Phone By Google Adding Call History Filters, Material 3 Search Bar

The Phone by Google app is adding filters to the “Recents” tabs that lets you sort and quickly triage your call history list.

To start with, yes, Google made the top search bar that spans across all four tabs bigger. It’s taller and more aligned with the Material 3 design language in other first-party apps, like Gmail.

Underneath, you’ll find a carousel of filters: All, Missed, Contacts, Non-Spam, and Spam. The options are pretty straightforward with “Contacts” a good idea, while “Non-Spam” is a clunky name but gets the points across.

Old vs. new

Visually, the option to hide them behind a filter icon (see: Google Contacts) would be nice, and a bit cleaner.

While Phone by Google will remember what filter you were last on when the app remains in Recents/multitasking, it will otherwise default to the “All” view.

We’re seeing this (via Android Police) rolled out today on just one device running the Phone by Google beta (version 159).