This is Memo AI's first update after its release last month. We got a flood of feedback and got to work.

The biggest additions: Apple Watch support with a complication, CarPlay for hands-free recording, and a major expansion of the Shortcuts library. Smaller touches throughout — Merge on backup import, richer NotePlan export, new transcription languages, and a Control Center widget.

Apple Watch

Memo AI now lives on your wrist. The dedicated watchOS app lets you capture thoughts the moment they hit — no need to dig out your phone, unlock it, and find the app.

A few ways to start a recording:

• Tap the complication. Add Memo AI to any complication slot on your watch face and you've got one-tap recording from wherever you are. Works great on modular, infograph, or any face where the complication stays visible.
• Double-tap gesture. Pinch your thumb and index finger together to toggle recording — pinch once to start, pinch again to stop. Genuinely hands-free, even when the other hand is holding a coffee, a leash, or a steering wheel.
• Set it up however you like. Trigger recording from Control Center, the Action Button, a Shortcut — whatever fits your workflow.

Recordings are saved temporarily on your Watch and sent to your iPhone once it's in range, where transcription and AI processing happen as usual. That means you can record without your phone nearby — handy for runs, workouts, or anywhere you'd rather leave it behind.

Built for the moments you'd otherwise lose: walking the dog, mid-workout, in line at the store — the watch is there when reaching for a phone isn't practical.

CarPlay

Memo AI now works with CarPlay, so you can capture ideas on the road without taking your hands off the wheel or your eyes off traffic. Start a recording with a single tap on the CarPlay display, and Memo handles the rest.

A couple of things that make it genuinely useful on the road:

• Hands-free recording. Tap once to start, tap once to stop. No menus to navigate, no fiddling with your phone.
• Append to an existing memo. Need to add one more item to the shopping list while you are driving to the store? Add to the same memo instead of creating a new one — keeps related ideas together instead of scattered across a dozen recordings.

Long drives are great for thinking, and now you can capture the good ones without taking your eyes off the road. Reaching for your iPhone while driving — even just to tap record — is the kind of small distraction that causes real accidents. With CarPlay, your phone stays in your bag and your focus stays on the road.

Shortcuts

Shortcuts support gets a major expansion in 1.2. The new actions let you wire recording and memo management into just about any workflow — from a Home Screen tap to a full automation triggered by location, time of day, or another app.

What's new:

• Find, Read, Export, and Delete memo actions. Pull specific memos by criteria, read their contents into another shortcut, export them somewhere, or clean up — all programmatically.
• Append recording. Add a new recording to an existing memo instead of starting a fresh one. Perfect for ongoing thoughts on a single topic across the day.
• Toggle recording. One shortcut to start, the same shortcut to stop. Pair it with the Action Button, a Home Screen icon, or Back Tap for instant capture.
• Import audio. Bring external audio files into Memo from anywhere a shortcut can grab them — voice memos, downloads, AirDrops, you name it.

If you've been waiting to make Memo a real part of your automation setup, this is the release.

Fixes & Improvements

• Control Center widget. Add Memo AI to Control Center for quick recording from anywhere in iOS — lock screen included.
• Simplified Share Extension UI. Cleaner, fewer taps to get audio into Memo from other apps.
• Swedish and Ukrainian transcription. Two more languages supported for transcription.
• NotePlan export. Action items with dates now appear properly scheduled in NotePlan, and exports include readable recorded-date and recorded-time properties.
• Backup import — Merge or Replace. When importing a backup, choose Merge (newer edit wins) or Replace. Handy for manually syncing your database between devices.
• No more phantom duplicate notes when stopping from the Mac lock screen or Live Activity.
• Action item status is preserved when regenerating to append more tasks.
• Fixed word corrections where only the capitalization changes.
• Fixed exporting audio to Memo from Apple Notes.
• Fixed deleting a memo mid-processing not cancelling the processing.
• Fixed duplicate categories appearing in the category-grouped view.