Running OK on my Mum’s iPhone 13 and my sister’s iPhone 15 Plus (or so they say). I can imagine that it might not be as smooth as on my 16 Pro, especially on the 13, but I doubt that will bother my mother 
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Mostly fine on my 13 Pro after a week on the release candidate. Seems to have settled down nicely.
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It’s marginally slow in places on 14pro but perfectly fine. 17 pro arrives Friday so am expecting good things!
Just had my first experience of ‘call screening’ with a random number calling me. Only noticed because I’m working in my MacBook and it popped up on notifications that iPhone was screening the call and asking them why they’re calling me.
No response from them and they hung up - checked on who called me and it was a scam number.
So, all good so far.
Now just need someone to call me from an unregistered number but with a legitimate reason to call to convince the robot to pass the call through to me to see how that works.
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My daughter’s school almost always call from a different number from the known one, they get screened all the time.
I have also hard the Ford dealership sales team get screened recently. It does the job as intended.
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I’m finding that sometimes people just hang up thinking that it’s gone to voicemail. Some of these are important calls that I would want to answer. I guess as more and more people use the feature and it becomes the norm, people will become used to their calls being screened and won’t just hang up.
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Happened to me with the doctor today… I’ve turned it off for now (I did explain it to him, he felt it was an opportunity to get through his calls quicker…..)
People (such as docs) expect it calling land lines as so many folks I know have things like call screen answering machines that need whitelisted numbers but its not expected on mobile yet.
I dont know ifi t can but it would be cool if it could use those phone personalised voice where it replicates your voice.
It needs to be publicised more. None of my family who have now upgraded to iOS 26 had any idea about the new call screening (or the spam detection in Messages).
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Happy Birthday! 
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Does Android phones have this sort of call screening feature? If not, I suspect it’ll be in the next release (Google are very keen to point out how much better Gemini is compared to Apple Intelligence!).
Once they have it as well, it’ll start to become ‘the norm’. As l33t mentioned, it’s already a service on landlines that more vulnerable people are recommended to setup (although I think there’s a monthly cost to it?) but if it’s just part of all mobiles it’ll quickly get people used to it.
Then I suspect there will be a bit of an arms race between criminals wanting to scam people trying to work out how to get around call screening, and Apple/Google themselves trying to make it as good as possible - probably be targeting comms via WhatsApp/Facebook instead.
Im fairly certain it came to android first some years back.
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I love the feature.
Our telephony department not so much! There’s a report that runs regularly to give stats on call answer rates for outbound calls. Since the iPhone answers the call to record the reason for calling, it’s skewing the stats as it shows as an answered call even if the recipient doesn’t take the call.
Calls going to voicemail probably affected the stats anyway, but they think this will affect them even more.
Does Google’s version of call screening not work in the same way, i.e. answering the call? I know that the Call Minder technology that’s available via their own units and is built in to many DECT handsets works by initially answering the call, so this is not anything new.
Samsung have had it for years now
PIxel’s had it for a while (“Call Screen”). It answers the call for you an announces it is Google that is answering on your behalf. It then transcribes what the caller is saying on screen in real time.
But my favourite feature is “Hold for me” which, when you are placed on hold, simply waits and you can get on with something. When a human finally joins the call, your phone lets you know. Such a pleasure to not listen to crap, unlevelled, elevator music anymore.
Apple offers to hold now too, which I’ve used once and it was pretty good.
I’m still too scared to use this! Just can’t trust on a super important call that it’ll work.
That’s just me being an old f@rt though.
Oh for crying out loud.
I basically said I don’t trust these things and that I was just being and old “excess wind that comes out of the bottom half of one’s body” and it blocked it.
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