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Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max by bitwalker on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @12:38AM (#41497207)
iOS does support a form a call screening, called live voicemail, which transcribes the message being recorded by the caller and lets you pick up the call if you want. iOS also supports ambient song identification, with history, which I use frequently. Safari supports extensions, and I believe other browsers can as well, but can't speak to that as I really only use Safari in my phone, even though it's not my primary browser on desktop.

Figured I'd drop a comment to let you know about the others though!

Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max by davidy123 on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @06:57AM (#41499467)
That's great news, I didn't know they had rolled out those features. I don't really want to rewrite my extensions for another browser, but I'll see how applicable the others might be.
Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max by 76SlashDolphin on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @08:27AM (#41500061)
> iOS also supports ambient song identification, with history, which I use frequently.

Does it? I can't find any info about this online and all I can find seems to indicate that you can run Shazam and it scans for some amount of time afterwards but iOS kills it to save battery. It doesn't seem like you can get Google Pixel-like "Now Playing" which I sorely miss on my iPhone 15 Pro.

Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max by davidy123 on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @08:41AM (#41500164)
Right, the person saying "they use it" as opposed to "refer to it" is an indicator. It's a great feature, using on-device "AI" (privacy preserving), and available since Pixel 2 (2018).