Honestly, I'll have to pay more attention to this.
Between this feature and Verizon’s Call Filter app, my junk calls that make it through have fallen to almost zero. In my experience, ones that make it past VZW’s filter and hit screening almost always drop the call immediately before a word is even spoken.
Great to hear. Do you still get the banner notifications for the calls that are silenced or blocked?
Every now and again I’ll see the Dynamic Island display that a call is being screened, but as I mentioned above, the call usually ends before the transcription process even begins so it’s a pretty unobtrusive process IMO.
Thanks. If a call is screened and the caller gives a name (or maybe says anything at all?), I assume the phone then audibly rings? There’s probably an Apple demo video that I haven’t seen. Thanks again.
Correct. Unless you have selected the full “silence” option for call screening, once the transcription begins on screen the phone will ring. I have it set to “ask reason for calling”. When I had it set to full silence, I don’t recall receiving any notifications and was actually surprised to see a call or two show up there when I went into the phone app to place a call.
TBH I prefer the option of sending it to be screened. 90% of my non-spam phone calls are from unknown numbers, doctors appointments etc. If I silenced all unknown numbers, I would never get any calls.
How does this option work if you don’t have your phone in hand? Such calls ring by default?
The phone rings and you can either answer, decline or screen. You can also silence unknown numbers but that doesn’t work well for me as most legit calls I get aren’t saved in my contacts. The pixel does identify the number though, I.e. it says business name. That’s way more useful than apple’s implementation
