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Recently shipped a Dictate to Grok iOS shortcut and the 0.2.73 release of Grok Build.

A new iOS shortcut launches Grok straight into dictation — The Dictate to Grok shortcut works from the Shortcuts app, Action Button, or Siri, letting users send messages by speaking without ever tapping a text field.

Grok Build tightened into 0.2.73 with six stability fixes — Doubled lines after tab switches in tmux or editor terminals are now healed, and drag selections stay visible until dismissed. Clipboard copy only reports success when the pasteboard actually received the text via a trusted path. MCP servers from host integrations can now be added, replaced, or removed without restarting the session. The agent dashboard shows each agent's model and mode in the peek panel, and lets you cycle modes with Shift+Tab.

Headless mode gained JSON Schema output — grok -p and grok agent now accept --json-schema to constrain model output to a supplied JSON Schema, returning a validated JSON object instead of free text.

Dashboard got worktree awareness — The dashboard now displays the current directory and branch; press Ctrl+L to change location or Ctrl+W to dispatch new agents into fresh git worktrees. grok -w --ref <branch> creates worktrees based on a specified ref.

Mobile and iOS releases continued — Grok AI Chat & Video shipped versions 1.3.88–1.3.97 with incremental improvements to Chat, Voice, and Imagine.

Python SDK v1.17.0 added service_tier for priority processing — v1.16.0 shipped file storage and file-ID inputs for image and video generation, plus public file URLs and list filtering.