2021.07

A new personal homepage entry on the profile photo page

You can click your profile photo in the upper-left corner, find My personal homepage, and click your homepage to view your personal information.

A new image gallery for mobile chats

When using the chat feature on the mobile app, you can conveniently batch forward, download, or delete images and videos.

Able to display Traditional Chinese

Traditional Chinese (HK, China) and Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China) were added as display languages for Lark.

2021.06

Send and open folders in a chat

When sharing folders in a chat, you can directly upload local files or open folders received from others. The previous compression step has been removed. In the file manager, you can batch select and download files in a chat.

To learn more, see Send files/folders and rich text messages in a chat.

New features added to the desktop app screenshot tool

The screenshot tool has various new features, such as screenshot labels and mosaics. You can also set the color and thickness of lines or the text color and size.

To learn more, see Take screenshots.

Group owners can set the visibility of chat history

A group owner can disable New members can view chat history on the group management page to ensure the security of historical messages.

To learn more, see Set whether new members can view chat history after they join the group.

2021.05

Able to add multiple group administrators for a group chat

The group owner can set multiple group administrators for a group chat to increase the group management efficiency.

Increased message processing efficiency by using feed filters

The new feature, Feed Filters is now available! You can now modify the filters used to group and order messages. Message processing efficiency is increased by filtering messages by type.

To learn more, see Use the feed filter feature.

Various message shortcuts added to desktop app

Various message shortcuts have been added to the Lark desktop app to help users operate more fluently.

Various reply emojis added to Messages

Yes, No, Get, and other emojis were added to Messages for clearer communication of thoughts and for more feature-rich application scenarios.

Tap meeting ID on mobile app to quickly join a meeting

Using the Lark mobile app, you can tap the Meeting ID in Messages to join a meeting, which makes meeting participation from mobile devices much easier.

2021.04

LAN File Transfer

Lark will attempt to establish a two-way LAN transmission channel between two users on the same LAN when sending and receiving files between them (when files are no less than 20 MB) for quicker file transfer.

Version: 3.46

To learn more, see Send files and rich text messages in a chat.

Create group chats from group chats

When creating a group chat, all members of another group chat can be added with one click, and the department supervisor can add the members of the entire department into the group chat with one click.

Version: 3.46

To learn more, see Create a group chat.

2021.03

Changes and updates to chat settings page/group management page

The chat settings and group management pages have been rebuilt with a clearer information structure. They now have cleaner layouts and better function interaction logic, and many issues such as users can't find entries for Add Member, Group Management, and Disband Group Chat have been resolved.

Changes to search in the mobile app

Tap the Search Box at the top of the homepage to go to the search page. You can search top results, contacts, group chats, messages, Docs, apps, or events.

•When the keyword you want to search for is entered, the search system will find the top three results that best fit your criteria based on its understanding and display them in the You may look for area.

•If you are looking for a specific type of result, such as a message, document, or event, tap the category to search. The search results are displayed based on how well they match the keywords in descending order. Tap Learn more to view more search results.

•You can tap a search result to open the contact, group chat, chat history, or document you want to search.

Version: 3.44

Private chat option added to message notifications

Private Chat can be selected in Settings to filter out 1-to-1 push messages.

Adjustable font size on mobile app

Font size can be adjusted on the Lark mobile app via System Settings > General.

To learn more, see Adjust the chat text size on the Lark mobile app.

Multi-window collaboration supported on iPad Lark

Chat and document pages in iPad Lark can be opened as separate windows for better multitasking, or for focusing on one task.

2021.02

Topic groups

•A Lark topic group is a way to display an aggregate of group chat information classified by topic, and is a group chat for communication around various topics.

•Members can post different topics, and reply, forward, or subscribe to topics of interest. All the discussion content can be viewed on the details page for a topic.

•The group owner can set privileges such as permission to post, create, share, or access a topic for information security purposes. Notifications, chats, and oncall bots can also be added for even more applications and services.

Version: 3.43

To learn more, see Use a topic group.

Grammar checker feature added to Messages

When typing in Chinese or English in Messages, the system will look at the context of the content and automatically check for typos, punctuation, tense, singular and plural, grammar, and other errors and notify you of the error type and provide suggestions.

Version: 3.43

To learn more, see Use the grammar checker feature.

You May Look For added to mobile app

When the keyword you want to search for is entered, the search system will find the top three results that best fit your criteria based on its understanding and display them in the You may look for area.

Lark supports the setting of a default browser

•Options for the default browser used by Lark are available via Profile Photo > Settings > Efficiency, and the default option is system default browser;

•The drop-down menu includes all browsers that are compatible with Docs, as well as the system default browser;

•After the default browser is changed, all links in Lark will be opened using the newly set default browser.

Modification of QR code validity periods

When sharing a QR code or inserting a QR code into a document, you can change the validity period to permanently under the QR code.

Search optimization

•A major change was made to the search window for a new search experience. The original two-layered interaction has been changed to a multi search category tiled view.

•The following search categories are currently included: Top Results, Messages, Docs, Apps, Contacts, Groups, and Events; if the tenant uses Lark Mail, then Mail is also an option.

•Top Results supports even more information and smarter search sorting. The vertical category supports more refined content searches and more precise filtering functions.

Version: 3.42

2020.07

Smart Compose

Smart Compose was added to the desktop app to show input suggestions in the input box for English edits.

Version: 3.28.0 Released on: July 23, 2020

2020.05

Group Link

You can share a Group Link to invite friends to a Lark group.

Invite contacts to an external group

You can share the group contact card or QR Code of an external group to contacts to invite them to an external group.

Quickly invite external contacts to a group

The external contacts list was added to the interface of inviting users to a new group. You can add contacts to invite to the group quickly.

2020.05 updates

Version: 3.24.5 (desktop) Released on: May 15, 2020

Version: 3.24.0 (mobile) Released on: June 1, 2020

2020.04

Divide red packets into more shares

The number of shares that a red packet can be divided into on the mobile client is increased. Currently a red packet can be divided into 5,000 shares.

Version: 3.23 Released on: April 26, 2020

@mentione other team members in chats

Version 3.22 Released on: April 12, 2020

2020.03

Delete a completed conversation

You can slide rightward on a conversation and click the conversation to delete a completed conversation on the iOS client.

Version: 3.19.0 Released on: March 9, 2020

2020.02

Automatic confirmation of the read status of urgent messages

Version: 3.18.0 Released on: February 24, 2020

2020.01

New target language for translation

Thai language was added as a target language of message translation.

Version: 3.16.0 Released on: January 20, 2020

Chat emojis added to desktop app

You can download and use emoji in the emoji store.

Version: 3.15.3 (desktop app) Released on: January 9, 2020

For more information about the procedure, see 👉 FAQ | How to add stickers?.

2019.12

December 23, 2019

•New emoji were added. You can download and use emoji in the emoji store to deliver a richer message.

2019.11

November 3, 2019

•Automatic recording of reading progress was supported, so that you don’t need to worry about losing the context when switching between conversations.

2019.10

October 17, 2019

New features:

•Group owners can view the history of the group being shared.

•You can quickly view the status of group members (busy or available) in the right sidebar of the chat interface and create events. This can make meeting invitation more efficient.

October 8, 2019

New features:

•Voices and text can be sent simultaneously in a voice message.

2019.8

August 13, 2019

New features:

•The feature of withdrawing “group invitation” was added. You can withdraw your invitations to a user to remove the user from a group.

2019.7

July 24, 2019

New features:

•Do Not Disturb mode was added. You won't receive notifications other than those for urgent messages or video and voice calls in Do Not Disturb mode.

July 11, 2019

Optimization:

•You can add external members from an internal group to quickly create an external group and sync the group chat history.

•The view of topped messages was optimized, and new message notifications of hidden topped messages were added.

2019.6

June 30, 2019

New features:

•Separate filtering of URL messages was supported in message searches.

Optimization:

•You can view whether an urgent request has been confirmed by the recipient at the bottom of an urgent message.

June 13, 2019

Optimization:

•The text truncation on message cards under some circumstances was fixed.

•The problem of blinking message cards when the cards are scrolled up or down under some circumstances was fixed.

June 10, 2019

New features:

•The search feature was optimized. Searches by message, cloud space, app, and workplace among other types were supported on the homepage.

•Message filtering by sender, conversation, and sending time was supported on the homepage and in a conversation.

2019.5

May 29, 2019

New features:

•You can configure settings to receive urgent notifications only, or notifications which @mention you only, or both.

May 17, 2019

New features:

•Reply emoji received in a group conversation were now shown in the message list.

•The Docs links contained in a message can now be shown as titles.

2019.4

April 27, 2019

New features:

•Group owners now can set the message sending permissions of group members.

Optimization:

•The interactions and styles of reply emoji were optimized.

April 12, 2019

New features:

•Voice messages can now be forwarded.

•Card message content was supported for searches.

2019.3

March 27, 2019

New features:

•Multi-user collaboration, real-time editing, and rich-text formats were supported in group announcements.

•Sorting Docs lists are supported.

•A greater variety of reply emoji were supported, with easier access to the recently used emoji.

2019.2

February 16, 2019

Optimization:

•The interaction methods of message cards were optimized.

2019.1

January 17, 2019

Optimization:

•Banner interactions in meeting groups were optimized.

•The editing experience of sent images was optimized.

•The pin feature and style were optimized.

•The viewing feature of reply emoji adders was optimized.

January 6, 2019

New features:

•Automatic translation by conversation was supported.

Optimization:

•A bug that caused new message delays in the conversation list was fixed.

2018.12

December 22, 2018

Optimization:

•The default group names spliced by user names supported both English and Chinese versions.

•You can click a user name in a system message about entering or exiting from a group to view the personal contact card.

•The name shown beside the profile photo in a one-to-one conversation window was hidden.

2018.11

November 10, 2018

New features:

•URL content searches were supported.

•You can now select multiple messages to add them to favorites or delete them.

•The link to view all the “Handle later” conversations was added.

2018.10

October 26, 2018

New features:

•The pin feature was added to support group members to mark important chat history for future use.

•A sidebar was added to conversations.

Optimization:

•You can share and save group QR codes.

•“Conversation box” searches were supported.

October 10, 2018

New features:

•All history images in conversations were supported to be viewed.

•Low-priority conversions can be moved into conversation boxes to reduce interference.

2018.9

September 18, 2018

New features:

•In-conversation searches and views of history messages, Docs and files were supported.

•Handle later was supported.

•Communication between users in different companies was supported. This feature is available to some seeded users.

Optimization:

•Quick share to myself was supported.

September 9, 2018

New features:

•The group owner can withdraw messages sent by group members.

•Message translation between Chinese and English was supported.

•Quick send of conversations to Docs was supported.

Optimization:

•The message stream sorting was optimized.

2018.8

August 6, 2018

New features:

•Images, files, and URLs were supported to be shared Lark conversations.

•Group owners can configure group entry or exit notifications.

Optimizations

•Some bugs related to the “meeting group” were fixed.