AI and Copilot haters - Every phone should have this app (Samsung S26 Ultra) !!! Call assistant - pre-screens calls

jimbo45 · 2026-08-26T05:27:02-0400

To all who hate A.I and co pilot -- I'm finding it more and more useful almost every day and it's only the beginning of this stuff -- This app particularly good on my samsung S26 Ultra phone with the 8.5 UI but also is in 9.0 beta if you've installed that one (it's the International / EU version with only esim so the phone or feature might not be available on phones bought in the UK or USA) .

Call assistant. This generates a request message for the caller to enter their name and the reason for calling which is displayed on your phone - you can agree to continue as text, answer or reject the call, block the number, assign to spam etc etc -- you can of course at any time answer the call normally -- when you get a call the call assistant button appears so you don't have to enter it but can just answer the call normally.

Brilliant very useful bit of app - especially when you get those annoying calls from Indian etc call centres from Customer (dis-)services after buying something or complaining about something and they call later with "how did we do" etc type rubbish. Well done Samsung -- mind you the app was not obvious to find in the phone's options.

I've looked in colleagues iPhones, latest one's and they at least I can't find it don't seem to have this app or equivalent - but I'm no expert on iPhones. Perhaps an iPhone user could reply if there is an equivalent app and how to activate it. !!

As far as A.I / Copilot is concerned I'm semi-retired now and this stuff helps so much these days on gigs - people who are young enough to be my grandkids seem to have no conception of the power of this stuff and take ages to do stuff that I can complete in minutes or hours !!!.

Over Every office there should be displayed rather like the famous motto over a notorious WWII death camp "Arbeit Macht Frei" -- changed for modern use "Work Smarter not Harder" !!!

Cheers
jimbo

Marcus Vinicus · 2026-08-26T05:57:07-0400

The most useful by far AI I have used is the AI in the new MS Windows Performance Analyzer (Preview version). This is strictly a complex analysis node for recorded ETL traces from Windows. This tool has impressed me greatly with its deep capabilities. It isn't a chatty/friendly AI it is in fact very robotic but has helped me understand the complex shutdown issue I've been having intermittently with Windows 11 on my desktop PC.

The end result is I'm starting to get on top of the said shutdown issue and know a great deal more about Windows shutdowns.

cereberus · 2026-08-26T06:24:32-0400

jimbo45 said:
To all who hate A.I and co pilot -- I'm finding it more and more useful almost every day and it's only the beginning of this stuff -- This app particularly good on my samsung S26 Ultra phone with the 8.5 UI but also is in 9.0 beta if you've installed that one (it's the International / EU version with only esim so the phone or feature might not be available on phones bought in the UK or USA) .

Call assistant. This generates a request message for the caller to enter their name and the reason for calling which is displayed on your phone - you can agree to continue as text, answer or reject the call, block the number, assign to spam etc etc -- you can of course at any time answer the call normally -- when you get a call the call assistant button appears so you don't have to enter it but can just answer the call normally.

Brilliant very useful bit of app - especially when you get those annoying calls from Indian etc call centres from Customer (dis-)services after buying something or complaining about something and they call later with "how did we do" etc type rubbish. Well done Samsung -- mind you the app was not obvious to find in the phone's options.

I've looked in colleagues iPhones, latest one's and they at least I can't find it don't seem to have this app or equivalent - but I'm no expert on iPhones. Perhaps an iPhone user could reply if there is an equivalent app and how to activate it. !!

As far as A.I / Copilot is concerned I'm semi-retired now and this stuff helps so much these days on gigs - people who are young enough to be my grandkids seem to have no conception of the power of this stuff and take ages to do stuff that I can complete in minutes or hours !!!.

Over Every office there should be displayed rather like the famous motto over a notorious WWII death camp "Arbeit Macht Frei" -- changed for modern use "Work Smarter not Harder" !!!

Cheers
jimbo

Frankly, in my opinion, it is a load of pretentious hype.

I have tried using it for a while but gave up as it was a PITA to use effectively.

In most cases the callers just rang off and genuine ones called back later.

Worse, you get a genuine reply whilst using it but unless you monitor it closely (rather defeating point of it), you end up not responding in time. The guys expect a response in a couple of seconds and ring off.

In the end, I just look at the calling number 0300 numbers in UK are usually genuine (typically NHS) so I answer. I tend to ignore 07 mobile numbers which are not in my contacts. If the call is important, they will leave a voice mail.

I generally ignore most regional landline 01 numbers as well (unless 01224 (Aberdeen) numbers) as most are spam calls.

The point is if the call is important, they will leave a message.

So in the end, to me this feature is "A solution to a problem I never had".

So my method is simple - answer if I recognise call, let it go to voicemail if I do not! This method uses HI (Human Intelligence).

Not sure how esims are relevant to your post. The full set of AI features on Samsung are flagship (and year) model based not on esim/nanosim ability.
An A series Samsung will only have a subset of the S series. Older S series out of support e.g. S22 (shamefully) does not have UI8.5.

cereberus · 2026-08-26T06:35:41-0400

There is on AI feature that is genuinely useful to me as a deaf person and that is "Audio Eraser".

It significantly reduces background noise including Hollywood Director's anal fetish for loud background music that makes soft foreground speech very difficult to hear properly.

With Samsung UI8.5, the feature was enhanced and works on live streams e.g. netflix, bbc iplayer, youtube etc. I find I miss much less of the speech now.

For any hard of hearing / deaf person I strongly recommend getting a mobile phione with this feature. Regrettably, it is only on flagship models but is available on the cheaper FE models such as S25 FE.

It is interesting to note that Iphones do not have such a feature. Since I bought the S25 FE, I rarely use my iphone anymore.

idgat · 2026-08-26T07:12:42-0400

I'm thinkin' ..... hmmm ... snake oil, that's it!!!

I much prefer to monitor my own calls rather than rely on some bot deciding who should be allowed to talk to me and who should not

Worked pretty well up to now, no reason to think otherwise

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