Google will now allow you to be reminded of a family member’s or friend’s birthday using Google Contacts for Android. The feature is now reportedly rolling out (though not widely), which should give you the option to add the birthday details of a person and choose whether to get notified about this.
If you are a person who can’t remember the birthdays of your loved ones and friends, getting reminders can be helpful. We already see it on various social media platforms like Facebook, wherein you’ll be notified about a friend’s birthday. However, not everyone is on Facebook. Yet, if you are one of those who use Google Contacts, it is now possible to get reminders for such a special day.
Those who now have the new feature will see it in the Highlights tab in Google Contacts. Under the For You section, an Add Birthday prompt should appear, and tapping will bring you to a list of your contacts with easy data entry. You’ll easily spot the contacts that lack birthday information through a cake icon placed after their names. If you tap them, you can set their birthday by scrolling through their birth month, date, and (optional) year. Once added, you can activate the notification for those particular contacts by going to their contact cards individually, tapping the menu, and selecting the new ‘Add birthday notification’ option.
All these works might sound a bit too much just to be reminded of someone’s birthday, especially if you compare it to Facebook, which automatically notifies you based on a friend’s profile details. Yet, it is still a welcome addition to Google Contacts. And with the fact that you can set the dates manually per individual contact, it is nice to know that you have the freedom to be notified only about specific people on your list.
