A serious Pixel-exclusive function may very well be coming to the Galaxy S26

Among the best Pixel options is Rip-off Detection. Launched with the Pixel 9 sequence, Rip-off Detection notifies customers about potential scams as they happen. That is finished for telephone calls, textual content messages, and even chat apps. Up to now, Rip-off Detection has been a Pixel-only function, nevertheless it appears the function might lastly be shedding that exclusivity, doubtlessly beginning with the upcoming Galaxy S26 sequence.

Rip-off Detection is out there on quite a lot of Pixel telephones, however there’s a slight distinction in how it’s applied throughout generations.

Pixel 9 sequence (excluding Pixel 9a) and Pixel 10 sequence in Australia, Canada, India, Eire, the UK, and the US get Rip-off Detection powered by on-device Gemini Nano by way of AI Core. Pixel 6 and later gadgets within the US additionally get Rip-off Detection, however it’s powered by Google’s on-device machine studying fashions.

Inside the Cellphone by Google app v206.0.857916353, we’ve noticed clues that point out Google is working to deliver Rip-off detection to the upcoming Galaxy S26 sequence, doubtlessly making them the primary non-Pixel telephones to get the function.

We noticed mentions of what seem like mannequin numbers for the Galaxy S26 sequence within the Google Dialer app.

Right here, SM-S942 is predicted to be the Galaxy S26, SM-S947 is predicted to be the Galaxy S26 Plus, and SM-S948 is predicted to be the Galaxy S26 Extremely. The mannequin numbers are talked about alongside the codenames of a number of Pixel gadgets, particularly the Pixel 9 sequence (excluding Pixel 9a) and the Pixel 10 sequence.

The final line of the code snippet above mentions “Sharpie,” which is the codename for Rip-off Detection within the Google Cellphone app.

The Pixel telephones talked about use on-device Gemini Nano for Rip-off Detection, and there’s an opportunity the Galaxy S26 sequence might additionally do the identical.

With all of this stated, now we have a peculiar downside: Samsung Galaxy telephones don’t ship with the Google Cellphone app. As a substitute, they use the Samsung Cellphone app because the pre-installed default dialer.

Customers can obtain the Google Cellphone app from the Play Retailer and set up it on their Galaxy telephones and set it because the default dialer, however we’re uncertain if doing so will grant it all of the requisite permissions wanted for Rip-off Detection to work, as it will likely be categorised as a consumer app as an alternative of a system app.

It stays to be seen if Samsung will preload the Google Cellphone app because the default dialer on the Galaxy S26 sequence and ditch the Samsung Cellphone app.

There’s priority right here, as the corporate ditched Samsung Messages in favor of Google Messages in 2024 to higher help RCS options. Samsung Messages relied on carriers to help RCS, whereas Google Messages makes use of Google’s personal Jibe servers, so this transfer made some sense. There’s no equal want for the dialer app, although, so there’s much less incentive for Samsung to make the transfer — until Google may very well be sweetening the deal, because it seems to be by permitting the Galaxy S26 sequence telephones to be a part of this unique membership.

Neither Google nor Samsung has introduced this function or change, and it stays to be seen whether or not it makes it to market in any respect on the Galaxy S26 sequence. We’ll maintain you up to date after we study extra.