Drafts 48.2 has been released:
Details below. For a complete history of updates, visit the release notes.
48.2
This update focuses on smoothing out the rough edges that have come with the OS 26 release, both for those who have updated to the new OS and those who haven’t. If you have updated to 26.0, please also update to OS 26.1 as soon as it becomes available as it addresses many of the underlying problems that I could not address directly in the app.
- All Platforms
- New: A variety of improvements, especially on iPad and Mac, to make the “Capture” window more flexible. This is the interface used by the Share sheet if you share to Drafts, but can also be used separately as modal input. Details:
- New: “Capture” command in
Filemenu (iPad and Mac). - Change: Modal capture windows now confirm if being closed with unsaved text present in the editor.
- Change: Add “Capture” command as option to widgets/controls.
- New(iOS): On iPad running 26 or greater, capture windows will now open a new modal window. This includes if using the “Show Capture” shortcut intent, or the
drafts://captureURL scheme. - New(iOS): “Capture” command in “+” long-press menu to get capture modal. Opens as new window on iPad.
- New: “Capture” command in
- Fix: “Run Action in Background” Shortcuts intents now will foreground app and continue, rather than failing, in cases where the action can not be run in the background. They also have a new configuration option to disable this behavior if you would rather they fail in this scenario.
- Change: “Run Action” intents now return a result back to Shortcuts including action log information.
- Change: Reduce delay focusing search in quick search and the command palette.
- Fix: Lots of work hunting out a couple of memory leaks in the action framework.
- New: A variety of improvements, especially on iPad and Mac, to make the “Capture” window more flexible. This is the interface used by the Share sheet if you share to Drafts, but can also be used separately as modal input. Details:
- iOS
- New: List option in both draft and action lists to control whether the selection menus use a submenu to limit menu size (default) or show all workspaces/groups.
- Change: Repackage Evernote SDK into Swift Package. This is their old, abandoned SDK that is only used for “Evernote” action steps on iOS.
- New: Option on iPad to toggle when the draft title should be displayed (when possible) on larger window sizes. In Settings menu.
- Change: Explicit alert if using a Mail action step and Apple Mail is not configured on the device.
- Change: Change some document type registration values to better support opening backup files.
- Change: Workaround for navigation commands not scrolling to the right location in some longer drafts.
- Change: Better handling of title/char count in smaller window sizes.
- Change: Allow narrower minimum window size on iPad.
- Fix: Compact toolbars on iPhone if display zoom is enabled.
- Mac
- New(Mac): Add “Print” command to tools menu in HTML previews. They were already printable via the main menu, but this makes it more obvious.
- New(Mac):
View > Show/Hide Status Baradds support for hiding status bar below editor. - New: Add
floatOnTopboolean property toWindowscript object to toggle (or check) float on top status. Only has effect on Mac. Can be used to toggle float status from actions, for example, this Toggle Float on Top example.
