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I just created an iPhone app that uses a whitelist from your contacts like you described. It's available on iOS 11+ and called MyHumans. I've tested out the "s
by mifreewil 7y ago
I just created an iPhone app that uses a whitelist from your contacts like you described. It's available on iOS 11+ and called MyHumans.
I've tested out the "silence unknown callers" feature in the iOS 13 beta and it works very much in a similar way. "Unknown callers" seems to be any call that isn't in your recent calls or in your contacts.
When I made MyHumans (just launched in the last month), I knew there was a risk of something like this appearing in iOS 13, but I'll be adding some more features.
- fossuser 7y agoOut of curiosity how did you implement this? I looked briefly to see if I could make something and call kit seemed to require a blacklist (I figured this is why no whitelist app existed). Do you do something special?
- mifreewil 7y agoWhen I first became interested in the idea for the app, I quickly ran into the same limitations with CallKit. What my app, MyHumans, does is relay the call through a backend service which sends it to your phone via a VoIP call using CallKit. CallKit allows the incoming call to act nearly the same UI-wise as a normal incoming call. The backend service is then able to filter calls using salted hashes of numbers from your contacts.
- fossuser 7y agoCool - thanks for the explanation.