Ocean Update Log
Track every improvement and feature.
Detailed changelog of all Ocean updates
with version history and improvements.
✨ New Feature 🖍️ Improvement 🐜 Bug Fix Drop Drop Required
2026.4.6 (933)
2026-07-22

Cleanup handles bigger inboxes

  • 🖍️ Cleanup now handles very large email sets reliably when archiving or deleting
  • 🖍️ Clearer descriptions for the Forgotten and The Abyss cleanup categories
  • 🐜 Various stability and reliability fixes
2026.4.5 (926)
2026-07-15

Surfacing summaries and an easier way to load email history

  • Beacon now shows a Surfacing summary with Action, Review, and Cleanup lanes
  • 🖍️ Redesigned Settings → Inbox with a clearer sync status and quick options to load more email history
  • 🖍️ First time setup now loads initial email set faster
  • 🖍️ Surface Insights in conversations look cleaner, and emails with insights now show a sparkle
  • 🐜 Various stability and reliability fixes
2026.4.4 (918)
2026-07-08

Onboarding polish and steadier sync

  • 🖍️ Sign-in screen now displays fully on smaller iPhones
  • 🐜 Fixed inbox sync stalling and no longer fetching new email in some cases
  • 🐜 Various stability and reliability fixes
2026.4.3 (913)
2026-07-03

Clearer onboarding and more reliable sync

  • 🖍️ Enhanced onboarding experience providing a clearer view into Ocean's pricing model
  • 🖍️ Recovering from an out-of-date mailbox now guides you through the account recovery sheet
  • 🐜 Various stability and reliability fixes
2026.4.2 (906)
2026-06-29

Surfacing and update-prompt refinements

  • 🖍️ Beacon now shows a card as soon as a new version of Ocean is available to update
  • 🖍️ The Surface prompt now appears only when you have genuinely unread new mail, not conversations you've already read
  • 🐜 Fixed docked email due dates that could shift across time zones
  • 🐜 Various stability and reliability fixes
2026.4.1 (898)
2026-06-22

A smarter Beacon: Surfacing; Analysis lanes; and Dock scheduling

  • DROP Beacon now surfaces your recent conversations and sorts them into three lanes — Action, Review, and Cleanup
  • Drill into any lane to review and act on its emails, including clearing clutter in bulk
  • Reschedule docked emails to a specific due date or a time bucket, with precise dates grouped on their own
  • 🐜 Fixed a crash that could occur at launch when an account needed to be re-authenticated
  • 🐜 Various stability and reliability fixes
2026.3.5 (882)
2026-06-04

Dock details, Today polish, and Cleanup updates

  • Dock rows now display the insight title and due date at a glance
  • 🖍️ Today view sections are now collapsible and show item counts
  • Beacon shows a card prompting you to connect your calendar when it is not connected
  • Cleanup adds a new "The Abyss" category for senders that don't fit any other group
  • 🖍️ Swipe actions now use native iOS gestures for a cleaner / more responsive feel
  • 🐜 Various stability and reliability fixes
2026.3.4 (861)
2026-05-11

Account re-auth flow and Dock polish

  • Long-press an email in the Dock list to preview it with a quick-action menu
  • Mark emails as read or unread directly from the email list
  • A new card alerts you when a newer version of Ocean is available on the App Store
  • Beacon flags an account that needs to sign in to Google again, with a single tap to recover
  • 🖍️ Dock list now shows the account email in the navigation bar
  • 🐜 Fix dock items staying in 'Today' instead of moving to past groups when the day rolls over
  • 🐜 Various stability and reliability fixes
2026.3.3 (849)
2026-04-29

Dock & Today refinements

  • New Today filter in the Dock to focus on what's due now
  • Today view now shows the emails you docked for today
  • 🖍️ Email actions now reflect the current state of the email
  • 🖍️ Discard a docked email directly from the email view
  • 🖍️ Trashing a conversation now automatically removes it from the Dock
  • 🖍️ Dock sections auto-expand as they fill up
  • 🖍️ Adding a secondary account now triggers a full sync so older mail comes in right away
  • 🐜 Fix emails not loading correctly after completing onboarding
  • 🐜 Various stability and reliability fixes
2026.3.2 (843)
2026-04-28

Redesign UI and new Beacon & Dock functionality

  • 🖍️ Resigned UI to support iOS 26
  • New Dock functionality for 'deal with later' emails
  • DROP New Beacon Intelligence
  • New Ocean Drops consumable model