How To Screen Calls On An Iphone

Life’s engaged tin without wasting clip connected calls that are trying to scam you aliases discarded to you. Unfortunately, stats from Hiya show that 28 percent of nan calls you get are going to beryllium suspected spam aliases fraud. 

On an iPhone, you don’t personification nan action to personification an AI adjunct reply calls for you, arsenic you tin connected Android — astatine slightest not yet. But location are ways to aboveground calls to immoderate people and trim down connected nan number of scammers, sellers, and robots you personification to talk to.

These guidelines personification been written utilizing an iPhone 15 Pro Max moving iOS 18.2.

Identify incoming calls

A bully spot to commencement erstwhile it comes to avoiding unwanted calls is to emblem calls from numbers that aren’t successful your contacts list. It’s not a cleanable measurement of spotting spam but will drawback alternatively a batch of it.

From Settings connected your iPhone:

Any calls that aren’t from a registered relationship won’t make a sound aliases create a buzz connected your iPhone and will beryllium sent consecutive to voicemail. They will show up connected nan caller calls list. You will still get notified successful nan normal measurement for calls from contacts, from numbers you’ve precocious rung (in suit they’re calling back), and from numbers identified by Siri Suggestions (maybe a number Siri has seen successful your email, for example).

If your bearer supports nan feature, underneath Silence Unknown Callers, you’ll spot a Call Blocking & Identification option. Tap this to alteration Business Call Identification (which looks up chartless numbers and tries to lucifer them to companies) and Silence Junk Callers (known junk callers are sent consecutive to voicemail).

Use Live Voicemail

If you recreation nan steps above, you’ll beryllium sending perchance dodgy calls consecutive to voicemail. iPhones relationship a Live Voicemail characteristic that transcribes nan audio onscreen successful existent time, truthful you tin premier up nan telephone if it’s important.

From Settings:

You tin usage Live Voicemail pinch anyone, not conscionable suspected fraudsters and scammers. If you want to subordinate nan telephone while nan relationship is being left, pat Accept. To comprehend messages and publication transcripts aft a telephone has ended, caput to nan Voicemail tab successful nan Phone app.

Block numbers

By blocking contacts connected your iPhone, you tin guarantee you’re not bothered by them again — assuming they don’t withhold their number aliases usage a different 1 successful nan future.

To artifact a caller caller from nan Phone app:

You tin find a database of numbers you’ve blocked by heading to nan main iOS Settings aboveground and choosing Apps > Phone > Blocked Contacts. Numbers tin beryllium unblocked from coming if needed, and you tin adhd caller ones to nan database arsenic well.

Install third-party apps

There are respective third-party iOS apps that will effort to spot spammers and scammers and prevention you nan problem of talking to them. One I’ve tested retired is Truecaller, which checks incoming calls against its database of millions of bad actors truthful you tin make an informed determination astir whether to premier up.

The unrecorded ID cheque (as nan telephone is coming in) is simply a premium feature, though — it’ll costs you $4.49 a month. You tin look up numbers manually for free, and nan app too comes pinch free SMS / MMS filtering devices arsenic well.

Another action I’ve tried connected my ain iPhone is Call Blocker. The thought is very akin to Truecaller, successful that Call Blocker will cheque numbers connected incoming calls and walk you if they’re associated pinch fraudulent activities aliases spam.

With this app, you get nan telephone nickname for free, but paying for a premium plan, for $6.99 a month, lets you automatically artifact suspicious numbers arsenic they recreation in. (It’ll too region nan ads and springiness you entree to a overmuch up-to-date database.)

It’s too worthy checking pinch your carrier, who whitethorn bully personification a telephone spam filtering app disposable that you tin use. AT&T has ActiveArmor, Verizon has Call Filter, and T-Mobile has ScamShield, for illustration — cheque to spot what features your carrier’s app is offering and really overmuch it’ll costs you.