Truecaller is the go-to phone directory for hundreds of millions of users across the world. It’s a pretty helpful app for users who regularly deal with spam calls. In a country like India where spam calls are rampant, it’s a godsend service. However, there is a pressing concern for privacy with the Truecaller app. Let me put it straight, Truecaller is excellent at what it does, but the service harvests too much data through contacts, call logs and messages. If you are comfortable this and see the value in its service, you should keep using it. However, if you are someone who is concerned about their privacy and want to remove their number and other contact information from Truecaller’s database, this is the article for you. In this article, we are going to show you how you can delete your Truecaller account and remove your number from its database.
Open Truecaller app on your smartphone and navigate to Settings. At the bottom, you will find the Privacy Center, tap on it.
Open Truecaller’s unlisting page on your web browser and select your country. Now, enter your phone number with country code and validate the captcha. Finally, click on “Unlist Phone Number” and you are done. Note that, it may take 24 hours to completely remove your phone number.
So, now you have deleted Truecaller and made your number private. However, you have also made yourself prone to spam calls. Well, if you want to stop spam calls and messages without sacrificing your privacy, you can do that to some extent. Most of the Android phones comes built-in with Google’s Phone app, which has native support for filtering spam calls. You can use this to filter most prominent spam calls. It won’t be as good as Truecaller’s spam filtering, but it will stop most of the spam calls.
- Here, open Caller ID and Spam and enable “Caller ID & spam” and “Filter spam calls” options. You are done!
