Updates
All our new features, fixes & improvements. Thank you, to everybody whom has reported issues, and suggested features on our suggestion board!
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- Fixed zoom not working previewing photos.
- Fixed tap-to-hold not working to see the original unedited photo when previewing a photo.
- Fixed several common crashes.
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- Fixed a crash when using "Show in Recents" when viewing a photo.
- Fixed a crash when resetting edits on photos that use depth or segmentation-based mask.
- Fixed an issue with Clarity on certain older devices, improving consistency and overall image quality.
Changes (3)
- Fixed HDR videos exporting with incorrect colors.
- Fixed the "Edit With Darkroom" Shortcut not working.
- Fixed some adjustments on older iPhone devices showing tiling artifacts.
Faster, Smoother, and Built for the Future
We're excited to introduce one of the biggest under-the-hood upgrades in Darkroom's 10 year history: a fully rebuilt rendering engine that dramatically improves stability, reliability, and performance across every part of your editing experience.
Over the past decade, iPhone photography has evolved significantly; higher resolutions, heavier files, more video, and almost RAW everything. With that, expectations of people editing photos have increased as well. Darkroom 7 is aimed to rise to that challenge with an engine built for today's demands and tomorrow's features: smoother interaction, higher frame rates, and rock-solid consistency from first adjustment to final export.
- New Bloom and Halation Tools: two nostalgic sliders that bring analog warmth, glow, and atmosphere. Opening up a whole new creative and expressive look to your shots.
- Improved Video & Histogram: video playback controls with scrubbing and 8K real time edits. The live video histogram gives you photo-grade feedback for moving images.
- Enhanced Recovery: edits now happen in full linear space, allowing Shadows and Highlights to pull back even more detail, especially in high-dynamic-range RAW files.
- Better Viewing: zoom out beyond “fit to view” for a true macro perspective, adjust your canvas background color, and place masks with more freedom and accuracy.
- Smooth Controls: every interaction is noticeably more fluid: sliders, zooming, panning, crop, masks, all rebuilt for precision and effortless response.
For more details, please read the release post.
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Thanks to all of you who have been testing the Beta, and reporting issues. We've fixed a lot of bugs, made a lot of improvements, and we now feel confident enough to submit this release candidate for review.
- Fixed tiling artifacts showing when using highlights and shadows on older devices.
- Added an alert when running on Intel Macs, explaining that we no longer support them.
- Fixed the video controls hiding on Mac when scrubbing for a longer period of time.
- Fixed the spacing between sliders in the adjustment tool being too large.
- Fixed a bug that could block interaction when leaving the transform tool.
- Fixed long-press to view the unedited original occasionally not working.
- Added support for the 'Enter' key to close the transform tool, instead of going back to the library.
Changes (6)
- Fixed watermarks not appearing on exported images.
- Fixed the Histogram clipping indicators showing even when no edits where made.
- Fixed mask overlay controls being unresponsive if you first made and edit before adding or selecting a mask.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when adding a sky mask for ProRAW photos.
- Fixed video playing back during export.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when playing a video.
Changes (3)
- Fixed tiling artifacts showing when editing while zoomed in, and when exporting.
- Fixed the photo preview not properly being updated after exporting.
- Fixed the watermark tool not playing nice with the keyboard.
Changes (5)
- Fixed exports not including frames, crops, and rotations.
- Fixed blurry previews after exporting using "Save" option.
- Fixed grid thumbnail not generating when batch pasting edits.
- Improved usability of crop controls when making aggressive crops.
- Fixed various smaller interface issues.
Known issue: Sometimes exported images have tiling artifacts. We have identified the cause and are working on a solution.
Changes (5)
- Fixed video thumbnails being rendered in the wrong color space.
- Fixed the histogram being dimmed when playing videos.
- Video is now being paused when a mask is added.
- Fixed live photo exports showing tiles.
- Fixed a crash that could occur in the photo strip.
Changes (4)
- Fixed Metadata not loading when viewed from the library, and other instances.
- Fixed pasting of edits sometimes not working while the asset was still being loaded.
- Fixed video thumbnails being in the wrong orientation in the preset tool.
- Improved preview quality in several places while making edits.
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- Fixed the color tool histogram not showing.
- Fixed the exported image being half size of the original.
- Fixed the preview image not being quality after download.
- Fixed the library image previews unnecessarily continuously updating.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when moving photos into an album.
- We now focus the album text field whe creating a new album.
- Fixed the clipping indication overlay showing when it shouldn't.
- Improved the linear mask control size for easier use.
- Fixed the image preview flickering when moving the mask control around.
- We now hide the grid and aspect pickers when crop is moved on iPhone.
Changes (5)
- Fixed Copy and Paste of Bloom and Halation edits not working correctly.
- Fixed the video controls not hiding when not interacting withe controls on Mac.
- Fixed the side crop overlay controls not interacting in a predictable way.
- Fixed sidebar album list search losing focus after each keypress.
- Fixed the Help menu not always showing on Mac.
Darkroom 7 Beta 8 open for all platforms
We're excited to announce opening our Darkroom 7 Beta to iPhone & iPad, after a successful Mac Beta period since the summer in which you really helped us iron out issues. For this Beta, we specifically focussed on making RAW editing and video playback as stable and low memory as possible, and rebuilt the Histogram and Color Grading tool to leverage GPU acceleration.
Darkroom 7 is a major milestone in our journey. Your edits are about to get faster, sharper, and more precise, and you can try it today in the Darkroom 7 Beta.
But before we launch it to everyone, we need your help.
Request Beta Access →We're inviting you to help shape its final form. You should expect some issues, and we hope you'll help us work through them. To ensure we can connect with you more directly during the beta period, we're starting fresh with a new TestFlight group. If you'd like access, we ask that you sign up with your email and fill out the form. This allows us to send you updates, reach out for feedback, and keep you in the loop as new builds land.
Changes (8)
- Redesigned the iPhone Transform tool to be at feature parity with the Mac, and now includes custom aspect ratio support.
- When making straighten or perspective corrections, we now always show the 8x8 grid, your grid of choice is shown when cropping.
- Fixed the crop overlay controls flashing when dragging them around.
- Optimized the Histogram and Color Grading tool to be GPU accelerated, and as a result are much smoother.
- Optimized RAW editing and Video playback for much lower memory usage, and are now far more stable.
- Optimized when and how many preview thumbnails we generate to improve performance and memory usage.
- Fixed an issue where some mask would show in the wrong orientation when editing.
- Fixed edits not being saved with an image exported from the library action menu of batch actions.
Changes (4)
- Fixed the library thumbnail not updating after editing a photo or video.
- Fixed mask previews not showing their thumbnail correctly.
- Fixed histogram clipping indicator not showing.
- Fixed crash that could occur when deleting, or favoriting a photo or video.
Changes (9)
- Significantly improved performance when editing photos & videos.
- Fixed a crash that could easily occur when switching between photos.
- Fixed the photo preview showing blank when switching between photos.
- Fixed the video loading spinner not showing correctly.
- Fixed audio on videos not playing when unmuted when in silent mode.
- Fixed the crop overlay controls not always showing and hiding correctly.
- Fixed some artifacts showing when using Clary at extreme positive values.
- Improved compression artefact avoidance in shadow recovery.
- Changed the requirements to run the app to macOS 18.4 or later.
Changes (4)
Thank you for your feedback on the first betas! Keep the feedback coming.
- Improved Black and Whites sliders for RAW photos.
- Improved memory usage when previewing and editing photos.
- Improved reliability when quickly switching between photos.
- Fixed thumbnail preview not updating with edits.
Changes (5)
Thank you for your feedback on the first betas! Keep the feedback coming.
- Improved performance video playback while editing.
- Improved color accuracy when editing videos.
- Fixed a crash when quickly switching between photos.
- Fixed a crash when quickly editing a video.
- Fixed an issue where extreme highlights and shadows edits could result in invalid colors.
Changes (2)
Thank you for your feedback on the first two betas! Keep the feedback coming.
- Fixed a bug where sometimes when making an edit the preview image didn't update, and the histogram didn't show.
- Fixed a potential crash that occur when we were sending wrong mask data to the renderer.
Changes (7)
Thank you for your feedback on the first beta! Keep the feedback coming. We've made a number of improvements and fixes.
- Vignette now stays correctly positioned after cropping.
- Preview images more dependably display in full resolution.
- Fixed rare crashes when opening or quitting the app.
- Exported RAW photos no longer look washed out.
- Removed ghosting in RAW exports with clarity, bloom, or halation applied.
- Frame colors now export correctly instead of defaulting to black.
- Improved overall video playback performance.
Known Issues
- When making in an edit sometimes the preview image doesn't update, and the histogram doesn't show.
- Video may not be correctly displayed. When this happens, let us know!
- Smart mask are not loading correctly.
- Mask previews are not showing correctly.
- When navigating between assets, going from video to photo, sometimes the audio keeps playing.
- Histogram clipping indicator is not visible when editing.
- On MacOS 26 the Help menu contents are not visible.
Darkroom 7 Beta 1 for Mac
We're excited to introduce the Beta for Darkroom 7, a major milestone in our journey, and one that happens to coincide with our 10-year anniversary as your photo editing app of choice.
At the core of this release is a completely rebuilt rendering engine. Dramatically improving speed, responsiveness, stability, and accuracy. This is the engine that will power the next generation of features, and we're incredibly proud of how it performs.
But before we launch it to everyone, we need your help.
Today, we’re opening up the Beta for Darkroom 7, and we’re inviting you to help shape its final form. You should expect some issues, and we hope you’ll help us work through them. To ensure we can connect with you more directly during the beta, we’re starting fresh with a new TestFlight group. If you’d like access, we ask that you sign up with your email and fill out the form. This allows us to send you updates, reach out for feedback, and keep you in the loop as new builds land.
Request Beta Access →Known Issues
- Video, and some RAW colors may not be correctly displayed. When this happens, let us know!
- When navigating between assets, going from video to photo, sometimes the audio keeps playing.
- Frame color is only correctly visible when editing, when exported or dismissed it shows as black.
- Histogram clipping indicator is not visible when editing.
- On MacOS 26 the Help menu contents are not visible.
- On MacOS 26 Beta 5 and prior there was a RAW loading issue, which is fixed in Beta 6.