Sprint Call Screener

Name: Sprint Call Screener
Rating: 1.78935 (864 reviews)

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Sprint Call Screener

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User Reviews for Sprint Call Screener

Worse than nothing

I got this app free with sprint when they merged with T-Mobile. I thought it would help me get less spam calls but I’m actually getting more. The other thing is that on the caller ID it only lists some name that means nothing to me or a city and not the phone number. At least before I would get the phone number so I could look at it and see if it was something I recognized. This app is completely worthless. The settings are actually nothing besides turning it on or turning it off. It does list certain levels but I have no idea what it’s blocking or not because I’m getting just as many or more spam calls as I used to. I decided to disable it and remove it from my phone. If they improve it I might try it again in the future but for now it makes things worse

Becky2259, Sep 08, 2020

Not a spam number - no easy standard way to fix

There is an important number erroneously identified as SPAM. The app says to fix this send an email to a specific address they provide. I did this and was told they don’t handle that. I should call customer service. Really? Like the average random customer service rep picking up the phone is going to be able to fix this. Doubt it. And I have no more energy today to deal with non-expert customer service reps answering phones.The app could use a way for people to add numbers back in themselves and identify them as not spam on their phones. And the documentation needs to be updated with the correct information to fix this. Other than that. The app works great. Prior to this I would’ve rated it five stars.

Jane Doe Not, Oct 05, 2020

Useless - ZERO stars!

The regular caller ID on my phone shows the phone number and the city/state of whoever is calling me. I downloaded this hoping to get more information on the random callers, instead it shows LESS INFORMATION than regular caller ID. Now I knit get the city/state on bold print instead of showing the phone number with that information. So dumb! Sometimes offices have a few similar numbers so even though I only have one saved if I get a call from a similar number I’ll sometimes pick up and sure enough it’s another number for that office. This app eliminates that ability to really screen your calls because it hides the phone number. I also get a lot of spam calls from numbers similar to mine and I know NOT to pick up when I see that - again this app prevents me from screening those calls since it doesn’t show the phone number. Developers really dropped the ball here - I can’t believe some people think this is a good app..... mind boggling! How is showing me LESS information helpful for screening calls.

Jnine111, Jan 23, 2020

No

Undecided. I am overwhelmed with the inundated spam calls all day long. There are some cases where I answer because I don’t know if it’s an important call from like my doctors office, my car dealership, or professional service like a bank or a company I’m waiting for to call me back. If and when I do answer the call it’s spam/Robo/fraud and these phone numbers are changing so fast and these tools they used to call me they use local numbers to trick me and make me think it’s an important local call as if we are dumb like we don’t know but at the end of the day it’s too much and it’s extremely overwhelming. I don’t see the point on answer my phone anymore and I do not know if this app actually works. The calls are truly overwhelming.

Millionaire MOMMY, Apr 23, 2021

Useless

In the month I’ve used this app, it has blocked one call. ONE. Over 90 robodialers and “Canadian pharmacy” have come through, despite the app, in the same period of time. An average of 3/day. And when then do, you’d think I could easily just add the offending number, right? Nope. To add a number, you have to type or copy/paste the number from your call log. It would be SUPER easy to include a “choose from recent calls” option, but this app doesn’t do that. This could easily be a 3-4 star app, but clearly, meeting the practical needs of the consumer/customer is far less important to Sprint/TMobile than being able to produce a television commercial that (dishonesty) says, “We will help you manage and reduce your spam callers.” Shameful.

nicksanders, Aug 25, 2020

App ineffective & time consumptive & has the nerve to charge $

I can’t believe Sprint has the nerve to charge for such an ineffective app/service! I don’t mind paying for an app that actually does the job but I have heard that with other carriers the service is free and is working well. This app costs and does not do the job effectively. Before the iOS update at least the app auto-loaded the caller phone number into the app in order to report the caller. No more. Now I have to write it down so I can enter myself and then report it. So all those robocallers and scam auto warranty calls come through this app. Since I rarely answer I don’t even know, but what I’d like is for the app TO NOT COST ME IN TIME AND MONEY AND ACTUALLY DO THE JOB!!! And now I understand that with the update the Call Screener does not let me see the caller ID? This is ridiculous. Unless you want this for someone who is not smart enough not to answer random calls...save your money. This app barely accomplishes the task of blocking any calls. Save your money and time waiting on hold with Sprint customer service to bother getting this app!

ponysmom, Jun 26, 2020

Update fixed an issue

Really lacking in features. I’m paying three dollars for the service a month and it doesn’t tell me the calls that it has blocked automatically. I’d like a history of all the calls that it has automatically blocked on my phone. As for the latest update that’s about 30 hours old as of the time of this review, it fixed a huge problem with the app that it basically was not allowing me to search numbers directly from my call list. However, there was nothing in the App Store on my iPhone that said there was a pending update. It could be that the update was throttled because it was so new. On a hunch, I went into the app in the App Store and I was just lucky to have seen that there was an update to the app. This is not the same as updating the call block list, which appears to work every time I open the app. It would be great if they call block list could be updated off-line without the app having to be open. Might be nice to allow us to use the T-Mobile name ID app instead.

Sprint User 1, Jul 11, 2020

Sprint customers must be second rate

Apparently T Mobile customers get Scam Shield which is rated with 5 stars, while Sprint customers get call shield which does nothing. I downloaded a free version of HIYA and a free version of YOU CALL. Sprint is first and catches nothing. HIYA catches all the calls, but since it’s free, your phone rings. YOUCALL catches messaging. Also Sprint is supposed to identify the caller. All I ever get is “No information Available”. Another thing, is I have an iPhone blocked call list that has all the spoofed numbers from this same fraudulent caller, but I cannot import my iPhone blocked calls into the app. This is a normal premium function that is available on all the paid call screeners I’ve looked at. Sprint Customers must really rate low in T Mobiles opinion. What’s next, a price hike?

Sslsm, Sep 05, 2020

App doesn't stay open and keeps turning off call blocking

Edit again: nope, it’s still having the same issues, although definitely less frequently. Edit: the app finally got updated, and the below problems seem to be no more... I’m keeping the title as is for now.As the title says, this app doesn't stay open in the background, so you essentially relaunch it every time you want to have it update the spam caller database. Worse yet, it often forgets you are a current/eligible subscriber, so you have to tap through the onboarding process almost every time it opens. Additionally, the block filter doesn't stay enabled because the app doesn't stay open. Somehow this app is everything I need but nothing I want.

swiftwind501, Oct 29, 2020

Mostly garbage

I’m not paying for it so there is that. However it doesn’t do what it says it will. I have it set to block all risk levels, but it blocks very little because the numbers keep changing faster than they can update their database. I’ve seen no additional caller ID information as promised. Another thing is, in the couple instances a number rang through that was already identified as spam/fraud, they were not labeled so I didn’t find out until I tried to add them as spam. Those are the only unwanted calls in my history that are not labeled spam/fraud & no label I try to add will stick???? Also there are too many steps to add to fraud list. There should be a way to default some of the settings and only override them when they’re different. We’re helping them build a database of bad numbers, for what I don’t know, and getting little to nothing in return. I’ll keep it now that I started with it, but if you haven’t installed it yet, I wouldn’t bother.

uwgirl, Apr 02, 2021

Description

ATTENTION!: Sprint Call Screener is only for devices with a Sprint-branded SIM card. If you have recently migrated to the T-Mobile network or a T-Mobile SIM card, please use the Scam Shield app instead. Get the best spam protection for your phone with Sprint Call Screener.

Identify unknown callers by name and get warnings on Spam calls. Block individual unwanted callers by number or use the advanced block filter to automatically block all Spam calls by risk level. You can also customize your own Spam list and get contextual information on Spam numbers. Sprint Call Screener is built with patented technology to deliver identity information before, during, and after an incoming call. We continuously analyze call events, over 25 billion per month, to provide the most accurate and up-to-date Spam protection