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

Issues continue with voicemail notifications. Got one 8 hours after the missed call. Tried restarting phone and made sure to have updated the Phone app to the most recent version. Even tried clearing the app's cache and storage and also uninstall and reinstall the Phone app. Issues continue and it's very frustrating. All the phone NEEDS to do is be a phone and it can't even do that. I just got a call with a voicemail but cannot access the voicemail in the list.

This app is great for Pixel devices. Everyone else is out of luck as otherwise it is an annoying app that has major accessibility issues. I use a bluetooth keyboard and due to how the app is coded, the number row doesn't work when you have to navigate through prompts IN and automated system. Instead, you have to arrow to reach numbers and hope you can do it quickly enough before the automated system times out from processing your response. It doesn't matter what kind of keyboard i used either

The worst phone application I have ever used! Half the time I try to call a number it will open dead air, then after 5 seconds to a minute, it just hangs up. It never actually dials the number! Edit to add: This has nothing to do with "connectivity issues." I have full signal. You just built a bad system.

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.