Apple has quietly turned the iPhone’s phone app into a frontline defense against scammers, building a new call screening system into iOS 26 that can intercept shady calls before you ever say hello.

Unwanted phone calls have become a constant annoyance. Robocalls, fake delivery alerts, and scammers posing as banks or government agencies interrupt everything from work meetings to family time. It’s ...

Spammers who constantly call and claim to know us are a daily distraction for too many of us. Unwanted calls from telemarketers and people pretending to be government officials or bank agents are the ...