Phone by Google

Google LLC

About this app

Google’s official phone calling app is now available to download for the first time. Phone helps you easily connect with family and friends, block spam callers and know who’s calling before you answer – all with a simple, intuitive design.

Powerful spam protection
See warnings about suspicious callers that help you avoid unwanted calls from spammers, telemarketers and scammers. Block numbers to prevent them from calling you again.

Know who’s calling you
Google’s extensive caller ID coverage lets you know the business that’s calling so that you can answer with confidence.

Screen unknown callers ^1,2
Call Screen answers unknown callers, filters out detected spammers without interrupting you and helps you learn more about callers that you don’t recognise before you pick up.

Visual voicemail ^1,3
Check your messages without needing to call your voicemail – view and play them in any order, read transcriptions, and delete or save them directly from the app.

Intuitive design
Our simple, lightweight design keeps your favourite people just a tap away. Plus, switch to dark mode to save battery and reduce eye strain at night.

Emergency support ^1,4
See your current location when you make an emergency call, and share information about the assistance that you require, along with your location, to the emergency operator without speaking.

Phone app is available on most Android devices running Android^™ 9.0 and above.

Also available for Wear OS.

1 Available only on some devices that have Phone pre-installed.
2 Automatic screening is available in the US only, English only. Manual screening is available in US, CA only, English only. Call Screen may not detect all robocalls or spam calls.
3 Transcription is available in the US only, English only.
4 Available in Australia, the United Kingdom and the US only, English only.

Ratings and reviews

Hate the new update. I don't need a bunch of names of people who I'm not calling showing up when I'm trying to use the phone. Just a regular phone was perfect. All this does is introduce the possibility of errors. Additionally, Wi-Fi calling now drops out every 5 seconds or so for about 1 second, so I have to disable Wi-Fi to take a call to avoid this drops. I have been using this app for many years and it's been flawless. Suddenly I can't take calls with a phone app. Really bad guys. I'm gone.

The latest update is a step backwards. The large contacts button has been moved to a less convenient location and is smaller now. Sorting contacts by name is broken, so it doesn't matter how you set it, it only sorts by first name. Favorite contact buttons are smaller with no improvement in usability. Change for the sake of change isn't good. improve it, or leave it alone

I don't care for the changes in the user interface in the new version generally. I haven't seen anything that really seems better. And it has bugs for example to display will not sort by last name. nor will it display last name first, even though the settings are for it to do so. always opens to some filter of call record rather than the contact list. requires at least one button press, or two, to get to the contact list.

What's new

With our latest update to Call Screen on Pixel devices in the US, the Google Assistant now helps you automatically screen unknown callers and filter out detected robocalls before your phone ever rings. And when it’s not a robocall, your phone rings a few moments later with helpful context about who is calling and why.