New contacts page by Google Messages

 Google Messages is introducing new contacts page 

Google Messages is beginning to introduce out a new in-app contacts page with a touch of Material You. The card for “Images” is straightforward and can take you to a full grid view, but be sure to play around with the animated Material 3 carousel. Messages is the first Google app to implement this new component. Earlier, tapping the photo + name at the top of a conversation would open a full Google Contacts entry. But with this change, now opens an in-app page generated by Google Messages. 

We can see a centred profile picture, name, and number at the top, which is followed by circular shortcuts to place a phone or Meet call, open Google Contacts and search. Instead of your 10 most recent images in the carousel being the same size, “items expand and shrink as they’re scrolled” with their shapes changing from rounded rectangles to squares and vertical pills. In addition, we can also see “Videos, links, & more” and “Starred” messages from here.

After that there is a card with a shortcut to Notifications, “Only send SMS & MMS messages” toggle, and “Block & report” spam. Google will note End-to-end encryption status with the ability to “Verify encryption.” The final “people” section is useful in group conversations. Profiles have yet to see wide availability. At the same time, Google Messages’ new contacts page is not yet rolled out for everyone, but is beginning to appear for beta users.