
Kindred Contact
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What's New in Kindred Contact
1.2
October 30, 2026
Kindred now comes with you into Messages, remembers the name you call each person, and suggests who you were with. • Kindred in Messages: tap + in a conversation and choose Kindred to see what you know about them and get a few words to start you off. Nothing is sent until you send it. • Nicknames, and the name you call someone: Kindred uses it when it brings them up and in the messages it drafts. Their contact card's nickname comes along too. • Search finds people by anything you know about them: a nickname, their company, a street, a group, or something they told you. It keeps up as you type. • Search your notes for any words in a conversation, its summary, its follow-ups or a transcribed recording. • A Calendar tab beside Today: your day, week or month, and a page for each meeting with who's there and what's worth bringing up. • Who were you with? A new note suggests people from the meeting you just had, the place you're in, or today's texts with Kindred for Messages on your Mac. Notes can remember where they were written. • Start a Quick Note or a new log from Control Center, the Lock Screen, the Action button, a squeeze of Apple Pencil Pro, or the new Log button on Today. • New contacts can join automatically: anyone you add to your iCloud contacts joins Kindred too. Starting out, you can add everyone at once, and Kindred asks before leaving out anyone who looks like a duplicate. • Handwriting is read better, learns from your corrections, and is kept as you write, so nothing is lost if the app closes. • Notes know your people: write "his wife, Jen" and Kindred finds the Jen you already have, with more kinds of relationships, from fiancés to in-laws. • Follow-ups for anyone, right from your Follow-ups list, due at your next meeting with them. • Voice notes keep recording when your iPhone or iPad locks. • Drafted texts and emails pick up the way you write. • Month and Week widgets with every day's events, from just the calendars you choose. Page through the months, and leave off the events you don't need to see. • A fresh Today, People and person page. Swipe Today's meetings to another day. Meetings open full screen on iPhone, and beside the person you're meeting on iPad. • Notes (once Interactions): a group meeting is one row, however many came, and what you've written opens like a notebook you can swipe through. • Tap a birthday alert to open that person's page. • Kindred now works on iPhone with iOS 26, iPad with iPadOS 26 and Apple Watch with watchOS 26. Bug fixes: • Fixed a crash that could happen while typing a note. • Kindred no longer asks you to start your free trial again after a while away. • Colleagues who share a work number are no longer left out as duplicates when you add them. • If Kindred isn't allowed to use Contacts, editing someone now says so instead of "no card found".
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