A few years ago Mobile manufacturers integrated all kinds of their own essential applications into their smartphonessuch as calendar, contacts or telephone. In addition, Google integrated its own, along with others widely used in Spain such as Google Maps or Gmail. That these apps came as standard facilitated their use to many users, who were practically never going to download certain apps from application stores.
That has currently changed and The vast majority of brands choose to integrate only Google’s essential applications so that there are no redundancies in the smartphones itself. However, Samsung continues to include its applications, because they integrate functions that Google apps do not and because it wants to keep control of its software.
One of the applications that comes standard is phone. This app is the one that allows us to call, but also With the new artificial intelligence functions of One UI 7 it allows to record and transcribe the callanswer a call with text, etc. Next to that there are less advanced but even more useful functions, such as the Spam call lock. This function is not exclusive to this Samsung app, but it is important that you have it since many mobile users of this brand use this app to call.
In order to use this function we have open the phone applicationwith the green icon, and establish it as predetermined to modify its adjustments. Once we have configured it, click on the icon of the three points vertical of the upper right area, and then in Settings
There appears a menu called Block numbers which allows us to block unknown numbers and even block specific numbers. As if that were not enough, there is another adjustment called Calling ID and Spam Protection which gives us two control options.
Spam control interface in Samsung’s telephone app
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Can block all unwanted calls and those that are potentially scammers And we can also use a less aggressive filter and block only the calls of potential threats, depending on the database that Samsung itself has to avoid this type of problem.
It is important to be consitant to this type of threats, both by phone and through other ways. The scams by email and even by WhatsApp are the order of the day. It is best to always be especially cautious and distrustful.
