In this beta, there are 2 new features available for testing:
• Instant View: On some supported websites, you may now view articles in a quick, readable and sleek way.
• Rich Text Messages: The new rich formatted text is now supported in this version of Pigeon. This feature, intended for bots such as those implemented through OpenClaw or Hermes AI agents, is introduced in the latest official Telegram apps. If you haven't experienced it yet, you can try @RichTextDemoBot!
👍What works:
• Headings
• Text formattings (plain, bold, italic, super/subscript,
• Quotes
• Some links (url, etc)
• Media (Photos, videos, etc)
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Code • Tables
• Location
• LaTeX Math expression rendering (both inline and block)
• List
• Expandable section
• Streamed messages (e.g. Live text response from AI agent)
🐜Known Bugs:
• The preview for photo collage types (basically an album) may not load
• Not localised yet
• Live message streaming a bit jumpy (although not sure if fixable)
👎Does not work:
• Tables does not render in watchOS 8
• 😭Custom emojis are not supported (may be explored in future)
• Anchor / section links (links that jumps to different sections of the same message)
• Link types that don't yet work in prior versions of Pigeon continues to not work even if present in a rich text message
Note: I've tested the Rich Text features with the latest OpenClaw release - so far it seems some types of content are not sent in the correct Telegram format (e.g. math expressions) so in that case, it will not present correctly in Pigeon.
Get it on TestFlight:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/KM9WSMHa
If you have previously used Pigeon via TestFlight, you do need to re register again with the link above in order to get this particular beta build.
Also note that if you wish to downgrade to the App Store version of Pigeon after using this beta, you may have to reinstall (i.e. delete the beta and install from App Store) or the app may crash.
OS Requirements for this beta remains watchOS 8.4 and above.