Nexus Contacts

Ask them how they say their name Names are easy to get wrong and awkward to ask about a second time. You can now record someone saying their own name, and play it back before you next see them. The recording screen is split in half and turned around, so the person you just met reads their side the right way up while you read yours. Both halves have the same three controls: record, play, delete. The app asks you once, before the first recording, to ask them first — it stores nothing about that conversation, because it cannot witness one. Get in the frame together At an event, we watched people open the app to save someone they had just met — and photograph themselves. The camera opened facing them, with a lot on screen, and the obvious thing to do was the wrong one. The camera now says what the photo is for before it opens: this is how you will remember the person you just met, so get in the frame together. If you would rather skip it, there is a switch in Settings. Fewer questions before you have done anything Opening the app used to mean up to three separate requests for access to your contacts, before you had tapped a single thing. Those are gone. It now asks once, at the moment you do something that needs it, and if you say no it does not ask again. Add the event afterwards Saved someone and forgot to attach the event? You can do it from their card now. It is one-way — once they are assigned, that is where they stay — and the app says so before you confirm. Notes open ready to talk A note is written right after an interaction, when nobody wants to hunt for a control. The keyboard is now up as soon as the composer opens, so the dictation mic is one tap away instead of three. Sending goes through Messages WhatsApp is no longer one of the ways to send your contact. In our testing it could not carry both the photo and your details to someone who was not already in your address book — which is exactly the person you have just met. Messages carries both, so that is the path now. Clearing all data "Clear All Data" left behind internal backup copies that are now properly removed.