After a brief summer break, let’s dive into the latest updates and features of Saropa Contacts — our app is now better than ever! 🌟
- 🚨 Emergency Services: New Pakistani and Indian emergency organizations with faster media loading.
- 🌍 World Explorer: Contact world clock added to the main toolbar and updated country maps.
- 🔒 Security & Privacy: Facebook login with age verification, COPPA support, and safe media searches.
- 🖼️ Characters: Celebrate birthdays and explore Star Trek and Rick and Morty profiles with medical info.
- 🛠️ System: Improved daylight savings time support, map zoom levels, and account details.
Contact Matters — Saropa Contacts
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Updates to Emergency Services
- 50 new Pakistani emergency organizations
- 92 new Indian emergency organizations
- Support for world newspaper websites and their social media
- Emergency services are automatically loaded from Saropa when country changes
- Faster video loading and larger thumbnails
- Emergency services are automatically loaded into the media tab
World Explorer
- Contact world clock has been added as an option to the main toolbar and menu
- Set the 245 default country map zoom levels
Security, Safety, and Privacy
- Facebook login is now available
- Implemented age verification before accessing external media
- COPPA notice and resources added to the about screen
- Added a new safe search option to restrict content and media
Icons and Characters
- Boldly going where no person has gone before…
- Traverse the multiverse from the comfort of your own address book
- Medical information now includes color charts
- Detection and option to prefer metric or imperial measurements
- You can hide characters from your main screen
- Characters without a birthday no longer appearing on Jan. 1st
- Added fictional quotes to the character screens
- You can bulk add all characters from the character screens
System and Usability
- The user picture (avatar) is now showing for Your Account
- Improved support for daylight savings time
- The main menu has been reorganized into contacts, details, and tools
- Backing up, restore and share database snapshots
- Loading spinners are now clearer (and more colorful!)
- Omni-search and some formatting fixes in the World Explorer screen
- Various minor fixes to layout and performance
- Fixed an issue where cartoon avatars were not appearing
- Showing contact pictures on Detailed View button
People and Organization Management
- Smart search (fuzzy matching) is used to catch typos
- Removed an incorrect suggestion for adding Contact avatars
- Toggle relationship contact details
- Made it easier to delete Characters
- On phone devices, contacts now open in full screen mode
Rick and Morty full screen options
- Improved formatting and hiding Unix dates (Jan 1st, 1970) by default
Maintenance Chores (and Fixes)
- Fixed initials (e.g., A. B.) incorrectly displaying on Contact names
- Fixed device contacts importing unnecessarily
- Updated 3rd party licenses for characters and external media
- Searching speed boost by ignoring single letter searches
- Fixed an issue where user pictures were not being shown after login
- Added a new Designer to test embedded web pages
- Upgrade the build platform for the latest in performance and stability
Coming Soon
- Importing connected Facebook friends
What’s On Our Minds
- Development traps:
- Multi-platform screenshots are painful, but hiding notifications help!
- Coding is more pleasant with Alice Sara Ott
A Final Word
When we learn of a mistake, we acknowledge it with a correction. If you spot an error, please let us know at newsletter@saropa.com.