The Contacts app may be one of those apps that many users are not aware of. It’s supposed to be used only to store a phone number, but really adding additional information is most helpful (as the person’s address and Google Maps open directly to us).

Now, Google wants it to be a little more useful and for us to use it more, and so it has released an update that allows us to. add a person’s birthday or important dates directly from Contacts.

Get more out of Google Contacts

Google is adamant that we have a closer relationship with our family and friends, and it recently launched. new birthday reminder feature. In addition, it is an integrated function with the rest of the Google ecosystem, so it contains and then feeds the rest of the applications and services.

First and now all you have to do to add a birthday to a contact Open the ‘People’ app and go to the middle tab called ‘Featured’ At the bottom of the app

A highlight should appear there, directly in the ‘For you’ field, indicating that the new function has already been activated and you can start adding birthdays. It’s as simple as clicking the option to add the date and selecting the icon for the birthday cake.

Because the data is synced with your Google account, it will appear on any device that that account is linked to.

Another way to do this is to click a contact, click the pencil icon to edit and add information. After adding a birthday, you can enable a birthday notification.

Click on the person with this information and click the ⋮ icon in the upper left. The drop-down menu shows: ‘Add birthday notification’ optionSelect , and you’ll get a prompt stating that reminders must be on for this to happen. You can go directly to the communication settings and enable notifications.

That when it’s history, You will receive a notification in the Calendar. Also, even if you add more than one birthday, the notifications will be for the people you decide to enable these notifications manually.

On the other hand and as we said before the ecosystem will benefit from this and as we read on 9to5Google Contacts If we have sent a greeting in the SMS app it will read and it will ask us if we want to add the birthday automatically. This is something that hasn’t been seen yet, but the option to add a birthday has popped up, so I’ve been having fun for a while already.

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