Truecaller Extends Live Caller ID To Its iOS App To Fight Spam And Scam Calls — techcrunch.com

Truecaller, the crowdsourced, reverse-lookup phone directory app, is expanding its service, and breaking some ground in the process. Today the company is adding its Live Caller ID feature to its iOS app — which will let iPhone users identify spammy numbers, as well as callers that are engaged in one-ring scams. Although TrueCaller, which is backed by Sequoia among others, says that it has been offering this feature on Android for some time, it is a first for iOS, since Apple normally doesn’t open its platform in a way that would let apps access calling information.

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