Shelf Companion Update of 27 October 2026: Edit Asset, Audit Barcode Scans and Short Tag Names

An update reached every phone running Shelf Companion 1.6.0 or 1.5.0 on 27 October 2026, without a trip to the store. Three repairs:

• Edit Asset saves cleanly. Saving an asset's details no longer brings up Discard Changes? on the way out, Cancel no longer asks twice, and the asset screen and the assets list show the new details straight after the save instead of the old ones.
• Audit barcode scans are audit scans. A barcode scanned inside an audit was recorded as an ordinary Companion scan and wrote a scan note on the asset's Activity tab. It is now recorded as an audit scan, like a QR or SAM code scanned in an audit, and the audit keeps its own trail. See Where an asset was last scanned.
• Short tag names. Create tag "…" in the tag picker now appears for names of one or two characters, such as AV, matching the web since 22 October.

The app picks up an update like this in the background when you open it and uses it from the next time you open it. If your app is older than 1.5.0, take the update from the App Store or Google Play.