Saropa Contacts April 2024 Newsletter
8 min readMay 2, 2024
Wow, April was a whirlwind for Saropa Contacts! We’ve hit a staggering 130 countries and 6,000 users, all managing contacts with incredible ease. This month’s update brings a ton of new features, including:
- Supercharged Privacy: Hide contacts in public with new privacy options, and prevent accidental edits with confirmation prompts in Database Tools.
- ️ Global Expansion: We’re now supporting 140 countries, with detailed information for Tuvalu and automatic industry grouping for various sectors.
- ⚡️ Emergency SOS Upgrades: Enjoy a new focused emergency mode, improved emergency service listings, and the ability to set your emergency country directly from the phone dialer.
Plus, a ton of bug fixes, feature refinements, and a sneak peek at our upcoming Personal Coaches to keep you motivated!
Read on for the full scoop!
All features below are free to use, except for features marked with a ✨ require a trial or paid plan. Learn more at https://app.saropa.com
- ✨ Added new privacy options to hide contacts when in public
- ✨ To prevent accidental missteps, confirmations are now required for actions in Database Tools
- ✨ Congratualtions to Gukesh Dommaraju and Tan Zhongyi for winning a very exciting Candidates tournament
- 🐛 Astrological Events, cultural date fixes, and DST changes, (up until 2031)
- 🌱 140 countries and growing fast
- 🌱 Content overlays for pro features
- 🌱 New release (upgrade) notifications added to the homepage
- 🌱 Double clicking on a user preference can reset the value
- 🌱 Minor formatting of Zodiac symbols for contact birthdays
- ✨ Open the Intersting Events from the home menu
- 🌱 Can now hide the Family section from the homepage
- 🌱 Added Daylight Savings Time (DST) to the events calendar for several countries
- ✨ Better handling of imported social media links
- ✨ Quickview now has a Detailed View button to open the contact information (long tap to open full-screen)
- ✨ Fixed a mysterious ‘grey box’ found in the Interesting Persons section
- ✨ Exporting a contact now confirms before writing a file — plus new options to Preview and/or Copy
- 🐛 Fixed an issue where new users were defaulting to Australia 🦘
- 🌱 Now showing email addresses for emergency services
- 🐛 Fixed an issue where the Local Map would not appear if there were no contacts found in that area
- 🌱 Added an opt-in to receive release notes (like this) and other important news
- 🌱 You can now set your emergency country directly from the Phone dialer
- 🌱 Detailed country information added for Tuvalu (TV) included emergency services
- 🌱 Public holidays now show recurring days of month (e.g. the 1st Tuesday of November 🏇)
- ✨ Added an option to create Companions for a specific country
- 🐛 Fixed an issue where quick call icons were not displaying (✨and they respect codenames given in Privacy Mode)
- ✨ A new focused emergency-only mode is available that allows yoiu to easily configure Saropa Contacts to only show emegency information
- 🌱 Colored the navigation bar on Android devices (and as a side-effect, managed to speed up tab changes)
- 🌱 Added a new the sign-in authorization process for Android
- 🐛 Resolved rare issues with direct calling and with 3rd party dialers
- 🌱 Added a notification option for Events & Reminders
- 🌱 Added a display option to show sections (grouped panels) when searching and filtering — off by default
- 🌱 Showing more detail in the contact audit panel — this optional sections lets you see the detail of what is stored in your database
You can enable and disable the audit panels in user settings and also by long-pressing on the contact screen’s navigation menu icon
- 🌱 Call notices will now be shown when emailing contacts
- 🐛 Fixed an issue where country capital city maps were showing a contact address instead of the capital city center
- 🐛 Fixed an issue where the contact’s job title (role) organization is not loading in the detail screen
- 🌱 Address list screen filters now offer more options to toggle
- 🐛 Fixed an issue with organization logos not showing in the contact view
- 🌱 More main search bar options to quickly find special contacts — such as icons and companions
- 🌱 Further, the main search bar now shows details when filtering by contacts who have particular information
- 🌱 Improved the quality of emergency service phone services for Argentina
- 🌱 Added automatic industry grouping (detection) for contacts in Advocacy, Aerospace, Automotive, E-commerce, Environmental Services, Lifestyle, Media, Mental Health, Non-Profit, Renewable Energy, Telecommunications, and Wellbeing
- 🌱 Updated the country database for Nepal, with particular attention paid to emergency services and public holidays
- 🐛 Fixed some permission-check crashes when trying to edit or view a contact after removing permissions
- 🐛 Fixed issues where the nicknames and job titles were not loading
- 🐛 Did You Know home section is now showing correctly
- 🐛 (Ironically) Fixed an issue where hiding the Icons quiz would also hide the Issues & Fixes section
- 🐛 Fixed an issue where contacts were too small when searching favorites
- 🌱 A helper has been added to the homepage for when all sections are hidden
- ✨ Added a notification test screen to the Designer Tools
- ✨ Added short-cut to remove all the generated Companions
- ✨ Moved the 3 special contact types to the top of the shortcut list
- ✨ Special contact groups are not shown separately in the Group screen
- 🐛 Fixed an issue where top contacts were not loading in the Favorite tab
- ✨ Track your top people with the Contact Points
Known Issues
- There is a flickering when changing a Contact’s status due to the candy (fireworks effect)
- Carried over the bug with nicknames not always importing on Android
- Avatars may be when after turning off privacy mode (cartoons avatars)
Coming Soon
- ✨ 100+ Personal Coaches to cultivate positive habits
… with daily motivating reminders to start or continue your journey!
What is on our minds
- GDPR, privacy, encryption, databases, CLE, DLE, ASO, AC/DC…
- Writing code without error messages is like navigating blindfolded; it’s a thrilling journey into the realm of the unknown
- 5̶ 13 support emails with no infomation!
- Coding to instrumental version of Rammestein
A Final Word
Your feedback is essential to us, and we genuinely value your support. If you haven’t done so already, discover the ease of managing your connections with Saropa Contacts — download now for a smarter way to stay in touch.
