Changelog

Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.7.4.

Shiny new things

• Added a new tab switcher.

Improvements

Performance

• Improved app load time for iOS, iPadOS, and Android.
• iOS: The option to skip iCloud loading will now appear earlier in the startup process.
• The app is now more responsive while loading iCloud vaults.
• The sidebar animation is now slightly faster.

Misc.

• Keyboard suggestions now appear for email and password inputs.
• The Android back button now closes the active page in settings.
• Moving the cursor by pressing and holding no longer activates links.
• Added a loading state to the "Log out" button.

No longer broken

• Fixed issue where the pull-down action would activate too easily.
• Fixed bug where "Close all tabs" did not always close all the tabs.
• Fixed issue where the menu handle would cover text if the menu is scrollable.
• Fixed bug where Obsidian Vault would fail to load vaults if you log in from the initial vault selection screen.
• Fixed issue where the active state sometimes gets stuck when tapping on an interactive element.
• Fixed issue where table menus didn't show their options.
• Fixed display of dialog headers with long titles. Titles now get truncated to fit the screen.
• Fixed context menus on tablets not being scrollable.
• Settings buttons now show when they are active.
• Fixed issue where the screen would not have enough space when the keyboard is on screen and Stage Manager is active.
• Fixed issue where the keyboard would remain visible when a menu appears.
• Fixed spacing issue with the bottom toolbar when using a physical keyboard on small devices.
• Pressing "Return" when editing a setting now ends editing and hides the keyboard.
• Tapping on a video embed no longer brings up the keyboard.
• The "Export as image" command no longer appears in the command prompt.
• Fixed issue where selecting a sidebar item would not restore focus to the main view.
• Fixed a crash issue caused by the mobile tab switcher interacting with some plugins.
• Fixed a bug where tapping on the mobile toolbar for the first time would sometimes close the keyboard.
• Improved the appearance of some Obsidian Sync screens.
• Fix issue where an extra loading bar would appear for a couple frames as the splash screen is hiding.

Android

• Updated haptics to match OS conventions for light, medium, and heavy interactions.
• Status bar and navigation bar now match the app background color.
• Android: Fixed tapping on tag causing the sidebar to open and immediately close.

iOS

• Fixed jitter when dismissing the keyboard on iOS.
• Improved screen resizing when the keyboard appears.
• Fixed issue where the video thumbnail would be blank until you press play.

Tablet

• Fixed horizontal scrolling in community plugins with long descriptions.
• The community plugin sort button now matches the desktop version.

Shiny new things

• Obsidian Sync: the new Sync History view shows a list of edits across the vault, useful when collaborating on a shared vault. Activate it using the "Sync: Show Sync history" command.
• You can now click inside a page preview to edit it without opening the note.

Improvements

Performance

• Views now load only when visible, improving startup performance and memory usage. This might cause issues with some plugins. We have published a guide to help developers update their plugins.
• Renaming files is now faster in large vaults.
• Canvas: Improved performance when panning. There should no longer be a flicker when cards enter and exit the viewport. If you're still seeing related issues, please try switching to default theme.
• Added a new screen in settings (General → Advanced) to show the total app load time. You can also enable a toggle to get a notified when startup takes too long, including details for debugging.
• Fixed choppy scrolling between linked Markdown views.

Editable page previews and footnotes

• Added a right-click menu for footnotes to delete both the footnote and its reference.
• You can now create new footnotes by clicking on the hover preview of a footnote ID.
• Pressing Esc now instantly closes the page preview while editing.
• Page previews will stay open even if the window loses focus or the command palette appears.

Obsidian URI

• Improvements to Obsidian URI new:
  • Allows the use of clipboard instead of content to insert the contents of the clipboard.
  • Allows the use of prepend instead of append to add to the top of the file.
  • prepend and append will both attempt to merge properties.
• Daily Notes: New daily Obsidian URI action to automatically open or create your daily note.

Misc.

• Obsidian Publish collaborators can now edit content-related site options, including the order of sidebar items.
• Obsidian Sync: You can now filter the activity log.
• Updated to Electron v31.6.0.
• Spellcheck is now disabled for inline tags, and inside prompts like the quick switcher and command palette.
• Added support for x.com embeds in addition to twitter.com.
• Right-clicking in the gutter of a Markdown view now lets you quickly toggle line numbers or readable line width.
• The "Make copy of" menu item has been renamed to "Duplicate" on macOS to match OS conventions.
• Frontmatter is now hidden inside embedded editors such as Canvas file nodes and page preview.
• Dragging a .webloc or .url file into the editor creates a Markdown link with the filename as the display text.
• Hovering over a notice keeps it on screen until you move the mouse away.
• The "Close all other tabs" command no longer closes pinned tabs.
• The "Close all tabs in tab group" command is no longer available in sidebars.
• "Insert Markdown link" and "Insert internal link" commands now support multiple cursors.

No longer broken

• Fixed issue where "clear" would overlap text inside prompts like the quick switcher.
• Fixed bug where search queries using line:, block:, and task: only returned matching files instead of the matching content.
• Pressing ArrowDown when the inline title is focused now properly focuses the editor if the property editor is hidden.
• Fixed issue where renaming a file would mangle Markdown links if the link destination was inside angle brackets.
• Fixed issue where moving a PDF view to a pop-out window caused errors.
• Fixed issue where "Export to PDF" created visual artifacts next to external links in right-to-left text.
• Fixed bug where some commands would cause the editor autocomplete to appear unexpectedly.
• Fixed bug where Obsidian Sync could deactivate itself when syncing to a device with "Sync core plugins" disabled.
• Fixed issue with the PDF view showing the wrong icon in the search bar.
• Fixed issue with inline YouTube previews not showing for some links.
• Context menus now display correctly in right-to-left mode.
• Fixed issue where links in footnotes appeared twice in the outgoing links view.
• Fixed bug where canvas files could become corrupted if they contained a file node with a custom property type.
• Long filenames no longer display an ellipsis at the end when being renamed.
• Fixed issue where clicking on a filename while renaming it would cancel the rename.
• The editor context menu no longer shows Formatting options when the selection is within a link or tag.
• Fixed issue where using the "Fold all" command on a long Markdown file incorrectly folded lines inside code blocks.
• Fixed bug where the link autocomplete sometimes generated invalid Markdown links without the .md file extension.
• Fixed an unresponsive area in the top corner of the screen when a notification was present.
• Fixed issue where popover scroll position reset when the popover was repositioned on the screen.
• Fixed issue where formatting commands were not always applied to table cell selections.
• Fixed bug where clicking on a tag in the Tag view would sometimes bring up the search suggestion box.
• Fixed bug where SVG files would not always show in page previews.
• Fixed issue where "Log out" wouldn't work if the server thought you were already logged out.
• Fixed issue where the PDF view's "copy link to selection" did not include display text if "Use wikilinks" was turned off.
• Fixed issue where the ">" character after a bare link was incorrectly parsed as a quote block.
• Fixed bug where items were not always visible after filtering in the Outline view.
• Fixed issue where search highlights were not cleared when the current Outline view filter was cleared.
• Fixed the "Insert link" command creating incorrect text selections.
• Fixed an issue where "Export to PDF..." sometimes exported white text.
• Fixed a bug causing some editor suggestions from plugins to not update.
• Fixed keyboard navigation issues between the inline title, properties, and editor.
• Fixed "Insert internal link" not triggering autocomplete.
• Fixed cut/copy/paste not working when editing bookmark titles.
• Fixed a bug where creating a Markdown embed sometimes showed "undefined" as the display text.
• Fixed mouse back/forward buttons being processed twice in popout windows.
• Obsidian Sync: Fixed "Show diff" toggle not always working in Sync History.
• Clicking a property search result no longer focuses the File Properties view if frontmatter is visible in the document.
• Fixed styling issues with invalid frontmatter when "Properties in document" is set to "source."
• Clicking "Check for updates" no longer causes layout shifts.
• Fixed a bug where Obsidian would not always wait for pending filesystem operations before quitting.
• Live preview now only escapes special characters (not letters and numbers).
• Fixed bug where escape characters at the start of a list item disappeared in Live Preview.
• Fixed issue where files couldn’t be moved into folders with a file of the same name but different capitalization.
• Fixed issue where links with custom display text under a table confused the Markdown parser.
• Vim: The latest bugfixes from our vim library (codemirror-vim) have been added. This includes fixes for arrow navigation on wrapped lines.
• Editor commands no longer trigger when the tab title is focused.
• Fixed URI action always getting delivered to the main window instead of the active pop-out window.
• Fixed clipboard URI actions not working when a pop-out window is active.
• Fixed issue with community themes only showing light or dark themes when the current theme is set to adapt to system.
• Fixed issue where sidebar tabs would stay focused after collapsing the sidebar.
• Fixed Shift-ArrowUp in the editor causing the inline title to get focused.

Developers

• Plugin installation now automatically strips sourcemaps, making plugins smaller and faster to load.
• Theme developers: REM units are now synced with the base font size.
• Lucide icons have been updated to 0.446.0.
• Fixed requestUrl failing silently when the URL fails to resolve.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.7.4.

Mobile

• Android: Fixed tapping on tag causing the sidebar to open and immediately close.

Improvements

• The "Close all tabs in tab group" command is no longer available in sidebars.

No longer broken

• Editor commands no longer trigger when the tab title is focused.
• Fixed URI action always getting delivered to the main window instead of the active pop-out window.
• Fixed clipboard URI actions not working when a pop-out window is active.
• Fixed pinned icons not appearing on tabs until the tab is focused.
• Fixed issue with community themes only showing light or dark themes when the current theme is set to adapt to system.
• Fixed issue where sidebar tabs would stay focused after collapsing the sidebar.
• Fixed Shift-ArrowUp in the editor causing the inline title to get focused.

Developers

• Lucide icons have been updated to 0.446.0.
• Fixed requestUrl failing silently when the URL fails to resolve.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.7.3.
• iOS: The option to skip iCloud loading will now appear earlier in the startup process.

Improvements

• If a plugin takes a while to load at startup, a message will appear and give you the option to disable the plugin and restart the app.
• The startup debug screen now shows how long individual plugins took to load.

No longer broken

• Fixed sidebar views not always updating to reflect the latest active file.
• Fixed extra history entries appearing in the view navigation list.
• Fixed append and prepend URI actions adding extra newlines when the file content is empty.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.7.2.

No longer broken

• Fix issue where an extra loading bar would appear for a couple frames as the splash screen is hiding.

Improvements

• Views now load only when visible, improving startup performance and memory usage. This might cause issues with some plugins, but we've published a guide for plugin developers.
• Improvements to Obsidian URI new
  • Allows the use of clipboard instead of content to insert the contents of the clipboard.
  • Allows the use of prepend instead of append to add to the top of the file.
  • prepend and append will both attempt to merge properties.
• Daily Notes: New daily Obsidian URI action to automatically open or create your daily note.
• Renaming files is now faster in large vaults.
• Obsidian Sync: You can now filter the activity log.
• The startup debugging screen now shows the number of views loaded and deferred at startup.
• Minor tweaks were made to the status bar padding.

No longer broken

• Fixed issue where hover previews didn’t disappear after creating a footnote.
• Fixed a bug where Obsidian would not always wait for pending filesystem operations before quitting.
• Canvas: Improved performance when panning. There should no longer be a flicker when cards enter and exit the viewport. If you're still seeing related issues, please try switching to default theme.
• The startup debugging screen now includes plugin versions in the clipboard result.
• Live preview now only escapes special characters (not letters and numbers).
• Fixed bug where escape characters at the start of a list item disappeared in Live Preview.
• Fixed issue where files couldn’t be moved into folders with a file of the same name but different capitalization.
• Fixed issue where links with custom display text under a table confused the Markdown parser.
• Vim: The latest bugfixes from our vim library (codemirror-vim) have been added. This includes fixes for arrow navigation on wrapped lines.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.7.1.

Improvements

• Improved app load time for both iOS and Android.
• The app is now more responsive while loading iCloud vaults.

No longer broken

• Fixed a crash issue caused by the mobile tab switcher interacting with some plugins.
• Fixed a bug where tapping on the mobile toolbar for the first time would sometimes close the keyboard.
• Improved the appearance of some Obsidian Sync screens.
• Fixed jitter when dismissing the keyboard on iOS.

Improvements

• Added a new screen in settings (General → Advanced) to show the total app load time. You can also enable a toggle to get a notified when startup takes too long, including details for debugging.
• Page previews will stay open even if the window loses focus or the command palette appears.
• Spellcheck is now disabled for inline tags.
• Pressing Esc now instantly closes the page preview while editing.
• Dragging a .webloc or .url file into the editor creates a Markdown link with the filename as the display text.
• Hovering over a notice keeps it on screen until you move the mouse away.
• Added a right-click menu for footnotes to delete both the footnote and its reference.

No longer broken

• Fixed the "Insert link" command creating incorrect text selections.
• Fixed an issue where "Export to PDF..." sometimes exported white text.
• Fixed a bug causing some editor suggestions from plugins to not update.
• Fixed keyboard navigation issues between the inline title, properties, and editor.
• Fixed "Insert internal link" not triggering autocomplete.
• Fixed cut/copy/paste not working when editing bookmark titles.
• Fixed a bug where clicking "create footnote" could create multiple footnotes.
• Fixed editing nested page previews.
• Fixed a bug where creating a Markdown embed sometimes showed "undefined" as the display text.
• Fixed mouse back/forward buttons being processed twice in popout windows.
• Obsidian Sync: Fixed "Show diff" toggle not always working in Sync History.
• Clicking a property search result no longer focuses the File Properties view if frontmatter is visible in the document.
• Fixed styling issues with invalid frontmatter when "Properties in document" is set to "source."
• Clicking "Check for updates" no longer causes layout shifts.
• Fixed math rendering in footnotes.

Developers

• Plugin installation now automatically strips sourcemaps, making plugins smaller and faster to load.
• Theme developers: REM units are now synced with the base font size.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.7.0.

Shiny new things

• Added a new mobile tab switcher.

Improvements

• Keyboard suggestions now appear for email and password inputs.
• The Android back button now closes the active page in settings.
• Moving the cursor by pressing and holding no longer activates links.
• The sidebar animation is now slightly faster.

No longer broken

• Fixed issue where the pull-down action would activate too easily.
• Fixed bug where "Close all tabs" did not always close all the tabs.
• Fixed issue where the menu handle would cover text if the menu is scrollable.
• Fixed bug where Obsidian Vault would fail to load vaults if you log in from the initial vault selection screen.
• Fixed issue where the active state sometimes gets stuck when tapping on an interactive element.
• Fixed issue where table menus didn't show their options.
• Fixed display of dialog headers with long titles. Titles now get truncated to fit the screen.
• Fixed context menus on tablets not being scrollable.
• Added a loading state to the "Log out" button.
• Settings buttons now show when they are active.
• Fixed issue where the screen would not have enough space when the keyboard is on screen and Stage Manager is active.
• Fixed issue where the keyboard would remain visible when a menu appears.
• Fixed spacing issue with the bottom toolbar when using a physical keyboard on small devices.
• Pressing "Return" when editing a setting now ends editing and hides the keyboard.
• Tapping on a video embed no longer brings up the keyboard.
• The "Export as image" command no longer appears in the command prompt.
• Fixed issue where selecting a sidebar item would not restore focus to the main view.

Android

• Updated haptics to match OS conventions for light, medium, and heavy interactions.
• Status bar and navigation bar now match the app background color.

iOS

• Improved screen resizing when the keyboard appears.
• Fixed issue where the video thumbnail would be blank until you press play.

Tablet

• Fixed horizontal scrolling in community plugins with long descriptions.
• The community plugin sort button now matches the desktop version.

Shiny new things

• Obsidian Sync includes a new view that shows a collection of synchronized files. Activate it using the "Sync: Show Sync history" command.
• You can now click inside a page preview to edit in-place.

Improvements

• You can now create new footnotes by clicking on the hover preview of a footnote ID.
• Spellcheck is now disabled inside prompts like the quick switcher and command palette.
• Added support for x.com embeds in addition to twitter.com.
• Right-clicking in the gutter of a Markdown view now lets you quickly toggle line numbers or readable line width.
• The "Make copy of" menu item has been renamed to "Duplicate" on macOS to match OS conventions.
• Obsidian Publish collaborators can now edit content-related site options, including the order of sidebar items.
• The "Close all other tabs" command no longer closes pinned tabs.
• Frontmatter is now hidden inside embedded editors such as Canvas file nodes and page preview.

No longer broken

• Fixed choppy scrolling between linked Markdown views.
• Fixed issue where "clear" would overlap text inside prompts like the quick switcher.
• Fixed bug where search queries using line:, block:, and task: only returned matching files instead of the matching content.
• Pressing ArrowDown when the inline title is focused now properly focuses the editor if the property editor is hidden.
• Fixed issue where renaming a file would mangle Markdown links if the link destination was inside angle brackets.
• Fixed issue where moving a PDF view to a pop-out window caused errors.
• Fixed issue where "Export to PDF" created visual artifacts next to external links in right-to-left text.
• Fixed bug where some commands would cause the editor autocomplete to appear unexpectedly.
• Fixed bug where Obsidian Sync could deactivate itself when syncing to a device with "Sync core plugins" disabled.
• Fixed issue with the PDF view showing the wrong icon in the search bar.
• Fixed issue with inline YouTube previews not showing for some links.
• Context menus now display correctly in right-to-left mode.
• Fixed issue where links in footnotes appeared twice in the outgoing links view.
• Fixed bug where canvas files could become corrupted if they contained a file node with a custom property type.
• Long filenames no longer display an ellipsis at the end when being renamed.
• Fixed issue where clicking on a filename while renaming it would cancel the rename.
• The editor context menu no longer shows Formatting options when the selection is within a link or tag.
• Fixed issue where using the "Fold all" command on a long Markdown file incorrectly folded lines inside code blocks.
• Fixed bug where the link autocomplete sometimes generated invalid Markdown links without the .md file extension.
• Fixed an unresponsive area in the top corner of the screen when a notification was present.
• Fixed issue where popover scroll position reset when the popover was repositioned on the screen.
• Fixed issue where formatting commands were not always applied to table cell selections.
• Fixed bug where clicking on a tag in the Tag view would sometimes bring up the search suggestion box.
• Fixed bug where SVG files would not always show in page previews.
• Fixed issue where "Log out" wouldn't work if the server thought you were already logged out.
• Fixed issue where the PDF view's "copy link to selection" did not include display text if "Use wikilinks" was turned off.
• "Insert Markdown link" and "Insert internal link" commands now support multiple cursors.
• Fixed issue where the ">" character after a bare link was incorrectly parsed as a quote block.
• Fixed bug where items were not always visible after filtering in the Outline view.
• Fixed issue where search highlights were not cleared when the current Outline view filter was cleared.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.6.7.

No longer broken

• Fixed app freezing when closing a pop-out window while Obsidian Sync is syncing the active file.
• Fixed memory leak when disabling plugins that register custom ribbon buttons.
• Fixed an issue where old file history was missing from the sync history view after renaming a file.
• Fixed collapse indicators displaying the wrong direction next to right-to-left text.
• Fixed overlap of indicators and bullets with right-to-left text.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.6.7.

No longer broken

• Fixed app freezing when closing a pop-out window while Obsidian Sync is syncing the active file.
• Fixed collapse indicators displaying the wrong direction next to right-to-left text.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.6.6.

No longer broken

• Fixed memory leak when disabling plugins that register custom ribbon buttons.
• Fixed overlap of indicators and bullets with right-to-left text.
• Fixed an issue where old file history was missing from the sync history view after renaming a file.

• Includes all new functionality and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.6.5.
• Removed "Open in new window" context menu items from bookmarks.
• Removed "Open to the right" context menu item from bookmarks on smaller devices.

Improvements

• The installer has been updated to use Electron v30.1.2. To upgrade, install visit the Obsidian download page and reinstall Obsidian.
• Added a new advanced section at the bottom of "File and links" settings page. This section includes a button for manually rebuilding the metadata cache if the cache gets corrupted or out of sync with the filesystem.

No longer broken

• Fixed date and time input being cut off.
• Fixed extra border between vertical splits in the sidebar.
• Fixed bug where Graph view could constantly save and reload.