Google Contacts for Android adds another tab with ‘Highlights’

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Besides the new icon, Google Contacts has seen quite a few changes in the past year, and the latest is a new “Highlights” tab.
 
“Highlights” appears between “Contacts” and “Fix & manage” in the Material You bottom bar. Underneath the search field, you get a grid of “Favorites” that fits four icons in a row. It’s denser than the Phone app’s “Favorites” tab, and you can quickly “Add” new ones from the top-right corner.
 
The grid coexists with the list of Favorites at the top of the main tab. As such, there are now two ways to view it.
 
This is followed by “Recents,” which is a two-tab list that starts with “View recently.” Each contact is accompanied by a view date, and the overflow menu lets you clear that history. “Added recently” rounds out the list, and is the most useful part of this new UI.