What Is Verizon Call Filter App

Verizon's bully Call Filter app can now cake spam calls that spoof your surface area code

Verizon's Phone call Filter app is getting a new tool that volition help you block spam calls that spoof your area code. The tool, called Neighborhood filter, will be available on both the free and plus versions of the Call Filter app on most Verizon smartphones.

According to Verizon, the Neighborhood filter feature will assistance you automatically silence and send neighborhood spoofing calls to voicemail. To enable the feature, you tin head to the "Management" section of the Call Filter app and then select the "Block Filters" option. As you tin can see in the attached screenshot, the new Neighborhood filter option volition appear within the "Other filters" section and you lot can tap on the toggle next to it to plow information technology on. Once you plow information technology on, the filter volition prompt you to enter a six-digit prefix and area code similar to your number.

On iOS devices, yous'll need to toggle on filtering from the Call Blocking and Identification settings for the feature to work as intended. Afterwards you enable the feature, the app will block all calls that fall within the specified neighborhood, unless the number is saved in your contacts. If you wish to foreclose the app from blocking a specific number, y'all tin either select the "Ignore Filter" option in the mail-call details within the app or you tin can add the number to your contacts.

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If you're a Verizon subscriber, you tin can download the complimentary version of the Call Filter app to start using the new feature correct away. The gratis version offers basic filtering from spam calls. The Plus version, on the other hand, costs $iii a month per line (or $8 per month for three or more lines) and offers additional tools similar caller proper noun ID, spam lookup, personal cake list, and spam gamble meter.

The new Neighborhood filter in Verizon's Call Filter app is the company's latest effort to gainsay spam calls on its network. It comes simply a few weeks later the company rolled out support for the FCC'due south anti-spoofing protocol. Information technology's worth noting that Verizon recently launched a new Adaptive Sound feature that brings spatial audio support to more than phones.

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