Google will soon let you add more favorite contacts to your phone’s home screen

The updated Google Contacts home screen widget will also display contact names in addition to avatars.

Google will soon let you add more favorite contacts to your phone’s home screen

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  • The Google Contacts home screen widget could soon get an update removing a pointless restriction.
  • Google is also making a sensible change to the widget, which will now display contact names instead of just profile avatars.

Google is tweaking its contacts app to remove a restriction related to the favorite contacts home screen widget. Google introduced the widget last year, and it currently allows users to see up to seven top-starred contacts on their home screen. However, Android Authority contributor Assemble Debug has discovered that Google is now getting rid of this constraint.