--- title: "Battery Orbit Changelog" url: https://batteryorbit.app/changelog markdown: https://batteryorbit.app/changelog.md --- # What's new. Every Battery Orbit release, newest first. The app tells you when an update is ready. ## 0.3.5 Released 12 November 2026 · [v0.3.5](https://batteryorbit.app/changelog#v0.3.5) When a Claude chat that isn’t on screen asks to use an app, your phone hears about it. - Telegram shows “Claude · ‹chat› asks to use ‹app›” with **Open it**. - **Open it** switches Claude to that chat, and its approval card follows with Deny and Allow. Allow still needs your authenticator code. - Needs **Claude desktop’s cards** switched on in Phone › AI agents. - New option: “Open Claude’s chat list while you’re away”, so chats waiting out of sight are seen too. - One-time step: in Battery Orbit › Phone › AI agents, press **Update…** so Claude Code tells Battery Orbit about these requests. ## 0.3.4 Released 11 November 2026 · [v0.3.4](https://batteryorbit.app/changelog#v0.3.4) Approvals from your phone when several Claude chats are open. - With Claude’s chat list open, a chat waiting in the background sends you one message with **Open it**, and each card says which chat it’s from. - Allow on a Claude Code request now asks for your authenticator code, like every other Allow. - A Claude Code question you haven’t answered at the Mac reaches your phone if you lock the Mac or step away. - If you set up Claude Code before this version, press **Update…** on the Phone page once. - Sending the Claude desktop app’s approval cards to your phone has its own switch on the Phone page. ## 0.3.3 Released 10 November 2026 · [v0.3.3](https://batteryorbit.app/changelog#v0.3.3) Your AI agents can reach you on your phone. - While you’re away (Mac locked, or untouched for 2 minutes), your Telegram bot tells you when Claude Code finishes or needs you. - Claude Code’s permission requests come to your phone with the full command, and Allow once or Deny. They stay off until you turn them on with Touch ID. - Approval cards from the Claude desktop app come to your phone too: Deny, or Allow after the code from your authenticator app. - After the free trial, the Phone page says that phone control needs a licence key, and that Pause orbit still works. ## 0.3.2 Released 7 November 2026 · [v0.3.2](https://batteryorbit.app/changelog#v0.3.2) Desk Hold stays put when you open the lid, and a battery health card. - Desk Hold keeps its level when you open the lid. Before, each lid open could add 1–3% of charge. - Insights has a battery health card: the health macOS reports and your charge cycles over time, plus the hours each week at 95% or above. - Save the card as an image to share. It shows no Mac or user name. ## 0.3.1 Released 6 November 2026 · [v0.3.1](https://batteryorbit.app/changelog#v0.3.1) Try everything for 3 days. - The 3-day free trial now includes every feature: all the modes, Keep awake and Away mode with the lid closed, and phone control. - When the trial ends, the app links you to the page where you can buy a key. - With the lid closed on the charger, your hold now lasts through the short wakes for phone check-ins. - More dependable limits when you plug in a charger while your Mac is asleep. ## 0.3.0 Released 4 November 2026 · [v0.3.0](https://batteryorbit.app/changelog#v0.3.0) New modes, Away mode, and your Mac on your phone. - Two new modes. Daily holds near one level on the charger for 1 to 12 hours, then runs on battery down to your lower limit. Adaptive looks at your last week and picks Desk Hold or Daily for you. - Away mode: one click keeps your Mac awake until you stop it, and locks it when the lid closes. - Phone control through your own Telegram bot: check the battery, pause or resume, keep your Mac awake, lock it, and get the alerts you choose. - Unlock your Mac from your phone with the 6-digit code from your authenticator app. Your Mac password stays in its keychain. - With phone control on and the lid closed, your Mac wakes briefly to read your messages: every 10 minutes on the charger, every 20 minutes on battery at 30% or more. - Keep awake and Phone have their own pages in the sidebar. ## 0.2.1 Released 26 October 2026 · [v0.2.1](https://batteryorbit.app/changelog#v0.2.1) Keep your Mac awake, even with the lid closed. - Keep awake from the menu bar: 30 minutes, 1, 2, 4 or 8 hours, or until you stop it, with the time left and a Stop button. - An option to stay awake with the lid closed too. Use it on a desk, not in a bag. - Keep awake ends by itself at the battery level you pick, at 10% with the lid closed at the latest, and if the battery runs hot. - Your mode keeps holding when the lid is closed on an awake Mac, for example with an external display. - Notices such as “History exported” now close by themselves. ## 0.2.0 Released 21 October 2026 · [v0.2.0](https://batteryorbit.app/changelog#v0.2.0) The first public release of Battery Orbit. - Keeps your MacBook’s battery between limits you choose while the charger stays connected, with Custom Orbit, Natural Flow and Desk Hold. - Charge to 100% once for a trip, Pause orbit to hand charging back to macOS, and Calibrate battery. - A ring in the menu bar, Insights, and a day-by-day History. - Updated 22 October: the Dashboard and the menu bar show what happens next the moment you plug in or unplug. - Updated 25 October: a 3-day free trial, with no key and no email. Questions about an update? 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