Buffer for iOS 26 is the most important replace we’ve ever shipped to our cellular app.
The replace contains:
✨ Contemporary new design with Apple’s Liquid Glass system💡 New Concepts Shortcut + Motion Button for saving concepts on the go⌚ Model-new Apple Watch app (queues, targets, streaks, concepts)📅 New calendar day view displaying all channels in a single place🎯 Posting Objectives with progress rings in your channel avatars+ Dozens extra enhancements that make Buffer smoother and extra versatile for creators on the go.
Obtain Buffer’s iOS app
This replace additionally seems like a full-circle second. Again in 2012, we launched our very first iPhone app, constructed by Andy, who’s nonetheless at Buffer at this time main the engineering work on iOS. That first app launched a Safari bookmarklet so you can “Add to Buffer” whereas studying an article. Twelve years later, Andy continues to be constructing the identical app with extra help from Daniel, our designer primarily based in Malta, who has been main the design imaginative and prescient for iOS 26.
A contemporary expertise with Liquid Glass
Buffer’s app now makes use of Apple’s new Liquid Glass design system in iOS 26. Navigation feels cleaner, widgets are smarter, and the app remembers the place you left off.
Highlights:
Contemporary new design with Liquid GlassSmarter widgets and onboardingReturn to your final spot within the appEasier channel switching with fewer modalsA playful new startup animation and smoother picture loading
Simply seize content material concepts in your cellphone or watch
Concepts not often wait till you’re sitting at your desk. With iOS 26, you may seize them the second they arrive to you.
Highlights:
A brand new Concepts Shortcut in Management Heart or the iPhone Motion ButtonIdea Composer on Apple WatchBuffer now out there within the Shortcuts app
Keep on prime of your social media posting targets
Consistency is less complicated when you may see your progress. This replace makes it easy to keep watch over queues, targets, and streaks out of your cellphone or your wrist.
Highlights:
Queue counts throughout organizationsPosting Purpose settings for every channelProgress rings round avatars to trace goalsA new day view within the calendarApple Watch issues for streaks, targets, and queues
Buffer in your wrist through an Apple Watch app
For the primary time, Buffer is on Apple Watch. You’ll be able to verify your queue, observe your streak, or seize an concept with out reaching to your cellphone.
I exploit the iOS app nearly every single day. More often than not it’s jotting down submit concepts when one thing pops into my head, or checking what number of posts I’ve acquired lined up earlier than a busy week. Different instances I’ll flick by the calendar simply to see every part at a look. These little check-ins that maintain me on observe.
This replace makes these moments smoother for me. Saving an concept is now one faucet from the lock display. The calendar is clearer and simpler to work with. And if I wish to keep watch over my streaks or posting targets, I can do it straight from my watch.
None of this may exist with out Andy, who has been with the app since day one, and Daniel, who has led the design system work that underpins the entire launch. Andy’s constructed on greater than a decade of historical past with the app, whereas Daniel’s introduced a contemporary perspective and craft to the design. Collectively they’ve made the app quicker, simpler to navigate, and prepared for no matter comes subsequent.
Give the brand new app a attempt to tell us what you suppose. Your suggestions has all the time formed Buffer, and I’m trying ahead to listening to how this replace suits into your workflow.
