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I went from a Google Pixel 3 XL in Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max In 2021, and in the years since, I missed a lot Google holds for me. This feature is so useful that I am shocked that it has not been brought to the iPhone or even other Android phones in the years that followed. Hold for me saves me from the misery to listen to a horrible music whenever I needed to call a company, my health insurance provider, my cell phone carrier or one of the other countless adult tasks that still require speaking with a representative. Instead, the Google functionality would silence my phone while keeping the active call, listens to the music for me, then would sound when it is time to come back to the call while alerting the representative that I will come back shortly.
And therefore at Global Conference of Developers 2025When Apple announced Increase – Which is extremely like pixel taking for me – I was delighted. I watched a switch to Android for the Pixel 10Partly because I missed these call controls for daily problems. But with iOS 26Hold Assist must detect Hold Music, then give you the opportunity to silence the call while keeping it active. Then, when the representative returns, the phone will inform you when it is time to come back to the call. We will have to wait at least the public beta version to start trying this feature, but on paper, it looks almost exactly the Pixel functionality.
The functionality for me made its debut in 2020 with the Pixels 5 and 4A.
Although I am happy that the iPhone finally has an equivalent of this functionality, it should be emphasized that it took a long time for such improvements to come out to get out of the Google Pixel line. Google Hold Hold for me In 2020, but most other Android phones made by Samsung, OnePlus and others do not include their own vision of the idea.
The new call screening function for iOS 26 is similar to Pixel call screen optionBut it seems that Apple’s rendering will adopt a more automated approach. Apple’s call screen will collect information such as the name and goal of the person of an unknown caller for you, then present it as a summary to help you decide if you have to recover. You can also send more prompts if you are still not sure.
In iOS 26, Hold Assist will keep the call to remain active, but the phone will be silenced.
Google’s solution allows you to choose the questions asked to the caller and, instead of a summary, you are looking at a text transcription of the call.
What I appreciate the most in these features is that they remember that the iphone is a phone at the end of the day. And spam appellants are also a problem as ever, especially since Ai voice clones Add even more problems to the types of scams trying to reach people.
Until these features are available when iOS 26 will arrive later this year, I will continue to bring my patience the next time I have to call my health insurance provider. And keeping my crossed fingers that keep music can become something from the past when the support assistance becomes widely available.
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