Alfred for Mac

What's new in this version:

Alfred 5.6.2 Build 2296
- Add a description key for Music access when using Alfred's Music Mini Player
- Update subtext in Contacts preferences to remove legacy "Address Book" wording


Alfred 5.6.1 Build 2294
- Enable {var} and {const} placeholders in Fallback Search workflow object Title and Subtext fields
- Add additional timing information into file search troubleshooting
- Alfred now correctly reads the selected default result subtext via VoiceOver
- Fix showing the macOS accent colour in Alfred's default window for native popup menus etc
- Add mitigation for non-focusing window Drag and Drop bug in macOS 15.4


Alfred 5.6 Build 2290
Improvements and Fixes:
- Added fn+Click shortcut in Workflow Editor to automatically align objects to the selected object
- Added hint for this in Workflow Editor overlay
- Workflow variable placeholders now available in more places e.g.
- Alfred 5.5 GUI Views alternative mod connection subtext
- Universal Actions trigger name
- File Actions trigger name
- When deleting a Workflow, add option on dialog to also remove the workflow's cache and data folders
- Disabled by default, Alfred will remember the checkbox status
- Added option to sort the Workflow list by category in the Workflow Editor
- Improve workflow object debugging by displaying when processing of last stream object is complete, and the discarded argument at this point
- Fix (null) keyword string when configuring a Workflow subsequent Keyword Input in "keyword" inbound mode, and omitting a keyword in the configuration
- Also show a warning message in the debugger of this misconfiguration
- Update Music Command Workflow object popup style to match System Command workflow object
- Correct prefocus the path field in the Reveal File in Finder Workflow object configuration
- Update Grid View buffer behaviour to better match default results
- Fix showing Workflow Bundle Id as orange if it contains unexpected characters
- Update the Dispatch Key Combo Workflow object config to use a number slider for the dispatch count
- Added new alfred_theme_window_width workflow script environment variable
- Remove the "All Workflow Objects" workflow object from the getting started menu, as the palette provides the same information
- Prevent double encoding of + when using %2B when calling a Workflow External Trigger via URL
- The External Trigger Identifier configuration will now show as orange text when unsuitable characters are used
- Implement External Trigger Identifier conflict resolution logic within the Object Inbound Configuration sheet
- Add small message to Run Script and Script Filter Workflow object configurations hinting towards using the "with input as argv" mode
- Improve the layout and alignment of the components in the generated Workflow User configuration view
- Update "Subtitle" to "Subtext" in List Filter and Grid View Workflow object configurations
- Standardise the Input File field parsing behaviour in the Text View and Grid View Workflow UI Objects, and the External Script option of Run Script and Script Filter
- These now all accept {var:} in the file input field
- Update any references of {var:} to {var:varname} for consistency throughout Alfred's Preferences
- Update script-based Workflow object configuration sheets "Create" button greyout behaviour when using External Scripts, now matching the Workflow UI object configuration
- Add missing keyboard navigation to Workflow UI configuration sheets
- Update the Remote Trigger Workflow object argument config to match the Hotkey Trigger
- Improve Script Filter JSON parsing, now skips unexpected item type

General Improvements and Fixes:
- The shutdown and restart commands now correctly respect the macOS "Reopen windows when logging back in" setting found when manually shutting down or restarting your Mac
- It's now possible to copy the Alfred version number from the General and Update preferences
- Fix AirDrop capitalisation in Alfred's default results
- Improve accessibility of Alfred Preferences Workflow Gallery integration
- Update the Run NSAppleScript Remote action config message to match the Workflow object config message
- Update Subtitle to Subtext for consistency in Alfred's Remote Page configuration
- Remove the Alfred 5.5 banner from Alfred's preferences
- Remove historic Sonoma 14.0 rendering bug mitigations
- Instantiate spell checker on main thread to prevent rare hang when pasting define command immediately after startup
- Add tab autocomplete to calculations to resolve the answer into Alfred's input field
- Works similar to appending = to a calculation
- Updated messaging in Clipboard Viewer when there are no snippets, or no clipboard history, giving better context
- Prevent rare crash if inserting a hanging high surrogate into Alfred's text input box programatically
- Tweak to Music Mini Player AppleScript in resetting the Alfred playlist before populating
- Update Application cache to strip /System/Volumes/Data/ from Application path when on an external drive
- Update internal search ? keyword to find the Large Type feature when typing "large type" with a space
- Added additional data in File Search troubleshooting


Alfred 5.5.1 Build 2273
macOS 15 Sequoia:
- Alfred 5 officially supports macOS Sequoia
- Add macOS Sequoia Passwords app by default in Clipboard History

Workflow Improvements and Fixes:
- Fix Workflow connection veto close correctly pasting when copying groups of objects
- Improve warnings for Number Slider configurable config when marker count is notable
- Fixed Grid View JSON Universal Action overrides, which also fixes correctly adding overridden items to the buffer
- Fix copying from Grid View when there is no search field visible
- Ignore empty paths passed into the Grid View workflow object
- When directly calling an input object with multiple keywords and Inbound Mode set to Keyword, use the first keyword
- Added a defaults write to change the font size of the workflow debugger ranged between 11 (default) and 24 (big)
- defaults write com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-Preferences workflows.debuggerFontSize [size]
- Fix issue to refresh a workflow's compound variable cache after updating environment variables via AppleScript
- Fix Script Filter not showing Universal Actions panel when JSON arg is empty, action is populated
- Improve handling of missing arg in grid view when triggering Universal Actions
- Match Automation Task names non-sequentially in Workflow Palette search
- Tweak help subtext in various Workflow objects
- Tweak Workflow context popup menu to simplify some options
- Fix Workflow JSON Config editor to correctly show emoji characters in strings while retaining syntax highlighting
- Fix correctly following alternative connections configured as fn↩︎ in Workflow User Interface Views

General Improvements and Fixes:
- Write localhash to prefs.json to aid in advanced workflow creation
- Updated Universal Actions file display name code to obtain display name immediately after rename
- Increase width of "Match Application's keywords in Default Results" checkbox in Application search options
- Modify Usage tab to bring "Copy Stats" button top the top level
- Fix Markdown Rendering of image widths when contained within a list
- Fix matching ?automation tasks with a trailing s to open Automation Task Options
- Update placeholder icons in theme editor to be more colourful
- Improve Terminal integration code, specifically for large inputs
- Update Twitter to X in default web search, while retaining 'twitter' as a secondary keyword


Alfred 5.5 Build 2257
New Workflow UI Components for rich interaction with Alfred:
- Grid View: With the new Grid View object, show results image and file results in a satisfyingly visual layout!
- Dynamically feed in a list of files from the previous workflow object or use JSON to script your input
- Customise the column count and image aspect
- Include an optional search field to filter the grid results
- Text View: A super flexible, editable Markdown and plain text view, expanding your Workflow abilities immensely. Take simple notes or create a fully interactive text editor!
- Populate results from a workflow object, a script for dynamic results or a file source
- Make the text selectable, or editable within Alfred, with optional continuous spell checking mode when editable
- Parse the results as Markdown: Include images, links, code blocks, lists, headers and more within your Markdown content
- Dynamically specify footer text and loading text, including hotkey modifier hints
- Image View: Browse images in a clean, automatically sized view within Alfred.
- Preview a single image from Alfred's results
- Preview multiple results with a pagination guide at the bottom and use the arrows to navigate
- Stack the view, so it's easy to go back to Alfred results with Esc
- ⌘O opens the current file in its default app
- Use numbers ⌘0 to maximise the window and ⌘9 to Zoom to Fit
- PDF View: Browse your PDFs in Alfred
- Select and copy text from the PDF
- Change the page display via the right-click context menu to show a single page or double page side by side
- Navigate through your PDF, and zoom in and out using hotkeys
- Stack views on top of Alfred results to quickly go back to them with Esc

Universal Actions:
- New "View in Alfred" Universal Action
- Takes advantage of rich new views to quickly view images, Markdown, text, pdfs
- use ⌘0 to dynamically enlarge the content viewer
- Multi select images, view them in Alfred, then use ← or → to quickly switch between them
- Improve Workflow Universal Action integration
- Fix resolution of variables in keywords when matching Keyword and Script Filter actions in Universal Actions view
- New global option on canvas popup menu to toggle treating newly added Inputs and Script Filters as Universal Actions
- Update Recent Documents Universal Action to correctly load recents on macOS Sonoma
- Additionally add to the recent documents list from Alfred's internal knowledge
- More Workflow Improvements:
- Workflow Editor now resolves keyword variables on input objects
- Renders in italic to differentiate from fixed keywords
- Globally disabled and enabled in canvas popup menu options
- On running a Workflow, show clickable macOS Notification when Automation Tasks are missing
- Clicking the notification will open the "Update Automation Tasks" preferences sheet
- New Workflow JSON output key to cache script output for high performance
- Includes loose reload mode to show expired results while loading new results
- Cache is cleared for specific workflows on using 'reload workflow' AppleScript
- Added new "Unstack View" option to Hide Alfred workflow object
- Allows for graceful unstacking of stackable views such as the new Image View
- Added new Number Slider to Workflow user configuration options
- Configure for number range, visual markers and limiting markers (e.g. 10 steps)
- Automatically switches min / max if configured incorrectly
- Correctly return an error when calling a Workflow External Trigger externally, and the workflow needs user configuration
- Fix word truncation in title bar of Workflow debugger
- Fix Workflow window veto close logic when using result mod overrides, to prevent default connection veto from being used
- Holding ⌥ on the Workflow Gallery menu in the Workflow Editor will now give a "Fix Tools" option to fix broken Homebrew / Xcode instances
- Tweak Text Field behaviour in Workflow User Configuration for consistent behaviour
- Fix sizing of generated Workflow user config to match the preview size
- Fix initial field focus in Show Alfred Workflow object configuration
- Allow Automation Task framework more control over workflow stream on task error

General Improvements:
- Add "View in Alfred" as new default result modifier action in Advanced prefs, uses new rich views
- Overhaul the top level window / view framework to allow for the dynamic heights and widths of the new Workflow UI Components
- Rewrite Alfred window location and sizing logic to better constrain to display height
- New custom Markdown renderer for Workflow "About" and Change Log
- Prevent text from slightly overflowing selection on right side of Alfred Window input fields in macOS 15+
- Fix internal search to correctly return Workflow results when there is a manually edited invalid info.plist
- When deleting a workflow or snippet, the name is now shown in the confirmation dialog
- Update theme editor background to only show system backgrounds which are viewable
- Fix theme options position view from clipping tiny Alfred outside of the bounds

Accessibility:
- Updated Large Type window to work correctly with VoiceOver
- Improved Dialog Conditional Workflow Object configuration VoiceOver
- Fixed System Command preferences to better read components
- Add new "?Add Default Search Scope" internal search
- Add + button for search scopes in File Filter workflow object
- Improve accessibility for Dispatch Key Combo object combo field