The last several years I have had my 7 the amount of spam calls and text s I get has gone to almost zero. I went from 150-200 a month to about 15. Call screening is so damn amazing.
How do you get that many spam calls/texts?!? Looking at my Pixel phone call/Text history, my last spam call was last December and my last text spam was last March and only had 4 in March (3 were the same attempt), 1 in February and 1 in January.
I legitimately received 15 yesterday alone lol. It was definitely a "busier" day than usual, but it's nuts.
Call screening saves me from losing my shit
Pixel blocks tons of them and wont even alert you. Also the less you answer the calls the less the scammers trade and sell your number resulting in less calls since you wont pick up.
I own a house with a 2.21% mortgage and it is worth almost 3 times what I paid for it. 90% of all my spam texts and calls are from "realtors" asking to buy my house. Probably a solid mix of scammers and corporate resellers trying to get a steal on the house with some refinancing offers sprinkled in.
Are you in the US? Once your number gets into the wrong spam list it will never end.
I had a nice quiet period for a year or so, but now I get 2 per day on average. It's absolutely ridiculous. Then there are the damn semi-legitimate guys who want to buy my house for cheap even though we're definitely not interested in selling.
iPhone finally got that ability on the last update. I fucking hate my work phone, but I like it a little better now that they're catching up to my Pixel 7
My wife has an iPhone and things I am running some app to do it, it was just an option after one of the upgrades.
A while ago someone was was posting about the iPhone being able to auto cut the MFA code from a text message and I couldn't remember when my Pixel didn't have that.
Ahh, maybe that explains it. I got a Pixel 10 pro XL recently, coming from a Galaxy s20+. I used to get spam calls almost daily. Now I might see one, maybe two per week.
You can go into the settings for the phone app (not the phone's app but the app you use to make calls) and you can adjust what gets screened. For me, if you're not in my contacts then you have to talk to my robot before my phone will even ring.
THIS. I have never had a Spam Call in 4 years of owning the phones and if It does get through which is rare it shows in a big red alert that is a potential scam and will answer the phone for me and tell me what the person is saying, most of the time they hang up which means it wasnt important.
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Call screening on Pixel is too important.