Google Pixel’s new VIP contacts lets your favourite folks bypass don’t disturb

Google is formally letting you prioritize sure folks in your life. The corporate has launched Pixel VIPs, an replace that enables Google Pixel homeowners to “keep linked to the individuals who matter most and by no means miss a second from them.” It expands on Google’s present favourite contacts possibility, 9To5Google reports.

Pixel VIPs consists of options resembling putting your “VIPs” on the prime of your contact checklist and letting them bypass your system’s don’t disturb. Should you click on on a selected particular person then you’ll be able to see their real-time location, climate and time. It additionally exhibits the final time you two linked. Plus, Google will counsel issues for the 2 of you to do collectively primarily based in your preferences.

You even have the choice of including notes to their contact web page. These tidbits would possibly embody their new canine’s title, once they’re touring or a reminder of your plans collectively.

The likelihood that Google was engaged on this replace first arose final summer season beneath the title “besties,” slightly than “VIP.” Reports from 9To5Google confirmed it changing the favorite contacts possibility however did not reveal a lot else.