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Default Apps
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Wei Lu
2023-08-30 04:49:20 UTC
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What are the default apps you have set up for Android?

My Samsung Android 12 default apps are set to
Browser app = DuckDuckGo
Caller ID & spam app = unset
Digital assistant app = unset
Home App = One UI Home
Phone app = Phone
SMS app = Messages
Opening links = unset

What do you have your Android settings default apps set to?
Specifically, what "Caller ID" and "Digital Assistant" do you use?
Lu Wei
2023-08-30 08:35:43 UTC
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Post by Wei Lu
What are the default apps you have set up for Android?
My Samsung Android 12 default apps are set to
Browser app = DuckDuckGo
Caller ID & spam app = unset
Digital assistant app = unset
Home App = One UI Home
Phone app = Phone
SMS app = Messages
Opening links = unset
What do you have your Android settings default apps set to?
Specifically, what "Caller ID" and "Digital Assistant" do you use?
My browser app is Firefox; and I think Caller ID & spam app should be
Phone, or you don't have spam blocking function. "Digital Assistant" is
supplied by phone developer, a voice assistant.
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Frankie
2023-08-30 14:05:43 UTC
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Post by Lu Wei
Post by Wei Lu
What do you have your Android settings default apps set to?
Specifically, what "Caller ID" and "Digital Assistant" do you use?
My browser app is Firefox; and I think Caller ID & spam app should be
Phone, or you don't have spam blocking function.
I do not know what the correct setting is for Caller ID & spam apps.

I ran a google play store search for free "spam blocker" apps without ads.
These are the only apps showing up as both free & ad free in that search.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.felenasoft.callblocker
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.privacystar.android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.privacystar.android.tracfone
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.realcall.spamcallblocker
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.realnetworks.kontxt.voice
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robokiller.app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trendmicro.fraudbuster
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.webascender.callerid
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mistergroup.shouldianswer

Given the Google Play search filters are generally perfect but my search
terms are imperfect (for example, "spam blocker" or "caller id" searches),
there are probably other free & ad free apps which can do callerid tasks.

I don't know how they work.
Maybe they intercept the call before you get it?
Post by Lu Wei
"Digital Assistant" is
supplied by phone developer, a voice assistant.
Likewise, I'm not sure what the Digital Assistant is supposed to be set to.

In my search for a free & ad free "digital assistant" on Google Play
only two apps showed up but I'm would think "Automate" would also work.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.googleassistant
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theflutterist.alfred

What is a digital assistant supposed to do for you?

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