The promise I had not finished
The last time I wrote about Found, I ended with the standard I wanted its name to hold:
Something was worth keeping. Later, at the moment it matters, it is found.
I thought I had reached that standard once search could bring back the right saved thing.
I had not.
The source could be found, but the moment I needed it was usually happening somewhere else. I might be answering a message, looking at something that raised a question, searching from my Home Screen, or building a small workflow. To use what I had saved, I still had to leave that moment, open Found, search again, choose the result, and carry it back myself.
Found could remember for me. It still made me finish the journey.
I could feel that break every time I tried to explain the product. Capture sounded like one feature. Search by meaning sounded like another. Copy, open, and share sounded like buttons on a result. The iPhone integrations sounded like a list around the edges.
Each part worked. The whole thought did not.
This release closes that gap.
One useful thing, all the way through
I stopped asking whether each piece worked on its own. Instead, I followed one useful thing through the entire reason Found exists.
It could be a note I wrote months ago, a PDF from a project, an image with one important detail, or a link I was certain I would remember. When it is still in front of me, I choose to save it to Found.
Time passes. Its title and location fade. What remains is the reason it mattered.
If I remember the words, ordinary search can bring it back. If I remember only the idea, optional Search by meaning can help me find the matching saved source. Found does not replace that source with a generated answer. I can read it, copy from it, open it, or share the original.
That used to be the end of the story.
Now the story can return to the place where the need began.
If something in front of me creates the question, I can deliberately share that text, link, or image to Find with Found. It uses only the context I chose to share to search my library, then lets me decide what to do with a matching source.
If I am already writing, I can switch to Found Keyboard and insert plain text from a note I chose to make reusable. I can begin from Spotlight, ask Siri to run Find in Found, or use a Shortcut to carry the right text, link, or file into what I am doing next.
These are not five different stories. They are different moments in the same one.
Save it once.
Find it by meaning.
Use it right here.
I had been building toward that sentence for much longer than I understood.
Found is still a private, local-first library. I still choose what it sees and what happens next. It does not watch my screen, invent an answer, or send anything for me. It brings back something I saved. The final action stays mine.
That boundary matters to me. The delight is not that Found takes over. It is that the distance between remembering something and using it becomes smaller.
For the first time, I am not looking at capture, retrieval, and reuse as promising parts. I am looking at one continuous act of keeping, remembering, and returning.
This is the release where the name finally clicked for me.
Why I chose iPhone first
I could make this connected experience real on iPhone first, so that is what I chose to do.
The Share Sheet, keyboard, Spotlight, Siri, and Shortcuts each let Found support a different part of the same journey. Building deeply around those iPhone patterns made more sense to me than spreading the idea thinly just to keep two feature lists even.
Found's core library still exists on Android in closed testing, but I am not promising matching features or a matching date. If I take this direction further on Android, I want it to begin with the places and patterns that feel natural there.
I would rather be honest about that choice. This release is iPhone-first because depth is the point.
I should only have to remember why it mattered
I save something on my iPhone. Days later, I need it while I am sitting at my Mac. I know Found has it, but I am still the one carrying it from one place to another.
I want that small frustration to disappear.
Found will sync through iCloud and come to the Mac. Save it on my phone. Find it at my desk. Keep working when the internet disappears.
The same should be true when I use an AI tool. I should not have to paste the same private context into a new conversation again and again. I am building a careful bridge so the tools I choose can ask Found for the sources I allow, without receiving the keys to my whole library. Nothing changes or leaves without me.
And with iOS 27, I am bringing Found deeper into Siri and the intelligence built into the iPhone. I want to ask for the note I only half remember. When I deliberately ask about something on my screen or in front of my camera, I want Found to bring back the related source I already trust.
These may sound like different features. To me, they are one promise.
You should only have to remember why something mattered.
Found should remember where it lives and bring it back when you need it.
I am building that next, and I will keep polishing it until moving between my phone, my desk, and the tools I trust feels like one motion.
The next Found will not wait inside its icon.
It will be there when you need it.