The Google Phone app doesn’t often receive huge updates, but a new change to the incoming call UI appears to be in the works.

  • kingthrillgore
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    77 days ago

    Great, they’re gonna serve ads while we take a fucking phone call next

    • zerozaku
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      8 days ago

      What is it?

      Edit: I just searched about it and wow. Didn’t know we have alternative to SimpleTools available already. I have been using the old Simple Notes despite the news of its acquisition out of laziness and not it’s the time to switch. Thanks.

    • @[email protected]
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      7 days ago

      I use this because it has a feature that is shamefully absent from every other dialer: sending unknown callers directly to voicemail.

      Also it is hilariously difficult to decline a call on Google dialer.

      • @helpImTrappedOnline
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        17 days ago

        I use for another feature somehow missing “confirm call”

        Gives you chance to double check the name.

        One feature I miss from my Samsung was “flip to silence ringer”. Was great for letting spams/unknown ring all the way to voicemail without listening to the ring or making it obvious I declined the call.

        My pixel puts the whole damn phone to silent mode.

      • @[email protected]
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        07 days ago

        Also it is hilariously difficult to decline a call on Google dialer.

        It’s as simple as swiping down on the screen. I agree it’s a little under-sensitive if you try to swipe down from the circle with the icon at the bottom. But you can swipe down from anywhere on the screen and it will decline the call.

        • @[email protected]
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          27 days ago

          It’s as simple as swiping down on the screen.

          Its not though. Swipe down and nothing happens.

      • @[email protected]
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        07 days ago

        I dunno what you’re talking about. Stock dialer has it for me.

        Apple iOS Settings app showing “Silence Unknown Callers” toggle

        Bad jokes aside, is this really not a standard feature? I would’ve thought this would’ve been more common.

        • @[email protected]
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          7 days ago

          Sadly, it is not standard. Even now. If only fruit company wasn’t the way they are and could be trusted. (Not a zinger at you for using their products, just personal decision.)

  • Skull giver
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    88 days ago

    Can we have a setting to show phone calls as more than a weird notification? I’ve missed calls because my phone was on silent and I thought I was just getting a message.

  • katy ✨
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    68 days ago

    just give us voicemail in the google phone app on samsung

    • Russ
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      17 days ago

      I thought this was a limitation on the carrier you used, rather than the brand of phone? While I’ve not used any Samsung phones (well, none that ran Android), I’ve gone through various carriers and some of them have supported VVM in the Google Phone app, and others don’t seem to.

  • @orl0pl
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    58 days ago

    I think that is more intuitive and you can’t answer by accident

    • SanguinePar
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      98 days ago

      Funny, my first thought was that this would be much easier to answer by accident! Since it only requires a tap and not a swipe, it seems to me like a pocket answer or rejection would be a lot more likely to happen without the phone owner even knowing.

      • @[email protected]
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        27 days ago

        Yeah, pocket answers and declines would become very frequent. I already pause music and skip tracks while walking, mowing, etc.

  • SharkAttak
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    18 days ago

    I’d just like for the green answer button to not bounce up and down, sometimes I missed it :-/

    • @johannesvanderwhales
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      17 days ago

      I think a swipe up gesture from anywhere answers it? I don’t actually answer many calls though.

  • @douglasg14b
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    08 days ago

    And like all android updates, it’s guaranteed to be worse than it was.

    Everything’s getting shittier.