What you need to know

  • It looks like Samsung is working on a function that helps you manage birthdays from the Contacts app
  • The tool gives you a nudge when one of your contacts has an upcoming birthday, making sure you don't forget to celebrate
  • Additionally, the company is also working on a feature that allows you to send digital birthday cards and gifts

If you have a large family as well as a hefty circle of friends, remembering everyone's birthdays is a challenge in itself. Luckily for Samsung users, the tech company could be working on a management feature that helps take the stress out of this.

As spotted in one of Android Authority's APK teardowns, it appears that Samsung is currently developing a tool that makes tracking your friends' and family members' birthdays easier. According to the outlet's findings, this will be native to the Contacts app on Samsung phones in One UI 9.5, and splits birthdays into three categories: Past, Today, and Upcoming.

As it stands, you can manually add birthdays to the details of individual contacts, but it doesn't notify you when you have an upcoming celebration, meaning you'll have to dig through your Calendar or browse your contacts. The tool would help fill this gap and, more importantly, spare you the backlash from friends and family.

Alongside the feature itself, Android Authority also spotted lines of code that state 'Set a birthday that can be shared with others', which points to an additional function.

When your contacts add their birthdays to their profile on their device, they'll have the option to enable a toggle that allows them to share their birthday with others. Once enabled, you'll be able to see their date of birth when viewing their contact information, and it works the other way around.

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Remembering birthdays is one thing, but then gift-giving is a completely different ordeal. Don't worry, Samsung has your back there, too.

As well as birthday nods, additional lines of code reveal Samsung's plans to develop a shortcut tool for sending cards and gifts. The One UI 8 update introduced Now Brief, where you can send AI-generated birthday cards to others, so it makes sense that the gift-giving function also sends them digitally.

It's a small, yet functional trick that makes juggling important dates much smoother. That being said, it also gives you no more excuses if you miss another birthday again...