Google Voice Now Alerts You to Potentially Spam Calls

Google Voice launched a feature to commemorate spam calls (Photo: Google)

JAKARTA - Google has announced that they will now display a red label saying Suspected spam caller on calls believed to be spam in Google Voice.

"To help protect you from unwanted calls and potentially malicious scams, Google Voice displays the Suspected spam caller label on all calls that Google believes to be spam," said the announcement shared on Thursday, December 29.

The blog post also mentions where the search giant is trying to identify spam calls using advanced artificial intelligence.

"Google makes these decisions using the same advanced artificial intelligence that identifies billions of spam calls each month across the Google calling ecosystem," he added.

If the new label appears on the incoming call screen and in your call history, you have the option to confirm whether it was a spam call or not.

If confirmed as a suspected spam call, future calls from that number go straight to voicemail and the call history entry is put in the spam folder.

Or you can also mark labeled calls as not spam, after which a label suspected of being spam will never be shown again for that number.

Suspected spam labeling will appear automatically when the Voice spam filter setting is enabled by going to Settings > Security > Spam filter.

When spam filtering is on, all calls that Google identifies as spam are automatically sent to voicemail, and call entries are placed in the spam folder.

This feature has started rolling out on December 29, 2022, for all Google Voice subscribers.