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TL;DR
- The Google Contacts house display widget might quickly get an replace eradicating a pointless restriction.
- Google can also be making a smart change to the widget, which can now show contact names as a substitute of simply profile avatars.
Google is tweaking its contacts app to take away a restriction associated to the favourite contacts house display widget. Google launched the widget final yr, and it at the moment permits customers to see as much as seven top-starred contacts on their house display. Nonetheless, Android Authority contributor Assemble Debug has found that Google is now eliminating this constraint.
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Assemble Debug managed to activate the brand new contacts widget functionality in model 4.40.48.672619802 of the Google Contacts app. With the tweak in place, customers will quickly be capable to add greater than seven favourite contacts to the widget.
Throughout his testing, the tipster managed so as to add 16 contacts from his favorites checklist to the widget. He reckons you’ll be able to in all probability add extra as a result of the widget now has a scroller that you could swipe up and all the way down to view extra contacts. If you happen to don’t desire scrolling, it’s also possible to resize this widget to take up nearly your complete house display if want be, however this was potential even when the widget was launched.
When the function lastly rolls out to everybody, the widget must also show contact names versus simply avatars that you could see in its present state. The change is considerably of an afterthought and will have been obtainable within the first place.
The video above exhibits the brand new contacts widget in motion. We’ll replace this text when it turns into extra extensively obtainable.