Are we planning to have some APIs or methods to know that status of Call blocking extension and message filter extension in future releases as currently it is not available.

Hi, I developed an iOS app which will do SMS filtering by following this documentation. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/identitylookup/sms-and-mms-message-filtering) I built the app and send Test Flights to different testers. All the Testers from Sri Lanka (an asian country) says filtering is working and they can see all the enabled categories on the Messages too (including iOS 26). But the testers from Mexico cannot see the categories and filtering is not working. On official documentation there is nothing about supported countries. But I found true caller article https://support.truecaller.com/support/solutions/articles/81000406341-how-do-i-enable-sms-filtering-on-iphone mentioning it support only few countries for SMS filtering. Currently available in the following countries: India, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka. Our previous Categories filtering are still available for: Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Ghana, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Zambia Following article https://clearstream.io/blog/ios-26-iphone-new-text-message-filtering is saying some categories are supported by only Brazil and India. Still I could not find any official documentations saying different country supports.

We are not receving incoming call from blocked numbers below iOS 26 versions but same in iOS 26 onwards we are receiving the incoming call.. Can you please provide any solutions to fix the issue

Hello all, I'm developing a Mac app and need to read the content of incoming SMS, I am able to implement in android just the user has to consent and it does not read her contacts messages, so I am wondering if apple can allow this.

Hi, I am just wondering if there is any option to protect my endpoints that will be used by Message Filtering Extension? According to the documentation our API has 2 endpoints: /.well-known/apple-app-site-association /[endpoint setup in the ILMessageFilterExtensionNetworkURL value of the Info.plist file] that the deferQueryRequestToNetwork will request on every message Since all requests to these 2 endpoints are made by iOS itself (deferQueryRequestToNetwork), I don't understand how I can protect these endpoints on my side, like API key, or maybe mTLS. The only way that I found is white list for Apple IP range. Is there other methods for it?

Hi, We are working to integrate the Live Caller ID Lookup feature into our app. After submitting the request form via the link: https://developer.apple.com/contact/request/live-caller-id-lookup/, we received this reply from Apple: Apple’s OHTTP relay has been configured to talk to your OHTTP gateway. Now Live Caller ID Lookup should work for your application extension when distributed through App Store. However, before officially releasing our app on the App Store, we’d like to make sure the Live Caller ID Lookup feature is working as expected. To test this, we uploaded the app to TestFlight, and it successfully passed App Review. However, the test failed — we observed that the system tries to fetch the config from http://www.example.com/config instead of our actual configuration URL. Questions: Is this expected behavior when using TestFlight? Does the Live Caller ID Lookup feature only become active after full public release on the App Store? Is there any recommended way to test this feature before public release? Thank you!

Title's basically the whole question. I'm writing an SMS/Call Reporting extension (ILClassificationUIExtensionViewController). My goal is to keep everything on device and not use the built-in SMS/network reporting. To that end, I'm trying to write to a file in the App Group container from the classificationResponse handler. I'm getting Error 513: "You don’t have permission to save the file “classification_log.txt” in the [app group container folder]". I haven't been able to find much in the documentation on whether this behavior is enforced in classificationResponse handlers. Apple's barebones page on "SMS and Call Spam Reporting"[1] says "the system always deletes your extension’s container after your extension terminates," but that doesn't answer whether you can write to an App Group container. I haven't been able to find that answer elsewhere. ChatGPT and Gemini are both very sure it can be done. Any thoughts? [1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/identitylookup/sms-and-call-spam-reporting

Hello fellow developers, Anyone blocked at the Live Caller ID Lookup configuration step? I submitted multiple times the form without any news from Apple since a few months (last one is FL7S57UFVR). This is blocking our app release to our customers. Thank you

Hi, Since I updated my phone to 23A341, my Call filtering app is not blocking calls anymore. Same release checked on iOS 18 phone, it is working. I still see the callkit logs into the Console showing that numbers are loaded into the iOS-managed SQlite DB but the calls are not blocked nor identified. Anyone with the same issue? BR

iOS Message Filter Extension - deferQueryRequestToNetwork(completion:) error I made a test app using the iOS App template and added a target using the Message Filter Extension template which invokes deferQueryRequestToNetwork(completion:) when receiving an SMS. The app and the extension have same "Associated Domains Capabilities" with "messagefilter" pointing to a server which receives query requests and returns proper responses. The extension has the "ILMessageFilterExtensionNetworkURL" key in Info.plist file which specifies the server URL. deferQueryRequestToNetwork(completion:) throws a com.apple.calls.messagefilter error which reads "Extension's containing app (appID ) unauthorized to defer requests to host "

Hi Apple team, We’re shipping a Live Caller ID Lookup extension on iOS 18 and have a question about the automatic refresh of configuration/PIR parameters. Questions 1. Is there any documented interval/TTL (min/max) for the system’s automatic refresh of /config and PIR parameters, or is it entirely opportunistic (battery/network/usage)? I can’t find a cadence in the IdentityLookup docs. 2. Does iOS honor server cache headers (e.g., Cache-Control/Expires) to influence when it re-fetches? 3. Which events also trigger a refresh (enable/disable in Settings, OS/app update, device reboot, token/epoch change)? 4. Are there rate limits or best-practice limits for calling refreshExtensionContext and refreshPIRParameters?

Is the API of Live Caller ID Lookup not open to ordinary developers? How can I get the development permission of Live Caller ID Lookup?

Hi everyone, We are experiencing an issue with SMS messages sent from our banking app (iOS) to our customers. The SMS are being delivered by the carrier, but on iOS devices some of them appear to be filtered or blocked, and users don’t see them in the Messages app. This seems to be related to new SMS filtering rules on iOS (possibly affecting financial institutions and transactional SMS). • Has anyone faced a similar situation? • Are there specific Apple guidelines or best practices for SMS sender IDs / content to avoid being filtered? • Is there any official documentation from Apple regarding these new SMS filtering mechanisms? Any guidance or experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Hi! Sms reporting is no longer available in iOS beta 26 builds. I can set my app as the SMS/Call Reporting Extensions but the report button is missing for sms messages in the messages app. Xcode 26 beta 7 build the app without errors. This is a breaking change. Same extension was previously broken for calls but has been fixed in beta 7 build, as reported here. It is however still missing for sms messages in the messages app (beta 9 build).

Hello. I've implemented the Live Caller ID Lookup feature in my app, but sometimes I get a weird error. When I call LiveCallerIDLookupManager.shared.refreshPIRParameters(...) from my app, it sometimes throws an error: Error Domain=com.apple.CipherML Code=1100 "Unable to query status due to errors: The resource could not be loaded because the App Transport Security policy requires the use of a secure connection." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Unable to query status due to errors: The resource could not be loaded because the App Transport Security policy requires the use of a secure connection., NSUnderlyingError=0x118f65740 {Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1022 "The resource could not be loaded because the App Transport Security policy requires the use of a secure connection." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=The resource could not be loaded because the App Transport Security policy requires the use of a secure connection., NSErrorFailingURLKey=http://www.example.com/config}}} What does this error mean? And where did the example.com part come from? What should I do to get rid of this error? My Service URL is hardcoded in the Live Caller ID Lookup Extension of my app and it is definitely not example.com.

Based on the documentation, I understand that the UnwantedCommunicationReporting extension works with SMS and MMS messages. However, I'd like official confirmation about support for different message types: SMS: Appears to be supported ✅ MMS: Appears to be supported ✅ RCS (Rich Communication Services): Support unclear ❓ iMessage: Support unclear ❓

Hi, On iOS 26 beta, calls can no longer be reported by swiping left on a call. This is unfortunately a breaking change. I have submitted a report on this on June with Feedback Assistant: FB17893517 I hope it will get some more exposure by posting here.

Hi Team, We are currently working on phone number lookup functionality for iOS 18 and have a few queries: When the extension sends a request to our backend server using the PIR encryption process, is the user's phone number visible to our server?

Hello, I'm working on implementing Live Caller ID Lookup, but I noticed that https://github.com/apple/live-caller-id-lookup-example redirects to https://github.com/apple/pir-service-example. Could you please clarify why this redirection occurs?

如下图所示，在iOS18以上，这个识别话术为“xx主叫号码”，这个如何修改？ 附：iOS18以下话术就很合理