What's New — Week of August 5, 2026
Approving Amplify posts works from every door again, book prices keep themselves honest, and 1.19.5 brings last week's work to both stores.
A quieter week than the last one, and mostly repair work — the kind that matters. Pastors can approve Amplify posts again from wherever they happen to be, our book listings tell the truth about price and availability, and everything we announced last week is now in a build you can actually install.
Amplify's Approve tab loads again — in the app and on the web
If you tried to review an Amplify post from inside the app or from a browser recently, you probably saw Couldn't load and nothing else. The approve-by-email link kept working the whole time, which is exactly why this hid for so long: one door was fine while every other door was quietly shut. It's fixed and live. Approving from the app or the web works again, the Blogs tab was repaired the same way, and a session that has simply expired now says so plainly instead of looking like the service is down.
Book prices that keep themselves honest
Two titles in the Books catalog were showing a Preorder label on books you can buy today, and one of them at the wrong price — Little Image Bearers is $19.99, not $12.99. Both are corrected. More usefully, the catalog now re-checks the storefront every day, so a price change or a book going out of stock reaches the app and the web catalog on its own, instead of waiting for someone to remember. Prices you see are the prices at checkout.
Version 1.19.5 is rolling out
Last week's work — two-tap sermon clips, the redesigned Resources library, church brand colors, public church pages, and the ministry sign-up path — is now bundled into 1.19.5 for iPhone and Android, at the same version on both. If something we announced didn't seem to be there yet when you looked, this is the update that brings it.
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