Most iPhone users do not install Truecaller because the experience is not as seamless as it is on Android phones. Caller ID, the app’s most popular feature, did not work on the iOS app as smoothly as one would have hoped but that appears to be changing.
Apple has announced in its new feature list for iOS 18: “New APIs allow developers like Truecaller to fetch information from their servers and provide live caller ID for incoming calls, in a privacy-preserving way.”
Truecaller co-founder and CEO Alan Mamedi has posted on X: “Soon we will hopefully hear people say ‘Truecaller finally works on iPhone.’ Even though it has worked fairly OK in the last two years, this time it will be just like you would expect Truecaller to work, end to end.”
Last year, Truecaller rolled out an update to make the app work better with iPhones but it involved an extra step where users need to interact with Siri to identify the caller.
Privacy became an issue associated with the app after The Caravan, in an investigation in 2022, alleged that Truecaller contained information gathered without user consent. The company refuted the claim.
Nami Zarringhalam, co-founder of Truecaller, wrote on X: “It’s been 9 years of grinding, and some amount of loss of faith in between at times. But soon everyone will be able to experience a smartphone the way we always knew they could, safe and trustworthy.” The news has generated a buzz among Truecaller users in India where spam calls are quite high.
