Release notes · Week of 27 October–2 November 2026
VEP on your iPhone home screen works more like a real app
VEP added to your iPhone home screen now works more like a real app: it has the VEP name and icon, opens in its own dark colors, also without a connection, and signing in finishes inside the app. Notifications turn on in Settings and put a count on the icon, calls you start on your phone connect, and only people you work or talk with can ring you.
- 2 new
- 24 improved
- 28 fixes
Updates marked Early access are switched on for selected companies.
New and improved
AI employees & teams
- Connect your work tools from the chat and see what was saved
Keys typed in the chat are saved whole, a missing field is named with an example, and disconnecting says when there was nothing to remove.
Chats & mobile
- VEP on your home screen starts without a connection
VEP on your home screen opens with your team, workspaces and settings when there is no connection, and brings them up to date as soon as it connects.
- Person chats open instantly and stay readable without a connection
Person chats on your phone open at once with the messages you have seen, older ones and every topic tab included, and catch up by themselves once you are online.
- Messages to AI employees go out once you are back online
Messages to AI employees written without a connection go out by themselves, once, as soon as VEP is open with a connection again.
- Group chats open instantly and stay readable without a connection
Group chats open at once with the messages you have already seen, with or without a connection, and catch up as soon as VEP connects.
- Chats with your AI employees open instantly with their history
Chats with your AI employees open at once with the messages you have already seen, with or without a connection, and catch up as soon as VEP connects.
- Chats with your AI employees download only what is new
A chat with an AI employee downloads only the messages that are new or changed since you last opened it on that phone, and shows the rest from the phone.
- Chats keep working without a connection
Messages to colleagues and groups written without a connection wait on the phone with a clock and go out once, in order, when the connection returns.
- Your AI employee starts working on your message sooner
AI employees gather what they know about a message in under a second for most chats, and their lookups start right away.
- A finished answer appears formatted at once on your phone
Finished answers show formatted with their pictures as soon as they arrive, and a photo you send keeps the chat as it is.
- Live voice says what it already knows while a long answer is prepared
Longer questions in live voice get a quick spoken answer from what your AI employee knows, and the full answer still follows in the chat.
- VEP on your phone updates itself to the newest version
VEP on your phone moves to its newest version by itself when you come back to it or leave it, and reopens the chat you had open.
- VEP on your home screen opens on a dark screen with its logo
VEP opened from your iPhone or iPad home screen starts on a dark screen with the VEP logo, then shows your chats.
- Unread count on the VEP icon, and a notification tap opens its chat
The VEP icon shows how many messages wait for you, and every chat notification opens its own conversation, even when VEP was in the background.
- You stay signed in to VEP for as long as you keep using it
VEP keeps your sign-in going while you use it, and asks you to sign in again only after a week without a visit or 90 days after you signed in.
- Signing in keeps your place, even after a trip to Mail
Google sign-in opens the file or agreement you were going to, the email code box stays for 15 minutes, and an old sign-in link leads to the sign-in page.
- Sign out of VEP on all your devices at once
Signing out of all devices ends your VEP sign-in on every phone, tablet and computer at once, after you confirm, and opens the sign-in page.
- Notifications name the group and skip the chat you are reading
Group notifications name the group and the sender, the chat you are reading stays silent, and an open chat catches up as soon as VEP comes back.
- iPhone notifications arrive even when VEP was closed for a long time
Your iPhone shows every new message from VEP by itself and opens its chat on a tap, and older browser setups on computers and Android phones get notifications.
- Files, chat exports and agreements open inside VEP on your iPhone
Files, photos, exported chats and agreements open inside VEP on your iPhone home screen, with a way back to your chats and a share sheet to save or send them.
- VEP shows how to add it to your iPhone or iPad home screen
VEP in Safari or another iPhone or iPad browser shows a short card and a settings page with the steps that add it to your home screen.
- VEP on your iPhone home screen gets its own name, icon and colors
VEP added to your home screen gets the name VEP and the VEP icon, and opens in its own dark colors.
- Turn on notifications for VEP on your iPhone home screen
Notifications for VEP on your iPhone home screen turn on with one tap in settings, show whether they are on and come with a test you send to yourself.
- Signing in finishes inside VEP on your iPhone home screen
VEP on your home screen opens the sign-in page when your sign-in has expired, and Google sign-in started there finishes in the app, with a code if needed.
- VEP on your home screen opens without a connection and catches up
VEP on your home screen opens from its last copy without a connection, then signs you in and loads your chats by itself when the network returns.
Fixes
- Agreements you confirm are recorded, with an accurate Bitcoin status
Agreements you confirm show that you confirmed them, and each agreement page shows its Bitcoin block, or that its record waits for one or is sent again.
- Each tab of a chat with topics opens at its newest message Early access
Every tab of a chat with topics opens at its newest message on a computer, in Safari and Chrome alike, with nothing left hidden below it.
- Your message goes to the chat on your screen
Messages, replies and mentions stay with the chat they were written in, also after a notification opened another chat on top of it.
- Text you have not sent stays in its own chat
Unsent text waits in the chat and topic where it was typed, also after VEP was closed and opened again on your phone.
- Read your chats on your phone without a connection
VEP on your phone shows the chat list and the messages you last read when there is no connection, and says so when a chat has nothing saved yet.
- Messages written without a connection go out exactly once
Messages written without a connection wait on the phone and go out once when the connection returns, also after VEP was closed while sending.
- Messages sent on a weak connection arrive once
Messages sent again after a dropped connection appear once, notify once and get one answer, and VEP confirms them as sent instead of showing an error.
- Encrypted chats read as text without a connection
Encrypted chats on your phone show saved messages as text with no connection, and a message you write offline waits on the phone and goes out encrypted.
- A chat opened from a notification has all its tools
The chat on top has every tool of its screen, and the chat under it keeps its own: voice messages, photos, typing and slow mode stay with their chat.
- Your AI employee keeps the whole conversation in mind again
Replies in long chats take the whole conversation into account again, and a message sent in a topic still brings that topic's own history.
- Your AI employee answers with what it found when a website is slow
Your AI employee leaves a page that takes too long, answers with what it found and names what it could not check.
- Your chats appear the first time you open VEP from your home screen
VEP on your home screen shows your chats and the switch between your companies from the very first launch, and retries the chat list by itself.
- Live voice on your home screen shows how to allow the microphone
Live voice in VEP on your home screen tells you to reopen VEP, start live voice again and tap Allow when the microphone is blocked, and closes its connection when you leave.
- Admins see Google connected only for AI employees that use it
Google shows as connected for an AI employee when the person it belongs to has connected Google, whether a team member or an admin opens the settings.
- A reply that did not finish says so in one plain sentence
Notes above replies that did not finish say so in one plain sentence and mention when VEP already tried once more by itself.
- Your settings show which tools this AI employee can really use
The list of tools in your settings shows Connected only for keys this AI employee can use, says where other keys belong, and names what Google covers.
- Your AI employee says why your own hardware could not answer
Messages from an AI employee on your own hardware name the computer, say what went wrong and what to do, and warn when work may already be done.
- A failed chat command gives you a reference for VEP Support
Replies to a failed command say what failed and show the known reason, such as a missing field, or a reference VEP Support can look up.
- You can sign your AI employee back in to Google Meet
The Sign in again button opens the Google sign-in step, and if the sign-in still cannot finish, the message says what to do next.
- What you say in live voice joins the answer in progress
Words you add in live voice join the answer in progress, and one answer covers everything you asked in that moment.
- Speaking again in live voice keeps the answer in progress on screen
Answers in progress stay on screen when you speak again in live voice, and your new phrase gets its own reply right after them.
- Live voice answers about a second after you finish speaking
Live voice notices the end of your sentence about a second after your last word, also in noise, and never waits more than four seconds.
- Interrupting live voice keeps the answer your AI employee is preparing
Live voice goes quiet when you cut in, and the longer answer your AI employee was preparing still arrives in the chat when it is ready.
- Live voice finishes a missed answer while it is still fresh
Live voice finishes a missed answer within 15 minutes of it being ready, and older answers stay in the chat as text with their formatting intact.
- Chat notifications keep arriving after a visit to the VEP home page
Chat notifications keep arriving after a home page visit, a group chat notification opens its chat with one tap, and a notification without text still shows.
- Only colleagues and people you talk with can call you
Calls reach you only from colleagues, group members and people you wrote to, and blocking a person also blocks their calls.
- Calls from your phone connect, even to a colleague with VEP closed
Calls from a phone connect when answered, and a colleague whose VEP is closed gets your call as a notification and can call you back.
- Call notifications come only when someone really calls you
Call notifications come only for real calls, message notifications go out as urgent, and notifications that could not be delivered in time are dropped.