What’s New 🚨

• Floating mode on top of fullscreen apps (Mac): By popular request, you can now use Around’s floating mode on top of fullscreen apps in Mac.

• Hide self-view 2.0: Based on your feedback regarding our recent hide self-view feature, we’ve made some updates which will allow you to free up even more of your screen! With this new design for hiding self-view, we’ve significantly reduced the size of your video circle and placed it off to the side, while still allowing you to see your own reactions and thoughts. Right-click on your video circle and select “Hide self view” or press “V” to try it out.

• CPU and battery life enhancements: We’ve made multiple improvements to our audio DSP, resulting in significant improvements to battery life and CPU utilization.

• Alert sounds: You can now play a sound whenever someone joins a meeting. You can turn this on by going to your Lobby > Preferences > Audio > Play alert sounds.

• Updated audio settings during a call: You can now choose your mic and speaker, disable audio output and see other audio settings in your current call. Just click the dropdown next to your mic icon.

• Updated camera settings during a call: By clicking on the dropdown next to the camera icon, you can choose a webcam, enable/disable camera framing/face zoom, hide your self-view or see more settings.

• Redesigned preferences: We’ve completely updated our Preferences Menu in order to make all of our settings easier to find, which now includes:

  • Audio: Choose your mic and speaker input, as well as noise suppression level.

  • Video: You have the ability to choose your camera input, as well as disable camera framing/face zoom for all calls.

  • Account: Set your profile picture, personal information or add other sign-in methods.

• Improved video capturing performance on macOS

• Add fire to your Campfire Mode: What’s Campfire Mode without a proper campfire? If you have 5+ participants in Campfire Mode, now you can just click in the middle of the circular empty space a few times to ignite a roaring fire. The more you click, the bigger it grows. But keep in mind: just like a real fire, you have to keep feeding it or else it’ll burn out. (You may have to click around a few times, but you'll find it eventually!) 🔥

Fixes 🐛

Here are some of the highlights:

General

• Made some improvements to app loading time
• Anyone will now be able to delete a shared image (instead of just the owner)
• Fixed bug where you couldn’t see someone’s cursor while they were screensharing
• Fixed issue where clicking hyperlinks in Notes didn’t work
• Continued improvements to one-click links
• Fixed bugs with sizing of GIFs and thoughts

macOS

• Fixed bug on older Macbooks where video background was extending outside of the video circle itself

Windows

• Fixed issue on older Windows devices where app was stuck on the loading screen and would not open

What’s Coming 🚴‍♀️

• Audio-only voice channels
• Mobile app for Android and iOS
• Linux app
• Vertical floating mode (the ability to stack your video bubbles vertically instead of horizontally)

Give us a shout at support@around.co if you run into any issues or just want to say hola. 😍