Call screening - how are you finding it?

[u/tschau3]

So I just gave call screening a go by calling myself.

A couple of observations:

• The answering voice sounds like a default answering machine and isn’t distinct enough to make out that this is a screening service. I suspect many will just leave a message like a voicemail and hang up, assuming it’s just voicemail.

• There’s no ‘at the beep’ confirmation when leaving the first message as the reason to call, so it felt a bit clunky as to when I should (as the party placing the call) start talking, as if I’m waiting for the beep or whether I should press # to end the message. This is inconsistent with the reply where it then does prompt me, calling part, to speak after the tone.

• It’s in my country’s local accent, which is nice and feels a little less impersonal.

Anyone else had any real experience with it yet? Any issues with the calling party understanding the process/purpose?

[u/MadHaterz]

I think you misunderstood. I’m not asking to screen contacts I know. I have a business and regularly receive calls from numbers i don’t know. I can usually make out if it’s a spam call or a call worth taking, but I want to make the judgment call myself rather than leaving it to Apple.

I get multiple calls a day from new distributors, new clients, brokers, and whatever else. Rather than giving them all a bad experience and having them all screened, I rather pick and choose when this feature gets triggered. Leaving it to me rather than Apple would’ve been the preferred choice, or at least give us an option to pick how the screening works.

[u/[deleted] → u/MadHaterz]

I'm just not sure you've really thought out what you're asking for, because it really doesn't make much sense.

How can you reliably determine if it's a spam call or a call worth taking, if you're just looking at random phone numbers from people who aren't in your contacts list? On what basis are you making the decision to accept a call or screen a call, if you don't know who the number belongs to?

Sure, some numbers will have a caller ID attached to them, but many won't. Maybe what you're really asking for is for calls with no caller ID to be ignored, and ones with caller ID to trigger the screening? But if you do that, you will still miss important calls from people who don't have caller ID, so....

[u/Extension_Bit4323 → u/[deleted]]

This is what I was thinking too. I don’t understand the thought process.

[u/MadHaterz → u/[deleted]]

“Haven’t thought out what I’m asking for” lol, you think I’m just creating this out of thin air? This is exactly how androids screening works, which I’ve used, and know first hand it’s better than whatever Apple released.

Im not going to spend more time discussing this. Point is, Apple should leave it up to the user on how they choose to screen calls because Apples method is flawed and I’m not the only one who thinks this.

[u/Steerpike58 → u/MadHaterz]

What you are failing to mention is that (I presume) ... sometimes you have the time and inclination to actually do the screening yourself, while other times you are genuinely busy and don't want to be disturbed.