Android’s new ‘Call Reason’ flags important calls before you even pick up

Android users volition soon person an enactment to adhd an “urgent” indicator to their calls, which shows up connected the receiver’s incoming telephone surface and successful their telephone past if they don’t prime up. It’s a caller diagnostic successful beta investigating successful the Phone by Google app, Call Reason, that volition lone enactment for radical who are saved successful your Contacts database already, and if you some usage Google’s default calling app connected Android phones. 

If you often nonstop calls to voicemail (or your friends don’t prime up your calls), this diagnostic allows you to archer each different erstwhile you’re calling astir thing important, oregon request to speech close away, without sending a abstracted text. 

Right now, Call Reason is conscionable for marking calls arsenic “urgent,” but it would besides beryllium bully to spot much options down the line, similar a customized connection oregon emoji to amusement wherefore you’re calling. Since the Call Reason connection besides shows up successful your telephone history, it could besides beryllium a adjuvant reminder to telephone idiosyncratic backmost astir thing circumstantial if you can’t prime up successful the moment.  

Call Reason is rolling retired arsenic a beta feature, and availability volition alteration by telephone manufacturer. You tin cheque for the update connected your telephone by tapping your illustration icon connected the Google Play Store, “Manage apps & devices,” and “Check for updates.” You tin besides double-check that you’re utilizing Phone by Google for your calls by going into your Settings app, past “Apps” and “Default apps.”