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iOS 18.2 enables real-time spam and scam blocking in Truecaller app

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/iOS-18.2-enables-real-time-spam-and-scam-blocking-in-Truecaller-app.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600)</div><p><a href="https://9to5mac.com/2022/09/02/truecaller-ios-update-improved-filters/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Truecaller app[/url] has long been able to flag some incoming spam and scam phone calls, enabling you to reject them, but Apple <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/privacy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">privacy[/url] rules prevented the iOS version from working as effectively as the Android one. This means the <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/iphone-16/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">iPhone[/url] would fail to identify many callers that would be flagged on Android phones.</p>



<p>A new Apple API in <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/ios-18-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">iOS 18.2[/url] solves the privacy problem, and additionally now allows Truecaller to automatically block known spammers … </p>



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