“Besties” in Contacts may soon give you a new way to identify your closest friends. While we find multiple references throughout the app, right now nothing’s functional. Subsequent strings point to ...

Google Contacts is prepping a new layout for contact profile pages. More info is being moved up top for easy at-a-glance ...

Google is preparing to add messaging abilities to the Contacts widget on Android. The homescreen widget will show the last message from your contacts and let you open the conversation with a single ...

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. The ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

A small change to Google Contacts for Android makes explicit the current backup and sync status, while tweaking the account menu. At the top of the Organize tab, you’ll find a new card noting how many ...

Shockingly, there are still people out there who use their phones as, well… phones. Those of us who get a ton of phone calls like to assign specific ringtones to specific contacts. Well, Google is ...

Chethan is a reporter at Android Police, focusing on the weekend news coverage for the site. He has covered tech for over a decade with multiple publications, including the likes of Times Internet, ...

Google Contacts is rolling out a Material 3 Expressive refresh for sharing and import screens, adding a review step to prevent oversharing. Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana Google is giving ...

A core part of moving phones is taking your contacts with you. Before Google was backing up contacts, the only contacts to follow you to a new phone were whatever you could store on your SIM. Today, a ...