Circle support

Circles, check-ins, birthdays and how Circle works with Apple Contacts. About Circle

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Getting started with Circle Grant access to Contacts, group people into circles, and choose how often you want to catch up with each of them. Read How Circle works with Apple Contacts Apple Contacts stores contact details. Circle stores the relationship settings you add. Read Circles, stars and Others Three ways of grouping people that do different jobs: user-defined circles, a hand-ordered shortlist and everyone not yet assigned to a circle. Read Keep Up and catch-ups Choose how often you want to catch up with someone, mark when you have, and see who is due. Read Birthdays An upcoming-birthday timeline projected straight from your contacts, with a look-ahead you control. Read Get in Touch — call, message, FaceTime, WhatsApp, email One menu to reach someone, with the way you used last at the top, and the full row of actions on their page. Read Keep Up in Orbit Connect Circle to Orbit and the people you are due to catch up with appear in your task list. Tick one there and Circle counts it as Caught Up. Read What Circle syncs with iCloud Circle’s iCloud sync includes relationship data, not contact fields. An optional AI-client connection has a separate privacy boundary. Read Widgets, and who they may show Circle’s widgets are anonymous by default: counts, never names. Faces appear only after you turn on Show People and opt each widget in. Read Siri and Shortcuts Circle’s actions for Siri and the Shortcuts app, what each one can see, and why the person picker stays anonymous until you authenticate. Read