The Google Contacts app is not exactly the most exciting app on your phone. If it is, well, you need to reevaluate what you are using your smartphone for, The app lists all of your contacts and their phone numbers. You could consider it to be your digital phone book which means that while it does not offer mind-blowing features, it is an important app to have, especially on a phone.
An update to Google Contacts adds a tab that can help remind you of birthdays and other significant dates
The For you tab on Google Contacts will alert you when it is a contact’s birthday
You can a birth date, an anniversary date or recognize any particular date at all by tapping the editing pencil on the upper right side of the display. That will open several fields that you edit or add information to. At the bottom are two fields that say Significant date with a Label field underneath each one. The first Label field says Birthday by default. Type the contact’s birth date into the first significant date field.
Better make sure you have your significant other’s birthday entered on your phone
For the second significant date, tap on the Label field at the bottom of the screen if you don’t have an anniversary date for that contact. You will see options for No label, Anniversary (again, the default selection), Other, and Custom. And you can add more fields by tapping on the More fields link at the very bottom of the screen.
Google has a great habit of taking its apps and making them as useful as possible. Even extremely popular apps, like Google Maps, have been updated constantly by the search giant to make them more useful. This is one thing that Google does for most of its apps as the company simply refuses to stop working to add the little things to improve the user experience of its apps.
