Contacts

Google LLC

About this app

Back up and sync your contacts across all your devices
• Keep your contacts safely backed up to your Google Account
• Access your contacts from anywhere you’re signed in, including your next phone
• Recover contacts deleted in the last 30 days from Trash

Keep your contacts organized and up to date
• View your contacts by account (such as work or personal)
• Easily add contacts and edit information like phone numbers, emails, and photos
• Get help merging duplicate contacts, adding useful details, and more

Connect with the people who matter most
• View highlights, like upcoming birthdays and anniversaries
• Add notifications so you never miss a special day
• Easily access contacts you recently added or viewed

Also available for Wear OS, including a favorite contacts tile, individual contact tile, and contact complication

Ratings and reviews

The app is useful and is easy to use. The only complaint that I have is that the new update made the process of editing contacts harder. Before when you need an more fields, there was a button you could click that would bring up all of the other field types at once, and if you needed an additional field for something you could press a button to add it. Now, when you need more fields, you have to select them, there is no button that opens them all at once anymore.

The app helps organize contacts, however, some of the recent updates are just not desirable. Specifically, photos are automatically placed even though I had a self-selected photo. The "more fields" layout is not clean and easy as it was previously. Lastly, the app automatically merges contacts even though they are different people. For instance, if I have someone named Bob and add another Bob, the app merges the two. Good luck unmerging them! Lots of annoying inconveniences.

After updating to the latest version, the Recent Calls section has become very inconvenient. The app now creates a separate entry for every single call made to the same contact. For example, if I call the same person 10 times, it shows 10 different entries in the recent list. In the previous version, all calls to the same contact were grouped under a single entry, which kept the call history clean and easy to navigate. The new behavior makes the list cluttered and difficult to manage.

What’s new

• Improved contact import and export experience
• You can now add a contact to your Favorites when editing info