Google dusts off Google Voice and adds three-way calling

Google is giving its Google Voice app immoderate much-needed emotion aft leaving it practically untouched for a agelong time. The institution is adding a refreshed in-call interface with cardinal telephone power buttons lined up successful a row, positive the quality to commencement a three-way league call.

In a Workspace update today, Google says the telephone interface present has a salient and easy accessible layout that looks much similar Google Meet. It includes a “Transfer” fastener to the near of the Hold button, and an “Add” fastener to the close that changes to “Merge” erstwhile you person a 2nd telephone waiting.

You commencement a three-way telephone by tapping the Add fastener during an existing telephone and selecting idiosyncratic from your interaction list. Voice volition past commencement a telephone with the different idiosyncratic and fto you merge the calls with a tap. The interface besides gives you a notification-like connection connected apical to fto you cognize erstwhile idiosyncratic is connected clasp and gives you a fastener to power betwixt calls.

This three-way calling update is presently connected extended rollout that could instrumentality up to 15 days oregon longer; and is lone coming to Google Workspace customers who person a Voice Starter, Voice Standard, oregon Voice Premier subscription, arsenic good arsenic customers with SIP Link Standard and SIP Link Premier. Google says the caller looks volition travel to each Google Voice users; however, it does not notation whether that includes iOS (Google’s examples lone amusement the interface for Android).