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Samsung Contacts is working on taking the hassle out of tracking birthdays
Nov 12, 2026 — 11:38 AM ET
- Samsung is working on a new birthday-focused experience for its Contacts app.
- The app could gain a dedicated birthday section that organizes birthdays into three categories: Past, Today, and Upcoming.
- The feature may also introduce shortcuts for sending birthday cards and gifts.
In our last APK teardown, we revealed that Google Voice could soon gain RCS messaging support. We’re back again with another APK teardown, this time focusing on the Samsung Contacts app. In this teardown, we’ll tell you about Samsung’s work on a new experience that will make it easier to track birthdays, celebrate those birthdays, and share your birthday with others.
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This reporting is based on work-in-progress code. These features may not ship.
While investigating the Contacts app, we discovered strings of code that reveal Samsung is working on a birthday management feature. This feature would be a dedicated section within the app, which would appear in One UI 9.5. The section organizes birthdays into three categories: Past, Today, and Upcoming.
<string name="birthdayFriendsLabel">"Today's birthdays"</string>
<string name="birthday_sharing_title">Birthdays</string>The current version of the app allows you to add birthdays to individual contact entries. It does not surface whose birthday is today, nor does it inform the user of upcoming birthdays. If you wanted to know these details, you would have to either browse through individual contact entries or rely solely on your calendar. This change aims to make the birthdays of your contacts a little more visible.
<string name="birthday_section_past">Past</string>
<string name="birthday_section_today">Today</string>
<string name="birthday_section_upcoming">Upcoming</string> Along with the dedicated birthday section, Samsung appears to be building out shortcuts for sending birthday cards and gifts. This could potentially make it easier for the user to celebrate that contact’s special day. Keep in mind that the tech giant has already experimented with AI-generated birthday cards through Now Brief in One UI 8. This function could complement Samsung’s existing birthday-related features.
<string name="birthday_expand_send_card">Send a card</string>
<string name="birthday_expand_send_gift">Send a gift</string> Finally, the company is also building out a birthday sharing option. This would allow you to share your birthday with your contacts, that is, after you set your birthday date in your profile, of course. The description suggests that your contacts will be able to see your birthday date when viewing your contact information. It would also work the other way around, where you would see the birthday date of a contact if they turned on birthday sharing.
<string name="birthday_sharing">Birthday sharing</string>
<string name="birthday_sharing_description">Set a birthday that can be shared with others. People can see your birthday when they view your contact information.</string>
<string name="birthday_sharing_description_to_sign_in">Manage birthday display and sharing in Contacts.</string> Lines of code are great for explaining what the feature does. However, nothing beats being able to actually see the feature. We were able to gather the following screenshots of the Birthdays section.
Going from left to right, the first screenshot shows the birthday settings screen. Here is where you’ll be able to turn on birthday sharing and toggle the “Show contacts’ birthdays” option. Turning profile sharing on requires you to set your birthday first. In the second and third screenshots, we tried setting a date, but the attempt failed after showing a processing dialog. The fourth screenshot shows the Birthdays page, where you can check today’s, upcoming, and past birthdays.
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