July Updates
Call Reliability and Quality
- Fix for missing (black) video streams in certain conditions.
- Improved call setup experience.
- Reduced frozen video issues.
- Numerous other fixes, mitigations, and infrastructure improvements.
Tandem for iOS
👉 Get Tandem for iOS on the App Store 👈
Your virtual office—now in your pocket. Tandem for iPhone and iPad allows you to see who's talking on your team and join meetings, rooms, and conversations while on the go.
- See who's around and tap on a teammate to 👋 wave or talk!
- See what rooms or meetings are active, and 👂listen in with a tap.
- Do a 🚶♀️🚶♂️walking 1-on-1 to break up the day.
- Take your meetings on the go.
- View screen share.
- Audio-first experience, but you can also send and receive videos (beta)
Launch Zoom/Meet meetings from Tandem
Now, you can see, join, and launch Meet/Zoom meetings in Tandem.
When a meeting event has a Meet/Zoom (or other service), you can choose to start the meeting in Tandem or launch the conferencing service (admins can set team-wide defaults). Your teammates will see you in the meeting room on Tandem and can join you in Meet/Zoom.
You'll automatically leave the meeting room at the meeting end time, or you can click Leave to remove yourself from the meeting.
While on Meet/Zoom you can switch to Tandem in 1-click (meeting details panel → Switch to Tandem). All the participants will be added to a new Tandem call.
Never be late to a meeting: Meeting Reminders let you auto-join the meeting exactly on time, and will show both a Meet/Zoom button and a Tandem button. To activate, go to Settings > Meetings > Show meeting reminders.
In case you missed it:
- G Suite Add-on to add Tandem meeting links to scheduled events. - Learn more
- Meeting reminders - Never be late to a meeting - Learn more
- Same Physical Room (prevent echo/feedback on hybrid calls) - Learn more
- Notify me when a teammate is free - Learn more
Improvements
- 📡 Improved Google Calendar syncing
- 🔗 Copying meeting links is now more accessible in and out of calls
- 📆 Browser meetings are now supported in Safari (beta)
- Hovering over teammates listening to Spotify shows cover art (requires Spotify integration)
- Chat supports up to 30MB uploads
- Mighty Browser is supported in Tandem
- In the main app, calls now show profile images instead of a blue circle
- Refreshed images and text in integration settings pages
- Improved in-call More Options menu (three dots).
- Mute everyone now mutes yourself as well.
- Pressing CMD + W during a call will ask you to confirm before leaving
- Added a setting for disabling same room wifi modal
- Added a team admin setting to make meeting titles private
- Starting or joining a crosstalk automatically unmutes you
Fixes
- Fixed bug where you call someone but they don't show up in your callbox right away
- Fixed unanswered callers not leaving automatically
- Fixed an issue with local time when hovering over a teammate tooltip
- Fixed bug with empty video unit when toggling blur quickly
- Fixed room covers not working properly
- Fixed a few issues when using "Same room" feature (prevent echo and feedback during hybrid in-person / remote calls).
- Fixed various call participant actions (invite participants, make dj, wave from details pane, click on music, call user from chat)
- Fixed stuck members in call box
- Fixed celebration emojis for web calls
- Fixed for load more messages shown in call window
- Fixed layout issues with small call window
- Fixed screenshare overlay still hanging out after call is done
- Fixed the scrollbar showing up sometimes on call window
- Fixed window sizing causing windows to float to front
- Fixed widescreen video streams looking squished