iOS 17 won't be bringing the automatic call screening, but it will be bringing the ability to send calls to "voicemail" and screen them yourself, picking up if you feel like it's worth answering.

Honestly, this is what I wish Android's call screen was. Call screen starts by explaining itself, which I think could waste time, can be confusing, and possibly is insulting. Compared to a quick "Hey please leave a message after the beep."

I want to be able to send basically all unexpected calls to the screening, and only pick up if it's something I want to respond to right now. It feels rude to, eg, send a neighbor to a call screening service when I definitely have their number but don't want to drop what I'm doing to hear them complain about something.

Or I’ve seen something that they should probably deal with sooner rather than later.

But heh. Don’t interrupt me. That’s the main thing.

In my experience (with the beta), live voicemail actually replaces carrier voicemail whenever possible.

This means that if you ignore (or even miss!) a call, it’ll record and transcribe the call as a live voicemail anyway. So I’m not sure what Google’d call screening provides above this (unless all unknown calls get sent to the call screening? You can tell iOS to “Silence unknown callers,” which does still ringback a few times before recording a what I presume is a live voicemail)

And at any point during the voicemail you can answer the phone anyway.

Of course, if you get a call while you have no signal it’ll just go to carrier voicemail. (Recorded live voicemails and carrier voicemails are played back from the same screen, so this is no more complicated to navigate than before.)