Includes all new features and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.15.1.
New
- Added the Web viewer core plugin. With Open external links turned on in its settings, links to web pages open in an in-app browser that slides up over your note.
- Android: Added a View note home screen widget that shows the contents of a note, replacing the Open note widget.
- iOS: Added an Obsidian tile to the Quick Capture home screen widgets.
Improvements
Manage vaults
- Each vault now shows where it’s stored, file count, Sync vault, and community plugins before you open it. If community plugins were slow to load last time, it suggests opening in restricted mode.
- Renaming, moving, and deleting a vault are now in the … menu at the top of the vault’s screen.
- Swiping from the edge of the screen now goes back.
- If a vault didn’t finish opening last time, Obsidian now shows the vault screen instead of reopening it, including when opened from a link. The vault is marked in the vault list, and suggests opening in restricted mode.
- A new vault with the same name as a deleted, forgotten or renamed vault confirms again whether to trust community plugins.
Android
- Home screen widgets have a new design.
- Home screen widgets and quick settings tiles now let you pick a vault and note from a list instead of typing their names.
- The New note widget and quick settings tile can now create unique notes.
- The New note and Daily note widgets and quick settings tiles can now open in a new tab.
- Obsidian starts faster in vaults with large hidden folders, such as
.git.
- Settings → Files and links → Deleted files no longer offers “Move to system trash”, and the delete prompt now says files go to the
.trash folder, where they already went.
iOS
- The small Quick Capture home screen widget now shows up to 4 tiles in a 2×2 grid.
- Voice capture now starts a new line when you pause speaking for 2 seconds.
- Save Audio File in voice capture settings is now off by default. Turn it on to also keep the audio file.
- Signing up for an account now opens in a sheet that slides up from the bottom.
Other
- Sidebars on phone stay in place and fade in as the note slides to the side. The Sliding sidebars setting has been removed.
- Settings, menus and other sheets now open and close more smoothly.
- Formatting buttons in the editor toolbar now highlight when their style is active.
- Settings and Community plugins: Swiping back from the edge of the screen now takes a lighter flick, and the previous page slides in underneath.
- Community plugins now load faster when Obsidian starts.
No longer broken
- Settings: Fixed settings and open tabs changed right before leaving the app sometimes going back to how they were the next time Obsidian opened.
- Tablet: Fixed an open sidebar staying in its old layout after resizing the app between tablet and phone sizes, such as in Split View.
- iOS: Fixed the Add button in Quick Capture Locations staying greyed out after deleting every location, until you closed and reopened the sheet.
Developers
- On phones, the note and navbar get the
is-sliding-sidebar class while a sidebar is open, and are dimmed by .workspace-drawer-backdrop and .workspace-drawer-navbar-backdrop. The sidebar itself no longer moves. The slidingSidebar config option has been removed.
- Sheets on phones no longer use
--anim-motion-swing when opening.