VRChat 2026.1.1 (OPEN BETA)

Features

World Favorites Increase

This beta includes support for doubling the amount of world favorites for VRC+ subscribers! While it's likely that this will make it to live, it will probably be disabled at first -- so please keep in mind you might not have access to all your additional favorites when 2026.1.1 releases.

We also added in some QoL changes for organizing your world favorites. Go look at Changes & Fixes to see them.

Group Progress Bar

We're experimenting with a new progress bar for users who have joined fewer than 15 groups. If you haven't joined that many groups yet, you'll see a bar on the Groups page that tracks your progress.

Essentially, we'd like to encourage newer users to try out features like Groups, so we're trying to gently nudge them to... well, do exactly that!

There is no "reward" for completing this, uh, challenge. The stakes have never been lower! (There is a little fanfare for completing it, though -- but, like, that's just for fun.)

Group Auto Invitations

Another experiment! If you hang around in a Group instance for a long enough period of time, you may receive an automatic invitation to join that particular group.

This only applies to groups that are public with open invitations enabled. You (and the group!) will have to be in the test cohort for this to trigger.

Likewise, if you make a friend in a Group instance (under the same conditions!) you might also receive a group invitation.

If you'd rather not see these automatic invitations, you can toggle them off! Go to Settings -> User Interface -> Notifications -> Automatic Group Invitations.

Live Now... for Everyone!

The Main Menu "Live Now" tab and Quick Menu Launchpad redesign has been rolled out to all users!

This was introduced in the previous patch, but should now be turned on for all users.

Changes & Fixes

• Added a "Quick Join" button for Groups in the Explore Groups tab.
• Made tweaks to Shop text, explaining listings with more clarity.
• Fixed the IsAnimatorEnabled avatar parameter not being set back to true when it should be, in some cases involving particle systems.
• Updated both the client and the website phrasing to help users understand what cancelling a subscription immediately entails.
• Fixed PhysBones regression which caused bones resting on PhysBone colliders to jitter.
• Various world favoriting improvements!
  • Added the ability to move worlds between favorite lists.
  • Improved the design of the world favoriting modal in the Quick Menu and Main Menu.
  • Improved the design of the world favorite lists sidebar elements.
  • Improved the design of the UI used to edit a world favorites list.
  • Soon. 👀
• Fixed a bug that would prevent users from being able to select other users while using the Quick Menu.
• Warp effects are now spawned when closing the client.

Android Mobile

• Added support for added favorites.
• Localization updates.
• Face mirror settings should work correctly now.
• Quick Menu "Select" button now works correctly.
• Users will not be stuck in focus view anymore.