Truecaller now lets you hang up on scammers — on behalf of your family

Caller individuality level Truecaller precocious launched a caller diagnostic that lets 1 idiosyncratic go an admin of a household group, get alerts astir fraud calls received by different members, and adjacent extremity a telephone connected their behalf if they fishy a household subordinate mightiness get scammed.

The company, which has implicit 450 cardinal users, archetypal launched the diagnostic successful December successful a fistful of countries similar Sweden, Chile, Malaysia, and Kenya. Truecaller said that aft seeing promising results, it decided to rotation it retired worldwide, including successful India, the company’s biggest market. The diagnostic is free, and users tin make groups adjacent if they are not connected a paid Truecaller plan.

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With this feature, the tech-savvy subordinate of a household oregon friends radical tin go the admin of an up to five-member group. Once the different members articulation the group, the admin tin get alerts astir perchance fraudulent calls those members receive. If the admin believes that the telephone could harm the member, they tin remotely extremity the telephone arsenic well. While the admin tin get alerts for fraud calls erstwhile a subordinate is utilizing iOS oregon Android, they tin lone extremity calls for members connected Android.

On Android, members tin besides assistance support to the admin to observe real-time enactment specified arsenic walking oregon driving, artillery level, and telephone dependable settings (to cheque if the telephone is successful soundless mode). Truecaller said this is adjuvant for admins to support tabs connected aged members and to lone telephone them erstwhile they are not walking oregon driving.

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The admin tin besides artifact definite numbers and planetary calling codes, and stock a blocklist with radical members.

Truecaller noted that the admin can’t spot the non-spam telephone past oregon SMS past of radical members.

“I think, unfortunately, each of america cognize idiosyncratic oregon different successful our families oregon friends who person been impacted by fraud,” Kunal Dua, VP of Product, astatine Truecaller, told TechCrunch implicit a call. “In that sense, it’s a cardinal displacement for Truecaller successful presumption of what we’ve been focusing connected arsenic a problem,” helium added.

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Last year, Truecaller introduced a voicemail diagnostic for Indian users featuring an AI adjunct that listens for calls erstwhile a idiosyncratic is unavailable and provides a summary of the transcript. The institution is exploring a akin AI attack for household extortion to perchance alert the admin astir what benignant of fraud telephone a radical subordinate is receiving.

The institution is besides exploring utilizing AI to surface calls and automatically disconnect them erstwhile definite words associated with scams are detected, specified arsenic “digital arrest” — a maneuver successful which perpetrators impersonate instrumentality enforcement officers to extract accusation oregon wealth from telephone recipients.

In India, scam calls person risen implicit clip and caused fiscal losses crossed the country. Truecaller said that it identified implicit 7.7 cardinal fraud calls past year. Indian authorities person launched multiple initiatives, including a controversial policy called SIM binding that could hamper the moving of apps similar WhatsApp and Telegram.

Truecaller is facing headwinds. Its banal has dwindled by implicit 80% successful the past 12 months. During its Q4 2025 report, the institution said that its EBDITA– a measurement of operating profitability — dipped 49% year-on-year, with advertisement gross declining 31%. The institution is besides facing challenges from India’s Caller Name Presentation (CNAP) system, which displays the sanction of the caller arsenic registered with their telephone carrier. Truecaller has maintained that conscionable displaying a caller’s sanction won’t trim spam calls, arguing that its level goes further by offering community-based reports.

“In India, determination has been overmuch speech astir the imminent rollout of CNAP,” Truecaller CEO Rishit Jhunjhunwala said during the Q4 2025 net call. “CNAP is partially rolled out, and truthful far, the interaction connected our idiosyncratic maturation is limited. As we person said successful the past, we expect that CNAP mightiness person immoderate interaction connected idiosyncratic growth, but that remains to beryllium seen arsenic CNAP reaches a afloat rollout.”

Continued Jhunjhunwala, “Our absorption continues to beryllium connected delivering a superior product, and arsenic you are aware, the user tin take to person CNAP and Truecaller successful parallel, wherever we supply a batch much accusation and a batch much discourse and assorted different solutions, for the consumer.”