I experimented a lot with Live Caller ID when it first appeared with iOS 18 Beta.
Now I'm starting to pick it up again and have immediately noticed some detrimental differences between the behavior observed when it was in beta status to how it currently behaves with iOS 18.3.
The main difference is caching - if a call is made and data from a live call id lookup displayed on the call screen, then if the call is made again immediately then that data is re-fetched from the server. And it takes a long time too, about 5 or 6 seconds before the data is displayed in the call screen (with the beta it took about 3 seconds).
In the data set cache_expiry_minutes is set to 50, yet it's not being honored, there's no caching occurring at all. Yet this did used to occur several months ago when the feature was in beta.
What's happened to caching, why is it no longer working when it used to?
Another change is there used to be a notification displayed when a call was blocked, this no longer is displayed. Is this an intentional change or a bug?