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Google Voice Update Adds Redesigned Call Interface, Forgets Again to Bring RCS

Kellen May 1, 2025 4

A fresh update is on the way to Google Voice that introduces both 3-way calling and "an overall enhanced, redesigned in-call user interface." Unfortunately, Google has still not enabled RCS in Google Voice, and at this point we assume they never will. However,...

Google Voice Adds a New Feature and Isn’t RCS

Kellen February 26, 2025 8

Google Voice is without a doubt one of the greatest apps and services of all time if you happen to need one phone number that can reach multiple devices at once. I parted ways with it a year or so ago, but miss it dearly and have considered a return if it...

Google Voice Gets Its Fancy Material You Design in Update

Kellen April 4, 2023 10

Google Voice, the neglected calling, messaging, and voicemail app from Google, is getting a solid update this week that brings its design (almost) up to the level of many other modern apps. A Material You-like update started rolling out days ago and is hitting...

Google Voice Starts Labeling Spam Calls

Kellen December 30, 2022 5

Google Voice is one of those services from Google that you never quite stop worrying about. It's a Google product that is incredibly important to so many of us, yet Google often neglects it for lengthy periods of time, leaving us wondering if it is on the...

Google Voice is Getting 4 New Features

Kellen July 28, 2021 26

Google Voice is getting several new features over the next few weeks, as Google shows signs once again that it hasn't forgotten about its important alternative phone app that so many of us have used for years to help manage multiple phone numbers under a...

Google Voice RCS Would Be Awesome, Google

Kellen December 10, 2020 31

For most of the past decade, I have used nothing but Google Voice for texting and calling. Through the hundreds of phones I've tested on various carriers, I almost never touch the dialer and place a call through that phone's actual number, because instead I...

Updated Google Voice Icon Showing Up on Desktop

Tim November 9, 2020 8

Google Voice users are spotting the new and improved icon for the service, which Google appears to be shipping out to desktop users this week. We assume it'll come to the mobile apps soon, too. We can see that the logo somewhat conforms with Google's other...

Mmm, Dark Mode for Google Voice is Rolling Out

Tim October 9, 2019

Dark Mode for the Google Voice app just appeared on my Pixel 3 XL running Android 10, following an update to version 2019.40.273569721. What's nice about this implementation is that inside of the app's settings, all the way at the bottom, there's a dedicated...