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TL;DR Google Contacts is prepping a new layout for contact profile pages.
More info is being moved up top for easy at-a-glance access.
We could lose the “About” section for a dedicated “Notes” view.
Google Contacts is definitely one of the company’s most under-appreciated Android apps, but for the easily overlooked, all too utilitarian role it often plays, it’s still been getting a solid amount of attention from developers over the past year. That’s brought it some nice new features like Calling Cards, and work’s actively underway to make those even better. Today we’re checking out another corner of Contacts that’s due an update, as Google tries out a new look for profile pages.
Right now, Contacts has a small bloat problem. When we were just saving names and email addresses, it was easy enough to nicely display everything, but your modern Contacts profile has quite a bit more data to include. Here’s how that looks today:
That gets the job done, admittedly, but it’s also a bit sprawling. Could there be a better way to organize things?
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Well, in Contacts version 4.75.27.882333999, we’ve uncovered an updated layout that starts grouping things together a bit differently. For instance, instead of that separate “Labels” section buried down below, it’s moving prominently up top — kind of like you’d expect a label to be.
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