ARK-phone Files

What's new

Group MMS now works end to end. Group messages you send reach every member (a formatting quirk in saved contacts could silently drop recipients before), incoming groups collect into one conversation titled with its members, the notification shows the group, and replying — from the conversation or straight from the notification — stays in the group and goes out on the SIM the message arrived on.

Messaging polish: a conversation that receives a new message surfaces at the top of the list immediately, delivery reports are now actually read so "Delivered" means delivered, messages from blocked numbers stay silent, and text sender names like "INFO" can now be blocked too.

The app has two launcher icons now: Phone and Messages, with the Messages one opening straight into your conversations (names follow the device language). Status-bar icons tell the two worlds apart as well — call notifications carry a handset, message notifications a speech bubble.

Dialing: typing three or more digits on the keypad now also suggests matching numbers from your call history, not just from contacts.

Call blocking is stricter where it matters: a blocked prefix now always blocks, even when the same number keeps calling back, and prefixes match across the "+44" and "0044" spellings of the same country code.

Plus a round of smaller fixes from several external code reviews, including a crash fix in the conversation view.