Re:Verified by Twilio
by bradknowles on Friday August 30, 2019 @05:18PM
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I use the Firewall app on iPhone.
All phone numbers in my Contacts app go into a whitelist that is maintained only locally on my phone.
When a call comes in, a notification gets fired off to the Firewall app, and it checks the number against the whitelist. If the number is on the whitelist, then it actually uses a functional replica of the iPhone Phone app UI to "ring" the call through.
If the incoming call is from a number not on my whitelist, then it checks the blacklist of known bad actors. If the caller is on the blacklist, then the call just gets blocked. I get a notification from Firewall that a call from a known bad actor was blocked.
If the incoming call is not on the whitelist or the blacklist, then it goes to voicemail, where it gets transcribed, and I get a notice that Firewall sent a call to voicemail.
I'm hoping that this is basically the same workflow we will see with iOS 13, just built into the basic iPhone Phone app. Then I should be able to stop using Firewall.
But I certainly don't need Nomorobo or any other such tool. Firewall solves all those problems, and does so better than any of the alternatives.
All phone numbers in my Contacts app go into a whitelist that is maintained only locally on my phone.
When a call comes in, a notification gets fired off to the Firewall app, and it checks the number against the whitelist. If the number is on the whitelist, then it actually uses a functional replica of the iPhone Phone app UI to "ring" the call through.
If the incoming call is from a number not on my whitelist, then it checks the blacklist of known bad actors. If the caller is on the blacklist, then the call just gets blocked. I get a notification from Firewall that a call from a known bad actor was blocked.
If the incoming call is not on the whitelist or the blacklist, then it goes to voicemail, where it gets transcribed, and I get a notice that Firewall sent a call to voicemail.
I'm hoping that this is basically the same workflow we will see with iOS 13, just built into the basic iPhone Phone app. Then I should be able to stop using Firewall.
But I certainly don't need Nomorobo or any other such tool. Firewall solves all those problems, and does so better than any of the alternatives.