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  How to limit call history to last day or two? Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2026-06-14 09:16 +0100
    Re: How to limit call history to last day or two? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2026-06-14 19:36 -0500
      Re: How to limit call history to last day or two? Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2026-06-15 09:07 +0100
        Re: How to limit call history to last day or two? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-06-15 11:27 +0100
        Re: How to limit call history to last day or two? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2026-06-15 07:31 -0500

#154152 — How to limit call history to last day or two?

I have a Redmi phone running Android 15.  Is it possible to limit the
call history to just the last day or two (or a week even) so it's not
cluttered up with calls I made or received months ago?

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Chris Green
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#154157

Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:

> I have a Redmi phone running Android 15.  Is it possible to limit the
> call history to just the last day or two (or a week even) so it's not
> cluttered up with calls I made or received months ago?

https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/2811854

Google's article says you can delete 1 call at a time from history, a
very laborious task (select a call, select more calls, then click
Trash), or delete all history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XkkhKmkETw

Same clear-all choice shown there.  Author didn't show how to delete
single entries in history, but I suspect it is the same as Google says.

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VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:
> Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
> 
> > I have a Redmi phone running Android 15.  Is it possible to limit the
> > call history to just the last day or two (or a week even) so it's not
> > cluttered up with calls I made or received months ago?
> 
> https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/2811854
> 
> Google's article says you can delete 1 call at a time from history, a
> very laborious task (select a call, select more calls, then click
> Trash), or delete all history.
> 
Yes, painfully useless! :-)


> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XkkhKmkETw
> 
> Same clear-all choice shown there.  Author didn't show how to delete
> single entries in history, but I suspect it is the same as Google says.

Yet another reason for not using my mobile very often.

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Chris Green
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#154162

Chris Green wrote:

> VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:
>> Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a Redmi phone running Android 15.  Is it possible to limit the
>>> call history to just the last day or two (or a week even) so it's not
>>> cluttered up with calls I made or received months ago?
>>
>> https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/2811854
>>
>> Google's article says you can delete 1 call at a time from history, a
>> very laborious task (select a call, select more calls, then click
>> Trash), or delete all history.
>>
> Yes, painfully useless! :-)
I did see some apps that purge the call history, they seemed so ancient 
I couldn't really recommend them, but if you search there may be newer 
ones ...

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#154163

Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:

> VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:
>> Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> I have a Redmi phone running Android 15.  Is it possible to limit the
>>> call history to just the last day or two (or a week even) so it's not
>>> cluttered up with calls I made or received months ago?
>> 
>> https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/2811854
>> 
>> Google's article says you can delete 1 call at a time from history, a
>> very laborious task (select a call, select more calls, then click
>> Trash), or delete all history.
>> 
> Yes, painfully useless! :-)
> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XkkhKmkETw
>> 
>> Same clear-all choice shown there.  Author didn't show how to delete
>> single entries in history, but I suspect it is the same as Google says.
> 
> Yet another reason for not using my mobile very often.

From reader further, looks like the archival length until when history
entries expire and get deleted is determined by the phone maker, or your
mobile provider.  The automatic truncation of history could be by age,
like 1 month, or by number of calls, like 200, or both.

You say your history entries are months (plural) old.  You sure?  The
cutoff could be longer than, say, a month but the history should get
truncated to make room for history of new calls.  Storage is not
infinite, and there are lots of other logging occurring.  When a call
history entry gets deleted, so do recorded calls (not found with any
file manager, and only the Phone app has access to the secret directory
at /data/user/0/com.google.android.dialer/files/callrecording).  If call
logs didn't get automatically truncated at some threshold, eventually
you would run out of storage space on your phone.

I have not trialed alternate Phone apps, but a different one might have
different cutoff thresholds, or even let you configure the threshold.
Beside the cutoff threshold on your mobile phone (Phone app), your
carrier might also have their own threshold.

https://www.androidpolice.com/google-pixel-call-notes-auto-delete-feature/
"instead of allowing the call recordings to choke your storage, it lets
you decide when you want them to be erased. You can choose between
"After 7 days," "After 14 days," and "After 30 days" options. It'll
remember your preference and automatically delete those recordings so
that you don't have to do it manually."

Seems oriented to recorded calls since those will eat up a lot of
storage space.  Also, you have a Redmi phone, and the Call Notes app is
probably bundleware on Pixels.

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