Small Key
TestFlight Release Notes
Create light presets by adjusting brightness and color temperature with a tap or a drag. Give your lights custom names, and sort by brightness, color, and more. Presets sync across all of your iCloud-enabled devices.
NOTE: This app is most useful on iOS and iPadOS, where the light coming from a physical iPhone or iPad can illuminate your face, subject, or room. This app also exists on macOS and visionOS to allow for preset management.
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October 21st, 2026
Version 1.1.0
Build 9
- Added a new Settings screen. Open it from the gear in the sidebar, or choose Settings… (⌘,) from the menu bar on Mac and iPad.
- Your screen now returns to the brightness it had before when you switch apps or go to the Home Screen, and the light comes back when you return.
- Added Restore Brightness When Leaving to Settings, on by default, to turn this off.
- Small Key now shares anonymous usage data about which features are used, never your light names or anything that identifies you. You can turn this off with Share Anonymous Usage Data in Settings.
- Fixed a light’s brightness not being reapplied when returning to the app.
October 20th, 2026
Version 1.1.0
Build 7
- Added quick presets to Edit Light for snapping to common brightness levels and color temperatures.
- Smoother, more fluid glowing trail behind the light indicator, especially on tight turns and when you lift your finger.
- The light indicator now stretches as you move it and gently settles when you let go.
- Turning on Reduce Motion now hides the trail effect.
- Fixed the light indicator sometimes appearing in the top-left corner at launch.
- Refined the dark and tinted app icon appearance.
September 18th, 2026
Version 1.1.0
Build 3
- Added an animation to the dot grid after releasing the light indicator.
- Replaced the original TestFlight build with new beta builds.
- Housekeeping to prepare for 1.1.0 release.
August 14th, 2026
Version 1.1.0
Build 27
- Improved look and feel of draggable light indicator.
- A few small bug fixes.
May 31st, 2026
Version 1.1.0
Build 26
- Small adjustment to light & dark mode icon appearance.
May 29th, 2026
Version 1.1.0'
Build 25
- Updated icons for iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS.
- Improved support for dark and monochrome app icon appearance.
May 19th, 2026
Version 1.1.0
Build 24
- Updated icons for iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS.
May 17th, 2026
Version 1.1.0
Build 21
- Improved the appearance of the visual color/luminosity indicator.
May 12th, 2026
Version 1.1.0
Build 20
- Completed a technical audit for performance and code quality.
- Codebase moved to approachable concurrency with Swift 6 strict compiler checking.
February 18th, 2026
Version 1.1.0
Build 19
- Improved sort menu for macOS
- Added contextual menu on right-click to lights in the sidebar
- Improvements to debugging tools
February 9th, 2026
Version 1.1.0
Build 18
- Improved performance — Optimized the keylight control surface for smoother interactions
- Fixed “Edit Light” getting stuck in the title bar on macOS
- Fixed incorrect increment indicators below settings sliders — Brightness and color temperature sliders now show the correct step values
- The onboarding / welcome view now displays properly across device sizes
- Moved create and sort controls to the bottom of the sidebar on macOS
May 22nd, 2025
Version 1.0.0
Build 12
- Fixed issues related to some image assets
- Fixed issues around internal alpha builds
February 28th, 2025
Version 1.0.0
Build 10
- New lights will be shown with technical label instead of custom name “Example light”
- If you’ve installed a previous version of Small Key you will need to uninstall then reinstall the app
- On macOS and visionOS the screen won’t actually dim. Just the view in the app itself. This is expected.
- Creating a new light on macOS may set its initial value to -100
February 22nd, 2025
Version 1.0.0
Build 8
- Last selected light will still be selected on relaunch
- Light selection syncs across devices
- Added a light preset indicator to the Edit Light view
- Default light now has a custom name, “Example light”
- Further improvements to settings debug view
- If you’ve installed a previous version of Small Key you will need to uninstall then reinstall the app
- On macOS and visionOS the screen won’t actually dim. Just the view in the app itself. This is expected.
- Creating a new light on macOS may set its initial value to -100
February 11th, 2025
Version 1.0.0
Build 6
- If you’ve installed a previous version of Small Key you will need to uninstall then reinstall the app
- Sort settings now sync across devices
- Improve reliability of synced light presets
February 11th, 2025
Version 1.0.0
Build 5
- Updated icons across all platforms
- Improved tint-able icon on iOS & iPadOS
- New welcome screen and get-started guide
- On macOS and visionOS the screen won’t actually dim. Just the view in the app itself. This is expected.
- List doesn’t always show selection state
- Creating a new light on macOS may set its initial value to -100
- Sort settings won’t sync across devices, or app launches
February 4th, 2025
Version 1.0.0
Build 4
- Try creating multiple lights with a variety of settings
- Ensure lights sync across devices (requires iCloud)
- Ensure tapping on the light control screen adjusts both brightness and color temperature
- Ensure lights with custom names save and syncs across devices
- App icons are not final
- Support for dark mode and tinted icons on iOS
- Changed minimum OS requirements to include more devices
- Added safe area inset to prevent accidentally adjusting light around screen edges
- Fixed layout of individual light settings view
- Added light sorting menu
- Updated light selection indicator
- On macOS and visionOS the screen won’t actually dim. Just the view in the app itself. This is expected.
- List doesn’t always show selection state
- Creating a new light on macOS may set its initial value to -100
- Sort settings won’t sync across devices
January 29th, 2025
Version 1.0.0
Build 3
- App icon is temporary and not final
- Try creating multiple lights with a variety of settings
- Ensure lights sync across devices logged into iCloud
- Ensure tapping on the light control screen adjusts both brightness and color temperature
- Ensure editing the name of the light saves correctly, and syncs across devices
- List doesn’t always show selection state, this is a known issue
- On macOS and visionOS the screen won’t actually dim. Just the view in the app itself. This is expected.
January 27th, 2025
Version 1.0.0
Build 1
- App icon is temporary and not final
- Try creating multiple lights with a variety of settings
- Ensure lights sync across devices logged into iCloud
- Ensure tapping on the light control screen adjusts both brightness and color temperature
- Ensure editing the name of the light saves correctly, and syncs across devices
- List doesn’t always show selection state, this is a known issue
- On macOS and visionOS the screen won’t actually dim. Just the view in the app itself. This is expected.
Questions? Email apps@small.vision