WideProtect Spam Call Blocker

Could be more efficient if the app took into account the NPA numbering plan rules. i.e. Prefixes can’t start with a 1 or 0, and the second two digits can’t be 11. If the app considered applying the rules and didn’t filter invalid NPA/NXX numbers you could then filter more valid numbers. Also might be nice to be able to white list/exclude a range, like if you know the number block your local government or hospital uses. The app can crash and the only way to recover is to delete the app, backup and restore your phone and then reinstall the app. Need a way to “reset” the app so you don’t have to do this if it start to fail when updating. 99% of the spam calls came from local area codes. I was able to block all of those, with an exception for those numbers in my contact list. 10-30 spam calls a day, most with spoofed local numbers, went to 1-3 a month. Callers can still leave a voice message that I can check/delete after looking at the transcription. Call Protect/HiYa catches the national non-local spam calls so I haven’t gotten a single spam call in over a month now. Have to make sure the app is running in the background, no issue with battery life, and let it fully update its block lists which can take some time. I wish Apple would let a developer make an app where you can white list your contacts and block everything else, until then this is the next best thing.

The app is simple, yet very good at blocking robo calls. I have been using it for a couple of months. It definitely worked for me for long time up until the recent update v.4.4.1, where the app just fail apart. One of the prefix extension (WideProtect -1) can never be enabled, it just gives you an endless spinning wheel that never goes away. Tried deleting the app and reinstalling it, nothing seems to fix. Prefix extension still shows that spinning wheel. Worst thing about it is, while that prefix extension is still trying to enable itself, the app won’t let you add any numbers to block even if you enabled all the other 24 extensions; instead, it gives you an error message telling you to wait until that one prefix extension is enabled. It’s a shame that nothing seems to get it to work; it was actually good when it works. Update: Worked with the developer on troubleshooting the issue with my app. Happy to say the app is now in perfect working condition. Thanks Valerii for your support.

The robocalls were out of control. Two, three times a day the robots would call. Did I want to redeem my reward points? No. Did I want a better auto insurance rate? Go away! Could I give them my social security number to prove I had paid off non-existent IRS debts? Argh! I had to reclaim my phone. I considered changing phone numbers. That would show them! But these are robots. They are inherently smarter. Capable of placing unlimited calls from any imaginable callback number. At first I tried blocking them all. But the math was against me. With 10,000 phone numbers with my same prefix, what could I do?? I turned to the web, where I found fellow humans with the same problem. Reading their reviews of this app I was convinced that this was truly a defense against the robocalls. It occurred to me that the app could be a plot deployed by the robots to get me only further ensnared in their trap. But the reviews seemed genuine, laced with nihilistic humor only humans would understand. But the app seemed too good to be true. $3 for a lifetime protection from robocalls? I figured it was worth the risk. Now, two weeks into my purchase and I couldn’t be happier. The calls are as if they never happen. I track my calls in the att call protect app, so I can see that the robots are trying. But this app does its job. The calls are screened without my being aware of them at all. We are safe, in part, from the robots. Thank you developers.

I have to guess that maybe you are forgetting to let app reload extensions as it directs you to at top and by overlooking that, you think it has stopped working but you have maybe overlooked one of the two things the user must do to allow the app to do the job you direct it to. If you see this... and realize this, hopefully you give the app credit and appropriate rating because this app needs to stick around - it let me allow my phone to ring again when i get a call - prior to this i was forced to keep it silent which led to additional annoyance (beyond robo-stalkers themselves and their invasion) of phone tag or missing calls in general that i would like to have had opportunity to answer which robo-scum out there just impossible, i had to silence phone always.

UPDATE: GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE! Giving 5 stars, again. The developer contacted me and fixed the issue within one day. I love this app, again! Went from receiving at least 30 spam calls per day to maybe 1! It worked great for awhile. Now, when I try to update my blocked list it just keeps "working" for about 10 minutes with a screen message stating "Block list is being updated...1 of 25...". I turned off all lists except 1 and 2, but it keeps saying I'm updating 25. Then, it stops and I get a pop-up starting "Error Please give WideProtect permission to block numbers through iPhone Settings: Phone: Call Blocking & Identification.". I allowed that access since I purchased this app! So, it's no longer working and needs to be fixed.