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Android's My Calling Card Adds Personal Call Screens

Android Lets You Set 'My Calling Card'
My Calling Card
  • Key Takeaways:
  • Google’s Phone app beta (v204.0.852029473) includes a new "My Calling Card" feature.
  • Users can set a personal call screen image, font, size, and color, and choose visibility (Everyone or Contacts).
  • If a contact has already set a calling card for you, that card may take precedence over yours.

What My Calling Card does

Google is rolling out a self-configurable calling card inside the Phone by Google app that mirrors Apple’s Contact Poster functionality.

The feature, discovered active in beta version 204.0.852029473 by Android Authority, lets you create a personalized call screen that appears when you call others who haven’t set a card for you.

How to set it up

My Calling Card will appear under Settings > Calling card in the Phone app. Tap Create to begin the setup flow.

You pick the Google account to attach the card to, then choose an image from Camera, Gallery, or Google Photos. After selecting an image, you can adjust font, font size, and color to style how your name or message appears.

Preview and visibility

The setup includes a preview that shows how the calling card will look. Google warns images "may be cropped to fit different screens."

When you finish, you choose whether your card is visible to Everyone or only to Contacts, giving basic privacy control over who sees your custom call screen.

How conflicts are handled

Android Authority notes a precedence behavior: if a contact has already created a calling card for you, their card may be shown instead of yours when you call them.

This likely avoids conflicting visuals when both parties have set custom cards for the same relationship. If a contact hasn’t set a card for you, your personal card will appear on their screen when you call.

Context and timing

Google added the broader calling card feature last year to let users customize call screens for contacts, but the ability to create a personal card for yourself was missing until now.

Activating My Calling Card in the Phone app beta suggests Google is preparing a wider release. There’s no firm public rollout date yet, but the beta discovery signals imminent availability to more users.

Who’s involved

Key names: Google, Phone by Google, Android Authority, and Android Police (original reporting and screenshots).

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