voice menu for incoming calls on iOS

Question

For incoming calls that are not in address book automatically answer phone call call with configured voice menu, like:

• "Hello I am voice assistant"
• "What is your name?" and try to speech-to-text into recoding title
• "What is birthday" to give some quick passthrough code

iPhone (with iOS 14) can auto answer or block calls, but I'd like to autoanswer/block more wisely.

Is there iOS app, service or feature that would manage incoming calls and give unknown caller a voice menu?

Answer 1

iOS does not provide this functionality itself, and apps on the App Store are unable to do so.

Apple's CallKit framework provides functionality for apps to block callers:

Apps can create a Call Directory app extension to identify and block incoming callers by their phone number.

Apps are unable to answer calls, so none of your desired functionality is possible.

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If your device is jailbroken, AnsweringMachine XS can provide some call screening functionality, but it requires you to manually listen to the caller.

• Call-Screening. Listen to what the remote party is saying while leaving voicemail without answering the call!