An Update from the iOS Lab

Here at Medium World Headquarters, there is a door.

It is a simple, nondescript, solid lead, blast-proof door that most people who visit the office walk right past without even noticing. Above the bank-vault combination lock is a small placard which reads “iOS Guild.”

And oh the sounds we hear from behind that door. Whoops and hoots, hurrahs and hollers, breaking glass and calliope music. No one is allowed inside, but we imagine it looks like this:


And every once in a while, a small hatch opens up and an iOS app update comes sliding out. Here is the latest one, and this is what it includes:

Search

OMG you can now search in the Medium app! From the home screen, tap the “M” in the top left corner to bring up the main menu and then select “Search.” You can search for title, author, or publication name.

(We are still working on this feature, so as of now we only return a list of stories as a result, not profiles or publications. But if you search for an author or publication, stories written by that author or appearing in that publication will be in the results.)

Cover flow

We brought swipey back!

  • From any story, swipe left to go to the next story. Where you navigated from will determine what that next story is. For example, if you clicked into the story from your home feed, you will get the next story from that feed. If you came from a publication page, you will get the next story from that publication.
  • Swipe right to go back the the previous screen.
  • Swipe right from the left edge of the screen to get back to home.

Tap to navigate

While reading any story, tap the middle of the screen to bring up the navigation bars. There you will find buttons to return home, bookmark, recommend, or share that story on other social media.

∞ scroll

We guarantee you will never get to the bottom of your homepage story list. And in the off chance you get close, we have an infinite number of monkeys sitting at an infinite number of MacBooks, ready to write you a new one.

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