Echo v1.5 has been released with support for uploading images as part of your Echo post.

This release also includes support for Apple’s new Apple Intelligence Image Playground feature. Generate new images based on an existing image or create a brand new image of anything you want. Echo has also created a new Lemmy community for Image Playground Showcase: !ip_showcase@eventfrontier.com. Be sure to join and post all your best (or worst) Image Playground images.

We aren’t done yet! Much more coming soon. We are committed to building the best, native first, Lemmy experience for iOS.

Below are the full release notes.

- Support for uploading image in post.
    - Requires your Lemmy instance to support pictrs at the default URL.
- Adds support for Image Playground. Generate image from an existing image or create a new image using Apple Intelligence.
    - Requires iOS 18.2, an Apple Intelligence supported device, and access to be granted to Image Playground.
- Fixes an issue where reply & bookmark options wouldn't show up in comment ellipsis menu.
- Fixes an issue where sometimes when closing a screen multiple screens would close unintentionally.
- Fixes an issue where sometimes avatar images would not display correctly.
- General bug fixes, performance improvements, and behind the scenes improvements.