This subtle Google Contacts change looks perfect for long names (APK teardown)
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- Google Contacts 4.39 prepares a small change to how contacts are displayed.
- By sliding names over to the left, Contacts could free up space for longer entries.
App updates don’t have to be game-changing to be worth doing, and for as much as we might like to see devs delivering bold new features every chance they get, the reality of app maintenance tends to be a lot more restrained. While some of that definitely involves adding new functionality, it feels like many changes are more of the “tweaking the UI” variety. There’s good reason for that, as nailing the subtleties of an app’s interface can really take a lot of fiddling to get right. Today we’re checking out some of the latest efforts along that line when it comes to Google Contacts.
Contacts has seen a solid amount of attention from Google so far this year for app that’s not getting an injection of flashy new AI features. Those changes have included both feature updates, like adding new interaction to the Contacts widget, and smaller UI reconfigurations, like what we saw happening back in March with connected apps.
