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@HyperFinal HyperFinal released this 23 Sep 14:20
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Twitch Retold v2.6.0

🚀 What's New:

  • Multistream: Up to three lives at once, one in focus with the full player controls and the others alongside, with one chat for every channel. Start it from the left rail or the Multistream button above the player; swapping lives is instant.
  • Twitch Retold channel pages: Channel pages are now ours, as in the Android app: Home, Videos, Clips, Series, Schedule and About, with follow, subscribe and reminders for upcoming lives (a notification when they start).
  • Subscribe, gifts and confirmations in the app's own panels: Subscribe, Gift a sub, channel points and reports open in a side panel with the live still visible; confirmations such as Unfollow become a centred dialog. Payments and account security continue on Twitch's own site in your browser; 7TV, BetterTTV and FrankerFaceZ sign-ins ask for Twitch first, so the double sign-in no longer fails.
  • A stronger RetoldShield: After a 27-hour test campaign: ads that Twitch loads straight into the player are now blocked for everyone (the window that blocked them never showed an ad), cleaner backup sessions, and new ad formats recognised.
  • Report new ad formats: When RetoldShield meets an ad format it does not know, it anonymously sends only its signature (no channels, no URLs, no account), at most twice a day, so the engine gets updated faster. Outside the European Union Twitch serves different ads from the ones we see, and there RetoldShield may not block them all: these reports are exactly how we find them and teach them to the engine. Turn it off in Settings › Ad-Block.
  • Fits any screen: In full screen, pages use the whole width and scale up on large monitors; Home shows four full rows. In narrow windows the left rail switches to icons by itself.
  • macOS: The DMG for Intel Macs would not open ("cachedDataRejected"): there is now one package per processor, tested before release; download the -arm64.dmg for Apple Silicon (M1-M4). The window uses the native traffic lights, remembers its position and size, and closing it no longer leaves the sound playing.
  • Fixes: The channel notification bell works again; the pink dot next to Gift a sub is gone; opening a live no longer flashes the "content not available" screen; chat tooltips no longer open and close in a loop.

Note

🛡️ RetoldShield Ongoing Development
RetoldShield is under active and continuous development. While it eliminates the vast majority of preroll and midroll ads at native 1080p60 Source resolution without buffering, Twitch frequently updates its delivery infrastructure and a few ads may still occasionally slip through. Continuous engine updates and refinements are being deployed regularly.

🚀 Installation & Getting Started

🪟 Windows:

  1. Download Twitch-Retold-Setup-2.6.0.exe from the assets below.
  2. Run the installer. If Windows Defender SmartScreen appears, click "More info" and then "Run anyway".

🍎 macOS:

  1. Download the correct file for your Mac's processor (Apple menu → About This Mac shows Chip or Processor):
    • Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4): Twitch-Retold-2.6.0-arm64.dmg
    • Intel: Twitch-Retold-2.6.0.dmg
  2. Open the downloaded .dmg and drag Twitch Retold into your Applications folder.

🐧 Linux:

  1. AppImage (Universal): download Twitch-Retold-2.6.0.AppImage, make it executable (chmod +x Twitch-Retold-*.AppImage) and launch it.
  2. Debian / Ubuntu / Mint: download twitch-retold_2.6.0_amd64.deb and run sudo dpkg -i twitch-retold_*_amd64.deb.

📢 Stay up to date on the official Telegram channel: https://t.me/twitch_retold

🐛 Found a problem? Open an issue: https://github.com/HyperFinal/Twitch-Retold-Desktop-Android/issues

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