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Amrisha Prashar
on 17 July 2015

Phone update: July

The full list of Ubuntu Phone updates for July are provided below:

General improvements

  • Refreshed icons throughout including apps and indicator icons
  • Shell rotation
  • Additional keyboard layouts added for Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Greek, Norwegian, Ukrainian, Slovak, Icelandic

Scopes

  • Keyword tagging support added to News, Photos and Today scopes

Store improvements

  • Refunds (The Store will now let users “cancel” a purchase up to 15 minutes after an app is purchased)
  • Edit app ratings

Browser Improvements

  • Bookmark folders
  • Keyboard shortcuts

Other

  • Improvements to Call Forwarding UI (in System settings > Phone)
  • WPA Enterprise support added to System settings and Networking
  • MX4 LED pulses when there is a notification
  • In-line contact editing in Dialer and Messaging apps
  • Group MMS support in Dialer and Messaging apps
  • GPS location tagging added to Camera
  • SDK has added the ability to allow apps to keep the display on (e.g. for games developers that need to avoid the screen timeout)
  • More than 50 other issues resolved

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