Obsidian Release Notes

Improvements

• Sliders in settings now use the accent color.
• Removed dialog to approve URI actions because it was creating even more confusion for non-technical users. 1.13 already introduced some new guardrails like Mermaid diagrams being off by default.

No longer broken

• Settings: Fixed bug where pressing the back button on a settings page would not always focus the setting item that opened the page.
• Live Preview: Fixed image not opening full screen if it contains a URL hash suffix (#).
• Live Preview: Fixed memory leak caused by reordering rows or columns in a Markdown table.
• Live Preview: Restored old behavior of embedded YouTube and Twitter links; they no longer have a selection state or an overlayed edit button.

Improvements

• The app now waits for configuration files to finish saving when quitting to avoid the file getting corrupted.
• Improved “Undo close tab” behavior. Tabs now reopen in the correct tab group, and if the currently active tab is the “New tab” page, it will no longer be reused.

Settings

• The settings window now closes when pressing Escape.
• Tab and Shift-Tab now move focus to the next focusable element instead of staying locked to the current row, making it easier to navigate to links.
• When Obsidian is fullscreen, the settings window now opens on top of the app window instead of creating an additional fullscreen window.
• The settings window titlebar now scales with the current zoom level.
• The startup stats window now shows more granular information about startup speed.

No longer broken

• Fixed a few issues with link suggestions in the property editor. For example, typing # in a link would cause the link to get overridden.
• Fixed the window not getting focused when using a URI to open a specific vault.
• Fixed internal links displayed inside the readme file for themes and plugins.
• Settings: Fixed validation errors not disappearing after the issue was fixed.
• Settings: Fixed settings crashing when navigating quickly between pages while the page is still animating.
• Settings: Fixed right-click menu on the community plugins setting tab showing duplicate results. …

This update introduces a new searchable Settings panel and iOS Share Sheet. Scrolling large files and selecting text should also be improved on both iOS and Android. Includes all new features and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.13.4.

iOS Share Sheet

The new iOS Share Sheet lets you save content from Safari, YouTube, and other apps without opening Obsidian. You can customize several Locations to define the vault, folder, and template that is used. Learn more.

New

• Tab switcher: Drag and drop tabs to reorder them.
• Tablet: Press-and-hold to resize splits and pinned sidebars.
• Bases: New menu item to resize columns in table views.
• Swipe down to dismiss a zoomed image.

No longer broken

• Settings pages now have enough padding to scroll fully into view when the onscreen keyboard is showing.
• Fixed double-tap to zoom on images.
• Fixed a bug where the input field in the Search view would sometimes autofocus when you open the sidebar.
• Fixed tabs not recomputing their width after another tab is closed.
• Live Preview: Fixed “Enter” from the iOS keyboard not working as expected inside Markdown lists.
• Live Preview: Fixed buttons for creating new columns and new rows not working on iOS.
• File Recovery: Fixed navigating between different files in file history on mobile.
• iOS: Fixed “Delete file” not updating the app interface on non-English devices. …

This update introduces a new searchable Settings panel and new experience for working with images, including a full-screen image viewer.

Settings

Settings have been completely revamped with keyboard navigation, search, and new APIs for plugin developers.

• Settings now open in a new window. You can turn this off in Settings → Interface → Open settings in new window.
• Added search. You can now search for settings by name or description. This currently supports core settings and core plugins. Community plugins can migrate to the new settings API to appear in search results.
• Added keyboard navigation. Use arrow keys to move between items, Enter to open a setting tab, and Ctrl/Cmd-F to re-focus search. Also supports Vim key bindings.
• Some settings have moved into a new Interface settings page. Several settings pages have been redesigned to improve navigation.
• Added the ability to exit Restricted Mode without re-enabling your plugins. Useful for debugging your vault.
• Deprecated the Settings Search plugin as it overlaps with the new search functionality. Thank you to javalent for such a great plugin! It has been added to the Obsidian credits page.

Images …

Improvements

• The image lightbox now displays the file name of the current image.
• Improved layout of Page Preview settings.
• Settings: Download counts are now abbreviated for plugins and themes.
• Settings: Moved the “Interface” tab above “Editor” in the settings sidebar.
• Live Preview: Improved alignment of images inline with text.
• Live Preview: Removed extra padding around images.

No longer broken

• Fixed a rare race condition where a file could get stuck and fail to save until the app was restarted.
• Fixed the app failing to load if a view throws errors while the workspace is loading.
• Fixed appearance of image action buttons on older installers.
• Settings: Fixed Page Preview settings not showing entries from Community plugins.
• Settings: Fixed the close button not being visible in the settings window when “Open settings in new window” is turned off.
• Live Preview: Fixed appearance of non-image embed actions.
• Live Preview: Fixed image disappearing when editing a Markdown embed and scrolling.
• Live Preview: Fixed the editor line height being preserved when editing an image embed on an indented line with no other text.

• Includes all new features and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.13.3.

Improvements

• Added “swipe down” gesture to dismiss an image in the lightbox.

No longer broken

• Tapping an image no longer shows the keyboard.
• Fixed double-tap to zoom on images.
• Live Preview: Fixed buttons for creating new columns and new rows not working on iOS.
• Live Preview: Fixed a regression where “Enter” from the iOS keyboard was not working as expected inside Markdown lists.
• File Recovery: Fixed navigating between different files in file history on mobile.
• iOS: Fixed scroll stopping abruptly in reading mode when scrolling quickly in a document with large embeds.
• Fixed tabs not recomputing their width after another tab is closed.

Improvements

• Live Preview: When the image is the only text on a line, the editor line height is no longer preserved to match the image height.
• Live Preview: Added a new selection state to image embeds.
• Added a “zoom” button to image embeds.
• The image lightbox now supports click and drag to pan within an image.
• File Recovery: Added keyboard navigation to the file history records. Use arrow keys to navigate through the list.
• Unique Note Creator plugin now links to its own settings when it fails to find a template.

No longer broken

• Fixed image resizing when an image is inside a Markdown table.
• Fixed unique URI action not opening the new note in the correct tab when the paneType option is provided.

New

• New image lightbox for viewing images fullscreen. Click the image in reading mode to open it. Or in live preview, with an image selected, click or press Space to open it in the lightbox. Use arrow keys to navigate between all the images embedded in the current file.
• Live Preview: Added keyboard interactions when an image is selected. Press + or - to resize the selected image, and 0 to reset the image size. Press Enter to edit the image, or Tab to manually edit the image size.
• Vim: Added a new :image Ex command to interact with the selected image. Use :image grow and :image shrink to resize the image, and :image reset to reset the image size. It also supports a count, so :5image grow will grow the image 5 times.

Improvements

• Live Preview: Clicking outside a selected image now deselects it.
• Reading mode now supports external images with an image size and no alt text (e.g. ![200](https://www.path.to/image.png)).
• File Explorer: Added support for dragging links from a Base into the File Explorer to move the file to a new location.

Sync

• Added file-level context menu items to the Sync view.
• The Sync view now supports multi-selection with the keyboard (Shift-arrow keys) or the mouse (Alt-click).
• The Sync view now supports deleting files with the Delete or Backspace key.

No longer broken …