Most of the editing that happens on Liinks now happens on a phone, and until now the phone version of the editor asked you to do everything from the block list. The preview at the top was something you looked at, not something you could use. That has changed.
Tap the preview to edit
In the editor on your phone, your page sits in a frame at the top of the screen. Tap any block in that frame and its editor opens straight away, with no menu in between.
- Tap a block to open it for editing.
- Tap your header or your social icons and the editor below scrolls to that section, opens it, and highlights it.
- Tap a different block while one is already open and you move straight to it. If you have unsaved changes you get the usual prompt first, and cancelling leaves your edit exactly where it was.
- Tap the block you are already editing and nothing moves.
Blocks do not follow their links while you are editing, so tapping a link opens its settings instead of opening the link itself. To try your page the way a visitor would, use the round eye button beside the preview. That expands the preview to fill the screen and everything on the page goes live again, so you can tap through your links and check they land where you expect. The button becomes a minimize icon to bring the editor back.
Photos from your camera roll
Photos taken on an iPhone are saved as HEIC, and those used to be rejected. HEIC, HEIF, and WebP files are all accepted now and converted for you as they upload, so you can add an image straight from your camera roll instead of exporting it as a JPG first.
Two related fixes came with it. A failed upload now tells you it failed instead of leaving a spinner running, and the small X that clears an image field is permanently visible on touch screens, where it used to need a hover a phone cannot do.
Smaller things
- Panels no longer scroll the page behind them. Opening a panel used to let the page underneath drift, which was worst on iOS. The background now stays put.
- Setting up a page shows you a preview. During setup on a phone, a Preview button now sits beside the main button at the bottom of the screen and slides your page up so you can see it as you build. The style step, which showed nothing at all on a phone before, is covered by it too.
- A new page starts with a real look. If you skip the import during setup, your page now opens with a designed theme applied instead of a blank default, so the first preview you see is something worth keeping.