Around by Miro Labs updates
Around by Miro Labs updates
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Product Updates: March 2024 Edition 🔮


What’s New 🚨

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Download transcripts and summaries

Meeting transcripts & summaries are helpful for revisiting past conversations, quickly identifying insights and catching up on missed work. Many of our users rely on this material to create deliverables or catalog it in other applications, so we’ve made it easier to download generated meeting collateral to take it with you.

Where to find it: From the Recaps panel in the Lobby, click the associated kebab menu and select Download


Improvements

  • Regenerate a summary: In the rare instance that a recording summary fails to generate after a meeting, users can regenerate a summary by expanding the associated recap and selecting the Regenerate Summary option in the top-right of the summary section

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  • (Android & iOS) Workspace switcher: Instead of seeing all rooms at once, mobile users can now view rooms for a specific Workspace by using the Workspace dropdown on the top-left of the room card list
  • Uniform bottom bar meeting controls: Instead of a truncated set, users will now see all meeting controls when in floating or minimal view. This means users will no longer need to change views to perform basic actions
  • Sunsetting Around for Linux: In order to provide a more unified experience across all platforms we have decided to end support for our Linux client. Around will continue to run smoothly and securely via your web browser, and we are actively enhancing the browser experience to make it as similar as possible to the desktop application


Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that prevented users from being able to navigate back to the screen share space after sharing their camera
  • Correctly display the name of a Breakout group when initiating a screen share during Breakouts
  • A transcript modal will now continue to show the meeting transcript when navigating to other parts of the Lobby
  • Meeting guests will no longer see an option to edit Breakout group names
  • Recording creators can now edit/delete recordings even when the associated meeting room has been deleted
  • (iOS) Added notifications to help users understand when incoming video feeds are disabled due to network connection and their view changes due to Bring Everyone Here

 

Let us know what you think 📣

As always, your feedback is instrumental in helping us build a product that you'll continue to love far into the future. Please reach out if there is anything we can do to make your Around by Miro Labs experience even better.

That's all for now! Ping us at support@around.co if you run into any issues or just want to say привіт. 🇺🇦

Product Updates: January 2024 Edition 🔮


What’s New 🚨

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Presenter Reactions Feed

Only available in Event Rooms

Whenever sharing content via Screen Share, the reduction in visible attendees can lessen the amount of engagement a facilitator feels from their audience. The updated presenter reactions feed makes reactions more visible and dynamic by displaying both the reaction and the avatar of the user that shared the reaction across the bottom of the presenter's screen.


Improvements

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  • Enable Media From Avatar: Quickly unmute or show your video directly from the corresponding avatar icon
  • Default Reaction Keyboard Shortcuts: All of your quick emojis (located in the bottom bar) now have corresponding keyboard shortcuts so you can react before the moment is over
  • Slimmed-Down Browser Experience: The in-meeting sidebar has been removed from the browser experience to simplify the interface
  • File Sharing Temporarily Disabled: As part of an effort to improve file sharing, we've temporarily disabled this feature. In the meantime, images and files can be shared through a Miro Board (ShareMiro Board)

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that could cause the app to become unresponsive when entering a Miro board URL
  • Non-admins with a linked Miro account can now browse and share Miro boards in event rooms from the Share menu
  • Users updating their name in Settings will now see the change reflected in an active meeting
  • Fixed an issue that could cause a Reconnecting Session alert to display even when a user was successfully connected to the Around service

 

Let us know what you think 📣

As always, your feedback is instrumental in helping us build a product that you'll continue to love far into the future. Please reach out if there is anything we can do to make your Around by Miro Labs experience even better.

That's all for now! Ping us at support@around.co if you run into any issues or just want to say привіт. 🇺🇦

Product Updates: December 2023 ❄️


Improvements 🚨

  • Recorded meetings will now have AI summaries generated by default
  • Users without OS screen sharing permissions enabled will be notified prior to joining a meeting to lessen instances of needing to restart Around once a meeting is underway
  • Participants will not be automatically moved to an active Miro board when joining a room unless the board is part of a room template
  • A sound will now alert participants whenever a person joins or leaves an ongoing Breakout

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent a user from starting a new screen share after previously sharing a window
  • (iOS & Android) Fixed an issue in Event rooms that would prevent a speaker from being heard with no visual indication if they previously selected Join muted from the prejoin screen
  • (Android) App will no longer crash when initiating a screen share after joining an ongoing meeting

 

Until next year 🥂

What a year! We're so thankful for your continued support and look forward to making Around even better in the months and years to come.

That's all for now! Ping us at support@around.co if you run into any issues or just want to say привіт. 🇺🇦

Product Updates: November 2023 Edition 🔮


What’s New 🚨

Improvements

  • Bring Everyone Here: To help with meeting facilitation, room owners & members can now move all other meeting attendees to their current space (Views ToggleBring everyone here)
  • Join Screen Share Icon: Switch to an active screen share by clicking the screen icon on the avatar of the person currently sharing their screen
  • Share System Audio is now available in the Share menu in the bottom of the meet window
    Resources: How to Share System Audio
  • Copy recording summaries: It’s now easier for you to take your meeting summary with you. From the Recordings panel, open a recording, click the associated kebab menu and select Copy Summary
  • Less focus for better focus: We’ve lessened instances in which Around “steals” focus from other applications to allow you to better focus on what you’re working on

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that could cause a meeting attendee to not be seen by all other meeting attendees
  • Fixed a bug that would cause the shared screen outline to appear in the wrong place when sharing a secondary display with larger dimensions than the primary display
  • The meeting setup screen will now display on top of the loading window in all cases
  • (iOS) Fixed an issue that would cause clicking the microphone icon after a device restart to open the app permissions panel instead of muting / unmuting the microphone

 

Let us know what you think 📣

As always, your feedback is instrumental in helping us build a product that you'll continue to love far into the future. Please reach out if there is anything we can do to make your Around by Miro Labs experience even better.

That's all for now! Ping us at support@around.co if you run into any issues or just want to say привіт. 🇺🇦

Product Updates: September 2023 Edition 🔮


What’s New 🚨

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Breakouts (BETA)

As meetings grow larger, it can be too easy for engagement to wane or for a person’s voice to be lost in the crowd. With Breakouts, participants can be manually or automatically separated into smaller groups to encourage conversation and deeper collaboration. Some of our favorite opportunities for Breakouts are:

  • Reflection sessions during workshops
  • Group discussion during class
  • Icebreakers during employee onboarding
  • Brainstorming sessions


Where to find it: Select Breakouts from the ⚡Tools menu in the bottom of the meet window

Note: This feature is still in Beta. Please help us continue to improve Breakouts by letting us know if you’re experiencing any issues. You can email us at support@around.co.

Resources: How To Use Breakouts (BETA)


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500 attendees in Event mode

If you’ve never used an Event Room, they provide a unique interface and additional permissions tailor-made to facilitate effective events and workshops. With the desire to support all of your events, we’ve again doubled the number of people that can participate in an event from 250 → 500 attendees.


Miro board sharing

Our Miro integration lets teams gather around a Miro board and access Miro’s powerful collaboration features directly inside Around. With board sharing, an active Miro board can be shared with everyone in the meeting through the screenshare view. This means even those who don’t have access to the Miro view can see the active Miro board. Additionally, shared boards are captured during recording so no context is lost when viewing a recording later.

Where to find it: After opening a Miro board, select Miro BoardShare board from the Share menu in the bottom of the meet window


Improvements

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  • Custom default reactions: Customize the quick emojis located in the bottom bar so your favorite reactions are always at the ready (SettingsGeneral)
  • Relocated top navigation: To wrap up our major meet UI update, the Notes and Miro board tabs have been moved to the Views dropdown in the top-left of the meet window and the Screenshare tab has been moved to the Share menu in the bottom bar
  • Workspace upgrade: All personal rooms and spaces have been upgraded to Workspaces.
    Note: In some instances additional Workspaces have been created for rooms where only a subset of users had access. To view all Workspaces and rooms for which you have access, please use the Workspace dropdown in the top-left of your Around Lobby
    Resources: How To Use Workspaces
  • Workspace profile picture: You can now set a different photo for each Workspace of which you’re a member. From the Lobby, click on the Workspace name and select Manage WorkspaceGeneral
  • (Android and iOS) Video squircles: This new avatar shape reduces unused space and shows more of each attendee’s body language (like hand gestures)
  • (Android and iOS) Paginated views: For larger calls, infinitely scrolling video avatars has been replaced by pagination

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that could cause a different emoji than the one selected to appear on a person’s video avatar
  • Workspace admins can now edit member roles
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent a Workspace admin from being able to manage associated rooms and members
  • Fixed an issue that would prevent the playback of recordings made before a certain date
  • Notes are now properly centered in all views
  • (Windows) Fixed a camera activation issue that affected users of certain system languages
  • Curve Fever is taking a short break and will hopefully return soon

 

Let us know what you think 📣

As always, your feedback is instrumental in helping us build a product that you'll continue to love far into the future. Please reach out if there is anything we can do to make your Around by Miro Labs experience even better.

That's all for now! Ping us at support@around.co if you run into any issues or just want to say привіт. 🇺🇦

Product Updates: August 2023 Edition 🔮


What’s New 🚨

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Improvements

  • Support for 250 attendees in Event mode: Thanks to several performance improvements we’ve more than doubled the number of people that can participate in an Event from 100 to 250
  • Static emoji quick reactions: Instead of seeing your most recently used GIFs and emojis, you’ll now see a static list of the most commonly used emojis in the bottom bar
  • Transcription Panel setting: Don’t want the transcription panel to open automatically when a recording starts? Turn off in SettingsGeneralOpen Live Transcription Panel by default
  • Collapsible Lobby sidebar: Show or hide the Lobby sidebar by using the toggle in the top left
  • (Android and iOS) Redesigned tablet UI: You'll now see other user’s video feeds while using notes, screen sharing or a Miro board
  • (Android and iOS) Mobile settings: Customize your Around experience by going to the Lobby and clicking your avatar

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that prevented Workspace admins from managing member roles
  • Selecting Type Thought from the magic menu will now properly focus the message input
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Recording tooltips to get stuck and obscure other buttons
  • (Browser) Floating view will no longer be turned off once another user starts a screen share
  • (Browser) Clicking Try Again will now properly load a recording that has recently finished processing
  • (Browser) Fixed an issue that could cause clicking to Open Around to display a blank screen
  • (Android and iOS) Fixed an issue that could cause Around to crash if video was disabled quickly after joining a meeting

 

Let us know what you think 📣

As always, your feedback is instrumental in helping us build a product that you'll continue to love far into the future. Please reach out if there is anything we can do to make your Around by Miro Labs experience even better.

That's all for now! Ping us at support@around.co if you run into any issues or just want to say привіт. 🇺🇦

Product Updates: June 2023 Edition 🔮


What’s New 🚨

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Meeting Controls Redesign

We want the Around meeting experience to feel immediately comfortable, that way you can stay engaged with the people you’re talking with and not be distracted by anything else. That desire – coupled with your fantastic feedback – has led us to completely redesign the meeting controls.

Several features that were spread out across the meet window – including audio/video selectors, screen sharing, and Tools – have been consolidated into a single place, so the controls you use most often are always at your fingertips. With fewer individual elements located around the meet window, the interface feels less cluttered and more comfortable for new users.

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Additional UI/UX Updates

  • Views Menu: Meeting modes have been renamed to views and consolidated into a views menu in the top left of the meet window. Around remembers your most recent full-screen and floating view selection, allowing you to quickly toggle between them by pressing v or the view toggle located beside the views menu.
  • Share Menu: The screen sharing options have been relocated to a new share menu in the bottom of the meet window. Additionally, we’ve added the notes and Miro views to the share menu so it’s easy for your team to share collaborative content.
  • Annotations: To make room for the new meeting controls, screen share drawing and reactions have been moved to the top of the meet window.


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Recording Summaries

Have you ever made it to the end of a meeting and realized no one was taking notes? Or wanted to know what was discussed in a meeting you missed without watching the full recording? Thanks to a dash of AI magic, any meeting transcript can be quickly converted into a short summary.

Where to find it: All of your recordings and summaries can be found in the Recordings view listed in the Lobby sidebar. To generate a new recording summary, toggle open a meeting recording and select Generate AI Summary.


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Audio/Video Setup

A loved browser feature is now available in the app

Say goodbye to scrambling to adjust your audio and video in the first seconds of a meeting. With our new audio/video setup, users can adjust their audio, video, filter, and background settings before jumping into a room. And Around can remember your settings so it's even quicker to join future meetings.


Quality and Performance Updates 🌟

Improvements

  • Shared Miro board behavior: Links to Miro boards shared in chat now open in the browser by default
  • Knock-knock, who’s there?: You’ll now receive an audio notification when a guest requests to join your meeting or event
  • Live transcriptions turned off by default: Instead of starting automatically, you can choose to start a real-time transcription by clicking Start live transcription in the transcript panel
  • Improved noise suppression: We’ve adjusted our noise suppression models to perform better in noisy conditions
  • Power-Ups are now Tools: The Power-Ups toggle has been renamed to Tools everywhere
  • Changed Shortcut: The shortcut for hide self-view [v] has now toggles between your most recently used full-screen and floating view selection. To instead hide your video, right-click on your video circle and select Hide Self View
  • (Windows) System Tray: When turned on, you’ll no longer have to wait for Around to launch or an update to complete. Turn on in SettingsGeneralKeep Around in system tray
  • (iOS) Pro filters: A set of our recently introduced Pro filters – which include both studio style lighting effects and a smooth background gradient – are now available on iOS

Fixes

  • AI-based camera framing is more consistent across all platforms
  • (Android and iOS) Fixed an issue that would prevent a user from clicking Share Meeting Link
  • (Android) Fixed an issue that would prevent audio output from switching between phone and speaker

 

Let us know what you think 📣

As always, your feedback is instrumental in helping us build a product that you'll continue to love far into the future. Please reach out if there is anything we can do to make your Around by Miro Labs experience even better.

That's all for now! Ping us at support@around.co if you run into any issues or just want to say привіт. 🇺🇦

Product Updates: April 2023 Edition 🔮


What’s New 🚨

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Pro Filters and Background Effects

You’re ready for your close-up

We’ve heard from you that for some types of meetings the current set of filters felt too playful, so we’ve added a whole host of new filters and background effects aimed at helping you feel comfortable in every setting. In addition to Around’s classic video filters, you now have access to 7 Pro filters and 4 background effects. Mix and match filters and background effects for even more control over how you look.

Pro Filters
Taking inspiration from professional headshots, Pro filters include both studio style lighting effects and a smooth background gradient.

Background Effects
Whether you want to lightly blur your background or completely obscure it with a custom image, background effects help to protect your privacy and prevent unwanted distractions.

Where to find it: Click the center of your video circle or press f


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Filter Selector

With the introduction of additional filters and background effects we’re also adding a new way to manage your appearance. Open the filter selector to quickly gain access to our most commonly used filters and effects. For even more choice, click the down arrow on the bottom of the panel to reveal all of the available options as well as brightness and contrast sliders to further dial in that perfect look.

Where to find it: Click the center of your video circle or press f


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Lobby Sidebar

We’ve reintroduced the Lobby sidebar to help surface commonly used actions, like creating a new ad-hoc meeting or scheduling a future meeting. Additionally, the Lobby sidebar includes a new Workspace selector to make it easy for those that belong to multiple teams to quickly switch context.


Quality and Performance Updates 🌟

Improvements

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  • (iOS & Android) Improved pre-join screen: You can now configure your audio and video settings before joining a meeting
  • (iOS & Android) Share rear-facing camera: When initiating a new screen share you can now choose to share video from your rear-facing camera instead

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  • Workspace selector: Users that belong to multiple Workspaces can change their Lobby view by using the Workspace selector in the top of the Lobby sidebar
  • Join room by URL: If you know the room URL of the room you’d like to join, you can use the Join Meeting button in the Lobby sidebar to enter it directly

Fixes

  • Windows users with ultrawide monitors can now share their entire display when screen sharing
  • Fixed an issue for mobile users that would cause Bluetooth devices to stop sending audio after switching between WiFi/LTE or disconnecting and reconnecting the device

 

Let us know what you think 📣

As always, your feedback is instrumental in helping us build a product that you'll continue to love far into the future. Please reach out if there is anything we can do to make your Around by Miro Labs experience even better.

That's all for now! Ping us at support@around.co if you run into any issues or just want to say привіт. 🇺🇦

Product Updates: March 2023 Edition 🔮


What’s New 🚨

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Background Blur (BETA)

Around’s video circles are designed to hide a large portion of your background, but sometimes a bit more privacy is needed. With Background Blur, you can now fully obscure your video background so the focus stays on you and not your environment.

Where to find it: Right-click on your video avatar and select Blur Background or enable by default in SettingsVideo.

Note: This feature is only available to macOS users with Apple Silicon (i.e. M1, M2). Support for other platforms is coming soon.


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Live Transcriptions

Press record to immediately launch our latest feature, Live Transcriptions! See what’s being said in real-time, ensuring you never miss a word even in a loud environment or low volume situation. Additionally, live transcriptions are searchable, allowing you to recall something that was said earlier in the meeting.

Where to find it: The transcript panel opens automatically when a new recording is started

Note: This feature is not available in the mobile app. Transcriptions are currently only available for English


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Hide Nearby Videos (Echo Prevention)

Our Echo Prevention feature allows people in the same room to connect to the same meeting without echo. Now, whenever you’re in an Echo Prevention group, you can hide any number of the video circles of other EP group members. This is useful for times you want to encourage yourself to look at in-person attendees instead of your computer. Additionally, hiding nearby videos improves the performance of Around by decreasing the number of videos displayed at the same time.

Where to find it: Join a meeting with Echo Prevention enabled and right click on another group member’s video circle or enable by default in SettingsVideo.

Note: This feature is not available in the mobile app. Hiding nearby videos only affects your view and not what other people in the meeting see.


Quality and Performance Updates 🌟

Improvements

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  • Branded Shared URLs: Links shared during a meeting are now visually more prominent in chat bubbles and display the visual branding for many commonly used services. Note: Want us to add branding for your favorite service? Let us know at support@around.co.
  • iOS CallKit Support: With this feature we’ve improved call reliability by eliminating a major cause of audio drops due to other apps stealing focus.
  • Preferences has been renamed to Settings to remain consistent with system level naming conventions.

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent Around from launching when part of data being migrated to a new machine or restoring from backup
  • Fixed an issue that could cause a user to disconnect and reconnect to the same meeting repeatedly
  • Adjusted highlight colors in emailed Notes to maintain proper contrast when viewed in light or dark mode
  • Fixed an issue on mobile that could cause the app to become stuck on launch and require a restart

 

Let us know what you think 📣

As always, your feedback is instrumental in helping us build a product that you'll continue to love far into the future. Please reach out if there is anything we can do to make your Around by Miro Labs experience even better.

That's all for now! Ping us at support@around.co if you run into any issues or just want to say привіт. 🇺🇦

Product Updates: February 2023 Edition 🔮


What’s New 🚨

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Transcriptions (BETA)

Transcriptions are here! Now your team can easily reference what happened during the meeting, whether they were absent or just needed to refresh their memory on a specific topic.

Our Transcriptions feature quickly and accurately transcribes your recorded meetings and organizes them by attendee names and timestamps. Looking for a specific topic that was mentioned during a meeting? Just search for the keyword in the transcript and click on it to jump to that point in time in the recording.

How to create a transcript

Open the Recordings panel and click the Create a transcript icon beside the associated recording. Transcripts can be generated for any of your recordings regardless of when the recording was made.

Where to view a transcript

  • Transcript only: open the Recordings panel and select the View transcript icon beside the associated recording.
  • Transcript with recording: while watching a recording playback, open the meet menu, select Show Attendee List and then navigate to the Transcript tab.

Note: Live transcription is coming soon.


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Menu Bar App (macOS)

For some meetings, every minute is crucial. And when joining a meeting like this, the last thing you want to see is a message that says, “This update will only take a minute.”

With our new Menu Bar app for macOS, you’ll no longer have to wait for Around to launch or an update to complete. In addition to always being ready to go, the Menu Bar introduces a new way to start a meeting, schedule a meeting or join a room from a URL without needing to open the Lobby. Whenever you’re in a meeting, you can now control your audio and video or start a new screen share from the Menu Bar, no matter where the Around window is.

Where to find it: Add Around to your Menu Bar in Preferences → General.

Note: This feature is only available to macOS users.


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Bluetooth Discovery for Echo Prevention

We’ve added Bluetooth discovery to Echo Prevention, which means that it will now work with more complex network setups or organizations that utilize VPNs.

Our Echo Prevention feature allows people in the same room to connect to the same meeting without echo. Until now, we’ve primarily relied on participants having the same network address to correctly discover and form an Echo Prevention group.

While this works well for most applications, this method may not discover all possible group participants at organizations with more complex network setups or that make use of a VPN. By enabling Bluetooth discovery, Echo Prevention groups can now be formed more quickly and reliably.

Where to find it: Enable Bluetooth discovery in Preferences → Audio.

Note: In order for this method to work effectively, other nearby attendees must also turn on Bluetooth discovery in their Preferences.


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Mobile App Chat

Our Chat feature allows users to communicate during a meeting without disrupting the current speaker. With our newest update, chat is now available for our Android and iOS users, so people on the go can be part of the conversation.

Where to find it: Click the chat icon next to the reactions bar.

Note: Haven’t tried out our mobile app yet? It has everything you need to collaborate with your team on the go, including screen sharing, seamless handoff between devices and AI noise cancellation to mute background noises. Download it now (iOS or Android) and let us know what you think!


Quality and Performance Updates 🌟

Improvements

  • Updated sign in screen: All sign in methods are now prominently displayed so it's easy to find the right one.
  • UI Updates: We’ve made many small improvements to the Around UI, including:
    • Highlighting the Screen Sharing button to make it more prominent
    • Updating copy for several modals, alerts and dialogues for added clarity
    • Adding a Add to Google Calendar button directly in the meet window for scheduling future events
  • Listen to recordings on mobile: Audio playback of a recorded meeting is now available in browser on mobile, so anyone with a recording link can listen back on any device.

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent a user from launching Miro Mode
  • No more tiny faces. Emojis now display at the proper size on Windows
  • Very long user and room names have been truncated in some instances to prevent overflowing into another element
  • Recording playback performance has been improved, drastically reducing instances of stuck or flashing avatars

 

Let us know what you think 📣

As always, your feedback is instrumental in helping us build a product that you'll continue to love far into the future. Please reach out if there is anything we can do to make your Around by Miro Labs experience even better.

That's all for now! Ping us at support@around.co if you run into any issues or just want to say привіт. 🇺🇦