Google is working on a ‘lookup’ button for unknown callers on Android

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Google is moving connected a diagnostic that is truthful elemental and truthful utile that I’m shocked it hasn’t been portion of our lives for a decade: a mode to look up a telephone fig that conscionable called you, close from your caller calls screen. X idiosyncratic AssembleDebug tipped disconnected PiunikaWeb to a caller “Lookup” fastener successful the beta mentation of the Google Phone app that, erstwhile tapped, brings up a Google Search with the fig already entered for you.

Although the Google Phone app is the default for Pixel phones, different Android owners tin download it. The caller Lookup fastener lives with different options, similar “Block” and “History,” that you spot erstwhile you pat connected a caller telephone successful the Phone app. In an property wherever truthful overmuch spam comes from spoofed telephone numbers made to look similar section calls, it astir feels similar the diagnostic is astir 5 years excessively late.

Even so, I’m definite I’m not the lone idiosyncratic who inactive goes done the painstaking process of copying chartless numbers that pester maine and pasting them into a Google search. These days, I lone bash it aft I spot the aforesaid fig much than once, but that happens often capable that I would emotion to halt messing with the clunky smartphone transcript / paste opus and dance.

AssembleDebug besides sniffed out that Google is moving connected adding Gemini email summaries to the Android mentation of the Gmail app. As you tin spot successful the screenshot above, the diagnostic exists arsenic a fastener conscionable nether the taxable enactment of an email. Tap it, and it volition springiness you a summary. At least, that’s the presumed idea. PiunikaWeb writes that the fastener doesn’t bash thing rather yet, but that determination is besides a caller Gemini paper enactment successful Gmail’s 3 dots menu.

In the meantime, the Android Gemini app tin summarize emails for you (provided you person a Google Workspace account). It would evidently beryllium a batch nicer to person Gemini bash this successful Gmail directly, which is already however it works connected the web.