Google's Scam Detection is now on the Galaxy S26, and you don't need the Google Phone app

Google’s recent Pixel phones introduced Scam Detection for phone calls, giving you a heads-up if a call starts to sound shady. This feature is available in Google’s Phone app, but it’s now coming to the Samsung Galaxy S26 series as well.

Google confirmed that Scam Detection is available in the Samsung phone app on the Galaxy S26 phones. This feature uses the Gemini Nano on-device AI model while you’re on a call to detect conversation patterns frequently associated with scams. The feature is disabled for your contacts, though.

“If a caller, for example, tries to get you to provide payment via gift cards to complete a delivery, Scam Detection will alert you through audio and haptic notifications and display a warning on your phone that the call may be a scam,” Google noted in a blog post last year.

Google adds that Scam Detection on the Galaxy S26 series is limited to English speakers in the US. So you might have to wait a while if you’re hoping for support in your market and desired language.

In any event, Scam Detection was previously limited to the Google Phone app, so we’re glad to see it’s coming to the Samsung phone app. This news also comes roughly a month after we first uncovered evidence of Scam Detection coming to the Galaxy S26 series.

There’s no word if or when this will come to older Samsung flagship phones, though. It should be possible from a technical perspective, as recent high-end Galaxy phones already run the AI model that underpins Scam Detection. We also hope the feature lands on phones from other OEMs later this year.