Samsung One UI 9 Brings Most Wanted Addition to the Phone app!

Saturday, 30 May 2026 at 17:43

Samsung's Phone app in One UI 9 now shows your WhatsApp and Google Meet call history alongside regular calls. It sounds simple. It's been missing for years. The feature was spotted in the One UI 9 beta by SamMobile and confirmed across multiple outlets — and it directly closes one of Android's longest-standing gaps with iOS.

The feature is on by default. Telegram, Messenger, and Signal are not yet supported.

Key Points

One UI 9 integrates WhatsApp and Google Meet call logs into the Samsung Phone app — calls appear with app labels and icons alongside regular cellular calls
This is an Android 17 capability Samsung is implementing through One UI 9 — all devices running Android 17 with a compatible dialer are expected to get it, not Samsung-exclusive
The feature is enabled by default — disable it via Phone app Settings → Other call settings → Other calling apps
Telegram, Signal, Facebook Messenger, Discord, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams are not yet supported — a significant gap given their combined user base
iOS has shown third-party VoIP calls in the Phone app for years — Android 17 and One UI 9 are finally catching up to that standard

What This Actually Changes

If you call your parents on WhatsApp and a colleague on Google Meet, neither of those calls has ever appeared in Samsung's Phone app call log. You had to open each app individually to check call history. Samsung's recent calls list showed a partial picture of your actual communication.

One UI 9 fixes that. WhatsApp calls appear with a WhatsApp label and icon. Meet calls show "Meet video call" clearly labelled. The combined call log finally reflects how people actually use their phones in 2026 — where cellular calls are often a minority of total voice communication.

Android 17 Did the Work — Samsung Implemented It

The input frames this as a Samsung innovation. It's more accurate to say Samsung is implementing an Android 17 platform capability that Google announced at I/O. Google's own Phone app is getting the same integration. The difference is Samsung shipping it through One UI 9's beta now — other Android 17 devices will get it when their manufacturers update accordingly.

The feature works because WhatsApp and Meet have integrated with Android's CallLog API. Apps that haven't implemented that integration — Telegram, Signal, Messenger, Discord — simply can't appear in the call log yet, regardless of what Samsung does on its end.

The Gap That Remains

Telegram and WhatsApp often serve the same users in overlapping markets. Getting WhatsApp but not Telegram leaves significant gaps in call history completeness for users in Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Messenger's absence is the biggest miss for Meta's own ecosystem. Teams and Zoom are notable omissions for enterprise users.

More apps will integrate with the Android 17 CallLog API over time as developers update their implementations. But at launch, the unified call log is only as complete as the apps that have bothered to support it.