Google has made adjustments to the Call Screening function on Pixel telephones. It’s now getting a extra simple Safety Stage menu, eradicating the granular controls that gave customers the ability to manage how their telephone dealt with undesirable or unknown calls.

Name Screening blocks spam and robocalls on Pixel gadgets. If you happen to’re a Pixel proprietor, you need to use the function to know who’s calling and why earlier than you choose up a name. Within the US, Google works its magic and routinely screens calls on all Pixels. Nonetheless, different international locations the place the function is offered solely have guide Name Screening choices.

Beforehand, Google gave customers controls to tinker with the Name Screening settings. So relying on the kind of name — Spam, Probably faked numbers, First-time callers, and Personal or hidden — customers may change how the function responded. You can set Name Screening to silently decline calls, ring the telephone, or routinely display and decline robocalls.

The brand new Safety Stage menu is much less nuanced. It takes away these granular controls from the Name Screening function and presents three easy choices — Most, Medium, and Primary. You’ll be able to select one relying on the extent of safety you need from unknown calls. If you happen to want to decline calls from recognized spam numbers, you may choose the Primary safety stage for Name Screening. The Medium choice will reject spam calls and display suspicious calls. Lastly, the Most safety stage will display all unknown numbers.

Whereas this reworked menu simplifies Name Screening on Pixel telephones, it takes away customers’ skill to deal with varied sorts of calls otherwise. The adjustments are subjective, although. Some would possibly want the much less busy Name Screening menu, whereas energy customers accustomed to the outdated menu and extra controls might not agree with Google’s adjustments.

In accordance with a Reddit user, the replace to Name Screening additionally brings extra interactivity to the function “to sound much less like an answering machine and extra human.”

“It additionally now not means that you can decline unknown numbers routinely (you may solely display all of them now),” the Redditor studies.

The brand new Name Screening Safety Stage menu is offered with the Cellphone app v106.0.534575879. AndroidPolice studies that the rollout is proscribed, so you will have to attend a bit to see the adjustments.