Flow v3.0.0
Release date: 2026-10-18 Status: Stable
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Highlights
- The whole app is redesigned on Material 3 Expressive, with real tablet and foldable layouts
- Flow now runs on its own native InnerTube client everywhere, NewPipe's extractor is gone
- New on-device music taste engine: Quick Picks, Daily Mixes, endless radio and new shelves
- Home recommendations rebuilt to learn from what you actually watch (#907)
- Flow Recap: private monthly and yearly stats, plus a Recap story you can share
- New Equalizer page with AutoEQ and EqualizerAPO presets
- Word by word lyrics, a rebuilt music player and a new queue
- Big upgrades to Downloads, Local media and subtitles
- In-app updates, private notes, and themes shared with Flow Desktop
Behavior changes
- Background Play is now on by default, you can turn it off in Playback settings (#1298)
- Backups now carry your settings and library only. The recommendation engine and sync identity stay on the device, so a reinstall starts the engine clean (#907)
- The Flow Control Center is now called Your taste
- Explore's Movies tab is gone because YouTube stopped serving its chart (#1254)
Native innertube client
- Search, channels, Explore, Shorts, comments, descriptions and the player all run on Flow's own InnerTube client
- Video search makes one request per page instead of thirteen, with filters and sorting done by the server
- The player resolves videos through one client instead of racing two, and fetches the watch page once per video
- Channel pages handle scheduled streams and premieres correctly
- Explore uses YouTube's own destinations instead of the trending endpoints YouTube retired
Search, explore and channels
- New Material 3 search bar, filters in a sheet and a grid/list toggle
- Creator cards are tinted by the channel avatar and show their latest uploads
- Blocked channels are hidden from search results too, not just the feed
- Search history keeps each search's filters and applies them again on tap (#1174)
- Recently uploaded, Unwatched and Watched chips in the search filter row. Watched and Unwatched use your watch history (#940)
- Explore is rebuilt around Live, Gaming, Music, News, Sports, Learning and Fashion, with the region one tap away in the top bar
- Explore's Music tab shows trending music videos from YouTube Music's charts for your region (#1254)
- Explore tells you when to try again instead of showing raw errors
- YouTube Courses show as courses and open as a playlist (#1299)
- Text in channel posts and the About tab can be selected and copied, and a long press copies a channel's name (#951)
Home and recommendations
- Home covers all your interests: the biggest ones always show, smaller ones rotate in, and each gets space based on how much you watch it
- Each load goes deeper into your interests, and the feed never dead-ends, it digs new related lanes from what's on screen, your history, likes and playlists
- Loading more adds several videos at a time, and Home says when it has run out of videos (#1317)
- Videos you've already seen are filtered out of the next refreshes and come back slowly later, and pull to refresh gives you a fresh page
- Home shows your subscriptions right away and adds new uploads below what you're looking at
- Chips above the feed: top interests, New to you, Recently uploaded, Mixes, Live and Watched. Similar interests are grouped into themes like "Gaming"
- Cards are mixed: two from related videos, searches or channels you watch, then one or two from channels you follow. A channel never shows twice within 20 cards
- Home remembers channels you keep watching without subscribing and brings in their uploads, marked "From a channel you watch" (#907)
- Related videos rotate their seeds, spread acros
