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Truecaller iOS Update Rolls Out Real-Time Caller ID Support

b17777 said:
I use my local data base, my address book. If your name isn't in it, I don't answer the phone.
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Hell, I barely answer calls from numbers I DO recognize!

But for real, I tried a number of Caller ID apps a couple of years ago, and none of them worked. Like, at all. I don't remember which one it was, but they had the gall to explain oh it only works if the caller registers his info with the app and uses it to call you. Well that's kinda pointless isn't it?
 
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here in Italy carriers usually do not offer any form of spam call blocking, so it's up to ourselfes.
the built-in "silence unknown callers" is useful, but sometimes you have to disable that to avoid situations reported by other users (you're waiting for a delivery and they call you, etc).
I receive a lot (and I mean a lot) of spam calls every single day. Truecaller is useful but not as much as on Android. I hope this update will improve the experience.
I noticed that the price are really different. The yearly premium plan is 26€ in Italy. I would never spent 75$ for this app (or any app)!
 
I don’t understand this app. What does it do that the carrier Caller ID doesn’t? If no caller ID comes through, how would this app know? Also, caller ID can easily be spoofed. Many enterprise systems allow you to set the incoming number on outgoing calls to anything you would like. I would prefer to have more call blocking/silencing options in iOS. Didn’t Android get an auto attendant feature many years ago (to screen calls?)
 
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I don’t understand this app. What does it do that the carrier Caller ID doesn’t? If no caller ID comes through, how would this app know? Also, caller ID can easily be spoofed. Many enterprise systems allow you to set the incoming number on outgoing calls to anything you would like. I would prefer to have more call blocking/silencing options in iOS. Didn’t Android get an auto attendant feature many years ago (to screen calls?)
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basically if a number, say +39123456789, is making a lot of spam calls it get reported to Truecaller, it is added to their database and if that numbers call you Truecaller will mark the number as spam on your iPhone screen.
inside Truecaller you can also set to automatically reject "known spammers" so that call will never appear on your phone (not a "missed call", not redirected to voicemail).
 
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They need to take it a whole other step forward, they need to integrate the IMSI and IMEI numbers with a map and approximate location where the call is originating from, any resent photographs posted to social media from this device and number of calls history in the last 24 hours along with the actual phone number of that device otherwise calls are immediately rejected and never even hits the network. o_O
 
JosephAW said:
They need to take it a whole other step forward, they need to integrate the IMSI and IMEI numbers with a map and approximate location where the call is originating from, any resent photographs posted to social media from this device and number of calls history in the last 24 hours along with the actual phone number of that device otherwise calls are immediately rejected and never even hits the network. o_O
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That works for mobile calls only. The majority of my calls come from landlines at my workplace.
 
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$10 a month to tell me some random phone number calling me is actually Billy in Idaho? Ok thanks but no thanks
 
This is where Google's call screening feature shines. It's free and does a fantastic job weeding out BS calls. Solution for me...if there's no name attached to call, don't answer.
 
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pappl said:
I hope normal phone calls will be replaced with some kind of IP based telephony (universal standard like Facetime). This will dry out this scammer mess.
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how ? i would say 100% of the scam calls i get come through via ip phone networks today already.
 
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Years ago Truecaller had a feature to add address details to the contacts with one click. It was really useful. I wouldn’t pay $10 a month only for skipping a spam call. I was getting a lot of spam calls few years back. So, when I understand that it is a spam call, my trick was to talk aggressively to the male caller and talk dirty to the female callers. Now I get only one or two spam calls per year.
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On Samsung and others its for free + works in European countries, like Finland, the Baltic States, Poland etc out of the box.
 
macjaffa said:
they already do. just go into the number and choose block number. they dont need to be in your address book. I have hundreds of blocked
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I do that to but obviously it's pretty limited. Those numbers are often spoofed, and regardless it's one number out of millions. Billions if you add country codes.
 
I only pay £19.99 per year (£1.66 a month) for a single user premium version in the UK and this includes all premium functionality on iOS including this new real time ID. How in the hell are Americans paying so much more?

It's only £2.99 a month if you did it that way, but even the family plans here are much cheaper than your individual plans. Either these prices are wrong on this post, or you are being robbed.
 

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$10/month is whack. This is why I'm using my Pixel 9 Pro XL now instead of my iPhone. This is a feature Apple should have added to iOS instead of the broken "AI" they forced on us. This is the kind of feature I've been waiting for in native iOS. My Pixel doesn't even bother me for spam calls. It handles them all. There's no reason an iPhone shouldn't be able to do that without a $10/month subscription.
 
Not about to spend $10 per month for this, but I do hope Apple just adds this in the future.
 
dg1974 said:
here in Italy carriers usually do not offer any form of spam call blocking, so it's up to ourselfes.
the built-in "silence unknown callers" is useful, but sometimes you have to disable that to avoid situations reported by other users (you're waiting for a delivery and they call you, etc).
I receive a lot (and I mean a lot) of spam calls every single day. Truecaller is useful but not as much as on Android. I hope this update will improve the experience.
I noticed that the price are really different. The yearly premium plan is 26€ in Italy. I would never spent 75$ for this app (or any app)!
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Do you find Truecaller to work well in Italy?

I never really looked into it as I was under the impression that their database of numbers is very US-focused and wouldn’t be very useful for someone in Europe. But maybe I am wrong?
 
Can you set this to autoforward to something like "It's Lenny"? Would love to automatically forward to him and listen to their response.
 
bob24 said:
Do you find Truecaller to work well in Italy?

I never really looked into it as I was under the impression that their database of numbers is very US-focused and wouldn’t be very useful for someone in Europe. But maybe I am wrong?
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It works well enough for 26€/years. 😅
Before this update in the app there was the number of “known spammers” and it was around 600K. Now that number is no longer displayed, maybe because now when looking for a caller ID it can go online in realtime and that number is no more meaningful? Who knows!
The main issue here in Italy is that spammers buy a bunch of mobile numbers from all the carriers and then start the robocalls from those numbers and it’s really difficult to catch up.
I’ve tried different apps and found that Truecaller is the most reliable, but it’s always a cat-and-mouse game.
 
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