Overview
- Google reports Android now blocks over 10 billion suspected malicious calls and messages each month and recently barred more than 100 million suspicious numbers from using RCS.
- A YouGov survey of roughly 5,000 users in the U.S., India and Brazil found Android users were 58% more likely than iOS users to report zero scam texts in the prior week, with iOS users 65% more likely to report receiving three or more.
- Counterpoint Research and a funded Leviathan Security Group assessment concluded Android devices, led by Pixel, provide broader default AI protections against scams than iPhones.
- Google details on‑device protections such as Messages spam filtering and AI Scam Detection, Phone by Google’s spam blocking and Call Screen, real‑time in‑call warnings, and safeguards that block risky actions during suspected fraud.
- Coverage notes caveats to Google’s comparison, citing a lack of public raw survey data, unclear device splits by region, presentation choices in feature comparisons, and no published response from Apple in these reports.