With over a billion downloads on Google Play, Google’s Contacts app is the primary tool for many Android users to view and organize their personal contact information, according to the report. To make connecting even easier, the Contact engineering team is reportedly working on a new feature that will let you view and reply to your messages from the widget.
Additionally, this feature will need you to grant notification access to Google Contacts so that it can offer you your contacts‘ latest messages on the widget.
Contacts users will enjoy viewing and sending messages through the widget
The new widget in Google Contacts is similar to the conversations widget, which was introduced with Android 12. However, the conversations widget doesn’t let you reply to messages from the widget.
Additionally, the new widget for the Google Contacts app is not available yet, but the new feature is expected to launch in the coming weeks.
The new widgets make it easier for users to quickly access their favorite and recent contact messages. Instead of having to navigate to and through an application, widgets can be added directly to a device’s home screen to create shortcuts to the information users need.
