Google announces yesterday that 12 February 2019 will stop the old (classic) Contacts page and everyone will get the new issue on the page.
According to the company, Google customers who are still using the old look of the classic contact page will automatically be redirected to the new topic.
Google presented an updated version of the Contact page in 2015 to “offer a modern, smart and fast experience managementof contacts". For its existing customers the new version of the page was then offered as a preview.
Google customers could turn on the “Try Contacts Preview” option in the left sidebar on the Contacts webpage to go to the new layout of Contacts. From there, by clicking the “Go to old version” option, they could go back to the classic version.
The classic page is as follows:
And the new page looks like this:
Google customers who are already using the contact preview will not notice any changes in the coming months. Those who are still in the classical appearance of Contacts will be transferred to the new project.
The change is expected to be completed by February 12, 2019, as then all the users who are still using the old look of the Contacts page will be automatically moved to the new version of Contacts. The option to go back to the classic version of Contacts will no longer be visible and the classic version of Contacts will be terminated.