However, the Android application has always seemed to have fewer features compared to the web version.
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Google Contacts was essentially developed to help users stay in touch with the people they care about. Previously, the Android app was quite simplistic, with the UI having a list of contacts and an Add button. However, the latest update brings even greater power to users. Opening that up reveals a new section for managing duplicate contacts.
Firstly, the Google Contacts app’s dual tabs – Favorites and All has been replaced with numerous other options including a hamburger menu. Users will now be able to create and manage labels from the app so that they can manage contacts in a more intuitive way. The app will now also allow users to filter contacts by labels and source accounts. The feature wasn’t available on the Android version in the past, but it is present in the web version of Google Contacts. Contacts and businesses show exactly what you might expect – people or companies either in your contacts or matched up from Google Search – but “refinements” is a unusual term that isn’t quite as easy to figure out. Contacts will offer suggestions on what might be duplicated and you will be able to dismiss it altogether or link the two, making a single contact for that person.
The app also detects duplicates across multiple synched accounts on the device.
When you open the menu, you are greeted with several new additions.
There’s no word on when this change might start rolling out to a wider range of users, but the changes themselves are pretty nice so we’ll easily assume this is a test that will become common for everyone soon enough.
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Google had recently released the Duo app to the Google Play Store, a video chatting app the company had announced back during the Google I/O earlier this year.
