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 1.11.5

10/25/2023

New features 

• Sonos speakers casting support.
• Added an iOS option to re-backup edited photos.

Bug fixes and Enhancements 

• Added delete function while viewing a photo and video.
• Enhanced iCloud backup instructions.
• Enhanced cloud share process.
• Enhanced camera roll page.
• Enhanced network handling.
• Keep sort preference for folders.
• Fixed backup issues.
• Enhanced My Photos page view on tablet layout.
• Fixed an Android app crash issue.

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Amber iX Mobile 1.9.10

7/3/2023

New Features

• Added a Detailed Info button for videos on the My Photos screen.
• Android - Added a hidden files display option in Android Folders.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fixed backup issues.
• iOS - Won't re-backup modified photos.
• iOS - Added music player on the lock screen when playing music.
• Android - Provide backup warning to backup original photos.
• Improved initial setup error-handling.
• Home page error-handling enhancements.
• Layout enhancements while playing a video.
• Fixed album issues.
• Fixed Task screen issues.
• Multi-language display and search support for AI categories.
• Japanese UI support.
• Updated English wording.
• Other minor issue fixes.

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Amber iX Mobile 1.10.4

8/16/2023

New Features

• N/A

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Allowed PDF preview rotation.
• Android SDK version upgrade to 33.
• Amber X initial setup enhancement and bug fixes.
• Fixed backup issues.
• Enhanced P2P modes name to display for backup status.
• Fixed a camera roll photo deletion issue.
• Fixed freeing space issues.
• Fixed photo list issues.
• Fixed a photo filter issue.
• Fixed a casting issue.
• Fixed other UI issues.
• General performance enhancements.
• Updated English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, German and Spanish wordings.

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Amber iX Mobile 1.7.3

3/22/2023

New Features

• Long-pressing now activates multi-select where applicable.
• Added an optional text box for sharing via email.
• Added “Learn More” links to features on the Home Screen.
• Added internal and external drives to the filter in “My Photos”.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fixed backup issues.
• Enhanced the UX in backup settings.
• Improved network condition handling.
• Fixed a crash issue.
• Fixed layout issues.
• Fixed a UI casting issue.
• English wording update.
• German, French, and Chinese translation update.

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Amber iX Mobile 1.7.2

3/3/2023

New Features

• Long-pressing now activates multi-select where applicable.
• Added an optional text box for sharing via email.
• Added “Learn More” links to features on the Home Screen.
• Added internal and external drive to the filter in “My Photos”.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fixed backup issues.
• Enhanced the UX in backup settings.
• Improved network condition handling.
• Fixed a crash issue.
• Fixed layout issues.
• Fixed a UI casting issue.
• English wording update.
• German, French, and Chinese translation update.

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Amber iX Mobile 1.6.2

2/16/2023

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fixed a Mobile Camera Roll permission issue.

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Amber iX Mobile 1.5.2

2/3/2023

New Features

• Manually edit time and location for photos and videos.
• Added "Pro Tips" card on the Home page.
• Display video file information in Detailed Info.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Fixed backup issues.
• Enhanced Home page display.
• Fixed casting issues.
• Fixed a photo filter issue.
• French and Italian language support.
• Chinese translation update.

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Amber iX Mobile 1.4.3

1/4/2023

New Features

• Backup options for only photos, only videos, and date-range.
• Smart Albums and saving system-generated albums.
• Selfies/Panoramas/Screenshots categories in My Albums.
• Dark Mode UI.
• Photo thumbnail clean-up.
• Display release notes for new features in Amber iX App updates.
• Ability to share exported root folders.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Merged external photos to My Photos page.
• Updated My Albums page layout (compatible with Amber X OS 1.25.2).
• Enhanced backup display.
• Fixed backup and camera roll page issues.
• Fixed tablet layout issues.
• Fixed Home page issues.
• Fixed crashing issues.
• Fixed UI layout issues.
• German UI support.
• English, Traditional Chinese, Spanish UI string update.
• Multi-language links for FAQ articles.

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Amber iX Mobile 1.2.2

10/14/2022

New Features

• Manage indexing for external drive folders (compatible with upcoming Amber X OS 1.24.x).
• File name search (compatible with upcoming Amber X OS 1.24.x).
• Camera roll backup enhancement - detect photo changes and backup again.
• "Recently Added" photo filter (compatible with upcoming Amber X OS 1.24.x).
• Tablet landscape view.
• Push notification support.
• Spanish language support.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

• Display People thumbnails under Smart AI on the Home screen.
• Improved network reset guidance.
• Fixed casting issues.
• Fixed camera roll backup issues.
• Fixed Home screen issues.

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Amber iX Mobile 1.1.14

9/22/2022

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a time zone setup issue.

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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.

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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. 

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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.