# Scrivener 3.5 — Version 3.5 - Product: Scrivener (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/scrivener) - Vendor: Literature & Latte - Date: 2025-10-01 - Version: 3.5 - Original notes: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/updates/mac-scrivener/notes/3_5.html - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/scrivener/releases/3.5 - Labels: Platforms: macOS What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **changed** — Updated for macOS 26 Tahoe support with many subtle changes to the UI to better fit with Tahoe - **added** — Scrivener now has a new Liquid Glass application icon - **changed** — Minimum version of macOS that Scrivener 3.5 supports is now macOS 11 - **fixed** — Rewrote interface validation code to alleviate trackpad scrolling lag experienced by some users - **fixed** — Worked around an Apple bug whereby lists take on the formatting of the preceding paragraph - **fixed** — Fixed issue whereby list items following styles and other special formatting could become corrupted from recent internal changes to the macOS text system - **fixed** — Added code to work around Apple TextKit drawing bugs whereby adding or deleting lines could result in text below the edited lines not redrawing properly - **fixed** — Updated text caret resizing code to fix issue with the text caret sometimes drawing too small or not at all - **fixed** — Project search no longer closes the composition mode window when the latter is open in a different Space - **fixed** — Fixed bug whereby new cards added to the freeform corkboard were not added at the right position - **fixed** — Fixed bug whereby Opt-dragging cards on the freeform corkboard with the option to create duplicates enabled would mess up the positions of existing cards - **fixed** — Fixed issue with being able to take blank snapshots in inspector - **fixed** — Fixed issue with being able to spam snapshot taking in the inspector - **fixed** — Fixed issue whereby moving paragraphs up and down using keyboard shortcuts while typewriter scrolling was enabled could cause erratic scrolling - **fixed** — Fixed issue whereby redefining paragraph styles containing heading levels did not update the heading level for existing text using the style - **changed** — On macOS 26, there is now a slightly longer delay for the auto-complete suggestions list appearing during typing when Show suggestions list while typing is turned on in Settings to avoid choppy typing caused by Apple animation - **fixed** — Fixed bug caused by undocumented changes by Apple to TextKit that made parentheticals in scriptwriting capitalized when they should ignore auto-capitalization - **fixed** — Fixed bug whereby the option to add scene numbering to script elements would break keep-with-next for those elements when compiling for print or PDF - **removed** — Kindle .mobi format has been removed as a Compile export option since Amazon no longer supports the format - **fixed** — Fixed issue whereby the Compile window was mostly blank on macOS Tahoe Scrivener for macOS Scrivener for macOS Version 3.5 Literature & Latte 1 October, 2025 Scrivener 3.5 requires macOS 11 (Big Sur) or above. Earlier systems are no longer supported by Apple’s latest developer tools. macOS 26 Support - Updated for macOS 26 Tahoe support, with many subtle changes to the UI to better fit with Tahoe. - Scrivener now has a new, Liquid Glass application icon. - As part of these updates, the minimum version of macOS that Scrivener 3.5 supports is now macOS 11. Stability Improvements - A slew of interface validation code has been rewritten to alleviate the trackpad scrolling lag experienced by some users. Text System - Worked around an Apple bug whereby lists take on the formatting of the preceding paragraph. - Fixed an issue whereby list items following styles and other special formatting could become corrupted, caused by recent internal changes to the macOS text system. (Note that this only prevents the problem from happening in the future. Text already affected will need to be edited manually.) - Added code to work around Apple TextKit drawing bugs whereby adding or deleting lines could result in text below the edited lines not redrawing properly. - Text caret resizing code has been updated, which hopefully fixes an issue with the text caret sometimes drawing too small or not at all. Usability Improvements - Project search no longer closes the composition mode window when the latter is open in a different Space. - Fixed bug whereby new cards added to the freeform corkboard weren’t added at the right position. - Fixed bug whereby Opt-dragging cards on the freeform corkboard with the option to create duplicates enabled would mess up the positions of existing cards. - Fixed issue with being able to take blank snapshots in inspector. - Fixed issue with being able to spam snapshot taking in the inspector. - Fixed issue whereby moving paragraphs up and down using the keyboard shortcuts while typewriter scrolling was enabled could cause erratic scrolling. - Fixed issue whereby redefining paragraph styles containing heading levels did not update the heading level for existing text using the style. Scriptwriting - On macOS 26, there is now a slightly longer delay for the auto-complete suggestions list appearing during typing when “Show suggestions list while typing” is turned on in Settings. This is to avoid choppy typing caused by Apple adding an animation whenever the suggestions list appears. This means that if you are, for example, typing a scene heading in script mode, you will now need to pause typing very briefly to see the list of completions. (Or you can hit ⌥ Esc to see suggestions immediately.) Turning on “Reduce motion” in macOS’s accessibility settings removes the animation, in which case Scrivener will use the older, shorter delay. - Fixed bug caused by undocumented changes by Apple to TextKit that made it so that parentheticals in scriptwriting were capitalised when they should ignore auto-capitalisation. This bug affected systems running 10.15 and higher. - Fixed bug whereby the option to add scene numbering to script elements would break keep-with-next for those elements when compiling for print or PDF. Export and Compile - Kindle (.mobi) has now been removed as a Compile export option, since Amazon no longer supports the .mobi format and now expects ebooks to be submitted using the ePub file format. Existing Compile formats set to use Kindle are automatically switched to use ePub. - Fixed an issue whereby the Compile window was mostly blank on macOS Tahoe. - Page Layout no longer requires units entering in the margins text fields. - Fixed bug whereby exported Word documents would be corrupted if the same link was added to the main text and to footnotes or comments. - Fixed bug whereby the font of Inspector footnotes and comments was not affected by the Page Layout override option. - Fixed bug whereby footnotes at the end of a section could result in invalid HTML in ebook export. - F _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/updates/mac-scrivener/notes/3_5.html]_