Google Phone App Testing ‘Flip to Silence’ on Non-Pixel Phones
Aug. 29, 2020With thePixel 3 series, Google added a ‘Flip to Shhh’ feature that silences your phone when you place the phone facing down. Google is reportedly bringing a similar feature to its ‘Google Phone’ dialer app on non-Pixel phones.
As reported byXDA Developers, Google Phone seems to have gained a‘Flip To Silence’ toggle to silence incoming calls. The option to enable flip to silence ispresent in the Advanced section of the app’s settings. Although the toggle is present, the report suggests that it is not functional for everyone.Image: XDA Developers
The toggle is reportedly live on several non Pixel phones including the Essential Phone, SamsungGalaxy Note 20 Ultra, iQOO 3, Redmi Note 5 Pro, ASUS ZenFone 6, POCO F1, andOnePlus Nord. It is not present on my OnePlus 7T.
From what it looks like, Google might be testing the new flip to silence feature with a specific set of users. Google is not enabling the toggle for Pixel users as they already have it through Digital Wellbeing’s Flip to Shhh feature.
The news comes just a couple of weeks after theGoogle Phone app gained support for most non Pixel phonesin beta. With this change, you can use the Google Phone app as your default dialer app, although getting it requires signing up for the application’s beta program. However, Google has not officially announced the Phone app’s availability for non-Pixel phones yet. When it does, we could expect Flip to Silence to be one of the key feature pitches of the software giant.
Subin writes about consumer tech, software, and security. He secretly misses the headphone jack while pretending he’s better off with the wireless freedom.
