With the October Pixel Drop, the Pixel Watch got a pair of new features and the new Google Contacts Wear OS Tile is now available.
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While Google Contacts is otherwise a good example of a modern Material You app, my one design quibble has been the blocky scroll bar. This has finally been addressed as part of a broader tweak to the main Contacts tab.
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After removing the navigation drawer and the renamed “Organize” tab, the next big change to Google Contacts is a redesign of how you create a new contact.
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Google Contacts for Android added a Highlights tab in late 2022, but a small tweak in recent days removes the recently added section.
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Google Contacts just updated the Individual contact widget with the ability to display notifications, and it’s now readying a “Besties Widget.”
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Following the initial rollout last month, Google Contacts is making official the ability to see message notifications on the widget.
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In addition to A/B testing a change to how you add a new contact, Google Contacts is rolling out the ability to see notifications on widgets.
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The last big design change to Contacts for Android removed the navigation drawer, and Google is now either replacing the FAB or putting it everywhere.
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The latest Google Contacts update is preparing a change for adding a new contact, which simplifies the design considerably to make the process faster and easier.
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After removing the navigation drawer last month, the next Google Contacts for Android update replaces “Fix & manage” with “Organize.”
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Following Messages last year, Google Contacts is now the latest app to replace its navigation drawer as part of a small redesign today that really simplifies things.
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The Google Contacts app is rolling out a new, dedicated section to help you set and manage custom contact ringtones on your Android device.
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In the latest Google Contacts update, the app is cleaning up how contact information pulled from other services like WhatsApp appears in each listing.
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Last year, Google Contacts introduced new Material You widgets and is now planning to let you “See messages on your widget.”
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Setting a custom ringtone for a specific contact is a fun and common way to tell incoming calls and messages apart, and soon, on Android, Google will apparently be making it much easier to do this.
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Earlier this year, Google Contacts introduced a birthday reminder, and those notifications can now be set for all saved dates.
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Google is updating the Individual Contact Android widget it introduced earlier this year to bring more Material You flourishes.
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Google Contacts has seen an uptick in new features this year, and it continues today with local time and weather information.
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The Google Contacts app is preparing a new redesign to its single-contact widget, bringing a more subtle look and feel.
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More than a few Google Pixel and Samsung owners today are reporting that their contacts are missing and have disappeared from their Android phone.
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As we’ve been tracking since March, Google Contacts is now rolling out birthday notifications and encouraging users to add that information.
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As we’ve been expecting since November, Google Contacts for Android now offers an “Individual Contact” homescreen widget, while some are also seeing “Favorite Contacts.”
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In the latest version of Google Contacts, the company is preparing a new way to get notified when it’s a friend or family member’s birthday.
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As we’ve been expecting, the latest Google app to get a tablet redesign is Contacts for Android.
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