Is there a way to block/filter the incoming calls in iphone 4.0+
I've found a lot of apps saying that they are for blocking the calls with a price in app store. But the reviews are negative. Is is really possible to block calls ? Can anyone advise me on this ?
Thanks a zillion :)
The Answer is NO With current SDK support you can not intercept/block calls sms.
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I need to develop an App that reacts on the voice of the caller - so the participant in the phone call who is 'not there'.. specifically:
Someone calls me and stops speaking. The app should alarm me saying "participant stopped speaking" (it does not matter if the sense of the app seems stupid for you now ;-))
My question is just - is this technically possible? Since apps normally are paused as soon as a phona call comes in. I know they can be restarted during the phone call - but can they react on the voice on the other side of the line or is this only possible for my own voice?
If you think its possible, any special things i have to know?
Thanks a lot!
tim
This is not possible. Because when any call comes in iPhone our application loose control and it goes in background.
With official SDK it is not possible to intercept any phone calls.
Hope this helps.
This is not valid IDEA using standard SDK, though you can do this using some other IDEA's one of them is CYDIA.
Thanks,
Is there any way to block incoming phone calls, text messages and email. Will appstore allows these kind of applications on appstore. Please help me if this is possible or not.
It is now possible from iOS 10 to block the unwanted calls
Checkout the CallKit framework
CallKit introduces app extensions that enable call blocking and caller identification. You can create an app extension that can associate a phone number with a name or tell the system when a number should be blocked.
Update: Never say never :) iOS 10 introduced this possiblity, see other answers.
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NO, this is not possible with public API (and non-jailbroken devices)
And NO, Apple would never allow any app that disrupts the expected standard system behavior
Apple will never allow any third party application to do any illegal things without user's knowledge. This is the policy I think apple has applied to ensure his user's that their data are safe in their iphone. U can consider mails, calls, sms to be under those categories. There may be others which I might have missed.
Please refer this link for your knowledge
Only Apple can do that and unfortunately for you they plan to do otherwise.. :/
Even if it is called "smart", all in all your target device is a "phone" so the basic phone functionalities should not be ever blocked, and the phone manufacturers do not allow this for third party applications.
Rajan is correct you can block the incoming phone calls from iOS 10.
Create a Call Directory Extension , use the addBlockingEntry(withNextSequentialPhoneNumber:) method to pass the blocked numbers to the system.
Now it's end of 2018 and actually you can really do something with Apple's latest API.
As #Rajan stated, with CallKit API (iOS 10+) you can achieve call blocking and identification (i.e. show additional info on the incoming call screen for the caller's phone number).
You can also do SMS and Call Reporting (iOS 11+) as well, where you have access to the SMS content if the number is not in your Contacts.
is it possible to wake an App in the background up, when a call comes in, and access CoreTelephony to send some infos over the web?
I'm practically a n00b in iOS development right now, but got asked a question if iOS is capable to do this. I searched in the iOS reference too, but with no luck.
It would be great if someone with more experience could answer it. Thanks a lot!
Steno
Please, have a look at the document about executing code in the background.
If you go to section "Implementing a VoIP Application", you will see that it is actually possible for your app to be awaken periodically so that it can check if it has anything to do (in your case, if I understand you correctly you would use CTCall to check for calling state).
So, basically, when awaken, your app could check for any incoming call and then use Core Telephony, as you say.
The only trouble about this is that if your app cannot be considered to a a VOIP app, Apple will not let it into the App Store.
It is not possible to have your code run when a call is received.
I wrote a nice app that would simplify life for many - somehow similar to these phone card apps. However, there is one private API function which I have to use to send a hash '#" in a phone call because the receiving hardware requires this. (which is understandably not allowed because of POSSIBLE abuse). But
My app does not missuse or in any way
cause damage.
Certainly the reviewers at apple don't have time to review for each single use of such functions - so therefore my app got rejected by the automated API check (so I assume). Yes I know that these issues are documented well by Apple, but I was hoping they would really "check" abuse possibilities of apps and then reject - or accept if the app is not harmfull in any way. (as happened in a similar case in appstore)
Anyway, if I don't find another solution this app will not be accepted.
What to do now?
Does it make sense to write an explanation comment when submitting to review?
Is there an alternative to send the signal of a # during a call somehow?
Is there an alternative way to sell/distribute apps? Will this affect my future apps to be submitted? What is your experience?
ps certainly, the Android version is available soon...
Thanks!
An option would be to submit it as a bug and request they "support send a hash '#" in a phone call".
You can always try the Cydia store, and probably there are other ways in the jailbreak community.
Is it possible to create an iPhone application to answer incoming voice calls and play audio files back to the caller? If yes, before answering the call, is it possible to determine the caller id?
Thanks!
This is not possible using the SDK. You can most likely do it with a jailbroken app.
iPhone applications (non-jailbreak apps, at least) cannot intercept phone calls. When a phone call is initiated, your app is paused and cannot execute any commands.
Essentially, count on never being able to prevent basic functionality of the iPhone. You can't override texting behaviour, Mail.app behaviour, Safari behavior, etc. because Apple wants the user experience to be consistent (not to mention security issues in allowing an app to answer calls on someone's behalf).