Meridian 1.43.4

July 14, 2026

A major step toward beta completeness: effortless account management, a persistent Ask Meridian sidebar, system-wide shortcuts, richer planning, and dramatically safer local AI.

New

• Your complete account center — manage security, two-factor authentication, signed-in sessions, trusted devices, connections, billing, privacy exports, and account deletion from one clear place on the web.
• Ask Meridian, always within reach — chat now lives in a persistent right sidebar, so your daily work stays visible while you ask questions about your messages, calendar, contacts, and activities.
• Meridian throughout macOS — capture something, hear today’s agenda, search your local Meridian data, or open Quick Capture from Siri, Spotlight, the Shortcuts app, and Apple Intelligence.
• More complete everyday workflows — improved mail triage and drafts, drag-and-drop activity planning, contact management, account recovery, searchable local data, and proactive assistance make more work finish where it starts.

Improved

• A calmer calendar — overlapping events stack cleanly instead of squeezing into unreadable slivers, with a chooser that makes every event accessible.
• Attention cards that communicate — cards show more useful context and roomier actions, and “All caught up” appears only when there is genuinely nothing waiting for you.
• Connections that finish connecting — authentication, token refresh, device trust, and newly authorized connection setup are more reliable and recover cleanly from interrupted sign-ins.
• Helpful suggestions by default — Meridian can point out useful integrations without requiring a hidden first-run switch; the Privacy setting remains available whenever you want to opt out.
• Stronger privacy and resilience — hardened sessions, account recovery, exports and deletion, secure support tooling, monitored backups, and safer sync checkpoints better protect your data and keep Meridian recoverable.

Fixed

• Local AI no longer overwhelms your Mac — Ask Meridian uses bounded context, defaults to a much lighter model, and no longer loads multi-gigabyte model weights merely to search your local data.
• Fixed crashes caused by account-color indexing and pathological streamed text.
• Corrected privacy and date-window behavior in Meridian’s new system shortcuts.