What you need to know
- Google has started slowly rolling out an update to simplify the Call Screen options for spam calls on Pixel phones.
- The update introduces a new Protection Level menu with Basic, Medium, and Maximum protection options.
- Users can no longer customize how they’d like their phone to respond to certain spam or unknown numbers.
Pixel phones are beginning to see signs of simplified Call Screen settings for handling pesky spam calls. The changes, spotted quite early by Android Police, show Google moving much of a user’s settings for how to handle annoying calls into one Protection Level menu with varying options. Pixel owners will soon find options such as Basic, Medium, and Maximum when sifting through this new Protection Level menu.
The basic level will only decline known spam callers. Call Screen sees its strength increase when you get into its medium level which will “screen suspicious calls and decline spam.” The highest level, Maximum, will screen unknown numbers and decline spam.
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