Google disables Take a Message on older Pixel phones amid audio leak bug

Take a Message and next-gen Call Screen features are being disabled connected Pixel 4 and Pixel 5 devices.

Google is disabling immoderate Phone app features connected older Pixel devices aft acknowledging a bug that inadvertently leaked audio to callers. The contented has specifically been linked to the Take a Message diagnostic released past year, which automatically answers and transcribes voicemails erstwhile you miss a call, with a fistful of Pixel 4 and 5 owners reporting that their microphones were activating erstwhile callers were leaving messages.

"We've investigated this issue, which we've confirmed affects a precise tiny subset of Pixel 4 and 5 devices nether precise circumstantial and uncommon circumstances," said Google assemblage manager Siri Tejaswini connected a enactment page. "Out …

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