Google Contacts

After updating the Individual variant with message and call notifications, as well as shared location, earlier this year, Google Contacts has rolled out a redesign of the Favorite contacts widget.

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.

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. 

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. 

Google Contacts for Android added a Highlights tab in late 2022, but a small tweak in recent days removes the recently added section.

Google Contacts just updated the Individual contact widget with the ability to display notifications, and it’s now readying a “Besties Widget.”

Following the initial rollout last month, Google Contacts is making official the ability to see message notifications on the widget.

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.

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.

After removing the navigation drawer last month, the next Google Contacts for Android update replaces “Fix & manage” with “Organize.”

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.

The Google Contacts app is rolling out a new, dedicated section to help you set and manage custom contact ringtones on your Android device.

In the latest Google Contacts update, the app is cleaning up how contact information pulled from other services like WhatsApp appears in each listing.

Last year, Google Contacts introduced new Material You widgets and is now planning to let you “See messages on your widget.” 

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.

Earlier this year, Google Contacts introduced a birthday reminder, and those notifications can now be set for all saved dates.

Google is updating the Individual Contact Android widget it introduced earlier this year to bring more Material You flourishes.

Google Contacts has seen an uptick in new features this year, and it continues today with local time and weather information.

The Google Contacts app is preparing a new redesign to its single-contact widget, bringing a more subtle look and feel.