look back to the package's. Your changes now stay: an update only changes what its new version changes, and not where you had already changed it yourself. Undo after an update keeps them too.
• A pulled package turns off: when a package's source pulls the version on your phone, Folio now turns it off the next time Home starts or you refresh that source, keeps its settings, and tells you why, instead of leaving it running. Its row says Pulled by its source, and Remove takes it away; Try Again isn't offered for it.
• Dual Messenger and other cloned apps show in the App Library: a second copy of an app, made with Samsung's Dual Messenger or Android's app cloning, is listed right beside the original with Dual under its name, and in a folder too. Only the apps you cloned show, not the system apps Android keeps in the clone's space. Cloned apps stay out of the first dock and Suggestions, and leave Home when you turn cloning off. Work apps stay behind the Work switch as before.
• Apps open from Spotlight with Discover as the left page: on Android 17, an app opened from Spotlight could close again a moment later and leave you on Home, while it stayed in Recents (#371). Folio now waits until Home is back in front before it reconnects Discover.
• A cancelled drag puts the app back: a drag that Android cancels (the power button, a call, unfolding) puts the app back where it was instead of dropping it where your finger was, so nothing is removed by accident.
• Settings changed after a visit to Discover stick: Quick Settings tiles and Focus changes now stick after you visit Discover, instead of Home putting back the old setting. Discover only reads your Home now and never saves a copy of its own.
• A Layout Backup lists only your Home apps: a backup now names only the apps your layout uses (on Home, in the dock or a folder, or with a name, icon look or icon action you set), not every app on the phone in every profile, hidden ones included. Older Folio still reads it.
• Restoring a backup checks its packages: restoring a Layout Backup now checks its Market packages like an install does, and turns off any that fail. A package keeps its source only when it is the same package already on this phone; anything else is recorded as opened from a file.
• Restore on the damaged-layout notice works: when Folio can't read your saved Home, Restore on its notice now really restores the backup or earlier layout you pick, instead of saying it is already active. Folio keeps a copy of the damaged layout first, as Start Fresh does, and won't export an empty Home as a Layout Backup while the layout is damaged.
• Restored widgets keep their own Smart Stacks: restoring a Layout Backup no longer puts an old Smart Stack on top of a different widget. Restored widgets get slot numbers nothing on your Home is using, so the stacks Folio keeps for Undo stay with their own widgets, and a Big Clock that was in the same place keeps its look.
• The island sits in the same place on Home and over apps: it now has the same height in both, and stays on screen when the camera is on a side edge.
• Hide in Landscape on the unfolded screen: the island now stays visible over apps on the unfolded screen when Hide in Landscape is on; Also on the Unfolded Screen turns the old behavior back on. Turning the cover sideways still hides it.
• Folio no longer crashes on a very narrow window: long-pressing an app icon or opening an app panel in a split-screen or freeform window narrower than about 290 dp could close Folio, because the menu was asked to sit inside a window it did not fit in. It now sits against the left edge instead. The button bar's drag in other apps had the same flaw on a very short window.
• The Music widget no longer keeps the last track after notification access is turned off: the title, artist and controls now go as soon as access goes, the same as the island and Notification Center already did.
• An app that sends Home a damaged extra can no longer crash it: on Android 12, an extra holding a class Folio does not have made Home or the assistant picker close as it opened, and two quick closes turn on Safe Mode. Home now treats such a request as having no extras.
• Safe Mode stops the screen pictures too: in Safe Mode, Smart clock ink and the blur picture behind Notification Center and Control Center no longer take a screenshot; the live blur is used instead.
• The blurred picture behind a panel over another app is let go when the panel closes, as Folio's privacy notes say. Those notes and the gestures service's descriptions now say exactly what it can capture: one screenshot, only for that blur, never saved or sent, and no window contents.