Skip to main content
Deutsch 日本語 繁體中文

Search

Articles in this section

Amber iX Mobile (iOS/Android) Release Notes

Avatar
Michael Pao
  • Updated

Requirements

iOS: Requires iOS 12 or newer

Android: Requires Android 8 or newer

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Amber iX Mobile 1.1.14

9/22/2022

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a time zone setup issue.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Amber iX Mobile 1.0.13

8/11/2022

New Features

  • iOS - Camera Roll Backup - backup both edited and original photos.
  • Support HDMI portrait video casting.
  • Allow managing folder indexing settings under the Home folder on the Indexing Status page.
  • Add face recognition status for the indexing drive on the Indexing Status page.
  • Add video display in the preview mode.
  • Support pull-down refresh behavior on the Home page.
  • Android - display all files including documents in This Device if the user has granted all files permission.
  • Support account deletion.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

  • Enhanced Wi-Fi connection failure page guidance.
  • Fixed some casting issues.
  • Fixed cannot accept Amber invitation issue.
  • Fixed an IPv6 detection issue.
  • Update Traditional Chinese strings.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Amber iX Mobile 0.19.4

6/8/2022

New Features 

  • Music being played can now be minimized into a mini-player. 
  • Support Traditional Chinese UI. 
  • Added “This Device Card” in the Home page for Android. 
  • "Add to album" support in AI Objects page. 
  • Amber Owner can receive OS notifications via in-app notifications. 

Bug fixes and enhancements 

  • Enhanced iCloud photo backup. 
  • Fixed MyPhotos issues. 
  • Modified “remember login password” flow. 
  • Fixed some UX issues. 
  • Display the external drive’s name on the Home page. 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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. 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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. 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

0.8.5

4/13/2021

Improved and Enhanced Features

  • Improved UI to support filter view for recent history. 

  • Improved UI with the delete button in camera roll image preview page. 

  • Improved UI to support backup detail status on the Home page. 

  • Improved Android app UI to support back key

  • Enhanced app feature to support location filter on My Photos. 

  • Enhanced app feature to support list and thumbnail view for albums.

  • Enhanced in-app setup support for hidden WiFi networks.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

  • Fixed iOS App issue affecting battery drainage.
  • Fixed app auto-login issues

  • Enhanced Android background backup performance. 

  • Enhanced network detection to improve backup performance issues. 

  • Extended Android backup duration time from 15 mins to 12 hrs.

  • Improved error notification for images that failed to back-up. 

  • Improved in-app notifications and UI messaging.

  • Improved photo filter related issues. 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

0.7.2

  • Performance improvement.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

0.5.3

  • Bug fixes and performance improvements.
  • Album creation.

Related articles