Apple’s iOS 26 introduces two opt-in Phone app features—Call Screening and Hold Assist—that aim to reduce spam calls and ease the pain of long hold times. Call Screening prompts unknown ...

Enabling Screen Unknown Senders can filter out any messages from unknown numbers. So, it could filter out a message from a ...

Are you frequently interrupted by calls from unknown numbers? With iOS 26, Apple has introduced the “Silence Unknown Callers” feature, a practical solution to minimize distractions by ...

Apple and Google have each introduced phone features aimed at reducing common call-related annoyances. iOS 26’s Hold Assist and Call Screening automate waiting on hold and blocking ...

Most of the conversation around iOS 26 got lost behind social media's need for it to be as controversial a change as iOS 7.