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Sometimes, you receive calls or SMS messages on your mobile phone from phone numbers unknown to you. In order for you to find out from which region you called or sent an SMS, we have developed this service.

Enter the phone number or its first 5 digits in the field on the left to determine its affiliation with the cellular operator, the region to which it is assigned, or the city (for landline phones).

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Illustration copyright THINKSTOCK Image caption What if the person you need calls?

The message “Call from an unknown number” appears on the screen of your smartphone.

Many of these calls come from companies that are engaged in telemarketing, that is, trying to sell you services or products that you know nothing about.

Often such companies are located abroad. However, it happens that a real person calls, whose number you forgot to add to your contact list. So you click the “Reply” button and hear a recorded text from the telemarketing company.

This is a common situation, but there is a solution. We found six apps that solve this problem.

1.TrapCall

This application is developed for Apple and Android operating systems. It's created by New Jersey-based TelTech, and while it's free to download, you have to pay for the Caller ID service - about $5 a month.

Illustration copyright THINKSTOCK Image caption The call may be from a person whose number you forgot to add to your contact list

It works like this: when your phone receives a call from an unknown number, you can reject it by double-clicking the "Hang Up" button. The app immediately sends you a text message with the phone number that called you. It will also determine whether the number is associated with a specific address.

Additionally, it offers the ability to block numbers.

“We all want to know who is calling and be able to choose whether to answer the call or not,” says TelTech President Meir Cohen.

2.TrueCaller

The Swedish company behind the app, True Software Scandinavia AB, claims to have 85 million subscribers worldwide.

The application uses a database containing millions of previously identified phone numbers. The program instantly recognizes them and provides the user with the ability to block them.

Illustration copyright THINKSTOCK Image caption Many calls come from telemarketing companies

She also searches the Internet for all the information associated with a particular number - such as reviews, photos and ratings.

3.Contactive

This free application was created by the Spaniard Iñaki Berenguer, founder of the Klink company. He recently bought UK company ThinkingPhones.

Illustration copyright THINKSTOCK Image caption All these programs automatically search for information on the Internet.

The program's developers claim that it is capable of recognizing more than 600 million phone numbers. It automatically searches the Internet for all information related to a specific number. To do this, she turns not only to existing databases, but also to social networks.

4. Track Caller Location

This is a product of Smartlogic, which has branches in the USA and Britain. This free app has been available to download since last October.

No internet connection is required to use it. In addition to the above functions, this program has the ability to determine the location of the caller, provided that he is using a GSM mobile network.

5.Whoscall

Illustration copyright THINKSTOCK Image caption These applications use huge databases to determine the incoming number

The Taiwanese company Gogolook, which developed the application, claims that up to 20 million calls per day pass through its filters, and half of them are identified as spam.

The program has all the usual functions and is capable of blocking both calls and texts.

6. Who's Calling?

This application from BadAix works the same as the previous one. Its strength is its ability to analyze social media data, especially Whatsapp and Facebook. The application also allows you to create lists of unwanted recipients.

Hi all! It turned out that I had been using caller ID on my iPhone for several months. I turned it on once, was happy and didn’t even write about it, because I thought that everyone uses it... Now it turns out that I’m wrong and even advanced iPhone users don’t know about such a cool feature as caller ID! Now I’ll tell you and you’ll gasp, how simple it is! But first...

Download the program to your favorite iPhone or update the program if yours is not updated. The caller ID function on the iPhone appeared a long time ago and I don’t even remember why I paid attention to it then... Information about the caller ID appeared either in the 2GIS update tab in the App Store, or after the next launch of the program.

Why 2GIS? Yes, simply because the service’s telephone database contains almost all organizations in the city, and therefore, if someone calls you from Romashka LLC, for example, you will immediately know about it! Yes, the caller ID does not show spammers or calls from other cities/countries, but thanks for that :)

By the way, I tested this method on iOS 10 and, in my opinion, it does not work on previous versions. But if I'm wrong and it worked for you on iOS 9, please write in the comments below!

How to enable caller ID on iPhone

After installing the 2GIS program on your iPhone, you need to go to the application and download the city that is relevant to you:

After the city is loaded, you will need to exit 2GIS and go to the Settings of the iPhone itself. There, scroll down to the Phone item, enter it and then click on “Block.” and id. call" (this is how it is written on my iPhone 6). After which you will be taken to a new window in which there will be a treasured switch opposite the 2GIS program. By the way, there will also be a large (or not very large) list of contacts blocked on your phone:

So on this screen you need to turn the switch to green, next to the inscription 2GIS. That's it, if you get a call from some company that is registered in the 2GIS directory, you will know who exactly is calling you! The line under the phone number will indicate that the caller ID function on the iPhone is in action:

Well, if you saw a phone number somewhere, then you can try to figure it out by writing it into the dialing line:

It seems so easy to set up caller ID on an iPhone, but few people know about it. I hope that the article will be useful to you and you will be happy to share it on social networks, and also join the group in

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It’s awkward to ask who’s calling, but you want to find out. What should you do if you received a call from an unfamiliar number, but it is impossible to guess who it was? For such and similar situations, the Detector online application was developed. Using the app, you can find not only a photo, but also contact information about the person you are interested in.

Detector features

Providing personal information about a specific person to outsiders is prohibited and punishable by law. And users would hardly turn to the services of mobile operators and social networks to the full extent if their personal data were under threat of disclosure.

However, it provides for finding only publicly available information. All data is taken from social networks to which the phone number is linked.

To get the material you are interested in, you need to download Detector from the App Store, open the app and enter the number in the appropriate line. You can find out:

In addition, a search is also carried out in the databases of unwanted subscribers and landline numbers. In this case, general but hidden information will not be displayed. “Detector” is a search engine that displays data from the Internet. Personal information is not collected in the application, since the developers took care of the safety and personal space and comfort of clients.

Another new feature: in the latest update, it has become possible to search in databases of foreign countries.

For ease of use, the app provides the ability to paste from the clipboard and search history. The use of neural networks, quickly finding details that cannot be provided by other sources are the distinctive features of the mobile application.

Possible improvements

To download the service, you need to pay a small amount, although a free version may be available in the future. Nevertheless, the idea of ​​the “Detector” itself is very interesting and, with modifications, can be quite successful.

In the meantime, this app is under improvement, NastMobile offers the creation of mobile applications for iOS with the most effective functionality. Development and promotion of projects is not a problem for us. To find out the details of cooperation and payment you are interested in, contact us in a way convenient for you.

Starting with iOS 11, the system can automatically recognize spam calls, but this does not always work perfectly. To fix all the shortcomings of iOS, you will have to download a special application.

Many third-party applications are able to identify unwanted numbers using their own database. To achieve the best effect, you can install several applications. In this case, if the number is not in the database of one program, another application will be able to find it.

How to Enable Caller ID on iOS

1. Open Settings.
2. Go to the “Phone” → “Call Blocking and Identification” section.
3. Activate the toggle switch next to the desired application (due to the way iOS works, it may take time for the system to add a new application to this list. Enabling applications will also take some time).

Despite the fact that the App Store has a large number of applications for recognizing spam calls, their number is greatly reduced if we discard programs with a subscription and a small database. There are also applications that require a number for registration - at your own peril and risk.