2024-09-13 20:04:31
Truecaller on iPhone has never been as seamless as it is on Android. Due to privacy and access issues, the app’s most popular feature—Caller ID—never worked on the iPhone app. Last year, Truecaller released an update to make the app work better with iPhones, but it also added an extra step that required users to interact with Siri to identify the caller. However, that’s about to change. Truecaller co-founder and CEO Alan Mamedi has confirmed that with the new iOS 18 upgrade, Truecaller will finally work on iPhones as it should.
“From the iOS 18 feature release documentation 🙂 Soon we can expect people to say, ‘Truecaller finally works on iPhone’. It’s worked just fine over the past 2 years, but this time it will work exactly as you’d expect Truecaller to do, from start to finish,” Mamedi wrote in a post on X.
The Truecaller CEO also shared screenshots of the iOS 18 release documentation, which shows that there will now be a live caller ID lookup feature on iPhones. “The new APIs allow developers such as Truecaller to fetch information from their servers and provide live caller ID for incoming calls, while also protecting privacy,” the note reads.
Privacy has been a big issue related to Truecaller, especially in 2022 when an investigation by The Caravan alleged that Truecaller collected information without user consent. Truecaller denied these claims, saying the investigation was flawed and based on incorrect data. The company flatly denied any wrongdoing.