Turn off Caller ID and spam-lookup services on LineageOS 21
Contacts and calls
Sensitivity 4/5
Default: Off
Phones / LineageOS 21 / 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, tap the three dots for Settings, and check Caller ID & spam to ensure online lookup features are disabled.
Usually found under: Phone > Settings > Caller ID & spam
Menu names may differ by device and version.
What you lose
Unknown numbers will not be automatically identified or flagged as spam.
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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