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# Mochi Patch Notes: October 9, 2026

**October 9, 2026 · 1.1.6 OTA · App updates**

## Highlights

Recover eligible deleted series, revisit recorded character looks, and choose whether to add music when finishing an episode. This patch also improves saved drafts, audio and purchases.

## New features and improvements

**Characters and locations**

* Increased the scene editor’s cast limit from 3 to 6, with a reliability warning for larger casts.
* Added clearer removal controls for characters, locations and scenes.
* Added location-slot counts and a character Voice field.
* At this release, Coach’s automatic drafts generally still used 2–3 characters; the later October 14 patch expanded proposals.

**Drafts and saved work**

* Added recorded character versions and restoration.
* Added Recently Deleted with a 30-day window for eligible deleted series.
* Added finished-episode downloads for private series.

**Audio and language**

* Made background music optional when finishing.
* Added a Dialogue language setting for future renders.

**Purchases and rewards**

* Added clearer purchase-processing messages and a repeat-purchase confirmation.
* Added notifications for supported Gem returns and support credits.
* Added leaderboard safeguards against self-views and clearer ranking movement.

## Fixes

* Improved Coach handling of similar names, confirmed shortcuts and scene corrections.
* Fixed misleading processing messages when no action was running.
* Improved dialogue preservation and carried wardrobe, lighting, mask and injury instructions into render preparation.
* Protected script, cast and location edits when leaving the editor.
* Fixed redraws losing earlier looks and alternate looks hiding the default.
* Improved draft routing and fixed playback of older episode cuts.
* Patched episode-stitching audio drift.
* Fixed an iPhone freeze when adding a paid pack.
* Fixed failures involving larger casts, pack changes and reopening.
* Improved Android Gem delivery, subscription refills and referral retries.

## Work announced at this release

The October 9 announcement listed these items for a future store update:

* Android purchases blocked by “already owned.”
* Google sign-in improvements.
* Purchase-screen crashes on older Android devices.
* Android crashes while typing in the editor.

This is a record of what was announced then, not a statement of the current status of those issues.