Call Screening in iOS 27 can ask an unknown caller for a name and reason before your iPhone rings. It gives you more context than a bare phone number, but it does not verify the caller’s identity or ...

iOS 27 has brought a lot of new features to the iPhone, but one of the things that has made the biggest difference to my experience of the device as a phone actually dates back a year earlier.

Apple’s iOS 27 includes a Phone app addition called Call Context that pulls relevant information from your other apps and displays it on screen while you’re speaking with a business. The feature runs ...

I’m not a big fan of phone calls, so the Phone app isn’t somewhere I spend much time. But last year in iOS 26, the app had two of my favorite new features: Call Screening and Hold Assist. Now with iOS ...