Google is working on a ‘lookup’ button for unknown callers on Android

Google is engaged on a characteristic that’s so easy and so helpful that I’m shocked it hasn’t been a part of our lives for a decade: a technique to search for a cellphone quantity that simply known as you, proper out of your latest calls display screen. X person AssembleDebug tipped off PiunikaWeb to a brand new “Lookup” button within the beta model of the Google Telephone app that, when tapped, brings up a Google Search with the quantity already entered for you.

Though the Google Telephone app is the default for Pixel telephones, different Android homeowners can obtain it. The brand new Lookup button lives with different choices, like “Block” and “Historical past,” that you simply see whenever you faucet on a latest name within the Telephone app. In an age the place a lot spam comes from spoofed cellphone numbers made to appear to be native calls, it nearly feels just like the characteristic is about 5 years too late.

Even so, I’m certain I’m not the one one that nonetheless goes by way of the painstaking means of copying unknown numbers that pester me and pasting them right into a Google search. Nowadays, I solely do it after I see the identical quantity greater than as soon as, however that occurs usually sufficient that I’d like to cease messing with the clunky smartphone copy / paste track and dance.

AssembleDebug additionally sniffed out that Google is engaged on including Gemini electronic mail summaries to the Android model of the Gmail app. As you may see within the screenshot above, the characteristic exists as a button slightly below the topic line of an electronic mail. Faucet it, and it provides you with a abstract. At the very least, that’s the presumed thought. PiunikaWeb writes that the button doesn’t do something fairly but, however that there’s additionally a brand new Gemini menu choice in Gmail’s three dots menu.

Within the meantime, the Android Gemini app can summarize emails for you (offered you have got a Google Workspace account). It might clearly be lots nicer to have Gemini do that in Gmail immediately, which is already the way it works on the net.