Presets and repeating check-ins are Kautio Pro conveniences. A preset saves a check-in setup so you can reuse it. A repeating check-in creates the same check-in on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule. Neither changes how a check-in runs, and anyone on any plan can schedule the same check-in by hand. On other plans, tapping these features opens the Unlock with Pro screen. For plans and prices, see Plans, credits, and prices.

A Kautio preset saves the reusable half of a check-in:

A preset never saves an activity start, a location, details, or photos.

In the app, presets are under Settings › Check-ins › Safety presets.

You can create a Kautio preset from the check-in form or from Settings. A preset needs a Wait between tiers and, like a check-in, at least one contact in every tier.

From the check-in form:

From Settings:

A Kautio preset holds its own list of contacts for each tier, copied when you save the preset. If you filled a tier from a Contact Group, the preset keeps the people in it, not the group, so editing or deleting the group later doesn't change the preset. Because a preset can carry a Contact Group's contacts this way, presets are a Kautio Pro feature for the same reason Contact Groups are.

You can start a Kautio check-in from a preset on the Check-ins tab or on an open form.

Either way, contacts who are no longer in your contact list are left out, with the notice "Former contacts were removed from tiers." Every tier of the preset is kept, in order. A tier left with no contacts stays on the form, marked "No one here — add someone or remove this tier before scheduling.", and the notice "Some tiers need correction. Tiers must have at least one recipient." appears; Schedule check-in works once every tier has a contact or the empty tier is removed. A check-in started from a preset counts toward your upcoming and per-day limits like any other check-in (see Scheduling a check-in › Scheduling limits and credits).

To edit a Kautio preset, go to Settings › Check-ins › Safety presets and tap the preset, or tap ⋮ and then Edit.

When the preset opens, contacts who are no longer in your contact list are removed from its tiers, with the notice "Former contacts were removed from tiers." A tier left with no contacts stays, marked "No one here — add someone or remove this tier before scheduling.", under the notice "Some tiers need correction. Tiers must have at least one recipient." Save works once every tier has a contact or the empty tier is removed; until then it shows "Tiers must have at least one recipient."

To delete a preset, tap ⋮ and then Delete. The dialog says: "This only removes the saved preset. Check-ins you already scheduled keep their settings."

A Kautio Pro repeating check-in (a series) creates the same check-in on a schedule.

A message reads "Recurring check-in created — N scheduled.", and the app opens Recurring check-ins. If any of the check-in's contacts are no longer in your contact list, they are left out and the message ends "Former contacts were removed from tiers."

Kautio creates the check-ins in a series up to 14 days ahead and keeps adding new ones as time passes. Each one is an ordinary check-in, with the same grace window, tiers, and follow-up. On Check-in details it shows a repeat icon and a Repeats row with the schedule, for example "Weekly on Fri".

A Kautio repeating check-in keeps the time zone of the phone that created it, so a check-in set for a given local time stays at that local time all year, across clock changes.

When a contact is no longer in your Kautio contact list, they are left out of the future check-ins in your repeating series. You get a "Recurring check-in contacts changed" notification once for each change. It says how many contacts could no longer be included, and tells you plainly if no one is left to notify.

If every contact in a tier has been left out, that tier notifies no one. Its grace window still opens, and you can still Snooze or Dismiss, but nobody is notified when it ends, and the next tier follows as usual. During that window, the check-in screen shows "Nobody is notified at this tier." The "Check-in time" notification doesn't name a tier, and a Kautio call doesn't say when contacts are notified. When the first tier is the empty one, the "[title] is starting" notification says only when Kautio checks in on you. As with any Active check-in, the app offers Dismiss, not Cancel check-in: dismissing shows Cancelled while no contact has been notified, and Dismissed after. If that was the check-in's only tier, the check-in moves to Follow-up pending or Complete when the window ends, like any check-in with no tiers left. To change who a repeating series notifies, end the series and make a new repeating check-in with your current contacts (see Presets and repeating check-ins (Pro) › Changing one check-in or the whole series).

A check-in from a Kautio repeating series can be edited or cancelled on its own, or cancelled together with the rest of the series.

You manage Kautio repeating series on the Recurring check-ins screen: Settings › Check-ins › Recurring check-ins, or the repeat icon (Recurring check-ins) at the top of the Check-ins tab. Each series' menu offers Pause (on an Active series), Resume (on a Paused series), and End.

A series shows one of these statuses, which are separate from each check-in's state:

Without Kautio Pro, the Recurring check-ins screen isn't available: the Settings row and the repeat icon on the Check-ins tab open Unlock with Pro. To end a repeating series without Pro:

Only this check-in also works without Pro. This and all future check-ins doesn't.

When Kautio Pro ends, your presets and repeating check-ins stay, but they work differently.

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