Central Chat App: iPhone vs Android

**A new Home** Home opens with the conversations you were in the middle of, featured businesses you can search right there, and friends who are already on Central. **Groups in a few taps** In New message, tap the people you want and start: one person opens a chat, several open a group. A quick group names itself after the people in it, and the list shows only people who are on Central. **Follow businesses** Follow a business to keep its updates close. The ones you follow carry a Following badge in the Businesses tab. **Articles** Read longer posts with images and tables right inside the chat. **Share from other apps** Send photos, files and audio to Central from any app's share sheet. Share your location by picking a spot on a map, and share a contact from a simple sheet. **Calls** Calls work with your iPhone's phone system: one call at a time, and a Central call and a regular call never step on each other. Answering from a locked phone connects faster, and the call timer starts when you actually hear the other person. **AI assistants** Some people now have an AI assistant that can answer for them. A robot badge on its picture tells you you're talking to an AI. **Your accounts at a glance** Unread messages from the business accounts you answer for show up in red, wherever you are, and the account switcher shows each account's count. **Notifications from Central** News from Central now lives in your chat list, and notifications show images and play voice notes. **Faster and smoother** The app opens faster, the tab bar uses iOS's new Liquid Glass look, GIFs and stickers play inline, and photos you send to businesses arrive in a format every system can open.

**Threads** Keep a side conversation from burying the main one. Start a thread on any message in one tap, in groups and one-to-one chats. Threads show up in your chat list, a new reply brings its conversation to the top, and the conversation's owner can archive a thread once it's done. **Polls** Ask the group and get an answer. Create a poll or a quiz, see who voted for what, and keep every vote private to the people in the chat. **Answering for a business, as a team** Switch accounts from a button right above the tab bar. The accounts you answer for show their unread messages wherever you are. Each reply shows your teammates who wrote it, while the customer sees the name the business chooses. Your language and appearance stay the same when you answer as a business. **Your phone numbers** Add more than one phone number to your profile, so people can find you by any of them. **Invite people in** Invite a contact with a link that opens a sign-in made for them. Contacts who aren't on Central yet get their own card with an invite button. Add a contact by typing their number or scanning their QR code. **Find businesses** The Businesses tab opens with the accounts you already talk to, then featured businesses in your country. Search reaches other countries too, and verified businesses carry a badge that explains what it means. **Photos, videos and documents** Documents open inside the app instead of the share sheet. Videos open in the photo viewer — swipe between them, drag down to close. Saved images keep their original quality. **Calls** New ringtones, a call screen you can swipe down to keep using the app, and you can watch a screen someone shares from their computer. A ring stops as soon as the call ends anywhere else. **Notifications** Tapping a notification opens the right chat in the right account. Voice notes play straight from the notification, and messages show the sender's photo. **More reliable** The app reconnects by itself when your network comes back, and tells you while you are offline. The Devices screen tells you which device is which. Plus many fixes so your encrypted messages open on every one of your devices.

• Voice calls (Beta) — talk to anyone on Central • Notifications now show the message, decrypted on your phone • Switch between your own account and the businesses you answer for • A Central inbox for invitations and verification results • Contacts: pull to refresh, find who's on Central, invite the rest • Photos and videos are kept on your phone, so chats open instantly • Sign in with a number from any country, on up to five phones • Faster start