RyukGram/NOTES.md

[release] RyukGram v1.3.3

Updated for Instagram 439.0.0.

✨ Highlights

• Call recording — record voice and video calls, with auto-record, smart video grids and a per-person browser to play them back
• Activity notifications — one log for who read your messages plus who came online, went offline or started typing, per person, with an accurate green dot
• Grid feed — turn your home feed into a tappable grid of thumbnails with stats and author overlays, per account
• Stories archive — saves every story you post before it expires, with its media and full viewer list, per account
• Story viewers list — a searchable, filterable, sortable and pinnable "who viewed my story", with each viewer's reaction shown
• Instagram Plus — turn on some Instagram's paid subscriber features inside the app
• Custom button icons — pick any Instagram icon or iOS symbol for the action and home-shortcut buttons

🆕 New features

Messages

• Activity notifications and Activity log — records who read your messages plus who came online, went offline or started typing, as a per-person timeline. Set each event to log silently, notify you, or both, and hold anyone to customise or mute them. A new accurate active-status option turns the green dot off the moment someone leaves. Filter by type and date, swipe or multi-select to delete, and lock the log behind your passcode
• A dot in the DMs inbox to turn your active status on or off without opening settings
• Keep deleted messages can now also keep the ones you unsend yourself, shown faded in chat and added to the deleted log
• Mark chats seen locally — with read-receipt blocking on, opened chats look read on your device while the sender still gets no receipt; the eye button turns orange until you really mark seen
• Hold the account name at the top of Direct to show or hide your hidden chats, with an optional passcode/Face ID lock
• Messages-only mode is now its own menu, can turn on automatically during a daily window, and adds a notifications shortcut plus an optional home-shortcut button in the inbox header
• Adding someone to a list (read-receipt blocking, hidden or locked chats, chat backgrounds, story viewer pins) now opens a picker of recent DMs with username search, instead of typing it in blind
• The DM Draw feature can now send an image as your doodle — from the gallery, Photos, your Instagram or iOS stickers, or a pasted image — with an editor to crop, resize and remove the background
• Custom chat backgrounds can now be videos or GIFs, framed with pan-zoom and trim, with the same opacity, blur and dim controls, and re-editable later
• Hide suggested accounts and channels in Direct messages search

Stories

• Stories archive saves every story you post before it expires, with its media and full viewer list, per account. Browse by date in a grid, see who viewed, liked or reacted, with filter, sort, pinned viewers, an unread badge, optional alerts and its own backup and storage entry
• The "who viewed my story" list is now searchable — filter (mutuals, following, follows you, verified, reacted, pinned), sort, and pin anyone to the top. Shows avatars, verified badges and each viewer's reaction, loads every viewer, and can switch back to Instagram's own list. Pick which one opens first
• Marked-seen indicator — stories you already marked as seen hide the eye button or fill it green for 48 hours, per account
• New "Save image (no music)" story download option for photo stories that have Instagram music on them
• Story tray long-press "Profile picture" now also works in Instagram's new subscriber story preview menu

Reels

• New reels playback menu — hold the ⋯ or audio button for speed, seek (skip back/forward by a custom amount) and auto-scroll controls
• Auto-scroll reels is back — Instagram default or RyukGram mode that keeps advancing after you swipe back
• Filter reels by engagement — set a minimum for likes, comments, views or reposts and reels below it never show, plus an option to hide reels whose author hides their counts. Only the Reels tab is filtered by default, so reels you open from a post, profile or share stay untouched
• Show when a reel was reposted — an optional date on the "reposted this reel" header

Feed & Explore

• New Grid feed — turn your home feed into a grid of post thumbnails showing likes, comments, views, shares and the author. Pinch to change columns, pull to refresh, tap a post to open it, or hold for a menu to like, follow, view profile, expand, share or copy the link. Choose which stats show, square or taller tiles, and how you switch back to Instagram's feed. Loads instantly, works per account and remembers where you left off
• Search and explore grids now show stat pills on posts and reels — views, likes, comments, shares, reposts and date — with a page to pick which appear, reorder them and toggle them
• New date format options — swap Instagram's relative timestamps on posts, notes, comments, stories and DMs for a fixed date, a preset like dd/MM/yyyy, or your own template, with a relative-time threshold
• New "Block surveys" toggle — hides Instagram's in-app surveys and feedback prompts, including the "Interested in this post?" cards
• Confirm feed refresh — an optional alert before a pull-to-refresh reloads the home feed
• Refresh stories only — pull-to-refresh reloads just the stories tray and leaves the feed where it is

Instants

• Instants download now works on videos too — expand, save, share and download-all all handle video instants
• Send a video from your gallery as an Instant — frame it square, trim any 7 seconds on a scrollable timeline, then hold to record
• Confirm before capturing an Instant — an optional alert on a photo tap or held video, plus a confirm before tapping to switch Instants
• Auto close the Instants viewer once you've seen them all

Downloads & Gallery

• Download manager got a rebuild — thumbnails for finished media, live size, speed and time left, a filter row, and swipe a row to cancel, retry or remove
• Downloads now stay listed after you close the app and can be downloaded again from the history — kept from 12 hours up to forever, and cleared or exported from Backup and Storage
• Download quality picker has an advanced view — download a video with no audio, or pick any of its audio tracks
• Gallery — import your own photos, videos and files from the ••• menu, saved under an Imported filter
• Gallery browsing got more controls — combine a sort with images, videos or favorites first, filter by date, pick 2 to 5 columns, and long-press a user section to select all their media
• The gallery now uses Instagram icons throughout, grid tiles show a date chip, and long-pressing an item shows its date, source and size

Profile

• Profile card details now also show comment, share and repost counts, with a page to pick which stats appear, reorder them and toggle them
• Followers and Following lists get a filter and sort button on Instagram's search bar — mutuals, following, follows you or verified, sorted by name or relationship
• Profile Analyzer's badge now shows gains and losses — a green +N when a list grew, a red −N when it shrank
• Profile Analyzer is out of beta

Interface & notifications

• Action button and home-shortcut icons are now fully customisable — a searchable browser for any Instagram icon or iOS symbol, per button or shared, including Instagram's colourful pet stickers
• Tab bar icon order is now a live tab bar preview — drag to reorder, drag one up to hide, tap a hidden icon to add it back
• Story and disappearing-media overlay buttons can be repositioned by dragging them on a preview
• The notification pill can be placed anywhere on a phone preview, not just top or bottom
• Notifications mirrored to the iOS notification centre can now also show as system banners while you're using the app
• The home shortcut button shows a red dot for new deleted messages, read receipts or call recordings, with a count next to each in its menu
• Favorite GIFs long-press menu can now copy a GIF's link

Privacy & backup

• Device ID masking now also hides the vendor ID and machine ID, can block Apple device attestation, and can reset fresh while keeping masking on. A Device ID button on the login screen gives the same controls while signed out
• Follow requests tracker shows a badge for updates you haven't opened yet
• Backup's "Feature data" now opens a list where you tick exactly which stores to export, import or reset, instead of all-or-nothing
• Backups can be locked with a password when exporting (AES-256), asked for only when you restore them

General

• Change Instagram's own interface language from the tweak — a picker with a full language list, including Arabic even if your device isn't set to it; restart to apply
• New Instagram Plus menu in General — turns on Instagram's paid subscriber features inside the app, including story and message peek, fonts, the app icon picker and custom story lists, with a master on/off and reset
• Tweak settings shows an occasional donate prompt after long-term use, easily dismissed or hidden for good

🛠 Fixes

• Tapping someone in any RyukGram list now opens their profile inside RyukGram, so Back returns to the list instead of Instagram's home
• Your gallery carries over to this update, with a one-time prompt to restore items saved by an older version, and gallery backups now import and export every item
• The home shortcut button now shows on iPad
• Custom chat background now fills behind the message input on Instagram 437 instead of leaving a black strip
• Follow requests tracker no longer counts tapping "Following" on an already-followed account as a new request
• Follow requests tracker no longer wrongly shows received requests as withdrawn, and loads pending requests reliably
• Detailed color picker no longer crashes in the story drawing editor on Instagram 434
• OLED theme no longer turns the RyukGram settings screens fully black
• OLED theme no longer blacks out grey buttons like Follow/Following on profiles
• Downloading reels or videos with newer Instagram audio (xHE-AAC) no longer fails
• Feed scrolling is smoother, especially with the OLED theme enabled
• Favorite GIFs now send and appear reliably in Direct messages
• Deleted messages log now saves photos and videos at full quality instead of a low-res thumbnail
• Deleted messages log no longer crashes when you pull to refresh right after leaving a chat
• Reroute native Save now shows Instagram's Save and long-press Save on DM media even where Instagram hid them, including in vanish mode
• Settings that need a restart now take effect after one restart instead of sometimes needing two
• Auto-clear cache now runs reliably on the chosen interval and finishes even if you close Instagram mid-clear
• Saving or sharing media now always uses a clean name (like username_stories_date) instead of the internal temporary filename
• Reels action button stays visible on HDR reels, following Instagram's own tint like the like button does
• No more crash when switching to the Reels tab on some accounts
• Bulk saving Instants now labels each save with the account that posted it, even with several people's Instants on screen