Stay connected with your closest family and friends with Pixel VIPs. When you add people to Pixel VIPs and set up a home screen widget, you can have quick access to your recent interactions, their real-time location (if they share it), local updates, activity ideas, and more.
Your Pixel VIPs can be on any iOS or Android device.
Important:
- This feature works if your device is a Pixel 6 or later, including Pixel Fold.
- Make sure your apps including Pixel Weather, WhatsApp, and Google Contacts are updated.
Set up Pixel VIPs
Important: You can add up to 8 people as your Pixel VIPs.
- Open the Google Contacts app.
- At the bottom right, tap Organize
Pixel VIPs.
- Go through the onboarding process.
- When prompted to add VIPs, tap Add.
- Choose the contacts you want to add.
- Go through the appropriate permissions.
- To add Pixel VIPs as a widget to your home screen, tap Add to Home screen.
Pixel VIPs.Tip: Your VIPs automatically join your Favorites list, which means they can bypass “Do Not Disturb.”
Add or remove Pixel VIPs
- Open the Google Contacts app.
- At the bottom right, tap Organize
- Choose the contacts you want to add or remove.
Tip: You can also add or remove Pixel VIPs when you:
- Press and hold the widget.
- Select Edit.
Learn what you can do with Pixel VIPs
When you set up the Pixel VIPs widget, you can use the following features:
- Last connection: You can find the last message or call with your VIPs on Google Messages or WhatsApp. Reconnect with your VIPs by tapping the last message or the icons at the top to open your previous conversation.
- Location sharing: If they’ve shared it with you in Google Maps, you can find your VIPs' real-time location. Learn how to share your location in Google Maps.
- Tip: Make sure the email address used for location sharing is added to your VIP's contact details.
- Local updates: Get the time and weather in your VIPs location.
- Significant dates: Remember important dates for your VIPs like anniversaries or birthdays.
- Memo: Take some quick notes about your VIPs.
- Crisis alerts: Receive alerts based on your VIPs' real-time location (if they share it) or address if you've provided it in your contacts or directly in the VIPs overlay.
- Activity suggestions: Get suggestions for activities to do with your VIPs, based on popular search results and your input preferences.
Tips:
- When you include your VIP’s email address, it doesn’t automatically enable location sharing. They'll need to share location with you by being logged into Google Maps with that email or through the Find Hub app if they’re on another Android device.
- Location sharing is tied to an email address linked to Google Maps. You can manage location sharing settings in the Google Maps app.
Pixel VIPs accesses, organizes, and highlights information about your VIPs that other apps already collected, such as:
- Pixel Contacts app: Information about your VIPs saved to your contacts like phone numbers, birthdays, address, etc.
- Phone: Information about your last call with your VIPs like who called and when.
- Android Messages: The last message from your messages with your VIPs.
- WhatsApp: The last message and last call shared with your VIPs.
- Google Maps:
- Real-time location data of your VIPs if they agree to share their location data with you through Google Maps.
- It also uses location data to determine the weather and time where your VIPs are currently located.
Pixel VIPs allows you to input various preferences such as what type of food, books, and music you like. This information is saved to your device only. Google may use this information to provide you with suggestions like restaurants near you or books to discuss with your VIPs.