Caller ID w/Name

[Wirenut]

I just remembered that a couple decades ago when I had a landline they came out with "Caller ID with name". Seeing the name in addition to the number was nice.

I use a call forwarding service for my business and it shows the name of who called on the website.

So why no name with my iPhone and AT&T??

 

[Applejuiced]

Landlines are different and even then they dont show the name for every caller.
Its not just AT&T, no wireless carrier show names. Just the phone number.

 

[C DM]

Landlines are different and even then they dont show the name for every caller.
Its not just AT&T, no wireless carrier show names. Just the phone number.

They do on some occasions it seems with perhaps some of the more established/popular numbers, but not in general.

 

[Wirenut]

I am asking why? It was something that people liked and even paid more for at the beginning.

 

[Applejuiced]

They do on some occasions it seems with perhaps some of the more established/popular numbers, but not in general.

Interesting.
Is that on landlines you mean?
Cause on AT&T and Tmobile I haven't seen any name pop up on my iPhone.

 

[C DM]

Interesting.
Is that on landlines you mean?
Cause on AT&T and Tmobile I haven't seen any name pop up on my iPhone.

On the phone itself. I've had it happen a number of times in the past year or two, similar to what's described recently at https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/displaying-name-of-unsaved-numbers.2014083/

 

[Applejuiced]

On the phone itself. I've had it happen a number of times in the past year or two, similar to what's described recently at https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/displaying-name-of-unsaved-numbers.2014083/

Interesting, I still haven't seen any names pop up so far.
What wireless carrier are you using?

 

[C DM]

Interesting, I still haven't seen any names pop up so far.
What wireless carrier are you using?

Verizon in my case.

 

[terraphantm]

Occasionally my iPhone seems to pick up names from my email if a phone number is in the signature field for example

 

[C DM]

Occasionally my iPhone seems to pick up names from my email if a phone number is in the signature field for example

There is that too, which was added in iOS 9 or 8.

 

[Applejuiced]

Occasionally my iPhone seems to pick up names from my email if a phone number is in the signature field for example

Yes, I forgot about that.
I noticed it picked up info from email and displayed it when that number called.
Good catch.

 

[ATC]

I'm not sure if it's the same thing the OP wants but here in Canada there is one carrier and its subsidiary (Rogers/Fido) that have an enhanced caller ID feature called Name Display. No other carrier in Canada has this feature.

It displays the callers' name (whatever name they registered with the telecoms) and it works for both business listings and personal lines. Of course it also displays the number (shows in the recent calls list in the iPhone's phone app).

The feature works great but they do typically charge extra for it (Fido for example has it as part of their $5 iPhone Value Pack which also includes VVM among other things).

Maybe in US certain carriers have this too (?).