Turn off Caller ID and spam-lookup services on /e/OS 2.x
Contacts and calls
Sensitivity 4/5
Default: Off
Phones / /e/OS 2.x / Caller ID and spam-lookup services
Incoming and outgoing telephone numbers not in your contacts are queried against commercial directories. This process sends the number to the dialler provider to identify businesses or suspected nuisance callers.
- Goes to
- Google, Samsung, Xiaomi
- Default
- Off
- Control
- Can be switched off
- Effort
- a few seconds
How to do it
Open the Phone app, open its Settings, and verify that any network lookup or online caller identification features are disabled.
Menu names may differ by device and version.
What you lose
Incoming numbers from unknown callers will not be looked up against online spam directories.
What is collected
Incoming phone numbers, outgoing phone numbers, call timestamps, lookup queries.
It aims to identify incoming commercial callers and warn users about unwanted spam calls.
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