![]() ![]() Verizon says that it could take up to an hour for the feature to be enabled on your account, so you might as well leave the app and go do something else for a while. Open it, make sure you’re in the Screening screen, and if it says at the top “You’re not protected,” tap “Turn on for free” and follow the prompts. ![]() Next, you have to activate the feature in the Call Filter app itself. Like many other such apps, Call Filter works through the CallKit framework that Apple released with iOS 10, which also powers apps like Hiya and Robokiller. When you first open the Verizon Call Filter app, it prompts you to give it access to your contacts and enable Call Filter in Settings > Phone > Call Blocking & Identification. That paid tier is still available, but Verizon now also offers a free tier that lets you identify, block, and report spam calls. Until now, Verizon had been charging $2.99 per month for its customers to use its Verizon Call Filter app. To address this scourge, cellular carriers have started offering free solutions for their customers: AT&T has Call Protect, and T-Mobile provides Scam Block. For the past few years, we’ve been suffering a growing epidemic of spam calls-I get three to four a day, and Adam Engst has taken to sending all calls that aren’t from contacts to voicemail (see “ Beware “iCloud Breach” Phone Scam,” ). If you live in the United States, chances are you that dread answering your iPhone when it rings, if you even bother at all. ![]()
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