2026-05-12
New Features
- Comment filtering in Review shares: Comments in Review shares can now be filtered by annotation, color, commenter, completion status, mentions, replies, and visibility. Available in the New Review Experience only; asset player support is coming in a future release.
- Compare mode in Playlists: Users can now compare any two versions of any asset in a playlist side by side, with grouped versions selected by default when available.
- Transcription Text filter modifiers: Multi-select operators now work with Transcription Text filters, making it possible to search by what's said in your content.
- Sync toggle for shares: When creating a playlist or asset share, a new toggle lets share creators enable or disable sync for recipients. Administrators can also disable sync globally from Share Management settings.
Other Changes
- Face recognition: Stability and matching improvements, including a fix for crashes on longer video assets and improvements to face matching logic. General UI clean-up.
- ACL propagation control: Administrators can now disable the "Propagate ACL" checkbox in collection ACL views via a system domain setting.
- UI alignment: Icons, icon sizing, fonts, colors, and margins aligned between Review and Iconik web
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2026-05-01
New Features
- Billing and consumption dashboard: Domain owners and permitted power users can now see real-time usage across users, storage, transfers, AI analysis, automations, and more, measured against plan limits, with yellow/red indicators for approaching or exceeded thresholds.
- Watermark display settings: A new "Show in assets" setting in Admin > Settings > Watermark Settings lets admins control whether watermarks appear on assets inside iconik, on shares only, or both.
- Internal comments in Review: Logged-in users accessing a share can now create and view internal comments in Review, with clear labeling to distinguish internal notes from external collaborator feedback.
Other Changes
- Face recognition panel: The panel header is now sticky and stays visible while scrolling; status toggle buttons are clearer and better positioned; confirming or adding a person keeps you at the same position in the list rather than auto-scrolling; and the scrollbar is wider on hover for easier navigation in large person lists.
Bug Fixes
- Uploads of large file batches via shares complete reliably across all supported file counts and sizes.
- Status chips indicating assets with comments are consistently displayed within collections, giving teams a clearer at-a-glance view of review activity.
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2026-04-15
New Features
- Multi-select filters with modifiers: Users can now set Include or Exclude modifiers on multi-select filter fields in the filter panel, with multi-select expanding to include all of / include any of / exclude all of / exclude any of.
- More control over visual watermarks: Admins can now configure which groups receive visual watermarks on proxy playback — all groups, specific groups, or all groups except certain ones.
- Show existing comments in playlist shares: A new "Show existing comments" toggle in the playlist share dialog lets users include pre-existing asset comments in playlist shares. Off by default; configurable system-wide under Share Management > System Share Settings.
Other Changes
- Face recognition: Backend improvements to memory handling for longer video processing, matching logic, and overall processing optimizations.
- Choose legacy review when sharing removed: The toggle allowing users to choose between the new Iconik Review experience and the legacy sharing workflow when creating a share has been removed. All external shares now default to the new review experience. The legacy experience can be re-enabled system-wide via Admin > Share Management > Share Settings > General Settings. The legacy review experience is scheduled for sunset on June 30, 2026.
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2026-03-31
New Features
- Custom Actions on Shared Playlists: Custom Actions can now be created with a Shared Playlist context, allowing actions to be triggered directly from a shared playlist view.
Other Changes
- Toggle switch visibility: Toggle switches across the Iconik interface now use a distinct color for the "On" state, making it immediately clear whether a toggle is active or inactive.
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2026-03-19
New Features
- POST custom actions: POST custom actions are now available in the new review experience, alongside existing Open-type custom actions.
- Require Approval From All Reviewers: The toggle to require all assigned reviewers to approve before an asset is marked approved is now available in the Approval panel when requesting approval on a new share in the new review experience.
Other Changes
- Disabled transcription messaging: Users now see an explanation when transcription is unavailable on their account, rather than a silent failure.
- Admin system domains list: The domains list in admin is now paginated.
Bug Fixes
- AWS transcription language mapping: Correct languages are applied when selecting AWS as the transcription provider in the transcription panel.
- "Shared with/by me" filter: Returns results consistently across all valid query conditions.
- Review modals in full-screen: Modals appear correctly when the review interface is in full-screen mode.
- Comment edit and delete buttons: Correctly hidden when the authenticated user's email matches a guest commenter's email.
- Face recognition: Browse-only users can no longer perform person-management actions that their role does not permit.
- Playlist review — approval option: The approval option is now available for all assets in a playlist review, not only the first.
- Annotation deletion: Deleting an annotation now propagates correctly across all active sessions.
- Email share — Approval on added assets: Approval is now correctly initiated for assets added to an email share after the share has been created.
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2026-03-05
New Features
- My Shares filtering: Filter the My Shares page by All, Shared with Me, or Shared by Me to quickly find the shares that matter to you.
- Favorite saved searches: Mark saved searches as favorites to pin them to the top of the Saved Searches panel for faster access.
Other Changes
- Redesigned navigation bar: My Shares and Favorites now appear directly in the top navigation; admin functions are consolidated into a single Admin dropdown; the Upload button has been removed from the top nav; and the user profile dropdown includes expanded access to resources, including Admin Training.
- Grey color scheme: The interface now uses a grey background throughout, replacing the previous blue, providing a neutral backdrop for media review and reducing visual fatigue during long sessions.
- Updated typography: Fonts and font sizes have been updated across the platform, aligning Iconik's core interface with the design language and standards introduced in the Iconik Review experience.
Bug Fixes
- Shares panel: Displays share recipients for both email and link shares in the shares panel, and counts views for shares authenticated via magic links.
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2026-02-18
New Features
- Multi-channel audio: Iconik web now supports multi-channel audio playback with individual control over each channel; mute, solo, pan, and adjust volume directly in the player.
- Magic links allow listing: In the Iconik Shield settings, administrators can now specify which email addresses or domains are permitted to authenticate via magic links.
Other Changes
- Playlist thumbnails: Playlist shares in My Shares now display thumbnails in the items column, giving users a visual preview of the content before opening.
Bug Fixes
- Mobile view: vertical assets take up a bigger portion of the screen while the comments panel is closed by default.
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2026-02-04
New Features
- Sorting in Gallery view: Users will be able to sort on title, approval, media type, file size or date created. Note that this is only added for collections, not in playlist gallery views.
- Support for Playlist versions: Users will be able to switch between versions on the player view using the dropdown, and playback any version selected. sync is also supported. whenever a user starts a sync session with another share recipient, both will see the same version.
Bug Fixes
- Mobile view: vertical assets appear very small
2026-01-21
New Features
- When collapsing the upload dialog, a new status indicator will now display upload progress so users can continue reviewing or organizing content without losing visibility into the uploads
Bug Fixes
- If a sub-clip has transcriptions when viewing an asset in Iconik, those transcriptions now appear when viewing the same asset in a share
- A number of smaller bug fixes
Other Changes
- Email entry for share recipients are now only required when share recipients take an action in the new Iconik review experience