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April 2026

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Marketing Site Redesign

  • Complete website overhaul with new sections, animations, navigation, and footer
  • New help center with Notion-inspired sidebar layout and simplified articles
  • Dynamic OG images unique to each page with bold titles and accent colors
  • Contact form with instant email notifications
  • University and solutions pages with 3-column layouts

People & Profiles

  • Redesigned person profile with hero photos and engagement stats
  • Appears-with section showing who each person is frequently photographed with
  • Cross-company person view: see all events a person has attended
  • Fixed face circle row showing empty circles for people without faces

Gallery Improvements

  • Gallery icon cascade: event icon → brand kit icon → company logo fallback
  • New gallery config toggles: view mode, size picker, top shots
  • Custom gallery button colors, button text, and background images
  • Gallery CTA redesigned as footer-only with title and description context
  • Personal gallery scan for face-matched photo discovery
  • Fixed lightbox download button overlapping photos

iOS Capture App

  • Notion-style company and workspace switcher
  • View events across all your companies in one list
  • Upload retry with automatic reconnection on network recovery
  • SD card file count warnings at 3,000 and 3,800 thresholds
  • Offline QR code caching and session ID in the more menu

Analytics & Observability

  • PostHog analytics across portal, marketing site, and iOS/macOS apps
  • Cookieless tracking on the marketing site — no cookie banner needed
  • Reverse proxy routing through /ingest to bypass ad blockers
  • Redesigned analytics dashboard with unique people count
  • Updated privacy policy covering PostHog and Sentry

Upload Pipeline & Performance

  • Upload endpoint now returns immediately and processes in the background
  • Uploads sorted by filename (natural sort) before queueing
  • Marketing images served from R2 CDN for faster page loads
  • Improved gallery bulk download with better error messages

Portal Improvements

  • Event details converted from modal to full settings page
  • New branding page, find page, face features, and sync monitor
  • Beta invite code gate for new registrations
  • Event dashboard storage size card

March 2026

Messages & Notifications

  • New Messages tool: view full message history for every event
  • Compose custom SMS and email messages to guests directly from the portal
  • Schedule messages for later delivery
  • Audience filtering: send to all guests, specific sessions, or individual guests
  • Template variables: {guest_name}, {event_name}, {gallery_url} for personalized messages

Mobile App Experience

  • Tool config pages now use Settings/Preview tabs on mobile
  • Preview no longer overlaps bottom navigation on small screens
  • Smaller, mobile-friendly titles that fit narrow viewports
  • Improved responsive layout across all tool configuration pages

Gallery Improvements

  • Session grouping with proper session codes displayed in the gallery
  • Paginated loading for faster gallery performance on large events
  • Shimmer placeholders while photos load for a smoother experience
  • Today-only toggle to quickly filter gallery to today's photos
  • Session sections config option: choose how sessions appear in the gallery

iOS App Updates

  • Full-resolution lightbox photos with pinch-to-zoom
  • Save to Photos button in Event Gallery for quick local saves
  • Gallery opens full-screen on iPad for immersive browsing
  • Upload recovery on foreground: pending uploads resume automatically
  • Cloud error logging for improved diagnostics and support

Media Management

  • Assign or remove guests on individual photos from the Media lightbox
  • Guest gallery links accessible from Sessions and Guests views
  • Session download: Download All button generates a ZIP emailed to you

Face Recognition Dashboard

  • New 'Face Enrolled' tab on the People page
  • View enrolled people count and face embedding statistics
  • Match count displayed per enrolled person
  • Quick filtering between all people and face-enrolled people

February 2026

Company Switcher & Brand Wizard

  • Company switcher in the titlebar: quickly switch between companies you belong to
  • New 3-step Brand Kit creation wizard: identity, default tools, and team access
  • Brand-level team access: assign viewer, contributor, or admin roles per brand
  • Redesigned event dashboard with SVG group icons and dot grid background
  • Hover underline fixes across all interactive cards

Face Recognition & Find My Photos

  • Automatic face detection on all uploaded photos
  • Find My Photos: guests take a selfie to find all their event photos
  • Tag a Friend: tag friends in photos and send them an invitation
  • Face match results broadcast in real-time to iOS capture app
  • Admin face review dashboard with confirm/reject controls

iOS Capture App

  • Camera tethering with Canon, Sony, and Nikon cameras
  • Live capture with real-time face detection overlay
  • QR code scanning to quickly add guests to sessions
  • SD card import with RAW-to-JPEG conversion
  • Photo editing with brightness, contrast, and curves controls
  • iPad support with adaptive layouts
  • Background upload queue with offline support

Gallery Improvements

  • Infinite scroll / lazy loading for large galleries
  • Lightbox with keyboard navigation, pinch-to-zoom, and swipe
  • Dark mode across all gallery pages
  • Brand logo and favicon on all gallery pages
  • Gallery subdomain: gallery.brandstudiohq.com
  • Friendly admin URLs: /events/{brand}/{event-slug}

Security & Account

  • Two-factor authentication (2FA) with authenticator app
  • Backup codes for 2FA recovery
  • Enhanced password reset flow
  • Strengthened XSS protection on galleries
  • Upload size limits and file validation

Photos & Organization

  • Hierarchical folder organization with drag-and-drop reordering
  • Grid and Masonry view options with S/M/L thumbnail sizes
  • Auto-create date-based folders from photos
  • Custom branding overlays per folder
  • Bulk download as ZIP with custom file naming

Performance

  • Cloudflare R2 storage for zero egress fees
  • Improved 600px thumbnails for high-DPI displays
  • Local photo caching for faster loading
  • 30-second API timeout for reliability
  • Real-time WebSocket updates for galleries and slideshows