Release notes (NVivo 15 Mac)

For more information about new features and enhancements in recent versions of NVivo 15 Mac, refer to What's new in the NVivo Help.

July 2025 (NVivo 15.2.1)

Added: New option for NVivo to automatically check for software updates every day.
Improved: Text alignment in Deactivation dialog.
Resolved: Issue that could prevent import of video files.
Resolved: PDF coding issues and errors—wrong text coded in In Vivo coding, wrong text in coding reference, “CodeOnExistingNodes error 2”, and “CodeOnNewNode error 12”.

Added: The AI Assistant: Summarize option now supports summarization of cases.
Improved: Welcome screen by making the options more accessible and adding a new button to open projects from disk. Additionally, improved the application behavior so that the welcome screen is displayed when all NVivo projects are closed and when the NVivo icon is clicked from the dock.
Improved: Top ribbon so that options like AI Assistant is made more visible in the default window size.
Improved: Minor user interface localization enhancements.
Improved: The display of the “Coded to …” notification shown in the Navigation View.
Resolved: Collaboration cloud project upload and upload canceling issues.
Resolved: Issue where the minimized Navigation View is automatically expanded when coding.
Resolved: Word Cloud layout button is now available.
Resolved: Word Tree diagram is now correctly displayed.
Resolved: Text alignment issue in 'Delete Items' dialog.

Improved: AI functionality as part of ongoing maintenance support. Please update to this version to ensure seamless operation of AI Assistant.

Improved: Workflows for on-premise organization license provisioning and activation.
Improved: Manage Team dialog has been improved so that Project owners can add collaborators by entering their email address.

Improved: AI Assistant to support code summarization.
Improved: Workflows for license provisioning and activation.
Resolved: Crashing issues with AI summary language selection.
Resolved: Command line installation issues when using NVivo 14 Subscription license key to install NVivo 15.
Resolved: Issues with cloning projects, delete access for collaborators, and code handling.
Resolved: Users can now navigate through the entries in the Summarize and Suggest Child code dialog using the UP and DOWN ARROW keys on the keyboard.
Resolved: Dataset import issues.

Added: Support to allow users to edit the AI suggested summaries before saving them as Annotations.
Added: Support for Child code suggestions for codes in datasets.
Added: "Created by" column in the list view displays NVivo AI user to indicate the AI generated child codes.
Added: Support to allow users to edit the AI suggested summaries before saving them as memos.
Added: Support to handle long documents.
Added: User interface localization improvements.
Improved: Summary generation and document selection processes.
Improved: Collaboration Cloud Windows and Mac data synchronization.
Resolved: Issues with AI Assistant: Suggest Child Codes context menu.
Resolved: AI Assistant: Summarize Document(s) context menu issues for files selected from the File classification option.
Resolved: Issues with opening the cloud project on Mac that was uploaded from a Windows machine.
Resolved: Issues with displaying Highlights (coded content) in files.
Resolved: Crashing issues when opening a specific dataset file from the sample project.
Resolved: Issues with editing memos and appending new memos to the existing memos.
Resolved: Preview screen issue in Import Dataset Assistant.

Added: AI Assistant is a generative artificial intelligent tool that is embedded within NVivo to enhance your data analysis. Using AI assistant, you can leverage coding suggestions and summarize texts or documents.