This so much. I don't remember that spam calls exist anymore until I read a post someone complaining about getting spam calls. It works so well. I haven't had a false negative in the 3 years of using it. All the people who truly wanted to contact me would say something into the assistant, and the phone rang, and I'd pick it up.
Apple does this as well, but this is a Band-Aid. Think of the old people who get scammed by these calls. This is a system issue and should be fixed as such. It’s frankly embarrassing how the phone companies have effectively killed the “phone call” through their neglect.
I’ve recently gotten an iPhone (coming from a Pixel 7), and it’s honestly not in the same league for dealing with Spam calls. It’s much more of an annoyance since I switched.
> phone companies have effectively killed the “phone call” through their neglect.
They haven't - they're still making bank on the spam traffic, which is also why they're reluctant to implement solutions despite it technically being trivial.
If phone spam was actually making a dent in revenue (aka legitimate call revenue was going down and the revenue from spam wasn't making up for it) they would've got their act together very quickly.
Nope, not quite public yet. Google has had this for years but Apple is just now about to get it with the release of iOS 17 and "live voicemail". Still have a month or so before that's out of beta.
