A future update to the Google Phone app could change how Android and Pixel users access their incoming and outgoing calls. | Image credit-Android Authority
All Android and some Pixel users currently get to see all incoming calls, outgoing calls, and missed calls by opening the Phone app and tapping the Recents tab at the bottom of the screen. Once the update is disseminated, pressing the Recent button will allow these users to view their call history sorted into different categories:
- All-View all incoming and outgoing calls.
- Missed-Incoming calls that you missed.
- Contacts-Incoming and outgoing calls involving a phone number in your contacts list.
- Non-Spam-Incoming calls that did not set off a Spam warning.
- Spam-Incoming calls that set off 1the Spam warning.
It isn’t clear when Google will release this update, but the fact that it currently resides inside a beta version of the Google Phone app could indicate that the update could be some time away. We should also point out that while Google’s update doesn’t include a separate tab for outgoing calls, there is hope that this will be a feature that Google will add down the road. Right now, after Android Authority was able to activate the update revealing the new tabs at the top of the display, only the “All” tab is working.
This doesn’t seem like a major update for some Android and all Pixel users although the bottom line is that users will be able to go through their phone calls more easily. That makes this a very useful update indeed.
