Samsung Gulf Electronics has made Galaxy AI’s Call Screening available in Arabic, announced on 13 July 2026, bringing one of the more genuinely useful AI features on the Galaxy S26 to Arabic-speaking users across the region. This is the sort of update that actually earns its place on the phone: an AI that fields your calls, in a language that feels natural, and hands you a transcript before you commit to a conversation.
What does Call Screening actually do?
Call Screening lets Galaxy AI answer an incoming call on your behalf, ask the caller who they are and why they’re ringing, and generate a live transcript of the response so you can decide what to do next. You read the transcript in real time and then choose to answer, decline, or send a message instead of picking up. Once you do answer, the AI steps out of the way.
Samsung says the feature records only the portion of the call where the caller is interacting with the AI, and recording stops the moment the recipient picks up. You can set it to auto-screen every call or trigger it selectively on a per-call basis, which is the more sensible default for most people. The framing from Samsung is squarely about the calls that fill a GCC phone every week: delivery drivers, bank representatives, unknown numbers, and outright spam. Seeing why someone is calling before you answer is a small thing that changes the daily experience of owning the phone.
Fadi Abu Shamat, Vice President and Head of the Mobile eXperience Division at Samsung Gulf Electronics, said the goal was to give more people the ability to take control of their calls in a language that feels natural and familiar. That is the whole pitch, and for once it’s a reasonable one.
How do you turn on Arabic Call Screening on the Galaxy S26?
You activate it on the Galaxy S26 series through the Phone app, under More options → Settings → Call screening → Language, where you download and select your preferred language pack. Choose Arabic from the list, and the feature will handle calls in that language. Samsung’s US support page states that Call Screening is available on Galaxy phones running Android 16 and One UI 8.5 or later, so make sure your S26 is fully updated before you look for the setting.
The feature now supports 16 languages, with 23 options once dialect variations are counted, and Arabic sits among that updated set per Samsung’s own language rollout. If you want the phone to handle suspected spam, phishing, and unknown calls automatically, turn on the auto-screen option so you don’t have to lift a finger.
Why it matters for the region
The value here is practical rather than flashy: Arabic support removes the friction of an AI assistant that only worked comfortably in English. For a market where the volume of unknown and nuisance calls is high, an assistant that answers, questions the caller, and shows you the gist in your own language is one of the rare AI additions that solves a real, repetitive annoyance rather than inventing a novelty to justify the branding.
Arabic support has been a recurring theme in Samsung’s regional software push, having already extended to the Try Galaxy app for UAE users. Widening the languages that Galaxy AI actually understands is the least glamorous part of the pitch, and probably the part that matters most to the people using it every day.
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