What’s New in TrustWord 1.1

Thanks to our group of testers, we’ve made a number of changes in this latest point release - we’ve simplified how contacts work, tightened security in several ways, and fixed a handful of edge cases that were tricky to hit but annoying when you did.

First Class Contacts

The most important change in 1.1 is structural: contacts now live independently of circles.

In 1.0, a “member” only existed inside a specific circle — so the same person in two circles was treated as two separate people, with two separate TrustWords. That was confusing, annoying, and wrong. A person is a person!

In 1.1, contacts are their own entity. When you add someone, they appear in your contacts list. You can then add them to one or more circles, but their TrustWord pair follows them — it’s the same regardless of which circles they belong to. If you have “Dad” in your Family circle and your Emergency circle, you see the same TrustWord in both places, because you’re verifying him, not the circle.

This also simplifies the contact limit (10 on the free tier) tracking to reflect actual people, not circle memberships.

Key change detection

If someone gets a new phone and reinstalls TrustWord, their cryptographic identity changes. In 1.0, TrustWord would silently start generating different codes, which could cause confusing mismatches with no explanation.

In 1.1, when TrustWord detects that a contact’s public key has changed, it immediately marks them as unverified and flags it for your attention. You’ll know to do a quick in-person or video re-verification before relying on the codes again.

Clipboard auto-clears

Any time you copy a TrustWord or an invite code, it now automatically disappears from your clipboard after 30 seconds. This means it’s less likely you’ll accidentally paste sensitive verification codes!

Biometric lock improvements

The biometric lock screen has been hardened on both platforms.

On Android, previous versions had an escape path: under certain conditions, you could bypass the lock screen by rotating the device or quickly backgrounding and foregrounding the app. That’s fixed in 1.1. The lock is now lifecycle-aware and properly re-authenticates whenever the app comes to the foreground after being away.

On iOS, Face ID and Touch ID behavior is unchanged — but the logic for when to trigger the prompt has been cleaned up.

Reset All Data

Sometimes you want a clean slate. The settings panel now includes a Reset All Data option that wipes everything: contacts, circles, cryptographic keys, and all preferences. The next launch takes you back to onboarding.

This is permanent and irreversible — there’s a confirmation step before anything is deleted.

Improved Word List Entropy

TrustWord generates passphrases from a curated list of more than 200 adjectives and more than 300 nouns — chosen specifically for their audible distinctiveness over a phone call. We’ve cleaned up this wordlist slightly based on feedback and now there are more than 6.5 million possible combinations.

Legible Invite Code Characters

Invite codes no longer contain characters that could look alike — no more zero vs. capital O, no lowercase L vs. capital I. Codes are now generated using unambiguous characters only, making manual entry significantly less frustrating.

Stability Fixes

A few crashes and rough edges have been resolved:

• Android: Navigating to a circle that no longer exists no longer shows a blank screen — you’re redirected to Home.
• Divide-by-zero: An edge case where rotation interval could be set to 0 seconds would crash TrustWord generation. That can’t happen now.
• Restore Purchases: The loading spinner on the Pro screen could get stuck in a loop under certain timing conditions on Android. Fixed.
• iCloud backup: A subtle memory leak in the iCloud sync observer was fixed on iOS. Background sync is now more reliable.
• No Code Rotation: In some cases, the code would rotate, but the user couldn’t see the new code on the individual contact view. This has been fixed.

Get the Update

TrustWord 1.1 is available now on the App Store.

Android is coming soon!