There are plenty of features hiding beneath the surface of your phone, and chances are you didn't even know most of them existed. Pixel phones are some of the worst offenders for this, with Google ...

Last year, the Pixel Phone app introduced “Take a Message” to automatically “handle your missed or declined calls.” A very small number of users have encountered an issue where “Take a Message” is ...

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For a small number of users, the Pixel Phone app’s “Take a Message” feature inadvertently sent audio to the caller. Google has now confirmed the issue and is disabling it on the Pixel 4 and 5 series.

Background audio was being exposed during missed calls ‘under very specific and rare circumstances.’ Background audio was being exposed during missed calls ‘under very specific and rare ...

A new bug is affecting some older Pixel phones. The bug sends background audio to a caller leaving a message. You can turn off Take A Message for now. If you have a Pixel phone, there's a new bug ...

Pixel Phone app’s Take a Message custom greetings feature looks almost ready for launch. The feature, which lets you record a custom voicemail greeting for your contacts, was spotted in the works last ...

Ever since it debuted on the Pixel 10 series last August, Take a Message has quickly become one of my favorite recent Pixel features. Essentially Google’s modern take on the voicemail box, Take a ...

Google introduced Take a Message as an alternative to voicemail on the Pixel 10. We already identified work towards supporting custom greetings for individual callers in Take a Message. That work now ...