Google’s AI-powered Scam Detection feature could soon expand to vivo smartphones, potentially making vivo the third major Android brand to support the technology after Pixel and Samsung devices.

Since vivo is a highly popular brand around the world, the feature should reach millions of devices.

Evidence of the expansion was discovered during a teardown of version 234.0.9 of the Phone by Google app. The app’s internal code now contains references to vivo alongside Google and Samsung in sections related to “Sharpie,” Google’s internal codename for Scam Detection.

The newly discovered references strongly suggest Google is preparing Scam Detection support for vivo phones, although neither company has officially announced the rollout yet.

It is also unclear which vivo devices will support the feature. One possibility is that it could debut with the upcoming vivo X500 series, while support for older models such as the X300 family remains unknown.

Because the evidence comes from unfinished app code, plans could still change before the feature reaches users.

Scam Detection uses AI running directly on the phone to analyze conversations for patterns commonly associated with fraud.

For example, if someone on a call starts asking for unusual payment methods such as gift cards, the phone can display a warning and alert the user with sound and vibration.

On newer Pixel phones, the feature uses Google’s Gemini Nano AI model, while older supported Pixels use Google’s other on-device machine-learning technology. Google says call audio and transcripts used for Scam Detection are processed locally and are not sent to its servers.

Samsung also offers AI Scam Detection on supported Galaxy phones running Android 16 with One UI 8.5 or newer. Samsung integrates the feature into its own Phone app rather than requiring users to switch dialers.

It remains unclear whether vivo will integrate Scam Detection into its own calling app or rely on Phone by Google.

The latter would make sense for global vivo phones, where Google’s dialer is already commonly used, while vivo continues to use its own phone app on devices sold in China.

Google’s current public support documentation still lists Scam Detection as a Pixel feature, meaning vivo support has not officially launched yet.

Still, the discovery suggests Google’s real-time scam protection may gradually become available across a much wider range of Android phones instead of remaining limited to Pixel and selected Galaxy devices.

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