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Ask June in the composer, attach files, watch its steps, and stop or steer a reply while it runs.

Type what you need, and June replies in the same thread, showing each step it takes on the way. A chat works the same on the web and in the mobile app.

Write a message

Type in the composer. Enter sends; Shift + Enter starts a new line. On a phone's on-screen keyboard in the browser, Enter starts a new line and the send button sends.
Pick the model and its reasoning effort below the text if you want something other than the default. Higher effort is slower and suits harder questions.
Send. June's reply streams into the thread; its steps fold into the reply as it works.

Press ↑ in an empty composer to bring back a message you sent, edit it and send it again. Only your own messages come back, not the brief June writes when it starts a new thread for you.

Format as you type

With Rich text composer on in Settings, the web composer shows Markdown formatted while you type, and sends exactly the characters you typed:

  • **bold**, *italic*, ~~strikethrough~~ and `code` inside a line.
  • At the start of a line: > makes a quote, - , 1. or - [ ] a list or a task, # to ###### a heading, and --- a line across. Right under a line of text, --- or === makes that line a heading instead, as it does in June's replies.
  • ``` and Enter open a code block. Pick its language at its top. In a code block Enter starts a new line; to send, hold ⌘ (Ctrl on Windows and Linux) and press Enter; a closing ``` and Enter, or two empty lines and Enter, take you out of it.

In a list or a quote, Shift + Enter (or Enter on a phone's on-screen keyboard) continues it, and on an empty line ends it. Tab moves a list item in under the one above it, one level at a time, and Shift + Tab back out, taking the items after it in its list along. Backspace at the start of a list item, a heading or a code block turns it back into plain text. A line written right under a quote's or a list item's text is part of it, as it is in June's replies, so leaving a quote or a list with Shift + Enter puts a blank line before your next line. Numbered lists count 1, 2, 3 as your message will, whatever numbers you typed.

What you type and attach is saved as a draft a moment after you stop typing, and kept until you send it, on the web and in the app alike: leave the thread, close the tab or switch to your phone, and it is waiting in the composer. Each thread has its own draft, and so does a new chat in each place: Personal or a project, and on the web an organization too. Attachments come back with a draft once they have finished uploading.

Read the attached contract and list every date I have to act on
Draft a short reply to this customer: we can deliver on the 14th, not the 10th

Watch June work

A reply that needs more than an answer shows its steps: a web search, a file it read, code it ran in June's sandbox. Open a step to see what went in and what came back. What June can do in a reply lists every tool behind a step.

A step June ran while drafting. A failed step shows its error; June reads it and works around it.

Attach files

Choose Attach files or photos in the composer, drop files anywhere on the page, or paste them. A message takes up to 5 files of up to 20 MB each.

A file in the thread: preview it beside the conversation, or download it.
  • PDFs open in a viewer beside the thread.
  • Text, Markdown, CSV and code open in a text viewer.
  • Images open full size, with the message's other images a click away.
  • Every other file type is attached and can be downloaded, without a preview.

Edit a picture or PDF before you send it

Attach one picture or PDF with Attach files or photos and it opens in the editor straight away. To edit any other picture or PDF in the composer, select it.

  • Draw in one of eight colors and three thicknesses.
  • Hide pixelates the area of a picture you drag over, so nobody can read what was there, June included. A PDF has no Hide, because its text stays in the file under anything drawn over it.
  • Crop a picture to any shape or to a square, 4:3 or 16:9, and turn it a quarter turn at a time.

Choose Done to keep the edit, or close the editor to leave the file as it was. Until you send the message, you can open the file again and keep editing or undo earlier marks. Revert clears every mark, crop and turn, and Done then sends the file as you attached it. In the iPhone app, Markup opens Apple's own tools on the file, with pens, shapes, text and your signature.

A long paste (32 KB or more) becomes a text file attached to the message, so the composer stays readable. To keep it in the message instead, paste with ⌘⌥⇧V on a Mac or Ctrl+Shift+V elsewhere.

Stop and steer a reply

While June replies, the send button becomes Stop reply. Press it, or ⌘. (Ctrl+.), and June stops where it is.

Start typing while it replies and the button becomes Steer. Send, and June reads your message at its next step and adjusts, without starting over. Until it picks the message up, the message shows as scheduled. ⌘. still stops the reply.

Also mention that we can split the payment into two parts.

A message typed while June replies: the button steers instead of stopping.
Use the numbers from the March sheet instead

When a reply fails

If the latest reply fails, the thread says why and offers Try again, which sends your message once more. When the model fails partway through, the steps June finished and any text it wrote stay in the reply above the error. A step that was still running shows as failed, and a step still waiting on its approval card does not run.

What June remembers from a chat

June keeps what is worth keeping from your chats as memories, and brings back the ones that fit when you ask something later. On the web, a reply that used memories shows a line such as 3 memories in context above it; open it to see which. When June saves a memory you can see on the Memory page, Memory saved shows below the latest reply.

What June does not do

  • It does not let you edit a message once it is sent. Press ↑ to bring the message back, change it and send it again.
  • It does not regenerate a finished reply. Ask again in your own words, or steer the next one.

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