The Google Phone app is one of your best allies against phone spam; because it can detect and warn you before you pick up the phone. Other times you just don’t know who he is and returning to a missed call is not always a good option.

Then what we usually do is copy the phone number that called us and paste it into Google to see if it appears in any commercial search listings. Soon you’ll be able to do this with just the touch of a button.

Find who’s calling you with one tap

They call you from an unknown number and you’re not sure if it’s a salesperson, a scammer, or an important call. You then have three options: Leave it and they will call again if it is really important, answer the call to clear doubts, or return to the call, which is most people’s favorite. Search phone number on Google. There are many websites that collect commercial and spam phone numbers, and with these numbers we can often find ourselves wondering whether we should block the number.

Now the Google Phone application will make our task much easier, because although the application already has a caller identification system and protection against spam, we still find ourselves unknown numbers without any additional information. We can press a button on them to search on Google.

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This button is called To look It is in English and should be translated as: To call When I came to Spain. It will appear on the keypad that appears when you tap on a call in call history, next to Add to contacts, send message, or call history.

What this button will do is simply Search phone number on Google Without further ado, this is what most of us do to clear doubts. Instead of copying, switching to the browser, pasting and searching, we can do all these steps with one touch.

For now, this useful tool will eliminate any doubts about who is calling us. Not yet active for usersbut it was unofficially discovered in the latest version of the app. It is functional in its current form, but we do not yet know when it will be active for users.

via | Piunikaweb

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