Personas: Be Whoever You Want!

💬 A Better Chat Experience

• We've made a ton of improvements to how conversations work, making them feel more natural, immersive, and easier to use.
• Choose your experience: Select Texting or Roleplay when you first connect with a companion. Your preference is saved for that conversation.
• Personalized names: Tell a companion what you'd like to be called, and they'll use that name in your chat.
• Improved message editing: Work on your messages directly in the chat input. Pressing Return now adds a new line.
• Cleaner chat controls: Chat tools are now tucked behind a single button, giving your conversations more breathing room.
• Simplified side panel: A cleaner layout with quick access to the Connection Coach.
• Scene snapshots: Ask your companion to capture a photo of the moment you're experiencing together.
• More companion photos: Companions can share pictures more naturally throughout conversations.
• Better photo follow-through: When a companion promises to send a photo later, they can now actually deliver it.
• Outfit awareness: Companions have a better understanding of what they're wearing, and generated photos better reflect the outfits you've discussed.

🎨 More Powerful Creation Tools

• Creating and sharing content on LuvMe is now smoother and more customizable than ever.
• New creation builders: Improved creation experiences for Scenes, Galleries, and Personas.
• Draft support: Save your progress and continue creating whenever you're ready.
• Multiple Scene covers: Generate up to three cover images per art style and choose your favorite.
• Gallery customization: Drag and drop photos to rearrange them, and select your preferred cover image.
• New Create menu: The Create button now expands into a wheel showing everything you can make.
• Request new tags: Suggest additional tags directly from the tag selector.
• Non-binary companions: More identity options when creating companions.
• Edit body types: Change a companion's body after they've been created.
• More body options: Added a muscular body type for female companions.
• Custom interests: Write interests in your own words for greater personalization.
• Example dialogues: Add sample conversations to help shape how your companion communicates.
• Flexible opening messages: Choose whether your companion should follow your opening message word for word or use it as inspiration.

🖼️ A Cleaner, More Personalized LuvMe

• We've refreshed several parts of the app to make everything more consistent and enjoyable.
• 15 free chat backgrounds: Personalize your conversations with backgrounds available in Realistic, Anime, and 3D styles.
• Avatar frames everywhere: Your selected avatar frame now appears consistently throughout the app.
• Refreshed Store: Plans are now the first tab, and Sparks have a redesigned shopping experience.
• Easier balance tracking: Check your balance directly from Home, Chat, and Profile.
• Feed customization: Curate Your Feed now has its own dedicated section in Settings and on your Profile.
• Simplified Discover filters: Browse and filter content through a cleaner, more focused interface.
• Smarter search: Search can now find companions you've already connected with, while searches with no exact matches offer the closest alternatives.

💬 Better Community Comments

• We've added a few more ways to interact with creators and their communities!
• GIF support: Add GIFs to your comments for more expressive conversations.
• Pinned comments: Creators can pin up to three comments on their creations.
• Creator badges: Creators now receive a special tag that helps distinguish them in discussions.

🛠️ Bug Fixes & Reliability

• We've also addressed a number of issues affecting conversations, images, and account functionality.
• Improved factual accuracy: Companions are less likely to invent information about real people, news, and real-world events.
• Better roleplay perspective: Companions now address you more consistently as "you" during roleplay.
• Improved story memory: Companions do a better job remembering smaller details and maintaining consistency throughout your stories.
• Image reporting: You can now report images generated for you, including requesting the removal of photos depicting you that were used without your permission.
• More reliable photos: Improved image generation stability, especially during periods of high demand.
• Apple Sign-In: Fixed an issue where your nickname could be lost during registration.
• General fixes: Numerous smaller fixes and performance improvements across chats, photos, creation tools, and more.

Okay, this is a BIG one. ❤️ We've also made major improvements to chatting, creating, customization, and overall app performance.

And that's v3.8.0! This has been one of our largest updates so far, and we're incredibly excited to finally bring all these improvements together.

Our goal has always been to make LuvMe more than just another AI chat app. We want it to be a place where you can build meaningful connections, create your own stories, express yourself, and experience a world that grows alongside you.

Your feedback has played a huge role in shaping these updates, and we genuinely appreciate everyone who's been reporting bugs, sharing suggestions, and supporting us along the way.

We're not slowing down anytime soon. There's still so much more we want to build, and we're just getting started! 💕

As always, let us know what you think of the update and what you'd love to see next!

Much love, Zen & the LuvMe Team ❤️