The original call-screening feature remains one of the best -- and now it's available either automatically or manually. If you have it set to manual, you tap "Screen call" when a call comes, and ...

The cold call is dead, at least for smartphones. But the phone conversation itself hasn’t lost its value; only the path to it has changed. Apple and Google have now both introduced technology that ...

Google is expanding one of Android's best features to your car by integrating Call Screening into Android Auto. Call Screening uses Google Assistant to answer a phone call for you to determine if it's ...

Integration of one’s personal device into their commute is something none of us would’ve imagined a decade or two ago. Today, it’s completely commonplace, and Google just made it a bit better. Android ...

One of the best features of the Google Pixel is its automatic call screening, which uses the phone's AI assistant to check in with incoming callers that might be spam. Now, based on an APK teardown of ...

A new feature for iPhones screens calls, similar to a technology available for Android users. Here’s how to activate it. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer ...