Element X - Secure Chat & Call26.09.1 - App Store

Freedom to communicate on your own terms

For individuals and communities - private communication between family, friends, hobby groups, clubs, etc.

Element X gives you fast, secure and private instant messaging and video calls built on Matrix, the open standard for real-time communication. This is a free and open-source app maintained at https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios

Stay in touch with friends, family and communities with:
. Real time messaging & video calls
. Public rooms for open group communication
. Private rooms for closed group communication
. Rich messaging features: emoji reactions, replies, polls, pinned messages and more.
. Video calling while browsing messages.
. Interoperability with other Matrix-based apps such as FluffyChat, Cinny and many more.

Privacy-first
Unlike some other messengers from Big Tech companies, we don’t mine your data or monitor your communications.

Own your conversations
Choose where to host your data - from any public server (the largest free server is matrix.org, but there are plenty of others to choose from) to creating your own personal server and hosting it on your own domain. This ability to choose a server is a large part of what differentiates us from other real time communication apps. However you host, you have ownership; it’s your data. You’re not the product. You’re in control.

Communicate in real time, all the time
Use Element everywhere. Stay in touch wherever you are with fully synchronised message history across all your devices, including on the web at https://app.element.io

Element X is our next-generation app
If you’re using the previous-generation Element Classic app, it’s time to try Element X! It’s faster, easier to use, and more powerful than the classic app. It’s better in every way and we’re adding new features all the time.

Version History As September rolls around we’ve got a fresh release of Element X ready for you to enjoy.

• Voice message users rejoice! Playback will now advance to the next message automatically.
• You can now include a reason for others to see when removing a message.
• Improved the display of messages that contain details within a collapsable block.

Various bugs have been fixed including the possibility of getting stuck on the Join Room screen and the potential of random flickering on specific iPad Mini devices. As always the full release notes can be found at https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/releases 26.09.1 Sep 14 Good news everyone!

A new version of Element X has been released with a feature that has been heavily requested by the community: user status.
If your homeserver supports it, it's now possible to add a user status, to communicate when you might be busy, AFK, on holidays, or simply give some insights about what is in your mind or what you are doing.

This version also improves the overall performance of the app and the toolbar UI. 26.08.4 Aug 31 The weather in Europe is hot hot hot, but nothing’s as hot as this latest release of Element X! Version 26.08.2 is now available with a focus on quality-of-life improvements:

• We've reduced the number of steps to select your server when signing in.
• The app now remembers your previous server(s) making it quicker to sign in again.
• There's one less step to view a user's avatar from the timeline.
• Calls are more reliable on Max sized phones and more efficient on all devices.
• Read receipts should be more reliable when resuming the app.

As always, the full release notes can be found at https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/releases 26.08.2 Aug 17 Good news everyone!

This version provides a hotfix for an issue that might have prevented some messages to get received.
Plus it also includes some improvements in previewing and displaying gallery messages. 26.08.1 Aug 11 Good news everyone!

This new version of Element X brings you support for gallery messages, so you can finally visualise and preview multiple aggregated media in your timeline.
We also added a timeline item to display if there is an active call alongside support for user presence (if your homeserver supports this feature).

It also improves stability by fixing a crash that happened when trying to download a media. 26.08.0 Aug 3 Version 26.07.4 is now available with a handful of small changes including:

• Calls will always be shown using dark mode.
• A fix for a bug that prevented you from opening chats under certain offline conditions.

As always, the full release notes can be found at https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/releases 26.07.4 Jul 20 Good news everyone!

This new version of Element X brings the ability of creating polls where multiple answers are allowed, alongside some major stability improvements to increase the app performance. 26.07.3 Jul 13 Quick! Go out side and look up at that sky. If you’re lucky you might spot the latest Element X release in flight. This version adds the following new features:

• The ability to flip an image before sending it.
• Support for pasting markdown links directly onto selected text when writing a message.
• Automatic rotation of video calls when using Picture in Picture.

Additionally there’s a healthy amount of bug fixes including better handling of missed calls when coming back online, improved link detection in room topics and more robust navigation when tapping on a user. As always the full release notes can be found at https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/releases 26.06.1 Jun 22 Good news everyone

This version contains some small but useful new features like:
- The ability of creating a new group room from an existing DM.
- Custom notification tones
- Jump to unread button
- Forward a message to multiple rooms. 26.06.0 Jun 8 Good news everyone

In this new release we added an invite feature in direct messages, that allows to create a new room with other users, alongside your dm recipient, all from one simple action in the room details!
This release also includes some minor bug fixes and stability improvements. 26.05.3 May 25 Good news everyone!

This release brings an important security update, alongside improved support for right to left languages and a bug fix for live location sharing. But we're not done yet! This update also brings a highly requested feature, which is the ability to edit and crop an image before upload. 26.05.2 May 18 Good news, everyone!
This release includes a lot of great new features.

First of all, we now support live location sharing. This allows you to send real-time location updates in a room, so your family and friends can see where you are, even when the app is in the background or your screen is locked while you’re out jogging and listening to music.

In group chats, only moderators can use this feature by default, but admins can easily change this in the room’s permission settings.

We’ve also enabled searching the public room directory. You can now browse the wide range of public rooms your server has curated and find and join the communities that interest you.

Last but not least, users can now request to join rooms that support this specific access setting. If you come across an interesting room that allows join requests and you don’t have an invite, you can simply ask to join and wait for a moderator to review your request and send an invitation.

Moderators can view all pending join requests in the rooms they manage and decide whether to accept or decline them.

At the moment, creating or configuring rooms with the “ask to join” setting isn’t supported, we only support existing rooms with this access type. Stay tuned for a future update! 26.05.0 May 12 Get ready for the latest version of Element X with better calls, improved captions and a smooth new experience when migrating from Element Classic. Upgrade now to experience these delightful treats:

• Signing into the app is significantly faster for users coming from Element Classic. Make sure your device is Verified and has Secure Backup enabled for the smoothest Matrix onboarding you’ve ever seen with seamless device verification.
• We added support for Voice calling in the previous update and from everything we’ve heard it was a hit! The app is now fully-aware of Voice calls throughout the UI, bringing various improvements when joining ongoing calls.
• When viewing Media files, long Captions are now scrollable instead of being truncated.

This update also includes plenty of bug fixes including stuck Verification, visual glitches on iPad and detection of what your Account Provider allows you to do in the app. As always the full release notes can be found at https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/releases 26.04.2 Apr 27 Good news everyone!

This new version brings several quality of life updates
- First of all multiple windows are now supported for the iPadOS version of the application. Organize your chats as you wish!
- Wondering when the messages you are scrolling through were sent? No worries, now a floating date will always appear at the top of timeline while scrolling, telling you the date of the topmost message.
- Want to talk to someone but still wearing your pyjamas? No worries now DMs have an option to start a voice only call! 26.04.1 Apr 20 The latest release of Element X is now available and brings the following improvements:

• You no longer have to scroll to open the Media & Files screen from the Room Info screen.
• The Reaction Picker includes all the latest system emoji.
• Improved support for Key Storage on some accounts.
• Numerous design tweaks throughout the app.
• Fixed a bug where some of the Sign In options were hidden when using larger font sizes.

As always the full release notes can be found at https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/releases 26.04.0 Apr 7 Good news everyone!

This new version contains a redesign of our location sharing flow that improves its UX and the displayed info.
In particular is possible to distinguish now between a pinned location and the user location 26.03.3 Mar 16 This version of Element X fixes a bug that resulted in messages animating twice when sending. It contains all the improvements included in 26.03.0 as well:

• There’s a new option on Voice Messages that allows you to slow down or speed up playback.
• Device and User Verification has been tweaked and simplified.
• Power users should see a reduction in the amount of storage used by the app.

As always, the full release notes are available at https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/releases 26.03.2 Mar 11 Ready to have more control when listening to Voice Messages? Element X 26.03 is here and brings the following changes:

• There’s a new option on Voice Messages that allows you to slow down or speed up playback.
• Device and User Verification has been tweaked and simplified.
• Power users should see a reduction in the amount of storage used by the app.

As always, the full release notes are available at https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/releases 26.03.0 Mar 2 Great news everyone!

Spaces have finally reached their second iteration, which includes
- A space filter in your room list that can be used alongside existing filters.
- Adding, remove or create rooms in a space that you can manage
- A space settings screen to tweak and change permissions, informations, or access of a space you can manage.
- Creating a space.

And that's not all... we also included some small UI refactors to align the app with Liquid Glass, alongside the usual bug fixes and stability improvements. 26.02.2 Feb 16 February already?! Well with that in mind, say hello to version 26.02 of Element X which brings the following improvements to the app:

• We’ve made embedded code blocks scrollable in order to preserve your beautiful code formatting.
• Numerous improvements to the processing of formatted messages.
• Expanded support for the latest design system on iOS 26.

As always, you can find the full release notes at https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/releases 26.02.0 Feb 2 Good news everyone!

A brand new year has just started, and alongside it, Element X is introducing brand new features and improvements:

- Storage optimisation: The app will now run some background tasks after the update to optimise its storage use, so that the app will always be fast, and its caching size small.
- Translation action: is now possible to translate a message, by opening up the action menu and selecting the option. This will use iOS automatic translation.
- Permission settings UI is now responsive to the current user role and power level, allowing the user to only change the permissions that they are allowed to, and select only roles that equal or lower than theirs.
- The process for creating a room has been streamlined, and its UI has been updated.
- A lot of bug fixes and improvements to the overall UX and stability of the app. 26.01.0 Jan 19 As we head into the final month of 2025 we’re wrapping up the year with one last release of Element X. Installing version 25.12 will net you the following changes:

• You can now see when messages are still sending (or failed to send) from your Chats list.
• Edited messages are properly reflected in the Chats list. No more worrying about that embarrassing typo!
• Offline detection is now lightning fast and doesn’t leave you in limbo wondering what’s going on.
• Read receipts no longer disappear when somebody changes their name.
• The app now requires iOS 18 or above.

We look forward to seeing you in 2026. 25.12.0 12/09/2025 Good news everyone!

This version brings some minor but welcome improvements:
- The notification sound is more audible
- The room list rendering has been improved
- Opening a room in an iPad will now be faster. 25.11.3 11/24/2025 The latest version of Element X is now available with an assortment of bug fixes and quality of life improvements such as:

• Options to change room access, encryption and history have been added.
• It is now possible to view the users who are joined to a Space.
• Spaces are listed in the order you have defined in Element Web.
• Your chats are once again accessible via VoiceOver. Apologies for any inconvenience caused by this bug.

As always, the full release notes can be found at https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/releases 25.11.1 11/14/2025 Good news everyone!

This newer version brings some bug fixes and stability improvements for iOS 26. 25.10.2 10/27/2025