In
a car, in a meeting, in the library, clambering up a mountain face—the
list of places where it's not convenient to take a call is almost
endless. The latest versions of Android include an SMS auto-response
feature you can use to fire back a text if you can't pick up. Here's how
to activate it and customize the messages to suit your needs.
Open up the Phone app and tap the menu button (those three vertical dots top right). Choose Settings then General settings and tap on the Quick responses
entry; this is where all of your automatic SMSes live. You're limited
to four in total, but you can edit any of them with a tap, so make sure
all of the most common scenarios are covered.
When a call
is coming through (assuming your phone screen is locked), slide up the
answer icon to the text message symbol and your quick responses pop up
(together with a Write your own option you can use to
compose something off the cuff). If your phone isn't locked when it
starts to ring, the call notification appears as a small alert at the
top of the display—tap on the top of the notification to make it
full-screen (don't tap Dismiss or Answer), then drag up the answer icon as normal to find your quick responses.
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