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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways
- Google's Take a Message is disposable for the Pixel 4 and newer.
- The diagnostic fundamentally replaces voicemail.
- You tin spot wherefore idiosyncratic is calling and reply a telephone you declined.
Google has softly dropped a beauteous chill telephone screening feature, and most Pixel phones from the past six years are getting it.
When the Pixel 10 debuted past week, among its caller features was thing called Take a Message. A companion to Call Screen (my favorite Pixel diagnostic ever and the crushed I've bought Google phones for the past 9 years), Take a Message responds to calls you either miss oregon diminution and gives you a transcript.
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Since Google advertised this diagnostic with the Pixel 10, astir radical assumed it was exclusive to the caller flagship phone. That's not the case, arsenic Google has confirmed that it's disposable for each Pixel telephone since the Pixel 4 that came retired successful 2019.
If you don't spot the diagnostic yet, you should implicit the adjacent fewer weeks. My woman had the diagnostic connected her Pixel 9, but it wasn't determination connected an aged Pixel 6 I person sitting around.
How Take a Message works
Take a Message functions a batch similar your accepted voicemail. When you either miss oregon diminution a call, the caller volition perceive a connection that says, "The idiosyncratic you person called is not available. Please permission a message." When they permission a message, you'll spot a transcript successful your telephone past and a play fastener to perceive the existent audio if the transcription misses thing (which it did erstwhile I tried the diagnostic for myself).
You tin work the transcription successful real-time arsenic the caller is talking and adjacent reply the telephone if you want.
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The biggest vantage implicit voicemail is that you tin find retired wherefore idiosyncratic called if you're not capable to perceive to a voicemail. If you recorded a customized voicemail greeting with your bearer done the Phone by Google app, Google said, Take a Message volition usage that signaling instead. Otherwise, they'll perceive the modular recording.
Google warns that Take a Message whitethorn not enactment erstwhile your telephone is roaming, erstwhile your telephone is disconnected oregon retired of network, oregon erstwhile you diminution the telephone portion utilizing a Bluetooth headset.
How to usage Take a Message connected a Pixel phone
To alteration Take a Message, caput to the settings successful your Phone app (not your phone's settings successful general, but specifically the Phone app's settings). Scroll down until you spot Take a Message. Tap it, and you'll spot the toggle to crook connected the feature.
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