Obsidian Release Notes

Includes all new features and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop 1.14.4.

No longer broken

Bases: Fixed kanban view not scrolling horizontally when every card is hidden.

Bases: Fixed table view losing its horizontal scroll position when the pull-down action is triggered.

Bases: Fixed kanban columns resizing on mobile when the keyboard opens or closes.

Bases: Opening the view configuration page no longer automatically focuses the view name.

Bases: “Add view” command now automatically focuses the view name input.

Improvements

Bases: Added “Hide column” to the right-click menu of a kanban column.

Bases: A base made with “Create new base” now names its first view “View” instead of “Table”.

Search in the File Explorer, Bookmarks, Outline, and Sync views now matches the full path of each item. Excluding a term (e.g. -Archive) now hides a matching folder and everything inside it.

The Outline and Outgoing links views now work for files opened from outside the vault.

No longer broken

Bases: Fixed “Copy path” showing up below “Delete” when you right-click a file in a table, cards, or kanban view.

Bases: Fixed a base failing to load when a view’s groupOrder is not a list.

Bases: Fixed “Add group” in the Group menu not adding a group when selecting a link suggestion.

Fixed property suggestions sometimes showing results for an earlier query, which made Enter pick an old link instead of what you typed.

Fixed a memory leak in the metadata cache after opening and editing external files.

Includes all new features and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop 1.14.3.

New

iOS: Added template support to Quick Capture when its behavior is set to daily note or a selected note.

Improvements

Bases: Improved the toolbar layout. Groups, Sort, Properties, and Results now appear inside a single “Display” toolbar menu item.

No longer broken

iOS: Fixed a crash when launching the app on iOS 17 and earlier.

iOS: Fixed Quick Capture saving new notes in the same folder as the current file when the vault root is selected.

iOS: Fixed the Quick Capture location sheet not matching the active color scheme.

iOS: Fixed syllables sometimes disappearing while typing in Korean.

Fixed “Setup Obsidian Sync” on the vault chooser screen loading forever after your login expired.

New

Added Quick Look previews for Markdown files on macOS (requires latest installer).

Added document icons on macOS and Windows for .md, .base and .canvas.

Bases: Added a Group menu to the toolbar for choosing the property to group by. Use it to reorder, hide, and add groups by hand in any view type.

Redesigned empty state and added “New base” and “New canvas” when their plugins are enabled.

Improvements

Added “Increase font size” and “Decrease font size” commands.

Added an update notice in Settings → General when a newer installer is available.

Bases: Improved how dates and times are rendered in group headers and in readonly layouts (e.g. Cards, Kanban).

Bases: Embedded kanban boards no longer have a fixed height.

Improved fuzzy search in the Quick switcher and suggestions: matches where your letters start words now rank higher, and searching is faster in large vaults.

When opening an untrusted vault, themes and snippets will be temporarily disabled while the “Do you trust the author of this vault” dialog is on screen.

Improved search in the Bookmarks, Outline, Tags, and Sync views. Everything inside a matching item now stays visible. Groups with nothing to show are hidden.

In Source mode, pressing ArrowUp on the first line of a note now moves the cursor to the inline title, like in Live Preview.

No longer broken

Fixed tooltips briefly disappearing when moving between adjacent items.

Fixed kanban column count missing thousands separators.

Bases: Fixed a long property name in a filter rule pushing the operator and value out of view.

Bases: Fixed “Hide all” causing the properties menu to render incorrectly.

Fixed a potential iframe injection in the Slides plugin.

Fixed page preview showing behind Bases toolbar menus.

Fixed an editor issue with Home and End key in RTL languages.

Fixed searching headings in all notes ([[##) freezing the app in large vaults.

Fixed pressing Enter on an invalid title in an embedded note (e.g. a new note from Bases) reverting the title and moving focus out of it. The title now stays focused so you can fix the name.

Canvas: Fixed a card narrowed to a heading or block still showing that section after using Swap file… to pick the same file.

Developers

Added CSS variables for tooltips, notices, hotkeys, and tabs, using the prefixes --tooltip-, --notice-, --hotkey, --tab-inner- and --tab-container-.

Includes all new features and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop 1.14.2.

New

iOS 27: Added support for the new extra large Quick Capture and View Note widgets.

Improvements

iOS: Quick Capture's color scheme now matches the active vault's color scheme.

No longer broken

Bases: Fixed exporting a view as a CSV file.

Fixed the vault switcher not always showing a dark keyboard.

iOS: Fixed Quick Capture not always having initial input focus.

iOS: Fixed Quick Capture not being available for a few seconds after closing the app when the vault is large.

iOS: Fixed the progress bar briefly flashing during startup.

iOS: Fixed the Share Sheet generating invalid filenames for Instagram posts.

Android: Fixed the splash screen rendering incorrectly.

Android: Fixed the "Take picture" navigation bar item not always giving the option to take a photo directly from the app.

Tablet: Fixed a layout regression in the Debug dialog.

New

You can now open files from outside your vault in Obsidian. The file opens in your current window (Desktop only).

Added the “Open file from outside the vault…” command. Pick any file on your computer and view it in the app.

Obsidian now appears in your operating system’s Open with menu, and you can set it as the default app for Markdown files (requires downloading the latest installer).

Improvements

All in-app links now take you to the localized version of the Obsidian website.

Base font size is no longer saved to appearance.json. It is now stored in the device’s local storage, so it no longer syncs with Obsidian Sync.

Improved drag and drop in the kanban layout and File Explorer. The view now smoothly scrolls when dragging near the edge.

The editor link suggestions (e.g. [[) and the quick switcher no longer switch to a simplified algorithm in vaults with more than 10,000 files. Fuzzy matching is now always used.

Format converter: Removed old formats from the converter plugin.

Bases

Kanban: Cards can now be moved between folder columns when grouped by file.folder.

Kanban: Creating a note in a column now places it in the corresponding folder when grouped by file.folder.

Kanban: Added error feedback when moving a card fails, such as when the note has invalid properties or the target folder is missing.

No longer broken

Editor: Fixed Markdown formatting characters not parsing correctly around emails (e.g. Some email: [email protected]).

Editor: Fixed clicking on collapsed reference links (e.g. [link][]) going to the wrong destination.

Bases: Fixed page preview showing the wrong height when previewing a kanban view.

Fixed incorrect language code used for Khmer.

Includes all new features and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop 1.14.1.

New

iOS 26: Added a configurable Quick Capture Home Screen widget. Add shortcuts to capture directly to different Locations.

Improvements

Text and interface elements now scale with your system's preferred text size, including larger accessibility sizes.

iOS: Quick Capture widgets on the Lock Screen and in Control Center can now be configured to open a specific Location.

iOS: The Quick Capture action in Shortcuts now supports a Location parameter.

iOS: Quick Capture templates now support {{openStreetMapLink}} to insert an OpenStreetMap link to your current position.

iOS: Improved the layout of Quick Capture's Live Activity in the expanded Dynamic Island.

No longer broken

Fixed back and forward swipe gestures being reversed in right-to-left languages.

iPad: Fixed incorrect app and status bar sizing when resizing windows in Split View or Stage Manager.

Developers

Use --font-preferred-size for text that should respect the system's preferred text size. On mobile, it combines --font-text-size with the --preferred-text-scale multiplier.

Improvements

Math rendering now uses MathJax 4.1.3, replacing MathJax 3 and Temml.

Bases: Added right-to-left (RTL) support to table views, including keyboard navigation, selections, and horizontal scrolling.

No longer broken

Fixed default file to open option not working.

Fixed opening recent vault from OS menu not working.

Vim: Fixed deleting and pasting a numbered list item inserting blank lines and empty numbered items.

Fixed input hover styles in the quick switcher and command palette.

RTL: Fixed the loading animation in right-to-left languages.

Includes all new features and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.14.0.

Improvements

Settings are now shown in a dismissable sheet over the app. Swipe anywhere to dismiss.

iOS

Native Quick Capture on iOS 26. Capture notes from the Lock Screen, Control Center, or Shortcuts without waiting for your vault to load. While editing, your capture also remains accessible through a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.

Quick Capture: Create Locations to capture to a new note, today's daily note, a bookmarked note, or any note you choose.

Quick Capture: Templates support variables such as and for your current position

Share Sheet now uses the vault accent color.

Android

Open Note widget displays the name of the note in the Widget.

The "Insert attachment" mobile toolbar button now allows taking a photo directly.

No longer broken

The Configure toolbar button now takes you directly to the mobile toolbar settings page (previously it took you to "Interface").

Fixed Hotkeys settings overflowing and causing the page to scroll horizontally.

Fixed missing close animation when tapping the "x" button in the command palette.

Right-to-left lanaguages (RTL)

Settings: The swipe-back gesture is now flipped.

Page animations are now flipped.

New Editor

Added color highlights. ==🔵 Bring color to your notes!== Add a color emoji (🔴, 🟠, 🟢, 🔵, 🟣) to the start of a highlight to change its color, or pick a color from the new formatting submenu.

Typing == in the editor now suggests highlight colors.

Live Preview: When the cursor overlaps a highlight, an inline swatch now appears. Click it to quickly change the highlight color.

Bases

Added a new kanban layout to display files in ordered columns. Use Group by to define the columns, then drag and drop to reorder them.

Groups are now collapsible in the table, cards, and list layouts.

Improvements

The entire workspace, including the sidebars, now flips when Obsidian is set to a right-to-left (RTL) language. Commands stay the same, so "Toggle left sidebar" now refers to the visual left sidebar, even when the interface is flipped.

Closing popout windows (such as Settings) is now much faster.

Editor: Pasting a list item onto a line that already contains a list marker (e.g. - [ ] ) no longer duplicates the marker.

Editor: Improved the inline formatting commands. For example, "Toggle bold" on this line:some bold |text on the line|
now results in:some bold text on the line

No longer broken

Fixed periodic input lag in large vaults caused by properties getting recomputed in the background.

Fixed copy and paste not working correctly in popout windows, including copying and pasting notes in Canvas.

Web viewer: Fixed Google sign-in failing.

Bases: Fixed the "+" button not generating correct frontmatter for unresolved links, e.g. file.hasLink("[[unresolved]]").

Editor: Fixed OptionShift↑ and OptionShift↓ not working consistently on macOS in long paragraphs, where the scroll position would sometimes reset and the text selection would be incorrect.

Editor: Fixed a parser issue where ![]( caused all following text in the document to be treated as part of the image.

Editor: Fixed incorrect cursor placement when moving the cursor to the end of the line with multiple formatting markers (e.g. text).

Editor: Fixed ↑ not moving from the editor to the inline title when there are no properties.

Note composer: Fixed "Extract this heading" not preserving the newline when there is only one newline between the section and the next heading.

Developers

Replaced MathJax with Temml for rendering math in Live Preview and Reading mode.

Editor: Each line of a math block ($$) now has the .HyperMD-math class.

Settings: Added optional SettingDefinitionItem#id for setting a unique ID on individual settings. Think of it like <div key={key} /> in React. Use it to differentiate between sibling settings that share a name, or to keep a stable reference when a setting or setting page is renamed.

Includes all new features and bug fixes up to Obsidian Desktop v1.13.6.

New

• Added swipe-to-close to close tabs in the tab switcher.

Improvements

• Tabs now animate to their new position after closing a tab from the tab switcher.
• The mobile toolbar settings page now shows icons next to each command.
• Checkboxes now scale proportionally to the font size.
• Minor improvements to Settings in landscape mode.

No longer broken

• Fixed "Open local graph" and similar commands opening tabs in a new tab group on phones, where tab groups are not supported.
• iOS: Fixed editor sometimes selecting entire paragraph after double-tapping on text or dragging cursor.