With over 100 million users globally, Truecaller has become a must-have on smartphones. The app helps you identify unknown phone numbers. There is more to this app than just a caller ID. You can do more with this popular. So, we share some Truecaller tips and tricks.
Three apps in one
When you install Truecaller app, you’ll find shortcuts to Dialer, Messages, and Contacts on your Home screen. But they’re all part of the same app. This means that although you can use the different shortcuts to quickly get to the features, you can also quickly jump between them from within the app.
Enable SMS filtering
The SMS spam situation in Nigeria is pretty bad. If you’ve signed up for even a couple of apps using your phone number, you’re going to be inundated with spam messages. Truecaller’s SMS spam filtering is the best there is on Android. Once you activated the spam feature, the app will help filter messages and send any spam messages to its section.
Customise the phone User Interface
When you’re using Truecaller as your dialler of choice, you’ll spend most of the time in the phone section. Unfortunately, the default behaviour of this section leaves a bit to be desired. Thankfully, you can tweak some settings and use swipe gestures to make things work faster.
Scan numbers using the camera
Number Scanner is a genius little feature. When you open the sidebar (by swiping in from the left side of the screen), you’ll see a little preview at the top. Tap on it, give it camera access and now just point the camera towards any written number. This can be on the screen, or on paper, Truecaller will instantly recognise the number and if it corresponds to a contact in its database, you’ll see those details as well. You’ll get an option to call that number or to save it.
Change the theme
If you have an Android phone with OLED display (or if you’re generally a fan of dark modes), you will like Truecaller’s dark themes. From Settings, select Appearance to get started. There are a number of different options apart from the blue and white theme that’s there by default.
