{"id":16803,"date":"2017-01-05T15:57:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T20:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16803"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T20:55:11","slug":"hiya-filter-spam-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/05\/hiya-filter-spam-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiya: Filter Spam Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/katiefloyd.com\/blog\/hiya-filter-spam-calls\">Katie Floyd<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/katiefloyd.com\/blog\/hiya-filter-spam-calls\">\n<p>Out of desperation, I&rsquo;ve tried a few of these Apps claiming to screen or block suspected spam callers as they&rsquo;ve popped up in the App store. Thus far the only one I&rsquo;ve found that has worked somewhat reliably is <a href=\"http:\/\/geni.us\/YjB8BfR\">Hiya<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3119736\/ios\/new-call-blocking-apps-in-ios-10-can-stop-spams-and-scams-before-they-reach-you.html\">Glenn Fleishman writing for Macworld has a more extensive review<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>One concern of note, Hiya requires users to provide access to their contacts, a request that always makes me leery. Hiya told Macworld the data is required to add contacts to its whitelist and the information is kept private. Still, be aware. After a few months of use I&rsquo;ve found Hiya overall accurate with a few bugs that have been fixed by uninstalling and reinstalling the app.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2017-01-09): <a href=\"https:\/\/marco.org\/2017\/01\/08\/call-blockers\">Marco Arment<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcoarment\/status\/817961401868255232\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/marco.org\/2017\/01\/08\/call-blockers\"><p>I had Hiya installed for weeks and it never identified a single spam call, during which time I got about ten. I followed all of their voodoo troubleshooting steps, but it just never worked, so I deleted it. (Too bad I can&rsquo;t un-send them my contacts. Thanks a lot.)<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Floyd: Out of desperation, I&rsquo;ve tried a few of these Apps claiming to screen or block suspected spam callers as they&rsquo;ve popped up in the App store. Thus far the only one I&rsquo;ve found that has worked somewhat reliably is Hiya. (Glenn Fleishman writing for Macworld has a more extensive review) [&#8230;] One concern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[905,31,1380,85,1454,355,356],"class_list":["post-16803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-extensions","tag-ios","tag-ios-10","tag-iphone","tag-phone-app","tag-privacy","tag-spam"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16848,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16803\/revisions\/16848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}