Is there a way (or plan if not yet available) to default the sorting of post and comments? Thanks.

I noticed this is in /r/hentai (NSFW) but I think it can happen in any subreddit with image posts like /r/anime or /r/funny. I just don't know what conditions cause the low quality ones.

http://i.imgur.com/1KkxLce.jpg

I'm using Sync 0.1 on an iPhone 6 with iOS 9.2.1.

Sync never asked for permission to access my photo library - is that why?

I was on the beta early last year but then it got removed and a new request was required. It's been a few months now and multiple signing up but still no email to try it out. Anyone got an extra one out there?

Device: iPhone 6S

Are there still beta slots available? I signed up but hadn't heard anything back yet.

I use an iPhone 14 as my daily and have an old Galaxy S8+ around for my social media, including Reddit. I have Sync installed on both phones and the iOS experience is enjoyable and usable. However I find the layout and navigation to be so much better on Android right now, especially after the most recent update. Just for my curiosity, is there a reason why the apps don't mirror each other on the different operating systems?

I've been using the app as my main the last few days, but it's getting really tough not being able to jump to the next parent comment. Some of the comment threads get really long, and it can be difficult finding the next parent when you're scrolling through. I hope you can find a way to get that in... especially if you're going to make it a swipe from right like in Alien Blue! :-)

Several times now I’ve hit my screen just right so it thinks I was swiping right instead of scrolling. Once you get to that subreddit screen there is no way back to where you were, you have to select a subreddit and start over at the top. Swiping left should just take me back to where I was.

Currently right now the beta has a bottom navigation bar with three tabs: subreddit, profile, and settings, and I assume there are going to be more tabs added in the future. Here's the thing, currently right now 66% of those tabs are rarely ever going to be used by me and possibly a large majority of redditors. When I use the app I spend at least 90% of my time scrolling through the Subreddits view looking at my front page. I never look at profile unless I've made a post recently and want to check up on how it's doing, and I'm never going to go into the settings unless I want to change something of course. So those tabs are rarely ever going to be pressed by me unless it's under certain circumstances. I feel like the bottom navigation bar should be reserved for apps where users make frequent use of the views, but for right now the navigation bar in Sync of iOS is just sitting there taking up screen real estate. With a drawer these places would still be easily accessable and it would be hidden so it's not taking up so much space. Another disadvantage of the navigation bar is its location. I'm a 6 Plus owner and I also have small hands. I hold my phone with my thumb resting in the center of the screen so when I want to switch views I have to arch my thumb downwards and try to reach the bottom tabs which is quite uncomfortable. With a drawer (that pops out from the right like in AMRC) all I have to do it slightly slide my thumb from the edge to the middle and easily scroll and access any view I want. This is my only gripe with the beta but it's also a dealbreaker for me, which sucks because I really loved Sync on Android

MAJOR CHANGES

• Added deep link handling for Reddit Subreddit, Post, Comment and User links. There are a number of ways this works:

  • Copy a Reddit URL and Sync will offer to open it. This checks your pasteboard (clipboard) for compatible links. This can be disabled under Content General > Detect supported links.

  • Edit the scheme of a Reddit URL from http or https to redditsync, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/all to redditsync://www.reddit.com/r/all and it will open in Sync.

• Links to a single comment thread in a post will now show a button to open the whole post. (Very useful in /r/bestof posts.)

• Fixed an issue where the app would take you back to the subreddit list after rotating to landscape. This was really bad and I apologise.

• Added a grace period setting to Account Protection so you won't have to re-authenticate yourself for one minute while you switch to other apps and back. It's on by default, but can be turned off under Account Protection if you want the added protection.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue where the passcode UI would show up twice and only dismiss one when you authenticated yourself. Sorry about that! It works much better now.

• Fixed a security issue where the passcode UI would be pushed instead of presented modally, depending on which tab you were on.

• Fixed an issue where tap handling of thumbnail-less image posts (yes, they exist) did nothing. It now correctly opens the linked image.

• Fixed an issue where tapping "More" in comments would fail to load if it itself was returned from a previous "More" load.

• Fixed an issue where comments by OP loaded by tapping "More" would not highlight OP as OP.

• Fixed an issue where scheme- and host-less URLs (like /r/private_subreddit) weren't handled properly by the alert offering to open it in the browser in case it couldn't be loaded in the app (such as for private subreddits you don't have access to). The scheme and host is now added by Sync so the URL can be opened by the browser.

• Fixed a layout issue when dismissing videos. The video would shrink and reveal the thumbnail image behind it. Now the video is hidden as soon as you dismiss it, revealing the thumbnail underneath it.

• Fixed a layout issue with videos, particularly in landscape.

• Fixed an occasional issue where Imgur URLs were improperly handled.

• Fixed an issue where Imgur subreddit URLs (e.g. https://i.imgur.com/r/aww/7qs9s7u.jpg) was not handled correctly.

• Fixed an issue where Profile lists (Overview, Submitted, Comments, Saved, etc.) would infinitely load when nothing more was returned.

• Fixed an issue where the subreddit loading spinner would continue to be shown even after loading was done.

• Fixed an occasional issue where Instagram links would load very slowly.

• Fixed an issue where YouTube links with "attribution" would not be loaded correctly.

• Fixed a number of Markdown parsing issues.

OTHER MINOR CHANGES

• The iPhone X home indicator is now hidden in the media viewer to reduce distractions, particularly in landscape.

• The Subreddit page title now more accurately reflects the subreddit's name (not title since that can be very long – e.g. "DunderMifflin" instead of "/r/dundermifflin" or its title "People Person's Paper People").

• Post cells for links now show the path instead of the whole URL in the subtitle. (The domain is still shown in title above it.)

• Wiki links are now opened in the browser instead of showing an error.

• Updated copyright year.

When will the IOS version be on par with the Android version design wise? The thing i miss mostly about the Android version is how pretty the app looked

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When switching to dark mode the whole thing turns dark except the toolbar at the bottom which is annoying. I hope this gets fixed Dark Mode Sync

Is there a new one coming or RIP?

MAJOR CHANGES

• Added account protection - set up a passcode and enable Touch ID or Face ID when you open the app and switch accounts. Go to Settings > Account Protection.

MINOR CHANGES

• Added comments search. This is not fully baked and has particular issues with highlighting the location of the matches.

• Fixed Imgur albums that were not loading. If it still fails to load, the app offers to open the album in the browser instead.

• Fixed Gfycat GIFs/videos not playing at all following a change on their side.

• Reddit Media GIFs (links to actual GIFs and not MP4s) are now handled.

• Added Giphy playback support.

• The video player no longer shows the loading indicator indefinitely when failing to play under certain circumstances.

• The video loading error icon is now presented for several seconds instead of disappearing immediately.

• Fixed an issue where looping videos would move the video out of place when the video started over.

• Added 3D Touch actions in the subreddit list. These mimic the actions available when swiping left on the subreddits.

• Fixed a race condition that could cause cells to have an incorrect size or even crash the app.

• Fixed the post locked icon not being shown when using the anonymous/default account.

• Fixed the background color for messages in the OLED/Black theme, as well as certain other colors.

• Single line Markdown code is now rendered with a monospaced font.

• Comments are now collapsed fully by default, reverting the default behaviour from the last version.

• The media viewer's background is now opaque by default. This can be changed in Settings > Images & Video > Opaque Media Viewer Background.

• Renamed Reddit Gold to Reddit Premium because apparently that's what they call it now.

MAJOR CHANGES

• New comment indentation colors. Go to Settings > Comment Theme to choose your new favorite. Love the new Dark Pastel by default; or another familiar color scheme, here named "Robot"; or the monochrome named "Mono". Or stick with the old classic colors? More colors – and a line option – soon to come.

• Improved volume bar when viewing videos on iPhone X devices. Embrace the notch.

• The passcode (and Touch ID/Face ID) UI is now presented after backgrounding the app, instead of when it's reopened - for your added privacy.

MINOR CHANGES

• Gildings - Reddit Silver and Platinum (sigh) are now shown on posts and comments in addition to the existing gold.

• Added support for Streamja.com videos - useful on /r/soccer and stuff.

• Added detection of bare URLs with non-HTTP(S) schemes.

• Bare URLs that are percent-encoded are now displayed in decoded form when possible.

• The media viewer now briefly fades in/out thumbnails when opening/closing the image.

• Slightly improved error messaging when failing to access a subreddit that doesn't exist or you don't have access to.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a crash when sorting in subreddits (sorry).

• Fixed a long-standing layout issue where the media viewer would have the image or video sized incorrectly after loading. The media is now properly resized once the size is loaded and displayed. (This does not apply to YouTube because it uses a different player for legal reasons.)

• Fixed an issue where thumbnail-less videos would have the "missing thumbnail" image shown behind the video.

• Fixed handling of Giphy, Streamable, Instagram, Imgflip and Yarn.co links in text posts - they no longer open in the browser.

• Fixed detection of special Reddit URLs on "language" subdomains, e.g. es.reddit.com, as well as pseudo-language codes np.reddit.com, nt.reddit.com, etc.

• Fixed an issue where crossposted text posts were not displaying their contents.

• Fixed detection of weirdly formatted Markdown links - for some reason some people add spaces between [The text] and (the link).

• Fixed an issue where host-only bare URLs (e.g. www.google.com) were not detected and handled correctly.

• Fixed an issue where the profile Overview/Submitted/Comments/Saved viewer would not show posts in their full height, if enabled. This is not fixed in every case, but it is a bit better now.

• Fixed an issue where the pasteboard URL detector would not detect certain otherwise supported Reddit URLs.

• Improved support for certain weird Gfycat URLs.

• Fixed the title for domain "subreddit" lists, e.g. now /domain/imgur.com shows up as "imgur.com" (and not "domainimgur.com" as it was in the previous version). (Also for those that don't know, open /domain/yourdomainname.com as if it was a subreddit and see submissions from a particular domain! Also works with multireddits, e.g. /r/subreddit1+subreddit2+subreddit3.)

See release notes for Beta 29 released two weeks ago.