How would you improve the Discourse iOS App Experience?

IMO on the latest version with chat enabled and a small (iphone 12 mini) the experience leaves a lot to be desired. I’d love to see a single react native app emerge, along with some kind of documentation for OSS plugin developers to build their own react native UIs to support instances that use the app.

Since upgrading to iOS 18, I’ve been having trouble with the app. Initially, I was able to reconnect to my community by reinstalling the app and logging in again, but after a few hours, it disconnected. Now, the app no longer accepts my usual username and password, though I can still log in through the web, so it’s not a password issue.

It seems like a new security setting in iOS might be blocking access. Is anyone else facing this issue? Any ideas for a fix?

After further testing, I’ve found that the issue seems to be isolated to our community. I’m unable to replicate the problem when connecting to Discourse Meta.

Every time I trying logging in I get this pop up message

Any chance to be able to hide the description of each forum?

Reason is that I already know what they are so would rather fit more on screen.

Just the icon, title, URL would be enough.

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I like this suggestion. At some point, I was playing around with a beta version of the app where a user setting would toggle the description on/off. Other features became more pressing, so I pushed that branch aside… but this makes a lot of sense as a next change to make in the app. Thanks!

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This is now implemented and coming soon (pending Apple review).

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Looking good (just realised I was still on TestFlight build)

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