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TL;DR
- Samsung is working on a dedicated Blocked calls dashboard for its Phone app in One UI 9.5.
- The dashboard shows calls blocked over the past 30 days, categorized into potential fraud, suspected spam, and manually blocked calls.
- The feature was manually enabled and is still in development, with no confirmed release date.
Your Samsung Galaxy can already block unwanted calls, and the South Korean tech giant now appears to be preparing an easy way for you to keep track of just how many such calls your phone has filtered out.
For what it’s worth, blocked-call history isn’t entirely new. You can already head to the Phone app > Recents > the three-dot menu and toggle on/off the option to view/hide blocked calls. However, what Samsung seems to be working on is a more detailed dashboard.
APK teardown
This reporting is based on work-in-progress code. These features may not ship.
We found hints about the feature by manually enabling its new Blocked calls section in the Phone app in One UI 9.5. As seen in the screenshots below, in addition to highlighting how many calls the Phone app has blocked in the last 30 days, this new dashboard will also divide blocked calls into distinct categories.
These categories include Potential fraud, Suspected spam, and Blocked by you, and they’re all represented with their distinct colors in the overall total stacked horizontal bar chart.
Tapping on any of the individual categories opens a dedicated page showing its corresponding blocked calls. Considering that the feature is still in development, all of these sections currently appear empty. If and when live, these pages will automatically populate with calls that your phone has blocked in the last 30 days.
This isn’t a groundbreaking addition, but it sure could be helpful for those trying to understand how frequently their phones filter out unwanted calls, and more importantly, what kind of calls.
Interestingly, the dashboard also highlights whether automatic spam and scam call blocking is enabled, alongside a shortcut to enable the feature if it isn’t.
Note that your Samsung phone already offers a similarly named Block numbers section. It lets users block calls from unknown numbers, alongside an option to manually add numbers to the blocklist. Numbers blocked here would eventually show up in the new Blocked calls section — if that number happens to ring you in the future.
We manually enabled the feature in the Phone app from One UI 9.5, so you won’t be able to try out the new feature just yet. There’s also no guarantee that this feature will make it out of testing. We’ll keep an eye on further developments.
APK teardown
This reporting is based on work-in-progress code. These features may not ship.
