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Google Phone’s Material You Look Gets Even Cuter

Kellen April 11, 2022 9

Not that any of us place actual phone calls anymore, but if you happen to on a phone running Android 12+ and with the Google Phone app, you should see an even cuter Material You look after a fresh update. A new build started rolling out last week that makes...

Automatically Record Calls From Unknown Numbers With Google’s Phone App

Tim April 9, 2021 11

Code from a Phone app update detailed this past January pointed to the upcoming ability to automatically record calls from phone numbers not saved in your contacts. Well, that feature is apparently very real and rolling out to users of Google's dedicated Phone...

Google Phone Prepares to Record Calls From Non-Contacts

Kellen January 8, 2021 6

The Google Phone is one of Google's apps that you can point as having received regular and worthwhile features over the past couple of years. It constantly picks up new items that have helped stop spam calls, added Assistant to screen calls from strange...

Google Phone App Now Verifies Calls and It’s Coming to More Devices

Kellen September 8, 2020 7

Google is well aware that none of us like to answer our phones when a call is incoming. We don't because we assume most are spam or scam calls that the dialer hasn't quite picked up on, so we send them to voicemail or hang-up. Not every call is spam, though,...

Google’s Phone App is Downloadable on Most Phones Now, Not Just Pixels

Tim August 11, 2020 25

Thanks to an update for the beta version of Google's in-house Phone app, the app appears to be downloadable and usable on pretty much any Android device. This is major news, since it was once only supported by Pixel and Android One devices. Keep in mind, this...

Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL Pick-Up Pixel 3’s Call Screen Feature

Kellen November 16, 2018

Google's Call Screen, the spambot owning call screener that was introduced to the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, is now rolling out to the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL in the latest Google Phone update. So not only do you now have dark mode, friends with Pixel 2, you get...

Google Phone App Update Just Brought Us a Dark Theme

Kellen November 15, 2018

Back in August, Google told us that a dark theme was "coming soon" to the Google Phone app. Today, almost two months later, that dark theme has arrived! The update showed up in the latest update to the Google Phone beta as v26.0.221539659. If you want to opt-...

Google Phone’s Dark Mode is “Coming Soon”

Kellen August 27, 2018

You are all aware that Google has changed most of its apps in recent weeks to being heavily white, which has led many to wonder if we'd finally get some dark modes. In a recent Android Messages update, we got just that, but apps like the Google Phone and...