Overview
- The in-development feature lets callers pick a short “Call Reason,” including options like “It’s urgent!,” before placing a call.
- If the recipient has the feature enabled, calls marked urgent can make sound and override Do Not Disturb, with “Missed Urgent Call” notifications noted in strings.
- Sending the chosen reason appears to rely on SMS, and the Phone by Google app requests SMS permission to use the capability.
- The discovery comes from decompiling the public beta of Phone by Google version 201.0.833052069, with strings referencing the codename “expresso.”
- Google has not announced the feature or a rollout timeline, and reports suggest it could debut on Pixel devices first.