We walk you through Google Voice's iPhone app, version 1.0.
Jessica Dolcourt
Jessica is a passionate content strategist and team leader across the CNET family of brands. She leads a number of teams, including commerce, performance optimization and the copy desk. Her CNET career began in 2006, testing desktop and mobile software for Download.com and CNET, including the first iPhone and Android apps and operating systems. She continued to review, report on and write a wide range of commentary and analysis on all things phones, with an emphasis on the iPhone and Samsung devices. Jessica was one of the first people in the world to test, review and report on foldable phones and 5G wireless speeds.
Jessica began her leadership role managing CNET's How To section for tips and FAQs in 2019, guiding coverage of topics ranging from personal finance to phones to home. She holds an MA with Distinction from the University of Warwick in the UK.
After a year and a half of waiting, Google Voice for iPhone has finally arrived to the App Store.
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Main menu
The main menu gives you an in-box for managing your Google Voice text and voice messages.
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Message in-box
You can favorite, read, and play messages from the in-box. Since Google Voice is visual voice mail, the chronology makes no difference. Pulling down the entire screen with your finger manually refreshes the list.
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Priority voice mail
The bifurcated Contacts screen has one view for all contacts and a filtered view where you'll see a list of favorite callers and recent calls for faster selection.
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Quick Dial
Here's what the Quick Dial and Recents fields look like after making some calls.
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Dialer screen
The clean layout makes it obvious how to place a call or compose a text.
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Unknown numbers
Some texts came in through routing numbers, a mistake. This is neither our colleague's iPhone or Google Voice number.
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Texting
Texting looked good within Google Voice, although as my colleague Rafe noticed, messages often appeared in our iPhone text in-box in addition to the in-box on the Google Voice app.
