Google Voice is finally warning you when spammers call
Google Voicehas got to be one of the company’s weirdest services. It’s been around forever, and has some seriously devoted users, yet it feels like the sort of product that’s constantly on the chopping block, threatening todisappear into oblivion at Google’s whim. A large part of that has to do with just how much of an afterthought Voice always feels, and while we occasionally see itpick up a new ability or two, it’s nothing short of maddening watching Google’s Phone app getfeature after feature that pass Voice by. Thankfully, Google’s finally playing a bit of catch-up, bringing Voice the ability to alert you about spam calls.
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Google says it’s using the same techniques for Voice that it’s been employing for Phone spam call identification, so we’re not expecting to see any big change in false positives/negatives — and for what it’s worth, the existing system has worked very well. But on the off chance that misfires, users can always manually designate a number as not being spam, andVoice will remember that preference.
A “filter spam” option in Voice settings allows you to send these calls straight to voicemail, and even with that turned off, Google will display “Suspected spam caller”to alert you when receiving calls from suspicious numbers. Availability officially gets started today and should hit all Voice users by mid-January, but we’re already seeing the spam messages in our Voice call logs going back a couple weeks now.
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