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- Jan 13, 2026
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Meet the All-New Slackbot: Your Personal AI Agent for Work
Slack unveils all-new Slackbot, a personal AI agent built into Slack that uses your context for instant, role-specific productivity. With native AI and enterprise search, it delivers tailored insights while keeping data secure. Available now for Business+ and Enterprise+ with phased rollout.
AI that understands your work, adapts to your style, and helps every employee move faster.
By the team at Slack
January 13th, 2026TABLE OF CONTENTS
Your personal AI agent for work, built into Slack
See Slackbot in action
Slackbot + enterprise search + native AI: a new level of productivity
Trust and security are built-in, not bolted on
This is just the beginning
Ready to meet the all-new Slackbot?
Key takeaways
- Slackbot is available now: As a personal AI agent, Slackbot is built into Slack and learns how you work, helping you stay organized, prepared, and focused.
- Context-aware intelligence: Slackbot uses the messages, files, channels, and tools you already have access to in order to deliver answers, insights, and content tailored to your role.
- Personalized productivity for every team: Slackbot unlocks role-specific workflows that help sales, marketing, engineering, service, and operations teams move work forward.
- Built on trust: Enterprise-grade security, transparent permissions, and strict data boundaries ensure that Slackbot uses only what you can already see.
We’ve all been there: You start your day with unread messages scattered across channels. You know a decision was made, but where? Was it in the #project-alpha channel? A huddle? Maybe it’s buried in a slide deck from last Tuesday.
The “work of work” — searching, summarizing, and catching up — takes more time than the jobs we were hired to do. You need a trusted, always-on colleague that answers questions instantly and acts on your behalf.
Today, we’re announcing that we’ve rebuilt Slackbot from scratch to do just that. What used to be your friendly neighborhood notification-helper is graduating to become your personal, context-aware AI agent for work.
The all-new Slackbot understands your work, anticipates your needs, and acts as the intelligent partner you’ve always wanted. Starting now, you can stop hunting for information and start focusing on the work that matters.
Let’s dig into how it works and why it’s different from all the copilots and assistants on the market today.
Your personal AI agent for work, built into Slack
Slackbot is your deeply personal AI agent for work, built natively into Slack for every employee, with no setup or training required. What makes it different is simple: Slackbot starts with your context. And that context is what’s missing from the other tools out there.
Most AI tools are like interns who haven’t read the brief yet, and you have to spend half your time catching them up. Slackbot is the teammate that was in the meeting with you. When AI doesn’t understand your conversations, priorities, or how your business runs, it just creates more work.
Context is the key
Because it lives inside Slack, Slackbot understands how you and your team speak and how decisions actually get made. It’s informed by your messages and files, but it sees only what you can see, always respecting the permissions already in place. This context makes Slackbot more accurate and helpful, so you can move from “hunting” to “doing” instantly.
Slackbot isn’t just another AI assistant. It’s an intelligent, active partner that brings clarity and momentum to the work you’re already doing in Slack.
“AI has raised expectations in our personal lives, but work is fundamentally different. To truly be useful at work, AI needs context: an understanding of your conversations, your tools, and how decisions actually get made. With Slackbot, we’ve built an intuitive, deeply native experience inside Slack that people can trust to help them move work forward, not just answer questions.”
How it works
There is nothing to install, nothing to learn, and nothing new to manage. You simply start a conversation with Slackbot, and it understands what you’re asking and the context behind it.
It uses your actual work to create personalized briefings, clarify complex conversations, draft content in your voice, and surface insights you might otherwise miss. It can prepare you for meetings, help you navigate cross-functional complexity, and transform scattered inputs into clear, actionable outputs — all while staying grounded in the information you already have access to.
When you ask it a question, Slackbot evaluates the people you collaborate with, the channels you’re active in, the files and canvases you share, and the systems connected through enterprise search. It draws from signals like recent conversations, calendars, and shared documents and project decisions. Slackbot combines all of this into a complete understanding of your projects and team and then uses AI to synthesize insights, generate content, and structure information in ways that match your style and workflows.
The result is an experience that feels intuitive and personal: an AI agent that understands your role, your preferences, your projects, and the flow of work across your organization.
See Slackbot in action
Slackbot is a hands-on partner that helps you transform information into action. Here are three core capabilities that show how Slackbot accelerates everyday work.
- Skip the catch-up, get to the decision
Slackbot can instantly synthesize information from across your channels, calls, canvases, and connected tools to provide clear, contextual insights. Whether you’re prepping for a customer call, aligning stakeholders before a big decision, or making sense of a fast-moving project, Slackbot surfaces the key themes, risks, opportunities, and next steps you need. By turning scattered messages and documents into meaningful intelligence, Slackbot helps you focus on what matters instead of having to piece together the story yourself.
“Slackbot is saving me, at bare minimum, 90 minutes a day. I ask it to create a canvas for a meeting tomorrow, and in 17 seconds it’s better than I could ever do. It tells me next steps, saving time and money.”
— Sinan, Head of Beast Games Marketing, MrBeast- Skip the catch-up, get to the decision
- A head start on every draft
This is the end of the blank page. Slackbot creates first drafts effortlessly in your voice and style, transforming raw inputs into polished outputs. It can create customer emails, meeting talk tracks, briefs, blog outlines, onboarding guides, summaries, and more — pulling relevant information directly from your channels and files. Because it understands your role and the tone of your team, Slackbot produces content that is natural and on-brand. Instead of starting from a blank page, you start with a well-structured draft tailored to your needs, ready to refine and share.
“Slackbot is my brilliant colleague whose status is always green/available and is working right next to me in Slack. Instead of switching between multiple applications and windows and losing my train of thought, I can ask Slackbot questions and have it conduct research and create content without ever leaving Slack, the place I am working all day. It’s transformed how efficiently I move through my day — no context switching, no friction.”
— Christine McHone, Global Enterprise TMT Leader, Slalom- A head start on every draft
- Analyze files
You no longer have to read a 40-page deck at 4:45 p.m. on a Friday to understand the project’s status. From transcripts and spreadsheets to PDFs and long-form documents, Slackbot can analyze files deeply and instantly. Ask Slackbot to extract insights from sales call recordings, summarize complex reports, identify trends in customer feedback, or find specific data points inside large files. Slackbot cross-references file content with your other Slack conversations and connected systems to give you richer, more contextual answers. You spend less time searching and more time deciding, acting, and delivering.
“Slackbot has been an absolute chaos tamer for our team. It’s not just for simple tasks; it’s like having a virtual assistant, with far more context based on our business than any external tool.”
— Mollie Bodensteiner, SVP of Operations, Engine- Analyze files
Slackbot + enterprise search + native AI: a new level of productivity
Slackbot is part of Slack’s larger AI ecosystem, working seamlessly alongside enterprise search and native AI capabilities to create a unified, context-driven environment for modern work. It delivers a conversational search experience that mirrors how people think and find information in the AI era — through natural language and following the flow of your questions.
Slackbot has taken the beloved Slack search bar and supercharged it. With Slackbot, search becomes your thought partner. It reasons with you, adapts to your style, and even runs your next steps. Slackbot understands all of the context around your work, and when that context changes in real time, so do the answers, recommendations, and next steps it provides. With Slackbot, we’re moving from “Help me find information” to “Help me identify, plan, and act,” all from this new chat experience.
Slackbot brings the power of AI and search together in a single conversation. Native AI handles your “in the moment” needs, like summarizing a long thread or translating a message, while enterprise search finds files and data scattered across your apps and drives. Slackbot leverages both to help you move work forward, just by asking.
Trust and security are built-in, not bolted on
Enterprise AI only works when trust comes first.
Slackbot is built on the same foundation of trust as Slack itself. It’s protected by Slack AI Guardrails, a multi-layered safety framework designed to keep your data secure. It respects roles, permissions, and access controls, and only surfaces information you are authorized to see, with clear citations that show where information comes from.
Your interactions remain private to you. Your data is protected and handled in accordance with Slack’s security and compliance standards.
Real-time safeguards detect and defuse issues like prompt injection, unsafe content, or phishing attempts, while strict permission checks ensure that Slackbot only accesses data that users are already authorized to view within Slack.
This is enterprise-grade trust and security that customers expect, delivered through a personal, conversational experience.
This is just the beginning
Over time, Slackbot will become even more capable. As Agentforce and other third-party agents are introduced across your organization, Slackbot will become your ideal way to work with all of them.
Because it already understands your context, your priorities, and the way you work, Slackbot will become the place you turn first. You will not need to hunt for the right agent or tool. You’ll just ask Slackbot, and it will coordinate the work across systems and agents behind the scenes, while you stay focused on what matters.
Ready to meet the all-new Slackbot?
Slackbot will be made available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers through a phased rollout beginning today and continuing through January and February. To get started, find the Slackbot icon just to the right of the search bar at the top of your workspace. Then simply strike up a conversation.
Check out all of Slackbot’s new features and join us for a webinar on January 29 to see how a personal AI agent can change every employee’s workday. To find the right plan for your team, get in touch with Sales now.
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January 2026
Slack reintroduces Slackbot as your productivity partner in Slack, now with workspace knowledge and new use cases. Highlights include restricting AI access in Enterprise, Huddles open in a new window with an accessible hand raise, and private-channel workflow configurations.
Reintroducing Slackbot, your personal agent for work
Meet the new Slackbot, your productivity partner in Slack that understands how you work. Slackbot uses the knowledge in your workspace or Enterprise organization to help with whatever you need, whether it's prepping for a customer meeting, creating a project brief, or even finding that one canvas you can’t remember the name of. Check out A reintroduction to Slackbot for all the details on how Slackbot works now.
Restrict AI access to content in Slack
For more control over information that can be used to generate search answers, canvas content, and Slackbot responses, Org Owners and Admins on Enterprise+ can restrict AI access to channels, canvases, and lists.
Huddles window and toolbar improvements
Huddles now open in a new window by default so they don’t block the sidebar. If you close a huddle window, you’ll see the toolbar (with a new easy-to-access 🖐️ hand raise option) wherever you navigate in Slack.
Other news
- Admins and owners can now allow workflows that start from a keyword to be configured in private channels.
- Dec 22, 2025
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Slack Feature Drop: New Innovations That Make Work Feel Like a Gift
Slack unveils a holiday ready surge of smarter AI and productivity upgrades to sharpen focus and streamline work across desktop and mobile. From AI that answers and explains on the fly to a rebuilt notifications system and stronger admin controls, this release clears noise and boosts momentum.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ✨ AI that thinks with you ✨
- 🌀Stay in flow, wherever work happens 🌀
- 🛡️Built for trust, clarity, and scale 🛡️
A holiday-ready set of smarter AI and productivity upgrades designed to clear noise and streamline everyday work in Slack.
By the team at Slack
December 22nd, 2025Work can feel messy. Messages pile up, meetings blur together, and important things get buried in the noise. No one wakes up excited for that. What is exciting is when work suddenly feels lighter, when answers are easy to find, handoffs are smooth, and things just click. That’s exactly what these new features deliver.
These updates combine smarter AI, meaningful productivity upgrades, and stronger admin foundations to make work feel clearer, calmer, and more pleasant for everyone using Slack.✨ AI that thinks with you ✨
AI that thinks with you ✨
Practical AI that turns everyday moments into shared momentum
The best AI feels a little magical,in the best way. It shows up at just the right moment, understands what you’re trying to do, and helps without getting in the way. These updates bring AI directly into the flow of real work, turning everyday questions into shared knowledge, clearing up confusion instantly, and helping teams move from insight to action with ease.Share AI answers
Lets users instantly share AI-generated answers into channels or DMs with a single click, no screenshots or copy-paste required. Shared answers become persistent Slack messages that keep their full context, making them easy to reference, reply to, or reuse for repeat questions like onboarding, policies, or team workflows.***Mobile AI explanations
Helps users quickly understand jargon, acronyms, or dense messages while on the go. By long-pressing a message on mobile and selecting “Explain,” users get a clear, contextual breakdown without leaving the conversation or losing momentum.***Agentforce proactive notifications with buttons in Slack
Allows Agentforce agents to proactively notify users in Slack with interactive buttons like “Approve,” “Decline,” or “Draft email.” Clicking a button automatically sends a suggested prompt to the agent, letting users continue work instantly without typing or switching tools. (Requires Agentforce User Licenses)*
🌀Stay in flow, wherever work happens 🌀
Stay in flow, wherever work happens 🌀
Designed to reduce friction across focus, collaboration, and mobility
Work is rarely neat, and that’s okay. What isn’t okay is when tools slow you down or break your focus. These updates are exciting because they remove those speed bumps entirely. From smoother multitasking to smarter reminders and better mobile experiences, they help everything feel more connected, more fluid, and more satisfying, so you can stay in your groove no matter where work takes you.Notifications 2.0
A major overhaul of Slack’s notification system designed to reduce noise and confusion. Introduces simpler channel notification options, clearer push controls across desktop and mobile, improved global settings, and better syncing, so alerts are easier to understand and easier to manage.*Group DMs in user profiles (desktop release)
Adds shared group DMs directly to user profiles on desktop. When viewing a teammate’s profile, users can quickly jump into recent one-to-one or group conversations, or see the full list of shared DMs for easier reconnection.* (Available on mobile in January)Show related Slack conversations for Salesforce records
Brings Slack conversations directly into Salesforce Lightning. Users can view and interact with related channels and threads tied to a specific record, helping them stay connected to real discussions without leaving Salesforce or losing business context.*Desktop split view
Lets users pin channels, threads, apps, canvases, or agents side by side in a split view. This makes it easy to reference information while continuing to navigate Slack, ideal for multitasking, research, and interacting with AI tools without breaking flow. (Fully available in January)*Huddles windowing & toolbar revamp
Introduces a new Huddles mini-player with a docked bar and refreshed toolbar. Threads, canvases, reactions, and controls are now easier to access across windows, with clearer grouping and quicker access during live collaboration.*Improved tagging and filter completion in the omniswitcher
Makes searching faster and more intuitive with smarter @ and # tagging, improved filter suggestions, and quick links to common filters. The omniswitcher dynamically adapts its layout depending on whether users are searching broadly or narrowing results. (Fully available in January)*Enhanced file-type support in mobile file browse
Expands the Android mobile file browser to support all file types, including third-party and media files. Adds file-type filtering, improved empty states, and a unified experience that now matches iOS. (Fully available in January)*Huddles “just in time” (JIT) notification
Sends smart meeting reminders directly in Slack shortly before meetings start. Notifications include a one-click Join button that works with any conferencing link, plus options to snooze or dismiss so users never miss, or rush into, a meeting.*(Available now to free and Pro; available to all licenses starting in January)Channel email address updates
Makes channel email addresses easier to find and use, with new copy actions in menus, automatic address creation when needed, and support across all conversation types, including channels, DMs, and group DMs.*Hover and more message actions update
Refreshes message action menus with clearer grouping, updated icons, subtle hover animations, and a new desktop “copy message text” action. Aligns desktop and mobile experiences while making common actions faster to find.*Support landscape orientation on iPhone
Adds landscape orientation support to the Slack iPhone app. Slack now adapts automatically when devices rotate, making it easier to read long messages, view files, and work comfortably on larger screens.*****
🛡️Built for trust, clarity, and scale 🛡️
Built for trust, clarity, and scale 🛡️
Enterprise-grade control without slowing teams down
When Slack runs at the heart of an organization, the foundation really matters. These updates give admins clearer visibility, smarter controls, and a more consistent experience across plans. The result: Teams move faster, trust the system more, and scale with confidence, while admins spend less time managing complexity and more time supporting great work.Real-Time metrics in app analytics dashboard
Adds real-time insight into how apps consume messages and files. Includes a new “Last 24 Hours” view, near-instant query performance, and massive-scale data handling, giving admins faster visibility into app activity.****Delete message permissions
Introduces two new admin permissions that separately control who can delete their own messages and who can delete messages from apps or bots, offering more precise governance without over-restricting users.*Common admin navigation
Redesigns workspace admin navigation to align with the org dashboard. Creates a more modern, consistent experience across plans while improving scalability, maintainability, and flexibility for future updates.*Screen reader verbosity settings
Gives screen reader users control over how messages are read aloud on web and desktop. Users can customize verbosity levels in accessibility settings to better match their preferences and needs.*
Taken together, these updates represent one of our most exciting releases yet. They make Slack feel smarter, smoother, and more intuitive, without adding extra steps or complexity. Whether you’re getting through your day, collaborating with your team, or running Slack for an entire organization, these improvements are designed to give you momentum, confidence, and a little more joy in how work gets done.
Check out our Innovations webpage for previous releases.
Please note that some features may not be immediately available in your workspace depending on the rollout timeline, your Slack licensing plan, or additional license requirements. To learn more about feature availability, check with your admin on the licensing plans for your workspace.
Availability of features within Slack Licensing Plans as of December 19, 2025. Ready to learn more? Contact us.
*All Slack Plans
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***Business+ and Enterprise+ / Grid
****Enterprise+ / Grid
*****Free, Pro, Business+ only - Dec 12, 2025
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Slack 4.47.72
Security Guidance
- This release includes minor security improvements. Updating is beneficial.
- Dec 9, 2025
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GovSlack Achieves Department of Defense IL4 Authorization
Salesforce unveils GovSlack, a government-ready Slack instance, receiving Provisional DoD IL4 authorization. The secure platform promises enhanced productivity and compliant collaboration for national security teams.
Today, Salesforce announced that GovSlack, a dedicated instance of Slack designed to support key government security and compliance standards, has been issued Provisional Authorization for Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 4 (IL4) compliance. This significant milestone confirms Salesforce’s dedication to improving productivity across the critical missions and in support of the personnel within defense and national security.
Why it’s important
The national security of the United States operates at a massive scale across multiple agencies, contractors, and supporting organizations while handling sensitive information. GovSlack’s IL4 compliance ensures that the government can carry out these missions with a platform that supports the secure collaboration and productivity needs of its employees and contractors without compromising the security of this sensitive information.Enhancing productivity and collaboration
GovSlack is designed to boost productivity and collaboration by:
- Providing a flexible work operating system that breaks down communication silos
- Allowing users to work from anywhere the mission takes them with a fully featured mobile application
- Simplifying routine tasks with Workflow Builder, a native, no-code automation feature
- Enabling secure connections with external partners through Slack Connect
- Operating with security at the forefront, featuring advanced administrative, compliance, and security features
“GovSlack allows the brave men and women across the National Security ecosystem and supporting agencies and contractors to break down silos of information, swarm to mission-critical tasks, and make decisions at the speed of mission. When every second counts, these productivity gains can tip the scales for mission success,” said Bill Pessin, SVP, US National Security, Defense, Aerospace, Salesforce.
Supporting sensitive missions
GovSlack bridges the gap between public and private sectors by providing a secure platform for projects that require stricter security measures. It eliminates the need for context switching and centralizes fragmented communications into a central hub, ensuring seamless collaboration. With GovSlack’s IL4 compliance, defense customers can leverage a cutting-edge productivity platform that meets their stringent security requirements. This achievement is a testament to Slack and Salesforce’s commitment to delivering a secure, enterprise-grade platform that powers team productivity and improves collaboration.
To learn more about GovSlack and how it can support your mission, please visit https://slack.com/solutions/govslack or talk to your Salesforce representative.
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Slack 2025-12-03
Bug Fixes
- Don’t mind us — just making a few small adjustments to keep the app in tip-top shape. More to come soon. Cheerio!
- Dec 1, 2025
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December 2025
Split view returns with improved performance for side‑by‑side chats and pages. Simplified notification preferences help you control alerts, including per‑channel exceptions. Other updates include Salesforce migration preservation, AI message explanations on mobile, and sharing canvases and lists with edit access.
Split view is back, better than ever
After a brief hiatus, you can once again use split view to open conversations and other pages side-by-side in Slack.
New ways to fine-tune your notifications
Simplified notification preferences make it easier to decide what you’re notified about in Slack. You can choose to be notified about all new messages or only mentions and direct messages (DMs), and set exceptions for important channels so you never miss an update. Visit Configure your Slack notifications to learn more.
Other news
- Features that rely on a connection to Salesforce (like Salesforce channels and Agentforce) are now preserved when you migrate your workspace to an Enterprise organization.
- Use AI to generate message explanations on the Slack iOS and Android apps.
- Share canvases and lists from Slack on mobile to grant others permission to view and edit them.
- December 2025
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Slack 2025-12-03
Bug Fixes
- Don’t mind us — just making a few small adjustments to keep the app in tip-top shape. More to come soon. Cheerio!
- Nov 24, 2025
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Slack 4.47.65
Security Guidance
- This release includes security improvements. Updating is recommended.
- Nov 18, 2025
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Slack for iOS 26: A Simpler, More Productive Way to Work from Anywhere
Slack for iPhone and iPad adopts Apple’s Liquid Glass on iOS 26, delivering faster navigation, thumb-friendly controls, and a lighter, more native feel. It boosts mobile workflow with bottom search, extended canvases, and Enterprise Search for quick access to messages, files, and AI tools.
Slack meets Liquid Glass: a smoother, more responsive mobile experience for iPhone and iPad.
Author: Akshay Bakshi, Director of Product and Chris Delbuck, Sr. Director of Product Design at Slack
November 18th, 2025Most days, your work does not stay at your desk: You’re answering a quick DM between meetings, reviewing a deck on the train, checking in with your team from a client site, or catching up on a thread while you wait for coffee. When work follows you, the tools you use on your phone have to keep up. They need to be fast, clear, and feel like they belong on the device in your hand. This update focuses on helping you move through Slack more quickly in those short moments where you only have a few seconds to get something done.
You may notice these improvements as soon as you open the app. Navigation feels a bit smoother, key actions sit closer to your thumb, and the things you use most often appear faster. Even quick check-ins can feel easier, because the app is tuned more closely to how your day actually moves.
At Slack, when we make choices about layouts, controls, and interactions, we are thinking about how easily you can find the right channel, respond to your team, or jump into a canvas without losing momentum. Good design helps you manage your to-do list, collaborate in real-time, share files, or pull up the context you need, all from your phone. On mobile that means fewer taps, easier reachability and an experience that adapts to how people actually work throughout the day.
Our mission at Slack is to make people’s working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. On mobile, that means supporting you wherever work happens. This is why we designed to implement Apple’s Liquid Glass experience for the Slack mobile app, now available on iOS 26. It brings more space for your content, smoother interactions, and a look and feel that fits right into the Apple ecosystem while still feeling unmistakably like Slack. The result is an app that feels lighter, quicker to use, and easier to navigate during those in-between moments where most mobile work happens.
A new era of iOS design
We care as much about how Slack feels to use as how it performs. iOS 26 and the Liquid Glass design system gave us a chance to tune the Slack experience so it feels right at home on your iPhone and iPad. From where things live on screen to how easily you can reach tools and information, our goal was to help you move through Slack faster on the device you rely on throughout your day.
What is Liquid Glass?
Liquid Glass is Apple’s new design language for iOS 26. It brings a fluid, glass-like interface with depth and responsiveness. Elements adjust to the context around them. Controls step back when you are focused and reappear when needed. This aligns closely with how we think about building Slack: clear, expressive, and thoughtfully constructed.
What we delivered in Slack for iOS 26
- 🔝 Extended content to reach the top and bottom vertical edges so your conversations and canvases use the full screen real estate
- 🧊 Glass treatments applied to navigation headers and floating controls for interactions that feel more expressive, delightful, and attuned to what you need while you work
- 📝 A redesigned composer with a new glass-capsule design that makes rich text inputs feel lighter and easier to use
- 🔍 Floating search moved to the bottom navigation with a consistent glass treatment, making it easier to reach and faster to use
- 🧭 iPad windowing and menu bar support added for iPadOS 26 so users can move through Slack even more efficiently
Our iPhone and iPad users choose Apple’s ecosystem for its quality, polish, and seamlessness. They expect applications to feel intuitive and thoughtfully designed. You’ll notice Slack feels like it belongs on iOS 26, while still feeling like Slack.
Built for how you work
Designing for iOS is not only about adopting a new look. It is about supporting the way people actually work on their phones. Most mobile work happens in motion: answering a DM in the hallway, reviewing a doc while on the road, checking in with your team between customer meetings. Speed and clarity matter most. You need to find what you’re looking for quickly, respond without friction, and stay in the flow. We shaped this update around real mobile habits: one-handed navigation, quick glances, fast replies, and short bursts of focused work.
You will recognize familiar Slack elements, such as themes, expressive interfaces, emoji, and a friendly tone, remain. Liquid Glass frames them in a way that feels natural to iOS, with controls that only appear when needed. The experience stays familiar but now feels easier to use when you are juggling multiple tasks or moving through your day.
By relying on Apple’s native components, our teams spend less time rebuilding the basics and more time refining the moments that matter: writing a message, finding what you need, sharing a file, jumping into a canvas, or catching up on a thread. The result is less friction, more flow, and an app that feels intuitive from the moment you open it.
Every improvement supports faster, more confident action on mobile, whether you are clearing out quick tasks or preparing for something more important.
Search anything, wherever you are
Mobile work often happens in small windows of time, and searching for information in those moments needs to feel instant and effortless. When you are walking into a customer meeting, riding between sites, or jumping between conference rooms, you rarely have time to click through menus or remember exactly where something lives. You want to ask, “What was the last escalation for Acme?” or “Summarize today’s incident channel,” and get an answer right away. This update focuses on giving you that speed when you only have seconds to get caught up.
With iOS 26 moving the global search control to the bottom of the screen, we brought Slack search into that same thumb-friendly zone. One tap opens up your work. The next time you’re looking for an answer while you’re walking, you’ll notice you can pull up the important context you need without slowing down.
Slack Enterprise Search brings everything your company knows into one place. Messages, canvases, files, customer records, and data from connected apps form a unified, permission-aware knowledge base. The more your team works in Slack, the richer that corpus becomes, and the easier it is to ask a natural language question and instantly find the message, file, or system record you need. For mobile-first workers, this eliminates the scavenger hunt and gives you the information you need exactly when you need it.
Search in Slack goes beyond finding old messages. It is the entry point into your work: channels, DMs, canvases, files and your AI tools. By putting Enterprise Search in a dedicated bottom tab, we are setting things up so that with one tap you can ask Slackbot or another agent to surface the right thread, summarize a discussion, or spin up a canvas to prep for a meeting. The result is a mobile workflow that delivers immediacy: ask a question, get context, take action, and move forward.
Looking ahead
Early feedback has been encouraging. Customers have told us Slack feels “at home” on iOS 26 and fits more naturally into how they already use their iPhone and iPad. That is the experience we aimed to build: an enterprise-grade work app that feels native to iOS while still unmistakably Slack.
This foundation is already shaping what comes next. The new design system gives us the flexibility to unlock things like landscape support (coming soon) so you can take advantage of wider layouts with more room for content. It also positions us to deliver easier, more consistent access to AI agents across the app. These updates help us move faster toward Slack as the agentic work operating system, giving our customers a mobile experience with answers and actions always close at hand.
We are proud to work with Apple on this next step and even more proud to bring a new era of Slack to the devices our users love most.
Ready to try it?
Update Slack on your iPhone or iPad to get the new iOS 26 experience.
Open the app, tap around, and try:- Sending a few messages with the updated composer
- Searching from the bottom tab to prep for your next meeting
- Browsing your favorite channels and canvases in the new layout