Truecaller announced its biggest ever update for iPhone users globally with the advancements in Apple's latest iOS 18, Truecaller is now able to for the very first time launch a real-time caller ID and automated blocking of spam calls on iOS. These capabilities and other improvements as well as the ability to subscribe for a Premium Family plan are now being rolled out globally for paying subscribers of Truecaller on iOS. The launch is expected to further boost Truecaller's subscription revenues.

At year-end about 30 million (or 7%) of Truecaller's total 435 million MAUs are iOS-users. Of Truecaller more than 2.6 million paying subscribers about 750.000 of them are on iOS and more than 40% of Truecaller's current premium revenues comes from iOS-users. The functionality of Truecaller's Caller ID on iOS has historically been limited to a smaller local database on the user's local device.

This update can leverage Truecaller's latest AI capabilities and global database to identify as many calls as possible. In addition, the latest update includes something that Truecaller iOS users have been requesting for a long time: automatic blocking of spam calls. All this has been made possible by Apple's Live Caller ID Lookup framework, developed especially for apps like Truecaller to provide live caller ID in a privacy-preserving way.

This API uses homomorphic encryption and Truecaller is the first in the world to deploy this at scale for Caller ID. Finally, Truecaller on iPhone now includes the ability to subscribe for a premium Family plan. With Family Plan, one can share all Truecaller Premium benefits like e.g. Truecaller AI Assistant, with up to four additional people at a low monthly or annual price.

In India the subscription offering also includes a fraud insurance whereby now can through the family offering can protect four more family members from becoming a victim of fraud. All the new features will be made available for Truecaller Premium subscribers with the same pricing as for the Android offering. Free users on iOS will continue to enjoy ad-supported manual number search and caller ID of Verified Businesses.

Auto blocking of spam is available globally & the new Caller ID will be rolled out starting today. It will be available to all users across the world within the coming days.