Call Screen allowsGoogle Assistantto answer your phone calls and provides a transcript of the request in real-time.
Call screening is only available for theGoogle Pixeland select Android phones.
What Is Google Assistant Call Screen?
Call Screen is available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and more countries.
The call-screening feature rolled out with thePixel 3and Pixel 3XL in October 2018.
Call Screen appeared amid persistent robocalls and spam calls.
How Does Google’s Call Screen Work?
Automatic Call Screening
First, you’ll need to enable automatic call screening.
After that, Google Assistant will automatically answer the call, ask who’s calling, and why.
Here’s how to set up automatic call screening.
bring up the Phone app and tapMore>configs>Spamand Call Screen.
Turn onSee Caller and Spam ID.
TapCall Screenand go toUnknown call options.
Choose the types of callers you want to screen.
Decline robocalls.Now, when someone calls, you’ll see a notification that readsScreening an unknown call.
Assistant will hang up on a call it deems to be spam or a robocall.
If it’s a legitimate call, your phone will ring and you’ll see the information Assistant gathered.
If you don’t want a number to be screened, save it as a contact.
Manual Call Screening
you might also screen calls on a case-by-case basis.
When a call comes in, tapScreen call.
Google Assistant will answer the phone call.
You’ll see a screen showing what Google Assistant says to the caller and the caller’s responses.
After the person calling you answers Google Assistant, you’ll see prompts at the bottom of the screen.
These phrases include things like:
Choose your response, pick up the call, or hang up.
You don’t have to spend time on the phone when it’s unnecessary.
You’ll find this transcript inside the call details of a screened call.
FAQ
To stop Google Assistant from screening your calls, turn off automatic call screening.
TapCall Screenand ensureAutomatically screen.
Decline robocalls.is turned off.
To stopGoogle Voicefrom screening calls,go to Google Voice on the weband jump in.
Go toSettingsand select theCallstab.
In theCall Screeningsection, turn off the feature.
However, there are third-party call-screening apps on the App Store.
Also, the iPhone has filtering and ways to detect and block spam.
For example, turn onSilence Unknown Callersto block phone numbers you’ve never had contact with.
Go toSettings>Phoneand turn onSilence Unknown Callers.
