Google and phone sign-in are ready for everyone. Your first Google or phone sign-in takes you to the same welcome as signing up by email, where you can join your team’s workspace or create your own. If you close Google’s window, Kemble notices within about two seconds instead of ten and lets you try again, and the phone option stays open while Google’s window is up. Each sign-in can be used once, and only for a few minutes; anything Kemble can’t accept is explained in plain words, with the emailed code offered.
Phone sign-in recovers by itself. If you close its picture check, the button no longer stays stuck: it says what happened, offers the emailed code, and sending again works straight away, without a reload. While a picture check is still on screen, Kemble waits for you to finish it. The button says “Sending your code…” and “Signing in…” while it works.
New message keeps your files. Photos and files you attach there now survive a page reload, an update or a closed tab, and a short note tells you they’re back. They stay on this device, with the account and workspace you added them in: switch to another workspace and New message starts empty there, with your files waiting when you come back. They’re cleared once the message is sent, and if a file is too big to keep, Kemble holds an update until you’ve sent or removed it.
People still loading look calmer. In a call, someone whose name hasn’t arrived yet shows a soft, theme-coloured placeholder with a gentle shimmer instead of a dark circle, in light and dark; the shimmer stops if you’ve turned on Reduce motion.
In Kemble Work, a direct conversation with someone who deleted their account now says so: their name as it was last known, without “(deactivated)”, and no profile, message box, presence or leftover username, in the conversation and in its details. People who were only deactivated still show “(deactivated)”. Conversations with another organization’s people name the person while their account exists. Deleting your account also erases your name from Kemble’s records of what you did; the records stay, shown as from a deleted user.
The blog lists a day’s newest post first, and a post’s page suggests the newest other posts. Events are listed by when they start, across time zones, and a list that shows a set number keeps the newest posts and the soonest events. A missing file in the app now answers with a short, plain “Not found.” Pictures and recordings left behind by an interrupted upload, such as an avatar, a banner, an event cover, an emoji, a sound or a name recording, are cleaned up a few minutes later when nothing uses them; the same picture sent again straight away is always kept, and so is any older copy.