Google Has Disabled the "Take a Message" Feature on Older Pixel Phones Due to Audio Leak Bug.
Google has temporarily disabled the Take a Message feature, which automatically answers and transcribes voicemails when you miss a call, due to an audio leak bug affecting some Pixel 4 and 5 devices.
The bug, discovered by users, causes microphones to activate unexpectedly when callers are leaving messages, with some owners reporting they could hear their own room sounds or voices while the message was being left. This issue has been confirmed by Google, but is said to only affect a very small subset of devices under rare circumstances.
Out of an abundance of caution, Google has disabled these features on affected devices as a precautionary measure. In the meantime, users with impacted Pixel 4 and 5 phones can still use manual and automatic Call Screening or their carrier's voicemail services.
The company has not yet confirmed whether the Take a Message feature will be permanently removed from older Pixel handsets or restored in the future.
Google has temporarily disabled the Take a Message feature, which automatically answers and transcribes voicemails when you miss a call, due to an audio leak bug affecting some Pixel 4 and 5 devices.
The bug, discovered by users, causes microphones to activate unexpectedly when callers are leaving messages, with some owners reporting they could hear their own room sounds or voices while the message was being left. This issue has been confirmed by Google, but is said to only affect a very small subset of devices under rare circumstances.
Out of an abundance of caution, Google has disabled these features on affected devices as a precautionary measure. In the meantime, users with impacted Pixel 4 and 5 phones can still use manual and automatic Call Screening or their carrier's voicemail services.
The company has not yet confirmed whether the Take a Message feature will be permanently removed from older Pixel handsets or restored in the future.
at least it's only a bug that's affecting a small number of devices so no huge deal, but still super annoying... anyone else having this issue?
so i think google is being super responsible here, you know? they're taking care of this one tiny audio leak bug that's affecting like, super rare cases. it's not worth risking people hearing their own voices in voicemails lol. and yeah, it's easy for us to say now, but we don't know the inner workings of google's tech 
. maybe they'll figure out a way to fix this without having to disable the whole feature... i mean, think about all the ppl who use that stuff 
. I know it's due to an audio leak bug, but that doesn't make it okay 
. I've had my phone for a while now and I'm not happy about having to use manual call screening instead of the convenient Take a Message feature 
. And what really gets me is that Google isn't even sure if they're gonna bring back this feature or not... like, what's up with that? 
. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens next 
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what's going on with Google's Pixel phones?! First, it's always something... like this audio leak bug 
(I was totally being rude to her lol). This is so frustrating! Can't Google just get their crap together for once?! 
literally just when I was getting used to having those fancy auto-transcript features on my old pixel 4 
but come on, is it really that big of a deal? like, what's the point of having an auto-transcript feature if you're just gonna disable it because of a minor audio issue? 
something like: