Re: Need Info on spam blocking app for cell phones

Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:
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<sam@invalid.com> wrote:
 

What is the app many people have on their cell phones that requires a
caller to tap in two numbers in order to have the other party answer?

 
You sure you aren't asking about call screening which is a feature of
the telco/cellular service provider?

 
Or a feature of Android. Call Screening is on my Pixel phone, and
from the descriptive text in its settings I'm pretty sure this is not
something from my provider, Visible.

It isn't a feature of Google's Phone app?

https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/9118387?hl=en

That mentions configuring their Phone /app/ regarding call screening.
Pixel phones come bundled with Google's Phone app.

Call screening by an app on your phone does not obviate a call screening
feature with your cellular service.  I have call screening with Google
Voice.  That's a server-side feature.  There is no call screening
feature in my Android nor do I have a phone app with call screening.
Google Voice handles that for me.  So, my PBX provider atop my cellular
provider has call screening.

Ooma, an alternative to Google Voice, also has a call screening feature
which is identical to how it works with Google Voice, but I didn't have
to pay for a Plus feature as it is included in free Google Voice.

https://support.ooma.com/office/call-screening-overview/

https://www.visible.com/help/plan-features

Doesn't list a call screening feature at Visible, a division of Verizon.
If call screening isn't an option with your cellular provider, and you
don't want to incorporate a PBX-like service (e.g., Google Voice, Ooma)
then you can use an app on your phone with call screening.  Google's
Phone app has it, and probably why you have it (a feature of their Phone
app, not of their Android OS).

If I search Google's Play store on "call screen", all the candidates are
phone/dialer apps.