If you tap Ask Reason for Calling, your iPhone will ask anyone who calls you from an unsaved number why they are calling you without ringing your iPhone. After the caller answers a few questions, your ...

My Calling Card allows you to personalize how your own Calling Card appears when you call others. Here's how it works.

iOS 26 allows iPhones to screen unknown calls using AI. Callers provide reason for calling; responses are transcribed in real time. Users can reply with pre-written or custom messages via AI voice.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Yes, Liquid Glass is cool. But while the iPhone ecosystem focused on ...

Spam and scam calls are some of the most annoying things we all have to deal with when it comes to our phones. Apple’s iOS 26 update takes a firm step toward solving this problem with Call Screening, ...

If you're on the phone with someone, a babbling newborn can be very cute but they can also be distracting for the person on the other end of your call. If you have an iPhone, you can enable a hidden ...

Sometimes you need someone to answer right away. Maybe you are locked out. Maybe those concert tickets are about to go on sale. Android users are about to get a helpful upgrade that gives their calls ...

Google is fixing the no-context problem in phone calls by adding an urgent-call indicator to the Phone app. The new “Call Reason” feature lets you flag a call as urgent so the recipient knows it ...