{"id":170024,"date":"2025-06-09T10:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170024\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T10:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:39:10","slug":"pixel-vips-app-makes-an-early-appearance-on-the-play-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170024\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel VIPs app makes an early appearance on the Play Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"e_Mg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  title=\"Google Contacts Pixel VIPs widget feature\"  alt=\"Google Contacts Pixel VIPs widget feature\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Google-Contacts-Pixel-VIPs-widget-feature-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Aamir Siddiqui \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Google Pixel VIPs app is now available on the Play Store for some Pixel phone owners.<\/li>\n<li>The app reveals more details about the upcoming Pixel VIPs home screen widget.<\/li>\n<li>Unfortunately, you can\u2019t access the actual Pixel VIPs widget after downloading this app.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We uncovered the existence of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-contacts-pixel-vips-widget-complete-look-3562743\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixel VIPs widget<\/a> back in January. This widget centralizes all sorts of info from your preferred contacts in a home screen widget. Now, it looks like the feature is available to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-pixel-9-3365966\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixel phone<\/a> owners \u2014 well, sort of.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/andauth.co\/PixelVIPs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixel VIPs app listing<\/a> is showing up on the Google Play Store for some Pixel owners, and we\u2019re able to see this on our own Pixel phones as well. Users can also tap the \u201cupdate\u201d button and install it. Check out the screenshots below.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Mg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"Google Pixel VIPs Play Store 1\"  alt=\"Google Pixel VIPs Play Store 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Google-Pixel-VIPs-Play-Store-1.jpg\"\/><img class=\"e_Mg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"Google Pixel VIPs Play Store 2\"  alt=\"Google Pixel VIPs Play Store 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Google-Pixel-VIPs-Play-Store-2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuickly and easily connect with the people who matter most to you. See your last call and message with them, their real-time location, activity suggestions, and more,\u201d reads an excerpt of the app listing. \u201cYour VIPs can also bypass Do Not Disturb, so you never miss a moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We also previously uncovered evidence that the feature supports up to eight contacts, birthday reminders, and notes functionality for a contact. Furthermore, we discovered that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/whatsapp-google-pixel-besties-vips-integration-apk-teardown-3524461\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp integration<\/a> was also in the works. So this certainly seems like a robust widget and feature.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, updating the app doesn\u2019t actually enable the Pixel VIPs widget right now. So we\u2019ll likely have to wait for an additional update or server-side change to access the feature. Nevertheless, the app listing suggests that we won\u2019t have to wait too long.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Got a tip? Talk to us!<\/strong>\u00a0Email our staff at <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/pixel-vips-app-listing-play-store-3565421\/mailto:news@androidauthority.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"mailto:tips@androidauthority.com\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-haspopup=\"menu\" target=\"_blank\">news@androidauthority.com<\/a>. You can stay anonymous or get credit for the info, it&#8217;s your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aamir Siddiqui \/ Android Authority TL;DR The Google Pixel VIPs app is now available on the Play Store&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[867,70877,868,547,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-170024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-google","9":"tag-google-contacts","10":"tag-google-pixel","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114652981743996217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}