Google Contacts is getting a brand new characteristic that enables it to get notification alerts in widgets for particular person contacts. So, now you may entry vital alerts associated to that contact from one place, even when they arrive from completely different apps. This isn’t the one change obtained by the app not too long ago.
The Google Contacts app means that you can set widgets for particular person contacts or teams of contacts. There’s one particular person widget specifically that features the contact’s picture as a background (if you happen to set one) and a few shortcuts. These shortcuts begin a name straight with the contact or a dialog in Google Messages. Now, the widget is getting a bell icon for notifications.
A Google Contacts particular person widget will get a “bell” for notifications
The brand new notification bell is positioned within the upper-right space of the widget. Presently, it’s only obtainable within the widget for particular person contacts that embrace the shortcuts talked about above. In keeping with 9to5Google and our testing, it’s not appropriate with different widget codecs.
Whenever you faucet on the brand new bell for the primary time, you’ll see a floating window inviting you to allow the “Notifications entry” permission for the Contacts app. The pop-up says that this may let you “see and reply to the most recent messages out of your contacts.” The widget can even let you straight entry different notifications associated to that exact contact. For instance, missed calls, vital date alerts (corresponding to birthdays), and so forth.
The purpose of together with notification alerts in particular person Google Contacts widgets is to forestall you from having to leap between a number of apps to remain in contact with or up-to-date in your most treasured contacts. Now you’ll have calls, conversations in Messages, and vital notifications inside attain of a single faucet.
The brand new characteristic is current within the Google Contacts app on Android beginning with the 4.31 replace. It’s attainable that you haven’t obtained it but. Nevertheless, you most likely gained’t have to attend lengthy to have it obtainable.