# iPhone conversations open faster from Specialists

> On iPhone, opening a conversation from Specialists and going back is quicker, and the buttons at the top of Specialists no longer vanish and return.

Oct 28, 2026. Topics: Mobile, Specialists. https://www.generalinput.com/changelog/2026-10-28-iphone-faster-specialists-and-conversations

In the [iPhone app](/mobile), moving between Specialists and a conversation is quicker and steadier. A conversation starts sliding in sooner when you tap it. Going back no longer makes the view, search, and new task buttons at the top of Specialists disappear for a moment. Reading a reply no longer redraws every list in the app.

### How it works

- **Buttons stay put.** The buttons at the top of a tab belong to that tab, so a conversation sliding over it and back leaves them where they are.
- **Less to build on the way in.** A conversation now builds only what you see. A specialist's files and connections load the first time you switch to them, and the conversations list and the specialist picker are built only when you open them.
- **Reads touch one row.** Opening an unread conversation, or marking one read, redraws that conversation's row instead of every row on every tab. Opening a conversation you have already read sends nothing at all.
- **Quiet in the background.** A working specialist's figure rests while a conversation covers the Specialists list and starts again when you come back. Relative times on the list update once a minute rather than each time you return.

### Also shipped

- The tab badges redraw only when a count changes.