February 2026 - MBraille-Test

Integration with Drafts 4 and Fantastical?
by Ioana Gandrabur Feb. 16, 2026

Feb. 16, 2026

Hi Will the integration with Fantastical and Drafts be reinstated? I don't see any info about these in help and can't find a way to use these at the moment. Best, Ioana Sent from my iPhone Privacy Disclaimer - Français à suivre This e-mail message (including attachments, if any) is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary, and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copy of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and erase this e-mail message immediately. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Déclaration de confidentialité Le présent courrier électronique (y compris les pièces qui y sont annexées, le cas échéant) s'adresse au destinataire indiqué et peut contenir des renseignements de caractère privé ou confidentiel. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire de ce document, nous vous signalons qu'il est strictement interdit de le diffuser, de le distribuer ou de le reproduire. Si ce message vous a été transmis par erreur, veuillez en informer l'expéditeur et le supprimer immédiatement.

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Alias containing new lines?
by Ioana Gandrabur Feb. 16, 2026

Feb. 16, 2026

Hello, Do I understand correctly and now aliases can not contain new lines? I had a whole text with paragraphs that would expand with a defined alias. Any way to still do this now? Thanks, Ioana Sent from my iPhone Privacy Disclaimer - Français à suivre This e-mail message (including attachments, if any) is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary, and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copy of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and erase this e-mail message immediately. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Déclaration de confidentialité Le présent courrier électronique (y compris les pièces qui y sont annexées, le cas échéant) s'adresse au destinataire indiqué et peut contenir des renseignements de caractère privé ou confidentiel. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire de ce document, nous vous signalons qu'il est strictement interdit de le diffuser, de le distribuer ou de le reproduire. Si ce message vous a été transmis par erreur, veuillez en informer l'expéditeur et le supprimer immédiatement.

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Gemini/AI chat
by Harri Pasanen Feb. 15, 2026

Feb. 15, 2026

Hi, I wonder if anyone has tried the ai chat command, I never got any feedback on that? Seems I've forgotten to document it, it was only in the change-log. From there: * AI chat. Currently uses Gemini. Swipe up with 3 fingers and type ai followed by your prompt. Example ai write me a haiku about fish The answer will be inserted into your text at current cursor location. Without arguments gemini will use your current text as prompt and append it's response to the text. You can then continue the conversation just adding a new prompt in the end, holding dot 4 and swiping up to get your last command, which was gemini, and swiping down. This is a very powerful interaction model, better than the chat windows available in browsers, which require you to copy paste the answers. Important: the functionality has privacy implications, the test version uses free Gemini chat, where Google may use your data for training. For the final production version, I will switch to paid tier, where your data is not used for training according to Google Terms of Service. I'm wondering about announcements, now it says 'Response inserted' when you get an answer. Short answers could be just spoken directly... maybe a preference setting for this is needed. Anyway, let me know what you think. Best regards, Harri

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Speech rate question
by Harri Pasanen Feb. 15, 2026

Feb. 15, 2026

Hi everybody, I think Jean-Philippe and Richard both wanted to have bit more granular control of the speech rate. Jean-Philippe proposed using a slider. I originally had a slider, but I discovered that slider accessibility is poor, at least in older Android Talkback that I have. Instead, I could add a 6th choice, custom, where you could enter a decimal value between 1-10, let's say 3.5 for instance. How does that sound? It only affects the self-voicing speed, VoiceOver/Talkback speech rate I cannot change. Best regards, Harri

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Can self voicing volume be changed?
by Jean-Philippe Rykiel Feb. 15, 2026

Feb. 15, 2026

Hi Harri, My self voicing volume is louder than my voiceover volume. Is it something I can change in my iPhone settings, or does it need another setting in MBraille’s? Cheers, JPR http://www.jprykiel.com http://soundcloud.com/ryksounet https://www.youtube.com/c/jprykiel Http://www.facebook.com/jprykiel

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v0.9.8 Happy Valentines Day!
by Harri Pasanen Feb. 14, 2026

Feb. 14, 2026

Hi, The v0.9.8 is being built as I'm writing this message, you should have a mail from Firebase with the release notes is short order. There are two new testers who will get the new version for the first time on their phones, welcome to Väinö and Ioana! The new bookmark functionality was more work than I expected. My AI workers introduced many subtle bugs that I had to hunt down manually, I'm still not sure if I got them all. I've also been busy writing more regression tests to avoid surprises when new features are introduced. Best regards, Harri

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v0.9.6 fix version out
by Harri Pasanen Feb. 9, 2026

Feb. 9, 2026

Hi everyone, You should soon have a mail from Firebase about the new release to be installed. That mail has changelog entry of fixes done. Version 0.9.5 was a brave new release with some serious issues. My AI helpers had introduced a subtle bug and I had to use my meat brain to hunt it down and fix it. No matter which AI I asked to fix it for me, they all failed. So I guess score 1 for humanity, yay! :-) Known things remaining on my plate: - Settings accessibility is still overly complex. Problem is that when I fixed the accessible navigation, in TalkBack the actual switch toggles stopped working, while VoiceOver was fine. So some more work remains there. - Johanna reported that longer texts do no get fully copied to clipboard when moving away from MBraille. This seems to be a symptom of the same problem as before, affecting newer devices. My venerable 7 year old iPad works, so to reinvestigate. Best regards, Harri

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v0.9.7 with fixes
by Harri Pasanen Feb. 9, 2026

Feb. 9, 2026

Hi everyone, I did not actually test the iOS version myself, only Android, so there is a small chance that the settings will not work any more. A much bigger chance is that settings are now better though. Regarding selection handling, I think my fix might have caused regression in selecting from cursor to beginning of text gesture... that came up red in my regression tests. It can also be a bug in the test itself. Anyway. the fixes are worth it, and I will take a look at the possible regression for the next release. Best regards, Harri

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Links to help in internet
by Harri Pasanen Feb. 8, 2026

Feb. 8, 2026

Hi everyone, I think Richard asked for help to be available for browsing while using the phone. So here you go: https://mpaja.com/mbraille/en/help_en.html And gesture cheat sheet: https://mpaja.com/mbraille/en/gesture-cheatsheet.html Note that the latter mentions bookmark gestures, which is actually something not implemented yet, so subject to change. :-) Best regards, Harri

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MBraille with a braille display
by Thomas Byskov Dalgaard Feb. 8, 2026

Feb. 8, 2026

Hi! Ever since MBraille got released back in 2013 I really saw a potential for using some of the powerful dot-commands from a regular Braille display, or perhaps from a Bluetooth keyboard. For years I never opened message, phone or Safari when I wanted to either send a message, dial phone number or open a website/search for something. All of this was done through mbraille's interface. What I really would want to see is a very simple structure where the user can type in text either from a Braille display or a keyboard into a multiline text field. There should be a Done/OK button and a Cancel button at the top of the screen. This would allow the user to type or paste text into the field, even execute the older dot commands. So I could type a message and end it by: .sms John When the OK button is pressed MBraille should receive the content from the edit field, and performe the command, as if the content was done via MBraille itself. I know we on iOS has apps like Drafts, where actions and shortcuts can be run directly from the app, but I would really use this myself in many different cases: If I want to dial someone, just open MBraille, enter the number via my display and get the call going just via MBraille. If I want to message someone just open MBraille, type the message and send it via the .sms command. Same for opening websites/searching for informations as well. I understand why focus is on Braille from the screen, but there are people who really could benefit of such approach. Harri, do you think this is possible to implement at all? Best regards Thomas Sendt fra min Macbook Pro via Apple mail

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