If iOS 18 is installed on your iPhone, you can find the option as follows:
On iPhones with older iOS versions than iOS 18, skip step 2.
If the update of spam protection fails, it may be due to the essential iPhone setting “Block & Identify Calls” being disabled in the background, possibly by an iOS update. This is due to the iPhone’s security structure, which we cannot influence. Other iOS apps requiring this setting face the same issue.
Please check the app Settings >> Apps (only from iOS 18 onwards) >>Phone >> Call Blocking & Identification to see if Clever Dialer can be reactivated. (See description)
If the switch shows a loading icon and cannot be activated, it is crucial to have this switch enabled for Clever Dialer to work.
To fix this issue, please follow these steps:
This should allow the switch in the iPhone settings to be activated again.
Android phones which want to run the Clever Dialer Android app must have Android version 10 or higher installed.
iPhones with iOS 12 or higher can install the Clever Dialer iPhone app.
Although spam-warnings work even when the app is closed completely, the spam protection can not be updated. The app has to run in the background. If you rarely or never open the app, spam protection will quickly become obsolete. This can mean that you are no longer reliably warned from spam calls. New spam numbers are constantly added, so an always up-to-date spam protection is essential.
That’s why we send a notification (push notification) periodically to alert you to a possible update. When the notification is pressed, the app will open and the update will start.
It’s best not to close the Clever Dialer app completely, but keep it running in the background.
Clever Dialer for the iPhone protects you from annoying spam callers. For incoming calls, Clever Dialer checks whether the caller is listed as a spam caller. If the caller’s number is found there, the iPhone warns before accepting the call.
Clever Dialer is also available as an Android app.
Clever Dialer products are available for
This is an error on Apple’s part and unfortunately cannot be influenced by us. All apps that require activation in the phone settings struggle with these difficulties.
Apple recommends the following: Wait at least an hour before trying to activate the app again in Settings.
However, we have found that this can actually take between 1 and 3 days.
Therefore, our recommendation is to restart the iPhone. If this does not help, reinstall the Clever Dialer app. If you still can’t find the “Call Blocking and Identification” item in the phone settings, temporarily disable screen time in your iPhone’s settings (screen time components can prevent the menu item from appearing). To do this, open the Settings app. There, open “Screen time” and scroll all the way down. Press “Turn off Screen Time” and confirm the deactivation. After another restart at the latest, the option “Call Blocking and Identification” should appear in the phone settings of your iPhone.
Please excuse the inconvenience. Unfortunately, we have no option to remove this error.
Apple is able to block calls rigorously and perfectly, and does not display blocked calls in the call log. At no point do you find out when you receive a call that has been blocked by the device.
However, the Clever Dialer spam database also includes phone numbers that some users do not consider spam. This includes, for example, Sky (Keyword: customer recovery), or some insurance companies. Apple offers no countermeasure possibility by means of an exception list (whitelist) on which such phone numbers could be deposited.
For this reason, we have decided to offer the automatic blocking of spam calls as a separate function, which you can activate if you wish. As long as you do not activate the automatic blocking, Clever Dialer will (only) warn you of such calls. You can then decide yourself whether you want to accept the call or not.
