Buffer for iOS 26 is the greatest replace we’ve ever shipped to our cellular app.
The replace consists of:
- ✨ Recent 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 Targets 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 in the present day 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 further 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:
- Recent new design with Liquid Glass
- Smarter widgets and onboarding
- Return to your final spot within the app
- Simpler channel switching with fewer modals
- A playful new startup animation and smoother picture loading
Simply seize content material concepts in your cellphone or watch
Concepts hardly ever wait till you’re sitting at your desk. With iOS 26, you’ll be able to seize them the second they arrive to you.
Highlights:
- A brand new Concepts Shortcut in Management Middle or the iPhone Motion Button
- Thought Composer on Apple Watch
- Buffer now accessible within the Shortcuts app
Keep on prime of your social media posting targets
Consistency is simpler when you’ll be able to see your progress. This replace makes it easy to regulate queues, targets, and streaks out of your cellphone or your wrist.
Highlights:
- Queue counts throughout organizations
- Posting Aim settings for every channel
- Progress rings round avatars to trace targets
- A brand new day view within the calendar
- Apple Watch problems for streaks, targets, and queues
Buffer in your wrist by way of an Apple Watch app
For the primary time, Buffer is on Apple Watch. You possibly can verify your queue, observe your streak, or seize an thought with out reaching in your cellphone.
I exploit the iOS app nearly day by day. More often than not it’s jotting down publish 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 occasions I’ll flick by means of the calendar simply to see every part at a look. These little check-ins that hold me on observe.
This replace makes these moments smoother for me. Saving an thought is now one faucet from the lock display screen. The calendar is clearer and simpler to work with. And if I need to regulate my streaks or posting targets, I can do it straight from my watch.
None of this might 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 assume. Your suggestions has all the time formed Buffer, and I’m wanting ahead to listening to how this replace matches into your workflow.
