Writing on call screening, spam calls, and taking back control of your phone.
Truecaller names the caller and can hand a ringing call to an AI assistant. VoxGuard makes unknown callers pass a spoken challenge before the phone rings. Costs, carriers, and who should pick which.
Read the comparison →Pixels and the newest Galaxys have call screening built in. Every other Android can get it too. Here is the full 2026 map and the setup that works on any phone.
Read the how-to →Yes. Call screening answers unknown numbers before your phone rings, makes the caller say who they are, and lets you decide. How it works on iPhone and Android, and how much spam actually gets stopped, measured on our own network.
Read the answer →A spam call showed up on my phone displaying my own second number. Nobody hacked anything. Here's where call records leak from, and what stopped the call anyway.
Read the story →List-based spam call defenses are failing on two sides: fresh numbers slip through, real callers get blocked. Here's what's actually happening in 2026 and what works instead.
Read the guide →"Call screening" means five different things depending on which phone product you use. What each mechanism actually does, where each fails, and how to pick the one that matches your phone life.
Read the explainer →The short version of how VoxGuard screens unknown callers. Five steps, under a minute to read.
Read the 60-second version →