{"id":588115,"date":"2026-08-18T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/588115\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:00:11","slug":"googles-scam-detection-feature-is-headed-to-another-android-device-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/588115\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Scam Detection feature is headed to another Android device maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Scam Detection can warn you of potential scams during phone calls, and so far it&#8217;s been available for Pixels of course, but also Samsung flagships since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/res.php3?sSearch=galaxy+s26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy S26 series<\/a>. However, it turns out that the feature is probably headed to a third Android brand: vivo.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new report based on a teardown of the latest Phone by Google app, vivo phones should be next in line to support Scam Detection. In the screenshots below, note that &#8220;Sharpie&#8221; is an internal codename Google has for the Scam Detection feature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-row clearfix\">&#13;<br \/>\n<a onclick=\"javascript:ShowImg2(&quot;news\/26\/08\/google-scam-detection-coming-to-vivo\/popup\/-1200x900m\/gsmarena_001.jpg&quot;);return false\" href=\"#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Google Scam Detection headed to vivo phones\" width=\"359\" height=\"124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787032811_172_gsmarena_001.jpg\"\/><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n<a onclick=\"javascript:ShowImg2(&quot;news\/26\/08\/google-scam-detection-coming-to-vivo\/popup\/-1200x900m\/gsmarena_002.jpg&quot;);return false\" href=\"#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Google Scam Detection headed to vivo phones\" width=\"275\" height=\"124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787032811_666_gsmarena_002.jpg\"\/><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n<br \/>Google Scam Detection headed to vivo phones<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no telling which vivo devices will get it, but it might launch on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/news.php3?sSearch=vivo%20x500\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming X500 family<\/a>. Whether it will be backported to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/res.php3?sSearch=vivo+x300\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X300 series<\/a> is another question.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s also a mystery is whether this will be available in vivo&#8217;s phone app, similar to how Samsung does it, or whether this means vivo will fully adopt the Phone by Google app. Anyway, it&#8217;s nice to see (at least unofficial) confirmation that the Scam Detection feature won&#8217;t be confined to Google and Samsung devices forever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-scam-detection-expanding-teardown-3699159\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Scam Detection can warn you of potential scams during phone calls, and so far it&#8217;s been available&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,125],"class_list":["post-588115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}