With the Search.ch app against advertising calls
The Search.ch app offers a way to protect yourself from annoying and time-consuming sales calls. Due to technical limitations, only Android users can take advantage of this feature.
Unwanted phone calls to the mobile phone are annoying. These calls are becoming more frequent, especially before the deadline for switching health insurers. Nowadays, more and more call centers are no longer calling with anonymous numbers, but are supposedly making themselves known, as Search.ch writes in a statement. Thanks to the integrated caller ID of the Search.ch app, even such calls do not go undetected. At the time of the call, the app checks the caller's phone number. If this number is not stored in the smartphone user's personal phone book, the app immediately searches Search.ch's phone book with almost four million entries thanks to the caller ID. The company name is shown on the smartphone display without any time delay.
If the app finds out that the caller is a call center, the ringtone and any vibration set on the smartphone are temporarily suppressed. This prevents unwanted callers from disturbing the user. The deliberately "missed" calls are listed in the smartphone together with their call center designation. To complete the blacklist, unregistered call center numbers can be deleted from the list via a form on Admin.tel.search.ch be transmitted.
The integrated caller ID works with Android smartphones. The Search.ch app is also available for iOS-based smartphones, but this operating system blocks certain permissions that are necessary for caller ID. The suppression of phone numbers requires a mobile data subscription and can be deactivated in the settings at any time.
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