I’ve never found any of those apps to be helpful. The only solution I found that works is a bit extreme. Turn on Silence Unknown Callers. This requires you to add to contacts anyone that calls you. It also requires not having any extra calller ID service from the carrier. If they’re not in your contacts, they go to voicemail. For me people would leave a voicemail or text if it was a new number.
I so wish I could do that, to just silence unknown callers would be great. But unfortunately, I do use my phone to schedule things for a side business so I regularly get calls that are unknown, but are not spam.
Being in the US app store I guess they would work , though in Begone I cant see a US community list to dowload but it might be because where I am 🤷♀️
I can’t wait to try that feature in iOS 26, I hope it works well and I hope it doesn’t make people just hang up rather than take the time to get through
I wonder if the Apple iOS 26 screening functions will eliminate the need for third party call and text screening and blocking. Hiya is not too expensive but Robokiller and many other screening and blocking apps are insanely expensive for a subscription. I am sure that they are already preparing to make their apps compete with iOS 26 built in call and text screening. I guess that that will be decided when iOS 26 is ready for installation in September.
Time will tell. I did disable Hiya in phone settings and the calls went back to the normal iPhone voicemail so it is not necessary to uninstall the app but only disable it in settings to upgrade to iOS 26. However, I did have to do a reinstallation of Hiya as the buttons would not fully activate without a fresh install to get the app to function as before. Hiya is pretty basic but I really don't see anything else that would deal with calls getter and the price is reasonable.
Maybe I’ll try it for the next couple months until iOS 26 comes out. I’ve just been using the Verizon call filter app.
Right. I have AT&T which has an app called AT&T Active Armour. but I have read many complaints about it causing problems with voice mail or not receiving calls that are legitimate. Years ago I had an AT&T call screening app that worked at the network level and don't remember it being problematic but I don't remember that it handle voice mail. I had Hiya back in the day but it became slow to work but that seems to have been fixed. Hiya is not a miracle worker and is pretty basic which is a good thing. It does route unknown or unanswered calls to their end for screening and voicemail but there is no A.I. or anything like that a personal assistant to answer. I have read that AT&T Active Armour is the worst of carrier provided call screening apps.
I used to have AT&T and use that as well, I can’t say the Verizon App is any better or worse. It says it does walk a lot, but there still seems to be a lot that gets through. Although the majority of what gets through appears to be one company out of New York, that calls from numerous different numbers.
