In WWDC25 this year, Apple has announced a pair of new features to considerably improve the experience of telephone calls for iPhone users. Hold Assist does exactly what he says about the tin and manages calls while you are pending – get rid of the need to listen to dreaded music.
Other feature, call screening, has much more important implications and spam phone calls can become a problem in the past.
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With iOS 26, launched this fall, all iPhone users will have enormous feature: call screening. When an unknown telephone call occurs, your iPhone will no longer sound directly.
Instead, your iPhone will answer the call for you and ask the appellant his name and reasoning. Ideally, this would dissuade a large number of spam phone calls, largely following data brokers selling your information, and this will certainly reduce the number of times your phone interrupts you at noon.
Robocalles have become more and more a problem in recent years. Americans receive 3.3 billion spam phone calls each month, according to data from Smaller. Although the number of calls has decreased in recent months, it will certainly be that your iPhone manages the process for you.
In the same vein, iOS 26 will also introduce a new screening filter for the texts, completely hiding them from your conversation list, and rather placing them in a separate menu.
What do you think of the latest Apple iOS 26 features? Are you delighted to install it on your phone? Let us know in the comments.
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