Google Voice brings back three-way calling, but it’s not for you

Oh, Google Voice. How in the world are you still a thing? Google is a company that sometimes seems to love nothing more than shutting down old services, or bundling them up into new ones, yet inexplicably Voice has somehow managed to stand the test of time. It’s desperately in need of some feature upgrades, with RCS support at the top of basically everyone’s list, but it feels like updates to the app are few and far between. This week, we’re lucky enough to actually get one — just not the one we were hoping for.

Back around the start of the year we were conducting one of our APK teardowns on a new Google Voice release, looking for signs of anything new in the works. And sure enough, we spotted a few text strings that made reference to conference calls making a return to Google Voice, after an earlier incarnation of the feature was removed last decade.