Google is building a fart button into Android

This could be the perfect gas to get Google I/O started this year. | Illustration: The Verge / Shutterstock

I simply don't know how to feel about an incoming update to the Google Phone app that adds sound effects to the Android dialer. First spotted as part of a beta update by 9to5Google, the app may soon let you tap one of six Audio Emoji" buttons to play a short sound clip that both sides of the call can hear.

There's clapping, laughing, crying (a sad, sliding trombone), partying, a drum sting (ba-dum ts) and... poop, which emits a fart sound. You can access the buttons during a call by tapping the option in the dialer's overflow menu or with a small flag positioned toward the bottom.

The dormant adolescent in me wants to try the poop button at least once with a trusted friend who won't disown me for having a questionable sense of humor....

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