Caller ID announcements could come in very handy for remote working, when phones may be far away from the computer, so it's easy to know who's calling before you get up to pick up your phone.Īlso read: Google Phone app now supports call recordings from unknown numbers While the feature (which was first discovered by XDA last September) has been a work in progress for months now, few users had access to the feature, which is reportedly rolling out to more users now. 2PkBx4FvUM- Mishaal Rahman September 29, 2020

You will need to tick the checkbox we've added, but from then on you won't be prompted.įor Windows, you'll need to add a registry key which requires a few more steps.Google Phone app is testing a new caller ID announcement feature and an option to automatically delete old Call Screen transcripts and recordings after 30 days. Now when clicking on phone numbers, you will still be prompted to open Cradle so we just need to have Chrome always use Cradle so that you stop getting asked! Adding the 'always open' checkbox MacOSįor MacOS, you can just open up Terminal and enter the following command: defaults write ExternalProtocolDialogShowAlwaysOpenCheckbox -bool trueĪfter you've done that, just restart Chrome and click on a phone number link. From there, just simply disable this setting. To do so, head on over to Google Chrome's experimental feature configuration through this URL: chrome://flags/#click-to-call-ui. Normally when clicking a phone number link in Chrome, you get the click to call UI displayed as shown below so we just want to disable that. Calls are still possible using the click to call UI, however Make a call from Cradle will need to be clicked each time. As of Chrome version 92, the following steps to disable the click to call UI no longer work.

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