Truecaller’s Call Recording Feature Won’t Work On Iphones From Sept. 30

Truecaller is discontinuing its telephone signaling usability connected iOS — conscionable over 2 years aft nan characteristic was launched — arsenic nan Swedish institution opts to attraction connected its halfway offering: fighting spam calls.

On Friday, nan institution confirmed to TechCrunch that its telephone signaling characteristic will nary longer beryllium disposable connected iPhones starting September 30. Users pinch saved telephone recordings tin either download them to their devices, stock them via email aliases messaging apps, aliases move their retention penchant to iCloud to support nan recordings accessible moreover aft nan characteristic is discontinued.

Truecaller’s caput of iOS, Nakul Kabra, told TechCrunch nan institution took nan determination because it wanted to attraction connected its Live Caller ID and automatic spam blocking features.

In June 2023, Truecaller launched telephone signaling connected iOS for its paying subscribers, alongside reintroducing nan characteristic connected Android. The app besides sewage support for transcribing calls natively. Both telephone signaling and transcription were launched successful India past year.

While telephone signaling useful seamlessly connected Android, it is much analyzable connected iOS, wherever Apple’s operating strategy does not fto third-party apps grounds calls natively. To activity astir this, Truecaller uses a signaling statement that merges calls to grounds — a method that increases some costs and complexity, per Kabra. These challenges yet led to nan characteristic being discontinued.

The institution has set up a support page to thief users if they look immoderate issues during nan transition.

Truecaller’s move comes months aft Apple introduced autochthonal telephone signaling and transcription support for iPhone users successful an iOS 18.1 update past year. The autochthonal characteristic does not require users to link to a grounds statement to grounds nan call, dissimilar Truecaller, and besides brings Apple Intelligence-powered transcriptions.

That said, Truecaller had introduced telephone signaling successful nan first spot to entice iPhone users to upgrade, arsenic nan caller ID usability is constricted connected nan free tier. Paying users besides get real-time caller ID, on pinch precocious and automatic spam blocking, Siri shortcuts, incognito mode, and different features.

Truecaller has astir 3 cardinal subscribers worldwide, but iOS accounts for 44% of its full premium revenue, per its second-quarter financial results (PDF).