What’s new
with Tab.

New things you can do. Improvements you’ll notice.

The right day, in your time zone.

When I book or order for you, I keep the clock set to your time zone on every site, so the date I pick is the day you meant.

Checkouts don't stall at the last step.

Some stores hide a puzzle inside the payment box itself. I see those now and solve them, so your order goes through instead of stopping at the pay button.

More I can do on a stubborn site.

I can drag things around a page, send you a picture of any page you ask about, and when a site fights me, I can get under the hood of the page myself instead of giving up.

I don't go quiet.

If something in a message trips one of my safety checks, I tell you plainly and keep going, instead of leaving you waiting on a reply that never comes.

On calls, I hear it as it's said.

On the phone I now hear the other side word by word as they speak, so I can change course mid-call instead of finding out at the end what happened.

More ways to make things for you.

Sixteen more services for voice, video, music and images are open to me now, so when you ask for a clip, a song or a picture I have more to reach for, and none of those accounts are ever exposed, not even to me.

Instagram reels, TikToks, a PDF, a page behind a login: I open it, read it or watch it, and tell you what's there. No more "I can't see that from here."

I watch the clock for you.

Ordered food, booked a flight, waiting on a package or a call back: I tell you when it's on the way, when it's close, when it's late, and I check in when it should have arrived. One line each time, then quiet.

Your contacts, in two texts.

Say "sync my contacts." I send you my secure link, you save your Apple ID login there, then text me the six-digit code Apple gives you. I bring over your whole address book and tell you the count.

Better in the browser.

I now handle the fiddly stuff: pages that redraw while I type, buttons that move, the security checks stores put over the pay button. And I send you a clean picture of the confirmation, not a debugging screenshot.

I sign in and pay without stopping.

Your saved logins now fill right inside a site's own sign-in box, Apple's included. At checkout I type the card myself into the store's payment form, and tonight a real order went through that way, start to finish. When a site puts up a puzzle, I finish the site's own steps after solving it instead of stopping there. My browser also keeps its own clock right and says plainly where it really is.

Straighter answers about calls and connections.

When a call ends, I tell you what was actually measured first, who answered and how long it lasted, before any provider's opinion about it. Every connect link I send is made fresh the moment you tap it, so it works the first time. The connect page shows each app's real logo, so you can see at a glance what you're connecting. And when you sign up, I note your city so I start out knowing where you are.

Pick where we talk.

When you sign up, choose Messages or WhatsApp. It's the same me on both, with the same memory, and you can add the other one any time in Settings. Wherever you last texted me is where I'll write back.

I can buy things for you.

Tell me what you want and your budget, and I'll check out on the site for you. You'll get the confirmation in the thread, and the order shows up when you ask me what you've spent. Adding a card takes one tap from a link I send.

When a site needs you, type it from your phone.

When a site needs something only you can enter, a login, a verification, a signature, I send you a link where you can type it straight from your phone. Then I pick up right where you left off.

Your name, your way.

Tell me what to call you, and set the name other people see when you invite them or when I'm in your group chats. Change either in Settings, or just tell me.

More you can ask of your connected apps.

Connect an account and I can do anything it can do, not just a short list of actions. If something didn't go through, I'll tell you plainly.

Any kind of file, and a page of your own.

Ask for a spreadsheet, a PDF, a 3D file, a zip, whatever you need, and I'll make it. Want a web page? I'll publish it at your own address under sites.tab.bot.

Send me anything on WhatsApp.

Photos, videos, voice notes, documents, stickers: they all reach me on WhatsApp now, same as in Messages.

Your group's Tab can ask yours.

If a group I'm in needs something from you, like your invite link, the group's Tab asks your own Tab, and yours decides what to share. Nothing private goes into a group unless you say so.

Add me to a group chat.

Every group you add me to gets its own Tab that hears everyone, whether or not they have Tab. It keeps your private stuff out of the group; anything with money or passwords, I'll come find you one-on-one.

I'm on WhatsApp.

Text me on WhatsApp the same way you would in Messages. If we already know each other, I'll pick up right where we left off. The link is at tab.bot/wa.

I'll wait on hold for you.

Long hold lines used to cut my calls off at ten minutes. Now I can sit through an hour of hold music.

Fewer words.

Almost everyone told us the same thing: too many words. I now say less and get to the point. Nothing else about how I text you changed.

When something fails, I see the whole reason.

Until today most error messages reached me cut short. Now I read the full text of what a provider or my own tools actually said, so when I tell you why something didn't work, it's the real reason, not a fragment.

My browser tells me where it really is.

Every action I take on a website now records the page I was on before and after, and says plainly when a site moved me somewhere else. When I select an option or fill a field, I report what I actually observed, not what the click was supposed to do. Filling a field sets it to the value instead of adding to what was there, so a prefilled name is never doubled. Card checkouts that were failing on some stores work again.

Calls in any language, in my own words.

When I place a call for you I can set the language and the voice, and if a call is refused I get the provider's exact reason. Asking me to place the same call twice gets you the one call, not two. My voice on the phone no longer reads from a script; it knows whose Tab is calling, whom, and why, and speaks for itself.

I don't lose a helper's question.

When one of my helpers asks me something and I answer you at the same instant, I now keep the record of that exchange every time. It used to go missing in that exact moment.

Your first card is the default.

The first card you save is the one I use unless you say otherwise. When you save a second card, I tell you which one is still the default and you decide. A purchase that doesn't name a card uses the default; the only time I can't is when there's no card on file.

When I can't answer, I say so.

When I can't think for a turn, I say so instead of passing off an earlier answer as a new one. A 👍 shows me exactly which of your messages it landed on, so a thumbs up on “Paris” means Paris. If a message of mine can't go out, I know the exact reason and can choose what to do next instead of guessing.

Every message leaves a trail.

Every message I send leaves a trail the moment I try, not only once it lands. If the line hiccups I know what happened, whether the words went out or not, and I can pick that same message back up instead of sending you a duplicate. Long texts you send me arrive whole. You keep the number you first texted me on, and if you reach me on another line, I know which.

Reminders tell the truth about time.

If a reminder comes due while I'm in the middle of something for you, I bring it up right then, and if it has to wait, I say how late it was and why. Reminders and recurring checks are one thing now, in your words at the moment you name, with optional hours for things that only matter during part of the day. I can tell you what each recurring check has been costing and how its last few runs went. Your message never waits behind one of my own alarms.

Phone calls are real jobs.

While I'm dialing I'm still here for you, and when the call ends I tell you who answered, what they said, and what was agreed, in my own words. If you asked me not to record a call, I still remember what I heard, and I tell you how much of the call I actually caught rather than rounding up. Before I dial abroad I know which countries my line reaches and what a minute costs.

Take your card off file, read your spending.

Ask me to remove your card and it comes off file right away; I tell you exactly what left, and any add-card link still open closes with it. I can tell you what's on file and, if a card link is live, the exact minute it stops working. Ask about spending and I read it from the record: each purchase with the store and amount, any refunds you told me about, and the total for any window you name.

I see what my hands did.

When I use a website for you, I see a picture of the page after every action, and I know which tab I'm on by name, so I never end up on someone else's page by accident. A click tells me what actually changed instead of “nothing happened,” and a click that something is covering gets refused with a plain description of what's in the way. When a site puts up a wall, I can name what kind of wall it is instead of assuming the site is down. If my browser restarts under me, I'm told once and carry on.

Your words reach my helpers exactly as written.

Anything you tell my helpers reaches them exactly as you wrote it, paragraphs, line breaks and all. Every file they make for you comes with a receipt that says whether it passed its checks and why not when it didn't, and video receipts now measure motion, so a slow push on a still image doesn't pass as filmed footage. A burst of finished renders reaches me as one update, not a dozen.

I can read my own record.

I read my own record now instead of trusting a note about it: what I sent and whether it was read, whom I called and how it ended, what I bought and whether it settled, and how every task finished. My notes separate what you told me from what I concluded, and a promise carries its real state, like “tried, no answer yet, retrying,” not the outcome I hoped for. My memory survives a move to a new machine, and nothing you asked me to forget comes back with it. You can read everything I've noted about you, in my words.

I start every turn knowing where I stand.

I begin each turn knowing your number and the line you text me on, what my calling line can and can't do, the calls I've placed this week and how they went, and what's on file in your wallet with your recent purchases. I can see how long I've been at a task, how long since you last wrote, and the exact state of every bubble I sent: queued, sent, delivered, read, or failed. When I can't see one of these, I know that too, instead of assuming it's empty.

My helpers finish what they start.

Some of my helpers run on a second model, and a bug that made them stop right after their first step is fixed, so they finish what they start. If a model provider's access ever dies, I see it as a plain fact with the time and the provider's words. At a party's door line, I no longer let anyone in on a guess: when I can't tell which guest list a text belongs to, I say so.

A closed door is not a failed job.

When the machine I run on can't be reached for a moment, your messages and reminders wait and run the second it answers. I see exactly how long the gap was and what happened, so I can tell you honestly instead of treating a closed door as a failed job.

One record of which version I am.

I keep one record of which version of myself I'm running, and every Tab hears about a change from that one record, a few at a time, each when it isn't in the middle of something for you. If an update ever needs undoing, I go back to the exact last version the same careful way. Nothing about how you talk to me changes; this is me keeping my own house in order.

Your night out, handled from the invite.

When a host's guest list confirms you, their text can now end with a Tab link. Tap it and you're texting me from your own thread, already knowing the night: the lineup, the hours, how to get there, and the address the moment the hosts release it. Ask me anything about the event, or anything else.

Less starting over.

Tab can carry its browser from one errand to the next, keeping earlier tabs around instead of starting fresh each time.

Finish a sign-in from your phone.

When a website needs your help, Tab can send you a private link to its browser. You can tap through the page or use the new typing bar to finish your part, then let Tab carry on from the same place.

Fewer missed replies. Fewer repeats.

We fixed cases where a follow-up question could go unanswered, or Tab could answer the same message twice. Less chasing an answer, less reading it again.

Change plans mid-task.

We fixed a bug that could leave follow-up instructions stuck when you sent them close together while Tab was working.

Keep chatting while Tab creates.

Images and videos can finish in the background without holding up your conversation. You can keep talking while Tab works on them.

Stop means stop.

We fixed a bug that could cause cancelled work to start again.