Release Notes

A calmer, glassier app.

• Unified the glass treatment across cards, chrome, map controls, and buttons.
• Chat now reveals the reply, the result cards, and the follow-up chips in the order you read them.
• Nearby filter chips match the ones in chat, and tapping a pin highlights its card (and the other way round).
• Sign out moved to Settings → Account; a new toggle hides the results summary bar.
• Fixed clipped pin halos, card shadows, and the sync details sheet.

Understands you better.

• Your constraints now survive corrections and retries — a follow-up no longer forgets "no seafood" or "walking distance".
• Place names, details, and suggestions are requested in your app language.
• AI insights remember the language they were written in, so switching languages no longer serves a stale summary.
• Fewer misread requests when you narrow results in your own words.
• New "Cheap eats" starter prompt; "Quick bite" now names your district instead of a full street address.

Fixes across usage, subscriptions, and the map.

• Fixed a case where a stale usage block kept New Chat disabled even though Settings showed quota left.
• The subscription confirmation sheet is fully readable at the largest accessibility text sizes.
• Nearby: correct first-tap highlight, better cluster zoom, and the card glow stays inside the card.

Nearby, refreshed.

• The map header recaps the search you are looking at, and "Search this area" stays available on every idle.
• Tapping a cluster now zooms to a level that actually splits it.
• Deep Dive opens as a full page instead of a sheet.
• Warmer, more editorial styling on restaurant pages.
• iCloud and sync status now surface in Settings.
• Fixed a crash in usage tracking.

Asks before it locates.

• A new primer explains why T4Taste needs your location before iOS asks — and the app never prompts on its own again.
• Fixed a crash while scrolling long chats.
• Fixed subscription state flapping and an expired-receipt loop that could block re-subscribing.
• AI insights read like an edited page: named sources, a tighter keyword line, and section cards that collapse as you scroll.
• Voice input shows the slide-to-cancel hint while you record.
• Photo galleries page correctly, and opening hours are judged on the restaurant's clock, not your device's.

Restaurant pages, redesigned.

• New restaurant page: photo hero with the name on the image, an hours card that shows how long it stays open, flat good-to-know pills, and a where-to-find-it map.
• Menus are now fetched when you ask for them instead of automatically.
• Deep Dive gains a sticky action bar with an order-service picker.
• Redesigned subscription screens.

The chat, redesigned.

• Results arrive as a swipeable carousel, each card carrying a one-line reason to go, written on your iPhone.
• Starter prompts replace the greeting on a fresh chat.
• Searching shows its steps — understood, searching, ranking.
• Redesigned no-results and error cards, plus a satisfaction check to keep looking or stop.
• New Coral Red palette.

Faster, cooler, better grounded.

• Large reduction in heating and battery drain while streaming replies and browsing the map.
• Restore Purchases is best-effort and reads your App Store entitlement directly.
• Result cards explain why they matched, and insights cite the sources behind them.
• Add a personal note to any favourited restaurant.
• "Search this area" now searches exactly the area you are looking at.
• Every chat message types out, not just the long ones.

Favourites, organised.

• Favourites gains Collections — shelves grouped by time of day, recently added, and what is within walking distance.
• Open or closed is judged in the restaurant's own timezone.

Fewer dead ends.

• One chip stack in Nearby, with clear-all.
• Carry map results into the conversation with "Continue in chat".
• Starter prompts personalised with your city.
• Honest empty states for unknown hours, an empty Deep Dive, and an empty Favourites list.
• Destructive actions consolidated into Settings → Manage Data.
• Escape routes added wherever the conversation could previously dead-end.

Clearer status, real prices.

• Subscription prices now come from the App Store in your own currency.
• Thinking indicators show what the AI is doing — locating, searching, ranking.
• Better recovery when an address cannot be resolved.
• Menus can be reconstructed on your iPhone when a restaurant publishes none.

Stability fixes for account deletion and chat.

• Fixed a crash when deleting an account signed in with Google.
• Fixed an error that could interrupt the AI after a search ran in the background.
• More reliable device verification on first use.

Room to talk.

• Per-chat token budgets raised 5× across all tiers (Trial 25,000 · Beginner 50,000 · Food Lover 75,000 · Professional Guide 100,000) — the message cap is now the effective per-chat limit.

Smarter suggestions, smoother flows.

• Smarter follow-up choices: better no-results recovery with diagnosis-ranked alternatives and "did you mean" suggestions.
• The app now remembers recent search locations and offers them when asking where to look.
• Redesigned sync status sheet and a clearer subscription purchase sheet.
• Sharper cover photos in Favourites.
• Fixed photo zoom, scrolling-title reveal, and insights auto-scroll regressions introduced in 1.0.1.

Cooler, faster, more polished.

• Major reduction in device heating and battery drain while browsing.
• Search for places open at a specific time ("open at 9 pm").
• Share and favourite buttons on restaurant details; reach us on Xiaohongshu.
• Accessibility improvements across the app (VoiceOver labels, contrast, tap targets).
• Time-aware greetings and smarter input placeholders.
• Privacy: cached search queries are now cleared on sign-out.

Welcome to T4Taste.

• Discover restaurants by chatting with AI.
• Explore nearby spots on the map with "Search this area."
• Use Deep Dive insights to pick your next meal with confidence.
• Save favourites and sync across devices via iCloud.
• Available in English, French, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
• Voice input for hands-free searching.