Amber iX Mobile (iOS/Android) Release Notes

Requirements

iOS: Requires iOS 12 or newer

Android: Requires Android 8 or newer

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Amber iX Mobile 0.18.3

5/11/2022

New Features

• Export documents (such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) to 3rd party apps. 
• Add photos and videos to albums from “People”.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Set the new “Home” screen as default and removed the "Cloud" and "Amber" tabs.
• Fixed several camera roll backup issues.
• Fixed several new Home screen issues.
• Fixed a local photo deletion issue on the phones with Android OS newer than version 11.
• UI wording update.

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Amber iX Mobile 0.17.3

3/28/2022

New Features

• Support for adding photos to albums from External Photos page.
• New Home page layout.
• Support for music & video volume adjustment when casting.
• Support for iOS keychain service to remember account login.

Bug Fix and Enhancements

• Enhanced file transfer performance under poor network conditions.
• Enhanced navigation for tab icon.

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Amber iX Mobile 0.16.6

2/24/2022

New Features

• Quick multiple select in My Photos, My Albums, People & Things page.
• Display the file path of deleted files in the Recycle Bin.
• Display all duplicated photo paths in the Detail Info panel.
• Go to destination in the video player.

Bug Fix and Enhancements

• Error handling UX and message improvement.
• Increase albums max photos from 500 to 2000.

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Amber iX Mobile 0.15.3 (iOS)

1/19/2022

New Features

• Group albums.
• Support iOS raw DNG file backup support.
• Video playback and download for shared albums.
• Indicate public share link status on the Outgoing Share page.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Live photos backup for live photos that have been backed up prior to it being supported.
• Improved error handling and messages.
• Enhance network status detection to avoid backup issues while backing up large photos.

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Amber iX Mobile 0.14.3

12/9/2021

New Features

• iOS live Photo Backup Support.
• Multiple file restoration support from Recycle Bin.
• Show file path for files in Recycle Bin.
• Support external drive eject.
• Allow destination selection when sharing files from 3rd party app to Amber.
• In-App Support for adding Photos and Videos to albums via File Explorer.
• Upgrades to Android SDK.
• Enhanced navigation for: My Photos/People & Things/My Albums page(s). 
• Implement Sorting feature for the Shared by me 

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fix app login issue caused by IPv6.
• Provide a warning message when storage is full. 
• Monitor abnormal login failure events.
• General performance and setup improvements.

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iOS: v0.13.5 & Android: v0.13.4

New Features

• AI keyword search in the My Photos filter page.
• People face cover change support in the People & Things page.
• Show more orientation info on the photo detail page.

Bugfix and enhancements

• Enhance backup performance and storage error handling.
• Increase camera roll page maximum file selection limit from 20 to 100.
• Support incremental share and not keep sending emails to the existing shares when editing the share.
• Change Android Offline files path to adopt new Android policy.
• Fix several photos and album-related issues.
• Support symbol $ and ^ in the file name.
• Fix several file panel browsing issues.
• Fix the incorrect file size issue on the Free Space panel.
• Enhance the volume decryption page.

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0.12.4

10/1/2021

Improved and Enhanced Features 

• Support more file sorting methods including sorting by name/size/modified date/type on AmberCloud, Amber, Share, Offline, and Recycle Bin pages.
• Support casting for the extension drive.
• Support photo detail info page on My Albums, People & Things pages.
• Notify new recognized people on the People page.
• Manual backup UX enhancement.

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0.11.5

8/25/2021

New Features

• Support camera roll backup path folder change including external drive (NTFS only).
• Support upload from the destination. 
• Support album sharing. (video playback and download not yet supported) 
• Support photo EXIF information display. 
• Add Background Service in the Settings and add an option to allow file upload/download executing in the background. 
• Add video indexing status to the indexing status page. 
• Support removing notifications on the Notification page. 
• Support new backup information panel. 
• Support share link removing in the Share panel. 

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0.10.5

6/29/2021

Improved and Enhanced Features 

• Display videos on the “My Photos” page in the Amber iX Mobile App:

  • Allow adding videos into albums.
  • Add filters for photo and video type.  
• Provide indexing status page in the Amber iX Mobile App:
  • Allow users to see how many photos, faces, and objects are recognized by the Amber X OS.
  • Enable control to hide/show duplicate photos on the “My Photos” page.
  • Enable options to hide/show unwanted AI object photo categories.
  • Enable options to disable/enable AI face-recognition and object detection.
• Enable the ability to edit and change “cloud share permission” settings in the Amber iX Mobile App.
• Support contact list import for ease of file sharing with existing contacts (email addresses).
• Add Recycle Bin feature for Amber and Cloud files page.
• Enable LED Brightness Control in the Amber X management page.  

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Amber iX Mobile: Improved backup performance for local network environment. 
• Amber iX Mobile: Unified share and export with single entry to prevent confusion.
• Amber iX Apps: Enhanced the performance for multiple file copy.

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0.9.3

5/18/2021

Improved + Enhanced Features 

• Enable users to manually select photos for backup, in lieu of a general all-photo backup. Back 
• Enable acceptance for “any” file type from third-party app share. 
• Add photo count on the photo filter conditions.  

Bug Fixes and Enhancements 

• Improved performance for error handling and battery drainage during backup. 
• Enhanced p2p performance and improved backup speeds by 30% - 100% (depending on p2p mode). 
• Add resource control support in the Amber iX App to improve backup and photo browsing performance (throttle lag due to indexing). 
• Fix file list does not sort by name issue in the previous app version. 
• Fix cannot cast from external drives issue and other casting issues. 
• Display external drive non-supported information. 
• General bug fixes and UI improvement for the album, photo filtering, casting, and file browsing. 

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0.7.7

3/3/2021

New Features

• Add “Free Space” App functionality to auto-delete older backed-up camera-roll items

• Enable Photo Deletion on the “My Photos” page. 

• Enable Photo Deletion on the “Camera Roll” page. 

• Enable Auto-Notification when a new App version is available.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• P2P Connection and Network Monitoring Enhancements. 

• General App Performance Improvements.

• Add backup stop-limit on low battery

• Enable optional usage and analytics information for developer debugging.

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0.7.2

• Performance improvement.

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0.6.6

• Support for optional Volume Encryption during setup
• Support filtering photos by Folder, Camera, and Time
• Support multi-selection for actions including Share / Copy / Download / Add to Album
• Support casting on the MyPhotospage
• Support thumbnail display in Offline folder

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0.5.3

• Bug fixes and performance improvements.
• Album creation.