This change has been brought about by an all-new architecture that can more e?ectively take advantage of CallKit, Apple’s own technology framework designed speci?cally for calling apps. The app also has a complete design refresh that may seem subtle at ?rst but often leads to far shorter times for both initial onboarding as well as day-to-day navigation through the app.

“Truecaller on iOS has always been a challenge because of the speci?c platform restrictions and di?erences from Android, ” said Alan Mamedi, Co-founder and CEO of Truecaller. “Over the years, we’ve been working hard to bring powerful features like Call Alerts, a dedicated widget and search extension to iOS but the live caller ID always eluded us – till now! We’ve been working closely with Apple and we realised the only way to solve this problem for our iOS users was to throw out all the old code and completely rewrite the app. A lot of iOS users have been waiting for this update for a long time and I’m excited to ?nally be able to say that we have built the best performing spam/scam blocking for iOS. ”

Highlights of the new iOS app:

·    10x better Caller ID, 10x better protection against spam and scam  Smoother and faster onboarding for new users

·    Enhanced detail view when you search for numbers

·    New Premium purchase ?ow with easier feature comparisons

·    Redesigned search extension (from Phone > Recents > Share Contact)

Updates coming soon:

·    More precise SMS ?ltering that works completely o?ine (If enabled, Truecaller can also auto-categorize all ?nance SMS, promotions, online orders and travel updates)

·    Automatic blocking of top spammers

·    Detailed statistics on spam marked numbers

·    See and view comments on spam marked numbers for additional context  Redesigned widget for even faster number search

Distributed by African Media Agency (AMA) on behalf of True Caller.