Several reviewers on one proof, a copy for the people who approve, and reviews that work on a phone.
Most of this month went into what happens after you press send: who gets the link, who is allowed to sign off, what they can keep afterwards, and whether the page works on the phone they open it on.
Several reviewers on one proof. Choose Send by Email when you create a request and add an address for each person. Everyone gets their own link, and a Can approve checkbox decides who is allowed to close the proof, so a wider group can comment while sign-off stays with one or two people. You choose whether any one approver is enough or everyone has to approve. The request page shows where each person is, from not opened to approved or asked for revisions, with the time, and every comment carries the name of the invited reviewer who wrote it. You can add someone later, resend an invite or remove a reviewer, and removing someone never undoes an approval that was already given. Account required now means each reviewer signs in with the exact address you invited. Sending to several reviewers is part of Pro.
Reviewers can keep a copy of what they approved. After approving, a reviewer can save a read-only copy to a free File Approved account, with the downloads and the approval certificate. If you invited them by email, the copy is theirs as soon as they sign in with that address. If they came through a link, you get a request and approve or decline it under Access requests on the request page. Their copies live under Shared with me on their dashboard and stay on the version they approved, even after you upload a newer one.
Reviews that work on a phone. On the review link, your request page and the team view, the file now takes the full width of the screen and the comments sit in a Feedback bar at the bottom that opens with a tap. Reviewers keep Approve and Request Revisions on screen the whole time, and PDFs fit the width of the phone. On the dashboard the folder list moves into a menu, and request names wrap onto a second line instead of getting cut off, on every screen size.
Faster approval emails, and more places to send them. An approval email now reaches you in about two minutes, where it used to take ten to fifteen. Comments are still gathered into one email a few minutes after the last one, so a long review does not fill your inbox. On Pro you can also send review notifications to up to five extra addresses, such as a teammate or a shared inbox. Each address confirms with one click, and anyone receiving them can stop them from the link in the email.
A clearer record of who did what. The request page lists everyone who opened a link and when they first opened it, rather than only the last name entered. The approval certificate records the person who approved at the moment they approved, so a later visitor to the same link cannot change it, and its dates are shown in your own time zone instead of UTC.
Reviewer questions that read as questions. In the create form, the two things your reviewer is asked for are now labeled Question 1 and Question 2, with a live preview of the exact screen your reviewer will see. Plenty of people were typing their own name or company into those boxes, and their clients then had no idea what to fill in. The questions lock once someone opens the request, so the answers always match what was asked.
CAD and Revit. For the Engineering & Architecture add-on, newly uploaded DWG and DXF drawings open in a new in-browser drawing viewer, usually ready in under a minute. Revit files now upload reliably, large ones included, and every sheet in a Revit model, such as a floor plan or an elevation, can be opened from a sheet menu along with the 3D view.
Your account, on your terms. You can delete your account yourself from Settings. Nothing is removed for seven days, so you can change your mind, and after that your files are removed from every place we store them. If a Pro renewal payment fails, the dashboard now tells you which requests are paused and Settings takes you to the billing portal to update your card.
Fixes worth naming. PDFs with soft, feathered artwork no longer show white boxes in Safari. Signing in with Google or Microsoft no longer flashes the sign in page on the way through, and a browser that blocks cookies for File Approved now gets a message saying so rather than buttons that do nothing. Your own comments are readable in dark mode again, and the Contact Support form sends the files you attach and tells you straight away if a file type cannot go by email.