With the update to the 2026.1.0 desktop client, it appears that folders are being treated as legacy. This is just not a 2026.1.0 feature, it was in previous releases as well. It took months for BW to set the folder in the new login window when creating a new item from a folder, even though a PR was submitted with the bug report to resolve.
When you are in a folder, and the vault locks, when you log in again, you are not placed back in the folder. It works if you use search, but won’t remember the folder. This is frustrating.
With the new 2026 update, I am glad:
Everything is yet again bigger, because the guy 5 rows behind me complained that he could not read my password (sarcasm).
Takes up more real-estate, and you cannot change the font size
When you minimize the menu, you loose the ability the view folders at all so having the menu collapsed is non-functional (In a collapsed menu state, I would expect that the list of accounts would become a tree menu)
If I want to use Send, I now have to scroll past my folders to find it, or collapse the folder tree and then send, then expand the tree.
All folders have the edit icon, but the root folder does not have an add
No options to disable this view to revert back to old
There are a few github issues relating to the new 2026.1 interface, but nothing in here, which is partly why I am writing here:
What I like about the above is the comment: “A couple of these items are the new expected behavior, but we will look into the scroll bar color and see if we can reduce the contrast there.” and the issue is closed.
Does anyone know what the end goal of the client is going to look like?
I was a staunch BW person until the UI/UX debacle of 24/25 and ever since the app seems to be dropping in usability.
But isn’t the toggle to collapse the sidebar at the bottom? Meaning: you then have to scroll down to reach that toggle… – Or is there another way to collapse/expand the sidebar?
I believe it should be visible, but I was able to reproduce it disappearing at smaller screen sizes in certain situations, I’ll pass that to the team for review.
Oh… wait… now, I see… when the window of the desktop app is maximized, that toggle is constantly there in the bottom left corner. – When the window of the desktop is not on “max”, that toggle wanders down the more items you have expanded in the sidebar. (at least on Windows 11)
Probably that toggle better should stay in the corner, no matter what.
PS: Here how it looks when the window of the app is not on max:
