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iOS 26: See Your Full Call History With Any iPhone Contact
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I'd personally trust Apple to manage my call history, even if it involves collaboration with the authorities. They have an excellent track record of consumer protection. And as my late red-blooded grandfather used to say, "you ain't got nothing to worry about if you ain't got nothing to hide".
Pro tip: always start the 'power off' proceedure before ever handing a phone to anybody by holding the side and voiumn up buttons. Then your passport is required even if the phone was not powered off. A court order is required to obtain ones unlock passcode (in most states
Android has had this since I can remember - the lack of this on iphone was one of the first annoyances I noticed when I started using an iphone.
I use it regularly
No worries. Many people will use this feature. Including myself.
The good news is you're not required to use it if you have no need.
Why would I care if the police could see my call log? I don't care that this call log is available but even more I don't care if the police, the government, NSA, CIA, IRS, DEA or Jesus sees my call log. Why would any one care unless they have committed a serious crime. Paranoia will destroy ya!
You guys should do a article about the blocking a contact or block a number from a number not in your contacts bug. Some say its fixed in 26.0.1 others say its not. Wierd macrumors is silent on this issue.
For what? They want to know what my wife wants me to pick up for dinner? Or how long and when I talked to her.
This is a good point -- but just to play the proverbial Devil's Advocate... you're probably underestimating the creativity of true "tin-foil hatters." That type of person probably isn't nearly as concerned about this feature... so much as they are concerned about the underlying data which made the feature possible in the first place, and which has been hiding away on our iPhones for years without most people ever realizing it.
Consider this hypothetical: If law enforcement has obtained access to a suspected criminal's call history via this UX, that might -- and that's a big might -- be useful to them, if they know precisely what they're looking for. That is of course rarely the case. However, if they have this level of access, that suggests that they also have physical control over an unlocked phone... and depending upon the circumstances, the level of actionable information they could gather via the UX is going to be minimal and potentially even a waste of valuable time, compared to what they could get by just connecting a cable to the device and creating a full backup for offline perusal.
I checked my family members and the farthest back it went for me was 2020.
I've been calling them much longer of course, so I'm not sure what the cut off is.
I checked with my wife's contact card and it only goes back to 8/28/2025... we've been dating/together for 5 years lol
“Viewing the new extended history screen can come in handy when you need to recall when you last spoke with someone.”
Hmm… that assumes that the only time you speak to people is via the iPhone! 😂Don't know about you, but we have many conversations in person, at parties, on outings, at work, etc. No phone involved.
Oh, we also still talk on our landline phone, as I’m sure others talk via VOIP.
Weird, no consistencies. Mine went back to 9/24 only. Maybe my iPhone 17 PM is defective 🤣🤣
In contacts it no longer shows the FaceTime availability option for those contacts that have iPhones or iOS. ?
Screens keep getting larger and yet you're probably seeing less useful information on any given interface than you could with iOS 6 on an iPhone 5. Progress?