• Pixel phones can now warn you about potential scams when you get notifications from chat apps. • You’ll see a “Likely scam” alert on notifications for messages that seem suspicious. • Scam detection in messages is available for the Pixel 6 and up in the US.

To protect Pixel owners from the growing problem of scams, Google rolled out Scam Detection functionality for calls and text messages. In September, we discovered through an APK teardown that Google was working to expand this feature to chat apps. Now that expansion is finally rolling out in November’s Pixel Drop.

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