App Detail » Wikipedia

What's New

Fixes and Improvements:
• We fixed a pesky bug that caused the app to crash when tapping the reading themes button in the editor on slow connections.
• Chinese language variants now display correctly in Watchlist filters, ensuring a more accurate and localized browsing experience.
• The randomizer dice no longer disappears after several uses, allowing you to explore Wikipedia articles endlessly.
• Turkish language users can now enjoy the "On This Day" card in the explore feed, adding a touch of historical curiosity to their browsing.

How to Provide Feedback:
If you encounter any issues, please report them by emailing [email protected]. Be specific and include steps to reproduce the problem. Thanks in advance for your feedback, it really helps us improve the Wikipedia iOS app!

App Description

Explore your world, find a quick fact, or dive down a Wikipedia rabbit hole with the official Wikipedia app for iOS. With more than 40 million articles across nearly 300 languages, your favorite free online encyclopedia is at your fingertips.

Learn more at our FAQ page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/iOS_FAQ

App features:

Night reading - Appearance controls let you read Wikipedia in comfort, with dark mode, text size control and image dimming to customize how you read.

Places - Find Wikipedia articles about places next door or across the globe, with a map and location based search experience. On a trip or your daily commute, with Places it’s easy to learn more about the world around you.

Explore feed - Discover the depths of Wikipedia through your explore feed, which surfaces Wikipedia articles and captivating freely-licensed photos. It includes a diverse array of interesting content, including:

- recommended articles based on what you’ve already read
- featured articles hand-picked by the Wikipedia community
- daily top read articles
- picture of the day
- events on this day in history
- random articles
- nearby landmarks

Find and search - Easily find what you’re looking for by searching within articles or using Spotlight. You can even search with your favorite emojis!

Quick access - Add Wikipedia to your device's Today screen to pick up exactly where you stopped reading your last article, or see the top-read articles and trends of the day.

Easy touch navigation, including 3D touch - Multi-touch gestures like swipe, tap, and 3D Touch features complete essential tasks more quickly and simply.

Save articles - Save articles for reading later, even when you’re offline. Search and sort Saved articles, and organize them into folders. Log in to sync your Reading Lists across the your mobile devices.

Multilingual support - Search for and read Wikipedia articles written in any Wikipedia-supported language — there are nearly 300!

Share - Easily share articles, images, and facts from Wikipedia on social media or by email. Or use Handoff to continue reading articles across your iOS devices.

Want to know more behind the scenes of the Wikipedia mobile app for iOS? Check out these resources:

To send feedback, from the app tap:
Settings Gear > Send app feedback

Contribute to our app localizations:
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:WikimediaMobile

Code at GitHub open source repository:
https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios

About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports and operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable organization funded mainly through donations. For more information, please visit our website: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home.

App Changes

• August 02, 2011 New version 2.1
• October 08, 2011 New version 2.2
• January 11, 2012 New version 2.2.1
• February 12, 2012 New version 2.2.2
• April 05, 2012 New version 3.1.1
• April 18, 2012 New version 3.1.2
• July 07, 2012 New version 3.2
• November 02, 2012 New version 3.2.1
• November 20, 2012 New version 3.2.2
• January 23, 2013 New version 3.3
• April 05, 2013 New version 3.3.1
• August 01, 2014 New version 4.0
• August 04, 2014 New version 4.0.1
• September 17, 2014 New version 4.0.2
• September 27, 2014 New version 4.0.3
• October 20, 2014 New version 4.0.4
• November 03, 2014 New version 4.0.5
• December 07, 2014 New version 4.0.6
• April 26, 2015 New version 4.1.2
• May 14, 2015 New version 4.1.3
• June 03, 2015 New version 4.1.4
• June 25, 2015 New version 4.1.5
• July 09, 2015 New version 4.1.6
• August 04, 2015 New version 4.1.7
• March 13, 2016 New version 5.0
• March 22, 2016 New version 5.0.1
• July 11, 2016 New version 5.0.4
• August 01, 2016 New version 5.0.5
• August 16, 2016 New version 5.0.6
• November 08, 2016 New version 5.2.1
• November 22, 2016 New version 5.3.0
• December 04, 2016 New version 5.3.1
• December 20, 2016 New version 5.3.2
• December 22, 2016 New version 5.3.3
• June 15, 2019 New version 6.2.3
• August 17, 2019 New version 6.3.2
• September 24, 2019 New version 6.4.0
• December 03, 2019 New version 6.5
• December 24, 2019 New version 6.5.1
• July 15, 2020 New version 6.6.2
• November 12, 2020 New version 6.7.2
• December 10, 2020 New version 6.7.3
• August 06, 2021 New version 6.8.1
• September 16, 2023 New version 7.4.1
• November 03, 2023 New version 7.4.3
• November 15, 2023 New version 7.4.4
• March 19, 2024 New version 7.4.8