Well, have you ever wondered how you can block specific calls or unknown numbers using your Android smartphone? If yes, then we have a boiling solution to put a stop to any unwanted calls the same way you can trigger a trick on WhatsApp with barely no direct shortcut for a contact to regain direct calls access on your phone.

Blocking a specific number/ contact on Android

First of all, major Android releases have never shipped a direct calls block option through the Phone application. However, with tons of caller management apps on the play store, finding the best becomes a huge task for a later date.

Since all releases including Android Go supporting less powerful devices that still don’t support blocking calls through the default calls management service. Then riding on our recommended list of 3^rd party services becomes you direct go ahead with a requirement to double check your default app settings. Nonetheless, here are some of the third party apps you can use to block calls in a flip of a second.

• True Caller
• Calls Blacklist
• Call Blocker
• telGuarder
• Caller ID – Dialer, Phone Contacts & Call blocker

  

What we recommend

For the fact that you can’t directly block calls through the inbuilt Android phone app, riding on the above apps can’t be a compulsory norm of shorting each one of them, but cruising with the best version installed on your phone becomes the charm. Since we have used Truecaller for quite some time now, we believe it’s one the best options to help you put a stop on spammers and block/ blacklist any calls on your phone.

Truecaller as the best alternative to block specific numbers on Android ships a default package of caller identification that lets you know whoever is calling once their number doesn’t have a scent in your contacts book. So, with the app, you’re able to identify who is calling and block them right away before opting for a 2nd shot.

To block a call on Truecaller, simply tap on a number off your call log to trigger the block button which can further mark the caller as a spammer to notify any other app users. Hence, the next time you choose to block an annoying caller, simply double check the Google play store for some interesting options that automatically run in the device background.

With a fist leaked roll out to Rwanda, TrueCaller may stretch to the hilly area first before any other African state as the director of business development inked their plans to solve problems in Rwanda.

“We are trying to figure out ways we can be relevant. We have been talking to a number of partners such as telcos and start-ups. There are plans for us to partner with local startups and players. We want to work with locals where we bring in our expertise but work with locals.  I feel that Rwanda is the best case study to use, it’s a growing market, tech-savvy, there are processes and the government helps out in the ecosystem,” Hersi is quoted as saying by The New Times in an interview on the sidelines of an Africa Tech Summit in Kigali last week.

How TrueCaller will improve mobile security in Africa

TrueCaller is well known as an identification app than a calls replacement for smartphones. The app retrieves 2 names of the calling number to clearly identify the other person on the phone.

If TrueCaller succeeds in partnering with telecom companies, it would mean registration data for phone owners would be retrieved to the app for prior identification by the service. Either way, callers with hidden numbers can still be identified by the App once it’s fully active on a phone.

The point of mobile security in Africa is a disease that has never had a cure since mobile money fraud has a shooting high histogram indicating more cases via phone calls.

So, with true caller fraudsters will be unmasked if telcos feed the right info to the app administrators and this could be the right chance to improve tackle security since hacks are everywhere including Whatsapp that is vulnerable to attacks.