Google’s contact management application has a new section. Inside this is a new feature: it shows nothing more than your contacts’ upcoming birthdays. Something to avoid “forgetting” the birthdays of your friends or family members.
Facebook was traditionally the one that reminded us of our friends’ birthdays. For some time now, Google has also been doing it, in several places on our smartphones. This has been the case for some time on Google Assistant and more recently Google Messages has also started reminding you of birthdays. It’s the turn of Google Contacts, the contact management application preinstalled on Android smartphones, to remind you of birthdays, as has been noticed 9to5Google.
A “news feedin Google Contacts
It’s a bit like this that we can summarize the flow said “Highlightsadded in December by Google in its contacts application. New in version 4.2 is the addition of a “For youwhich indicates, among other things, the upcoming birthdays of your saved contacts.
A section that slips between your favorite contacts and those with whom you have communicated recently. Each birthday entered is displayed with the photo and name of the contact concerned, with the date and a countdown. Added to this are shortcuts to call or send a message to your loved one. As our English-speaking colleagues have clarified, this is quite similar to what Google Messages already allows you to do.
It is interesting to see what Google Contacts is evolving towards: to avoid being replaced by other contact management applications, we see the appearance of new features. If at the base, this application is only used to list its contacts, it is now “proactivein how to manage them. Google Contacts is no longer simply a directory, but a real application of “management“. It is also changing its interface, with a redesign of the widgets to come in the coming months.
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