{"id":102068,"date":"2020-02-08T00:42:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T08:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/all-google-phones-will-now-screen-robocalls-heres-how-to-turn-it-on"},"modified":"2020-02-08T00:42:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T08:42:42","slug":"all-google-phones-will-now-screen-robocalls-heres-how-to-turn-it-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/all-google-phones-will-now-screen-robocalls-heres-how-to-turn-it-on","title":{"rendered":"All Google phones will now screen robocalls, here\u2019s how to turn it on"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you\u2019re tired of robocalls you might want to consider one of Google\u2019s Pixel phones. On Thursday, Google<\/a> announced that its Call Screen feature, which automatically blocks known robocallers in Google\u2019s database, is rolling out to all Pixel phones this week. It was previously only available on the newest Pixel 3 and Pixel 4 devices. (The original Pixel phone, which launched in 2016, stopped receiving software updates last year, but Google says it\u2019ll still get Call Screen.) <\/p>\n

Robocalls may be driving you nuts. According to the YouMail robocall index<\/a>, which is compiled from the YouMail app that\u2019s built to also block robocalls, there were 4.7 billion robocalls placed in the U.S. in January 2020, or 1,800 a second and 14.4 calls per person. Some U.S. carriers, like AT&T<\/a>, Verizon<\/a>, T-Mobile<\/a> and Sprint<\/a> are working in the background to prevent robocalls, too. Though sometimes they still sneak through or only work on certain phones.<\/p>\n

And other companies, like Apple<\/a>, let you automatically send calls that are received from people who aren\u2019t in your address book right to voicemail. But sometimes you miss an important call from someone, like a doctor whose number you might not have saved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re tired of robocalls you might want to consider one of Google\u2019s Pixel phones. On Thursday, Google announced that its Call Screen feature, which automatically blocks known robocallers in Google\u2019s database, is rolling out to all Pixel phones this week. It was previously only available on the newest Pixel 3 and Pixel 4 devices. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}