Turn off Caller ID and spam-lookup services on LineageOS 22
Contacts and calls
Sensitivity 4/5
Default: Off
Phones / LineageOS 22 / 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 dialler app, open Settings from the top corner, and turn off Caller ID and spam lookup options.
Usually found under: Phone > Settings > Caller ID & spam
Menu names may differ by device and version.
What you lose
Inbound numbers will not be checked against online spam databases.
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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