Changelog

What it is. What changed in each release of Zenith Launcher. Entries are added here per release, newest first. Each one groups changes as New, Improved, and Fixed, with a short note on why where it helps.

The current version is 1.2.0 (build 10200).

#1.2.0 (build 10200) — current

The version you're reading this guide for. It also carries everything made for 1.1.0.

• New. My Sky is rebuilt (Gold): 1,322 real stars and all 88 constellations, each in its true place above you, in three versions — "classic", "collection" and "carousel" — with a "my sky settings" page shared by every Zenith app. Three fingers move it: pinch and spread to zoom, drag to pan, twist to tilt, double tap to recenter. While you're away the sky doesn't turn; when you come back it catches up at once. See Backgrounds & My Sky.
• New. Rename your apps: long-press an app in Deep Sky and choose "rename". The new name shows wherever Zenith lists apps; clear it to get the app's own name back.
• New. "Immersion mode" in Settings › system hides the status bar and the gesture bar. Swipe in from an edge to see them for a moment.
• New. Ask the sky can do what you can in the app: build your sky, change any setting, set and run gestures, start a timer, open the camera, set an alarm, talismans, the Shuttle, your apps, its own settings and memory, comets, and open Settings on any page. It works with your other Zenith apps too. Shade, lock, recents, back, quick tiles, screenshot and the power menu still run only from your own gesture.
• New. With "allow destructive actions" on, a yes/no card comes before each thing it would remove; "no" changes nothing. A "stop" button ends an ask at once. A link or a send it wasn't told about waits for your tap. A small line under each reply shows what it really did.
• New. Fold sky joins Gold's list: a sky for each screen of your foldable.
• Improved. A full backup now carries your app names, your app icons and My Sky's settings. A backup or sky file from another app asks you first. A failed restore changes nothing, and "put back the setup from before the restore" undoes one that worked. A damaged sky, talisman or gesture file opens its last good copy and keeps the damaged one aside. A file saved by a newer Zenith Launcher tells you to update.
• Improved. After a phone transfer, widgets come back, and file stars that lost their permission ask for the file again.
• Improved. Unfolding a foldable keeps your chat, what you typed and an answer on its way. TalkBack names every button at the top of the Ask the sky panel, and the keyboard's Send key sends your ask. "Read aloud" is the new name for Ask the sky's voice (the 🔊).
• Improved. Clearer messages when "allow destructive actions" is needed, when your AI provider answers with a different model, when no key is set, and when a key couldn't be saved.
• Fixed. The tap and navigation sounds are back. The welcome card no longer sits behind the app bar. Welcome has a notifications step, and a "no" to location or notifications says so in one line. The timer and new-alarm shortcuts open again. Zenith Set icons no longer show up blank. Zenith correctly tells you whether it's your home app.
• Fixed. Sharing to the launcher only offers regions you can see. Renaming a sky works reliably, and switching skies quickly can no longer save over the wrong sky. Choosing a default icon pack finds your icon packs. The Shuttle tells you what really happened when you add to it, and stays on your phone, including through Android's phone backups. Removing a linked Google account also cancels its permission at Google. Labels are never cut through an emoji or an accent. Link stars open only web, email and Zenith addresses.
• New. "On-device (Gemini Nano)" now answers, on phones that have Google's on-device model. It needs no key, sends nothing off the phone, and answers in words only. "test" tells you whether your phone can run it.
• New. Settings › about shows the Zenith Core version — the shared layer the app is built on — beneath the app's version: "Zenith Core v0.5.0 b500". Ask the sky reports it too.
• New. If the phone can't store an AI key you enter, the key editor now says so: "the key wasn't saved — this phone couldn't store it. try again."
• Improved. A change to "navigation", "suite tap & nav sounds", or "star labels" made in another Zenith app now reaches the launcher the next time you bring it to the front.
• Improved. Asking the sky to set an icon pack now looks only among the icon packs you have installed, by name or part of a name.
• Fixed. Reporting a reply with ⚑ never teaches Zenith Guard — the on-device safety check — to block your own words; it learns only from the reply.

Changed. Ask the sky — the built-in AI assistant — no longer runs shade, lock, recents, back, quick tiles, screenshot, or power menu, even with "Zenith actions" on, and won't cast a talisman set to one. Those run only from your own gesture. It can still set a gesture to one of them, and it still goes home.

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How this page works. Every release adds a new dated section above, using the same three headings. Older releases stay in place below, so the whole history reads top to bottom, newest to oldest. Earlier releases aren't listed here.

See also. About Zenith Launcher · After an update, X changed or broke