In the past two days alone, I’ve gotten over 20 spam calls with none of them leaving a message. Just 3/4 seconds of silence on my voice mail. One call the other day left a 22 second blank message.
I never set up my voicemail account because that’s ancient technology that shouldn’t exist. Unknown calls don’t ring and known spam is auto-blocked. I sleep well.
This is why I live on airplane mode
My Google Pixel uses AI to answer the call in the background, and will automatically report as spam and block these calls. I haven’t gotten a spam call in over a year
I’ve had Pixels for years and the call screener is my favorite feature. It confuses so many people.
Wait, where do I enable this? 😮
Edit: Found this guide, but Spam & Call Screen isn’t available on my 8 pro. So I guess it’s only regionally available. :/
Edit 2: Some people online seem to have the same problem. Assigning Phone back as Spam App in the phone settings, clearing the cache and force stopping the Phone app also didn’t change anything.
Uh… does your phone still ring, or does it literally answer the call and the robot voice takes over. In both cases, I find that freaky
It answers the call behind the scenes without you needing to hear or listen. It pops up a notification saying that the call is ongoing with the screening AI, and you have an option to immediately stop the call or to pick it up. It also records a transcript of the call for you to listen to afterwards. It also doesn’t screen every call, if it’s a number in your contacts it lets it through to you as normal.
Brace yourself, because it’s going to get a lot worse.
I have unknown numbers forwarded directly to voicemail on iOS, but yeah I’m getting a bunch too.
