SysAdminDoc/HushGram v0.0.20 on GitHub

Almost all of this release came from your requests. You can keep your own list of saved profiles with folders, and the glass tab bar can tick and click as you move between tabs. Settings categories now open on their own pages. The fix list below is a long one.

New in this release

With Page dots on a pill on, you can hold the pill and slide left or right to flip through a carousel's pages, a page for each dot, the way Instagram's own dots work. Asked for in #651.
Hide Watch more reels sits under Watch again in the feed in Feed. When a reel in your feed ends, the card it shows keeps Watch again and drops the big Watch more reels button. Starts off. Asked for in #652.
Shrink the pill as you scroll in Tab bar shrinks the pill while you scroll down and restores it on the way up, with Liquid glass look off. Hide the tab bar as you scroll wins. Needs a restart. Asked for in #638.
Burn-in guard fades the Add comment bar under a reel too, along with the other buttons, and tapping it brings them all back. Asked for in #648.
Open Saved profiles with a tab long press under Your saved profiles in Profiles lets you pick a tab, Profile included, that opens your saved list when you hold it. A normal tap works as before. Needs Saved profiles on. Asked for in #629.
Fast scroll in Saved under Saved tab on your profile in Profiles shows a handle at the right edge of Saved and your collections while you scroll. Drag it to jump anywhere. No restart needed. Starts off. Asked for in #644.
Keep the tab bar on Favorites in Feed leaves the tab bar showing in Favorites. Open Favorites with a tab long press opens it from a tab you hold. Both ship in Start Home on Following and start off. Asked for in #643.
A story's three dot menu has Add to Stories priority, which adds that account to your Priority accounts list and turns Stories priority on if needed. For someone already listed, it reads Remove from Stories priority. Asked for in #641.
Double tap to skip in Reels and Double tap to skip on feed videos in Feed each get a Skip length slider, 5 to 30 seconds in steps of 5. It starts at 10, and the feed's arrows show it. Asked for in #645.
Haptic strength in Tab bar sets the glass tab bar's tick from 25% to 200%. Tap sound on the tab bar clicks as the highlight moves, at the Tap sound volume you pick, except in silent or vibrate mode. Asked for in #640.
Glass in chats now frosts a chat's message bar too, so messages blur as they scroll under it. Glass reply box on stories, new under Stories, gives the Send message box on stories the same glass. Starts off. Asked for in #391.
Launch screen in the accent color in Layout fills the startup screen with your accent color, or Instagram's blue with Accent color off. A typed color shows as the nearest listed one, since Android draws that screen first. Starts off. Asked for in #528.
Seek bar position under Seek bar on stories has Below the Send message box, which moves the story seek bar under the reply box. Where there's no room there, it stays above the box. Asked for in #636.
With Glass tab bar on, Home's See-through top bar, a chat's glass header and message bar, and the story reply box get the pill's soft shine. Bend light at the edges bends their edges the way the pill's rim does. Asked for in #513 and #391.
Hide Subscribe on posts sits under Hide Follow on posts in Feed. It takes just the Subscribe button off the top of posts in your feed, so Follow stays where it is. Starts off. Asked for in #622.
Hide the Create button on saved reels in Reels takes the plus button off reels you open from Saved or a collection, and leaves it everywhere else. Starts off. Asked for in #620.
Speed in the story menu under Speed button on stories moves Playback speed (1x, 1.5x, 2x) into a video story's three dot menu, and the story waits while you pick. Needs Download any story in your build. Starts off. Asked for in #621.
Keep photo locations from Instagram under Ads and privacy stops Instagram reading where the photos and videos in your gallery were taken. Starts off. Asked for in #628.
Keep profile history under Profiles remembers each profile's username, bio and picture, on your phone only. A toast says when one changed, and Profile changes lists every old one with a search box. Asked for in #590 and #611.
HushGram's settings are now in Thai, thanks to MangaThatsFine in #593.
Hide the Join bar on channel posts under Feed takes away the bar under a post that asks you to join the account's channel. The post stays. Starts off. Asked for in #625.
New switches under Profiles take the Threads badge, Facebook and WhatsApp links, the profile song, interests, channel invites and the other banners from under the bio on other people's profiles. Yours keeps them. Each starts off. Asked for in #627.
Hide Reply on comments sits under Hide comments in Comments. It takes Reply off each comment on posts and reels, and View more replies still opens a thread. Starts off. Asked for in #619.
Ask before a follow under Profiles asks "Follow @username?" before a Follow or Follow back button follows anyone, on a profile or in a Followers or Following list. Other Follow buttons, like the one on stories, ask too. Starts off. Asked for in #631.
Saved profiles in Profiles adds Save profile to anyone's profile menu, kept on your phone apart from Instagram's Favorites and Following. Your saved profiles lists them with search and folders you name. Settings exports carry the list. Starts off. Asked for in #629.
Hide the Like button on stories, Hide the Comment button on stories and Hide the Share button on stories under Stories take those buttons off other people's stories, leaving no gap. Each starts off. Asked for in #618.
Keep hidden accounts in Favorites sits under Hidden accounts in Feed. Turn it on and posts from accounts you've hidden still show when Home is on Favorites, while For you and Following leave them out. Starts off. Asked for in #601.
Hide posts from business and creator accounts under Feed takes their posts out of Home and Following, friends who use one included, and collabs with one of them too. Favorites still shows them. Starts off. Asked for in #579.
Lock Saved sits with the message locks in Messages. Saved, your collections and the search inside Saved stay covered until your fingerprint, face or screen lock says it's you, and your messages stay as they were. Starts off. Asked for in #597.
Mute button on reels under Reels puts a speaker icon beside a reel. Tap it to turn sound off or on. Mute button in clear mode keeps it in clear mode too. Both start off. Asked for in #608.
Upload stories at full quality adds Video resolution up to 2160p, Video frame rate to 120 fps, Photo quality to 100 and Photo size to 8192 px. Settings past what your phone's encoder handles drop back. Instagram still re-encodes them. Asked for in #37.
Loop this video in a feed video's or reel's menu loops just that one while Stop videos looping is on. Loop this story does the same for a story while Loop a story is off. Asked for in #610.
Seek bar shape under Feed gives the seek bars on feed videos, stories and reels a new look: a thin line, a thicker rounded bar, a bar split by a tall handle, or a wave. They grow while you drag. Asked for in #586 and #592.
Preview while you drag a seek bar under Feed shows the time above your finger on feed videos, stories and reels, plus a picture of that moment or the paused video itself. Asked for in #567 and #592.
Keep the tab bar on a reel's profile keeps the tab bar on a profile you open from a reel, and Back goes back to the reel. It starts off, in the Reels section of HushGram settings.
Swipe right on Home opens picks what that swipe does: the camera, as it is now, or Search, Reels, Messages or Profile. Asked for in #589.
Picture in picture for reels under Playback, below Keep playing in the background, shrinks a playing reel into a small window over other apps when you leave Instagram. Needs Android 15 or newer. Starts off. Asked for in #572.
Picture in picture for stories under Playback does the same for stories. Leave Instagram while one plays and it shrinks into a small window that keeps going through the stories. Starts off. Asked for in #572.
Show it on the profile picture under Mark who doesn't follow you back swaps the words for a badge on each profile picture in your Following list. Green check means they follow back, red cross means they don't. Starts off. Asked for in #572.
New patch, Search comments. Its switch under Comments puts a search box above a post's comments. Type a word or name to jump to the next match, loading more as needed. Arrows step between matches. Unopened replies aren't searched. Asked for in #560.
New patch, Split the notes row. Its switch under Messages splits the notes row at the top of your messages into three stacks (Instants, Notes and Stories), the layout Instagram is testing on some accounts. Takes a restart. Asked for in #558.
New patch, Hide Instagram Plus prompts. Its switch under Ads and privacy takes the Try Instagram Plus card and See preview row off a chat you hold, plus other Plus offers shown the same way. Nothing from Plus turns on. Asked for in #559.
Hide the Community Standards reminder under Messages takes the "Help keep Instagram a supportive place" banner off the bottom of a chat. Asked for in #588.
Who can call you under Messages stops Instagram calls from ringing your phone: nobody, only people on your list, or everyone except them. Callers just get no answer. Asked for in #578.
Hide page number under Feed takes the number like 3/5 off the corner of a carousel post. Starts off. Asked for in #581.
Hide story rows under Feed takes out the rows of stories Instagram puts between posts on Home, like Expiring Stories. It's off until you turn it on. Asked for in #557.
Swipe through a chat's photos and posts under Messages lets you open a photo, video or shared post from a chat and swipe up through the chat's other photos, videos and shared posts, in chat order. Asked for in #350.
Seek bar on photos with music under Reels gives a reel that's a photo with a song the same seek bar and time as a video reel, following the song. Asked for in #10.
Jump a profile's posts to a date puts a calendar on a profile's top bar. Pick a day and the posts grid goes back to that day, with older posts as you scroll. Asked for in #498.
Hide GIFs in comments under Comments takes GIFs and stickers out of comments and the GIF button off the comment box. A comment with words keeps them. Asked for in #511.
Solid story rings sits under Story rings in the accent color and makes a story's ring one shade of your color instead of running light to dark. Asked for in #519.
Ask what to save under Download button on reels lets a tap on the icon pick the reel, its cover or its sound, whichever it has. A reel with nothing else to save still saves at once. Asked for in #524.
Save videos as MKV under Downloads saves .mkv files instead of .mp4, for gallery apps that show blank thumbnails for VP9 or AV1. Nothing is re-encoded, and the account, date and link stay in. One-file videos stay .mp4. Asked for in #547.
Hide the search bar under Sharing takes the search bar off the top of the share sheet. Asked for in #545.
Speed button on reels has 2.5x in its list too, for talking videos that are still easy to follow past 2x. Asked for in #551.
Speed in the reel menu under Reels adds Playback speed to the menu a reel's three dots open. Tap it and pick a speed from 0.5x to 3x, so the speed icon can stay off the reel. Asked for in #553.
New patch, Double tap to skip on Reels. Its switch under Reels turns on Instagram's skip, 10 seconds back on the left, ahead on the right. The middle still likes. A tap on a reel has Keep playing now too. Asked for in #554.
New patch, Hold for 2x on feed videos. Turn on its switch under Feed, then press and hold a video in your feed and it plays at 2x with Instagram's own speed-up. Let go and it's back to normal speed. Asked for in #552.
New patch, Hide the 2x popup on Reels. Its switch under Reels takes the 2x label off a reel while you hold it to play faster, and the speed-up keeps working. Asked for in #552.
Tab icon size under Tab bar draws the icons on the bottom tab bar bigger, from 110% up to 150% of Instagram's size. It works on Instagram's bar and the glass one, and a change shows right away. Asked for in #541.
Count on the heart under Tab bar puts a number on the heart at the top of Home, like the one on Messages, instead of the red dot. It takes a restart. Asked for in #541.
History button on Home's header under Tab bar puts a clock at the top of Home. One tap opens your viewing history. It starts off. Asked for in #228.
Accent color has a Custom choice now, with a Custom color row for any hex color like #4A6B82. HushGram adjusts it where text would be hard to read. On Android 10 and older, only some colors take it. Asked for in #520.
Accent color also has three calmer colors: Dusk blue, Pine and Slate. Asked for in #528.
Categories on their own page under Settings entry opens a category on its own page, name at the top, instead of under its row. Back returns to the same spot in the list. Needs Expandable categories on. Asked for in #525.
The viewing history has its own category in settings now, instead of sitting under Ads and privacy. Each row shows a picture, like a post's first photo, a reel's cover or a person's profile photo. Asked for in #228.
Viewing history pictures load from Instagram's image servers once and stay on your phone. Clear viewing history deletes them with the list. Hold a row for Copy link, Open profile or Remove from history. Asked for in #228.
Double tap to skip on feed videos under Feed makes a double tap on a video's left side go back 10 seconds and the right go ahead 10. Arrows flash where you tapped. The middle still likes. Starts off. Asked for in #562.
New patch, Hide lives in Reels. Its switch under Reels leaves out the live broadcasts Instagram slips in between reels, on the Reels tab and when you swipe through reels you opened from Explore. Asked for in #566.
New patch, Save in the post menu. Its switch under Feed adds Save (or Remove from saved) to the menu behind a post's three dots. Hide the Save button next to it takes the bookmark off feed posts. Asked for in #569.
New patch, Hide Made with Edits. Its switch under Feed takes the "Made with Edits" label out of the line under a post's author, and the song, the place and the other labels keep taking turns there. Asked for in #570.
New patch, Watch again in the feed. With its switch on under Feed, Watch again at the end of a reel in your feed plays it over in place instead of opening Reels. Watch more reels still opens Reels. Asked for in #568.
Seek bar on the bottom edge under Seek bar on feed videos moves the bar down onto the video's bottom edge, so a scroll is less likely to catch it. Asked for in #567.
Take a scroll break now lets you pick how long you scroll, from 5 minutes up to 2 hours, and a Break length slider sets the break from 5 to 120 minutes. Asked for in #297.
Stop background feed refresh under Battery stops the job that wakes your phone about every half hour to fetch your feed. Your feed loads when you open Instagram, and messages and notifications still come in. Reported in #341.
Ask before a like covers reels now. Tap the heart on a reel and it asks "Like or unlike this post?" first, same as in the feed. Asked for in #603.
Ask before a like asks about the heart beside a comment too, so a stray tap doesn't like it. Double tapping a comment still likes it straight away. Asked for in #614.
Ask for each chat under Lock your messages asks you to unlock every chat you open, and the inbox when you go back. Off, one unlock covers everything until you leave Instagram. Starts off. Asked for in #649.

Fixes

Glass tab bar no longer flickers to its plain tint while you swipe through the feed or messages, and a video under it keeps its blur instead of flashing sharp. The other glass bars and backgrounds get it too. Reported in #429.
A settings restore now puts a saved profile with no folder into the folder the file has for it, and Undo takes it back out. Before, only newly added profiles got their folders. Asked about in #629.
With Carousel arrows on, scrolling the feed with your finger starting on an arrow now scrolls it. Before, the arrow held on to the touch and the feed didn't move.
Default playback quality no longer leaves a reel stuttering on a slow connection. A video that falls behind now steps down one quality at a time, and new videos start no higher than that for two minutes. Reported in #599.
With Lock your messages on, opening a chat from a notification no longer sends Seen or clears the unread mark before you unlock. Seen goes once you unlock, unless Read messages without the seen receipt holds it. Reported in #649.
With Glass tab bar floating, the story camera's bottom row (gallery button, Story, Reel and Live picker) no longer sits under the navigation buttons. The glass also stops blurring while the camera's open, so the camera has less to do. Reported in #646.
With See-through top bar on, Instagram no longer keeps redrawing the screen after you leave Home for another tab, which used battery even on a still screen. Found while building #513.
Glass in chats now shows up as soon as a chat opens. If the chat sat still right after it opened, the top bar and message bar could stay plain until you scrolled. Found while checking #391.
With Glass tab bar and Show content behind the tab bar on, the floating tab bar now steps aside in an open chat instead of covering the reply box on Android 17. Reported in #632.
With Full screen Reels, Full screen Home or Full screen Messages hiding the bars, the comment box no longer slips below the bottom of the screen on some Samsung phones. Reported in #626.
Hide the Create button on reels now also takes the plus button off reels you open from Saved, a profile or a post, which get a different top bar on 454. Found while building #620.
A reel link opened from another app now plays that reel first, instead of a reel Instagram had saved or fetched ahead. It's the new Open reel links on that reel switch under Reels, on to start. Reported in #606.
Recent unfollowers now saves your Followers list when Instagram shows a few fewer accounts than your follower count, like 547 of 550. Before, nothing was saved. It allows one missing account per 50 followers. Reported in #624.
With Stories fill the screen on, a reel shared to a story fills the screen right away, without the rounded card and reply bar showing first, and its sides no longer get cut off. Reported in #618.
With Tab bar layout set to a bar Instagram didn't pick, a tab like Home no longer opens blank after Android closes Instagram in the background. HushGram builds the missing page again. Reported in #535.
Picking Download or Loop this story in a story's menu plays the story on once the menu closes. It used to stay paused until you tapped it. Reported in #610.
Home stops asking for more pages after a few short ones again, with Hide suggested posts or another Feed switch taking most of each page out. Instagram's own page loads kept starting the count over. Reported in #579.
The See who a story mentions list opens again when you come back to the story after opening a post on a profile you picked from it. Before, it only came back if you didn't tap anything on that profile. Reported in #403.
With Peek at the next carousel page on, Instagram no longer crashes while you scroll Home past carousels. When Instagram reused a carousel for another post, it could look for a page slot the carousel no longer had.
With Peek at the next carousel page on, Ambient light glows around the smaller page you see instead of leaving a square behind it, where the full-size page would have been. Reported in #585.
With Full size covers on, Explore scrolls smoothly again. Grid pictures are now decoded just big enough to stay sharp in their tile instead of at full size, which stuttered and used more memory. Reported in #595.
With a large font or display size, a story's reply box and buttons no longer cover it. Keep story buttons below the story under Stories, on by default, moves them into the space below. Reported in #598.
With Logo and titles at the start on, Home's logo stays at the start when you scroll. Instagram padded it to stay centered once the little arrow beside it showed up. Reported in #602.
Clear saved copies now, and the clear that runs on its own, empty the photo cache on Instagram 454 too. That version keeps its pictures in a new folder, so nothing was being freed.
Backgrounds in the accent color now reaches the message list. Its rows and search field stayed near-black under a colored page because that screen takes its grays from code instead of the theme. Refs #577.
Pure black dark mode no longer paints a note's bubble, the Instagram Plus card, the comments sheet or the strip under it black on top of Backgrounds in the accent color. Refs #577.
With Gray out stories you've watched, the story row no longer puts watched stories ahead of new ones after it reloads, and the next batch stays after the ones you had. Reported in #241.
With Gray out stories you've watched, the highlight tiles at the end of the story row stay there instead of jumping ahead of watched stories, where they looked like a watched story with a new ring. Reported in #241.
Ambient light shows on the posts that were missing it. Instagram's frame around those pictures comes out a pixel taller than the picture, and the glow was drawn on that frame with no room to show. Reported in #580.
Ambient light glows around a reel that doesn't fill the screen when Rounded corners on Reels is on. The rounding was cutting the glow off with the empty space around the video. Reported in #580.
Save every page without asking works on the download icon beside a reel too, so a carousel opened from Explore, Search or Reels saves all its pages with no popup. Reported in #190.
A reel's seek bar no longer ends up in the strip at the bottom of the screen when the tab bar has moved out of the way, so scrubbing can't swipe you home. Reported in #450.
A reel's seek bar keeps clear of the bottom edge on Samsung phones with the gesture hint hidden too, and the caption and buttons move up with it. Dragging a raised bar now seeks instead of opening the long-press menu. Reported in #633.
Glass tab bar now works on tablets and a foldable's inner screen. It keeps Instagram's phone layout there, since the glass needs the tab bar along the bottom and the big screen layout only has the rail down the side.
With Hide the Create button on, a long press on your profile's menu opens the HushGram settings again. With the button gone, the long press couldn't tell it was on your own profile. Reported in #431.
On the Install next to Instagram copy, holding your profile's menu opens the HushGram settings now, and every feature that finds a part of Instagram's screen by name works there too. Reported in #431.
See-through top bar reaches behind the clock on more phones. Where Home's posts already run under the clock, the glass now covers that strip. Where the tabs swipe sideways, only Home's page moves up. Reported in #462.
With Glass tab bar on, the seek bar on a reel opened outside the Reels tab sits above the gesture handle instead of on the screen's edge, where scrubbing swiped you home. Reported in #450.
The floating Glass tab bar pill now frosts over a playing reel instead of staying clear, and on Home and Profile the sharp screen no longer shows through half of it. Reported in #583.
Start feed videos with sound now turns the sound on for every video on Home, the same as tapping a speaker. Mute one and the rest stay muted. On silent or vibrate they start muted. Reported in #504.
Start reels with sound now covers reels you open from a profile, yours or someone else's, which used to start muted. Reported in #596.
Keep playing in the background keeps going after you open a video from your feed, Reels or stories. Those used to stop a few seconds after you left Instagram. Reported in #497.
See who a story mentions opens its list again after you watch the story of a profile you went to from it. That story used to end the list, so coming back left it closed. Reported in #403.
Explore no longer leaves two blank spots in every fourth row with Full size covers on, and Ask for larger photos got the same fix. Reels show Meta's Translated with AI again with either switch on. Reported in #433 and #556.
Keep a viewing history now records the reels you watch. It only heard about them while Download button on reels was on, so with that icon off the Reels list stayed empty. Reported in #228.
With Rounded corners on Reels on, opening the comments on a wide reel no longer cuts its video down to a thin strip. The rounded edge now moves up with the video. Reported in #522.
Phone layout on big screens now takes the rail down the side away too. It only changed Home's header on 454, since Instagram's main screen asks a second copy of the width check. Reported in #515.
See-through top bar now reaches up behind the clock again instead of stopping at the header's top edge. Reported in #513 and #521.
See-through top bar no longer draws an empty frosted band across Home when nothing in the header is showing. Only the strip behind the clock stays. Reported in #513.
With Keep Home's top bar on, the Instagram logo and the buttons beside it no longer vanish after you come back to Instagram from another app. Reported in #513.
Start tab now works when you open Instagram from its icon without a saved Tab order. On 454 Instagram picks the first tab before the tab bar is built, and that pick used to need a saved order. Reported in #534.
Clean up Reels no longer stops patching when the APK numbers the Friends tab's icon differently. It now also finds the tab by how Instagram builds it. Reported in #533.
Reels on the Reels tab fill the screen again when Hide the tab bar on Reels slides the bar away or Run Reels behind the tab bar is on. They used to sit low under a black band. Reported in #544.
The follow lists switch under Hide suggested people on profiles now also clears Suggested subscriptions from your own Following list's Subscriptions tab and takes the Discover people button off your own lists. Reported in #539.
The color you pick in Story ring size reaches the rings in Home's stories row again. On 454 Instagram draws those rings through a second copy of its gradient code, which the patch now colors too. Reported in #518.
Story rings in the accent color no longer leaves a pink tail on a story's ring. On 454 the default ring ends in a lavender Instagram added, and that one now takes your color too. Reported in #519.
A liked heart in your accent color no longer has a thin light edge around it. Instagram draws the empty heart under the filled one, and with Accent color on that outline is left out once a post is liked. Reported in #519.
With a bigger Tab icon size the tab bar's icons are no longer cut off at their old size, so Home keeps its roof and your profile picture stays round. Reported in #541.
The retro camera app icon fills the whole icon now, whatever shape your launcher gives it. It used to sit small on a white tile. Reported in #565.
Don't report Blend visits now also keeps the time you last opened a Blend to yourself. Opening one sent that time in a request of its own, which the switch didn't cover. Reported in #474.
A 60 fps reel or story no longer saves at 30 fps when Instagram's own file is the same size as the smoother track. A tie on size now goes to the higher frame rate. Reported in #546.
A save the connection drops partway through gets one more try right away. A 1080p story whose download was cut off used to fall back to the 720p file. Reported in #546.
With several HushGram icons in the column beside a reel, the column no longer runs up past the top bar and cuts off Like. It's drawn just small enough to fit, and every icon still takes its own taps. Reported in #516.
With Glass tab bar on, a reel's seek bar is easy to grab again. Its touch area covers the top of the bar, and dragging there moves through the reel instead of pressing a tab. Reported in #526.
With Glass tab bar on, the pill no longer pops back up over a chat's message box when the keyboard opens or closes. The bar stays hidden while a chat is open now.
With Page dots on a pill on, a carousel's buttons sit right under the photo, the way they do on a single photo. Instagram kept an empty strip there for the dots the pill replaces. Reported in #527.
With Pure black dark mode on, a photo or GIF in a comment no longer has gray corners. Instagram's newer comments screen has its own dark gray theme, and that theme goes black now too. Reported in #538.
On an account that doesn't have Instagram's Friends tab, tapping Friends again after you've left it opens it again. It used to do nothing until you tapped Reels first. Reported in #571.
With Pick friends on, holding the Friends tab opens the list again on builds where Instagram gives each tab a hold of its own, which only cleared the tab's tooltip. Reported in #571.
Holding the Friends tab with Pick friends on opens the list on Instagram 454 again. It only showed the tab's name before. Reported in #616.
With Glass tab bar on and the classic tab bar layout, reels no longer jump up and down. On phones with no navigation bar room, two parts of the pill kept moving the reel back and forth. Reported in #512.
With Pure black dark mode on, the strip behind the navigation bar is black while comments are open and under a reel opened from the feed. It used to show the video through it. Reported in #571.
Rounded post corners now rounds the top corners of a reel in the feed too. The shadow behind its name row stayed square over them, which showed with Ambient light on. Reported in #571.
New Keep the comment bar's space switch under the comment bar switches in Reels. A reel opened from a post or profile used to slide into the hidden bar's space. This keeps that space empty so nothing moves. Reported in #523.
With Seek bar on feed videos on, a swipe up or down that starts on a video's seek bar scrolls Home instead of doing nothing. Dragging along the bar still moves through the video.
The Saved bookmark on your profile opens Saved again. Instagram now ignores its own Saved link unless Instagram itself sent it, so tapping the bookmark did nothing. Reported in #492.

Other changes

Settings search knows more words, like "nav bar" for the Tab bar, "dm" for Messages and "colour" for color. Categories sit in groups with a chip for each, and a category's page has buttons to jump to another one. Asked for in #642.
Settings categories now open on their own page with the category buttons pinned on top. Descriptions behind an info button starts on, so a switch shows its name and a small i. A category's rows join into one rounded card. Asked for in #650.
Seek bar shape now shapes story progress segments and videos opened from chats, no seek bar switch needed. Ambient light in stories fills a story's corners and top strip with glow. Ambient light on its own no longer lights stories. Asked for in #630.
Save comment photo now saves a comment's GIF sticker too. Press and hold the comment and pick Save. A sticker that's only on Giphy still has no Save row. Asked for in #623.
The diagnostic report has a [SCREEN] part now. It names the screen you were on, which tabs show, and the views covering most of it, so a report sent right after a blank screen shows what was in front. Asked for in #535.
Dusk blue, Pine and Slate are now full color sets. Story rings and Instagram's other gradients run through three colors, likes and badges get the set's own color, and backgrounds start from its screen color.
With Keep a seek bar on Reels on, Instagram's own track now glides between position updates too, and a round handle stays on the line's end. Reported in #10.
Bend light at the edges works on the standard glass pill as well as the liquid one, round whatever corners you picked. It sits under Blur behind the tab bar now, since the bend needs the blur. Asked for in #391.
The Instagram gradient on dark app icon is bigger on the home screen, about as big as the other icons. Reported in #327.
Pure black dark mode now also blacks out the menu you get by holding a message or an inbox chat, the Instagram Plus card over it, the menu behind the + in a chat and the notes above your chats. Asked for in #543 and #635.
With Full screen Reels hiding the status bar, the Reels and Friends tabs and the buttons at the top of a reel now sit just below a punch hole camera instead of under it. Asked for in #525.
Select text opens a comment, caption or bio in HushGram's own dark window now, black with Pure black dark mode, instead of the phone's gray one. Asked for in #525.
The story mentions sheet from the top bar floats over the story as glass now, with the story blurred behind it on Android 12 and up. Phones that can't blur get a nearly solid tint so names stay readable. Asked for in #525.
Glass in chats gives the back, call and video buttons real glass circles that match the liquid tab bar, with a lit rim instead of flat grey. The thin line under a chat's top bar is gone too. Asked for in #537 and #542.
With debug logging on, the diagnostic report has a timed line each time a tab bar moves a screen, the Reels viewer, a sheet or the space under a reel. Reported in #509 and #222.
In Morphe Manager, Call blocker now sits under Privacy and Hide the Community Standards reminder under Fixes, so the Messages group stays short. Both switches are still on the Messages settings page.

Behind the scenes

scripts/gen-readme-patches.py writes the README's patch table and counts from patches-list.json and leaves the rest of the README alone.
The release walk now reads the settings overview while its own header shows HushGram's name, Home's welcome screen on 454, a long reel with its scrubber, and a screen with the activity tooltip up.
patch-all-builds.ps1 merges a split bundle before patching it, like the other patching scripts.
The release facts check reads the patch count and target build from the description's sentences, so a change's bullet that counts patches no longer stops a release.
Morphe Desktop 2.1.1 now has its reviewed advisory exceptions, so the audit accepts it.

The changelog has every earlier release too.

How to update

Update Morphe Manager to 2.5.0 or newer, then refresh the HushGram source.
Patch Instagram 454.0.0.54.77. Supported Instagram builds lists the builds that work.
Install over your current patched Instagram with the manager's existing signing key. Keep that key so updates keep working.

The .mpp download is a patch bundle, not an Instagram APK. Installation instructions.

What was checked

The bundle patched Instagram 454.0.0.54.77 cleanly, and the whole app was walked on a Galaxy S22 with every screen opened and no crash.