Obsidian 1.13.6 for desktop and mobile: adds swipe to close in mobile tab switcher
Full release notes can be found here:
Reminder: You may need to update your plugins, theme, and snippets to work with the latest version. If you encounter bugs with plugins be considerate of community developers who may need some time to make updates to support this version.
Highlights
- Mobile: Added swipe-to-close to close tabs in the tab switcher.
- Improved "Undo close tab" behavior. Tabs now reopen in the correct tab group, and if the currently active tab is the "New tab" page, it will no longer be reused.
- The settings window now closes when pressing
Escape, and more keyboard navigation improvements. - When Obsidian is fullscreen, the settings window now opens on top of the app window instead of creating an additional fullscreen window.
- The installer has been updated to use Electron v43.3.0. To upgrade, visit the Obsidian download page and reinstall Obsidian.
- Range sliders in settings now use the accent color.
Bug fixes
- The app now waits for configuration files to finish saving when quitting to avoid the file getting corrupted.
- iOS: Fixed editor sometimes selecting entire paragraph after double-tapping on text or dragging cursor.
- Fixed a few issues with link suggestions in the property editor. For example, typing
#in a link would cause the link to get overridden. - Fixed dragging links out of an embedded Base (e.g.
![[file.base]]) linking to the Base file and not the file you're dragging. - Live Preview: Fixed memory leak caused by reordering rows or columns in a Markdown table.
- Live Preview: Restored old behavior of embedded YouTube and Twitter links; they no longer have a selection state or an overlayed edit button.
- Fixed zoom level getting reset after reloading the window and vaults on network drives not working with the latest installer.
Posted Aug 10, 2026, 4:22 PM UTC
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