- iOS 26 presents a new feature called call Whatding
- Help filter spam calls and unimportant calls
- I have found it useful, and thus have many other users
Spam calls can be a big problem for many of us, and I get my fair part of random calls for sellers and scammers during the day, it is not ideal when you try to be productive. However, with the detection of calls in iOS 26, I think I finally found the solution.
As you can guess by name, call detection places an automated voice between you and the people who call unknown: the person (or robot) at the other end of the line asks them to indicate your business, and your answer is presented as a text transcription for you. Then you can decide whether or not to attend the call.
It will not activate the action by known contacts, and can enable or disable the function when you want. Personally, I will keep it on, you will save me a lot of time talking in meaningless conversations.
How to enable call detection in iOS 26
Any phone that IOS IOS 26 also admits call detection: you do not need any additional Apple intelligence intelligence or anything like that. You can download and install the update of the mobile operating system on the phones launched in September 2019: the iPhone 11, the iPhone 11 Pro and the iPhone 11 Pro Max, and anything newer than that.
After installing iOS 26, you can see a message to enable call detection when the first unknown call enters. Otherwise, you can activate or deactivate the function by addressing iOS configuration, then playing and then playing Applications> Telephone.
Under the heading of unknown people, you have three options: Never (calls from unknown numbers are treated as normal), Ask the reason to call (which is the detection of calls), and Silence (Calls of unknown numbers are silenced and sent directly to the voice mail). Select Ask the reason to call And you are ready to go.
How to detect calls in iOS 26
With the detection of enabled calls, you will get a silent alert when a call is handled, then a ping if a message remains. You can take advantage of the notification to see the message, and then you have a few seconds to accept or reject the call based on text transcription on the screen. It is a bit like a slightly updated live version of voicemail.
For the person who calls, he receives an automated message requesting his name and reason to call. After leaving the message, they are told to keep the line for a few seconds while their digital assistant verifies if it is available. If you do not respond in time or reject the call, the person calling has the opportunity to leave another message. Again, it is very similar to a voice email.
And I am not just me who is a fan of the function. The first online responses have been mainly positive, although there are occasional problems with people who lose important calls. The improvements that are requested, that I second, include more obvious alerts for the people they call and receptors than call detection is active, but it already works very well.
