The Google Contacts app on Android is updating. It adds some very practical features, such as sorting, labeling and filtering your telephone contacts.
Small details make big applications. If you have an Android smartphone, chances are you use Google Contacts. This is the contact management application that is not available on Android smartphones. Google updates it with the arrival of version 4.27.26 and some new features. The update is already deployed: at Frandroidwe were able to get it on one of our smartphones.
Filter your contacts to find your mom even faster
Gone is the main drawer (like in other Google apps). This leaves room for three main buttons at the bottom of the screen. The first allows you to access your contacts, the other to display a selection of contacts and the third to correct and manage your contacts. The first tab actually displays the list of all saved contacts. Just below the search bar, a new drop-down menu has found its place: it allows you to sort contacts according to where they come from: stored on the phone, on your Google account, etc.
Source: Frandroid
Source: Frandroid
Enough to find your professional contacts for example, avoiding all the numbers of your family and friends. It is even possible to create personalized views based on accounts, applications and labels. Right next to the views, you can select labels or separate telephone contacts from email contacts. In reality, all this is not new, but simply reorganized to give more visibility to these parameters.
Unique ringtones for each of your contacts
There ” selection » can be handy for seeing today’s birthdays, adding suggested contacts, favorite contacts and seeing recently viewed or added contacts. The “ correct and manage » allows you to merge duplicate contacts from several lists, add reminders, restore certain contacts, export them, etc.
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Source: Frandroid
You can also add contacts to your home (this can be useful with Google Home), to your “ family group » or even personalize ringtones based on contacts. You can put on your best friend’s favorite song to know when the call is coming from him.