How To Remove Your Contact Details from TrueCaller

• What is Truecaller?
• What is the Danger of Using Truecaller?
• How does Truecaller source this Data?
• Steps to deactivate your Truecaller account

TrueCaller is the global mobile community, were it has a huge database of contact details of contact numbers. The users can share their contact list to the truecaller database to make the contact details visible to anybody. In this case, if you are one of the contact in your friend’s contact list and he shared the details to truecaller database, then your contact details will be visible to anyone globally. 

What is the Danger of Using Truecaller?

Not everyone knows this, but for some fixed-line phones,Truecaller even lists the address of the landline. This doesn't mean much when telemarketers or spammers call from an office address, but ideally you wouldn't want strangers to know your home address just because you called them from your landline.

How does Truecaller source this Data?

Of course Truecaller sources this data from public data sources. This is because if someone knows your landline number, they can easily find the registered address via any publicly available phonebook (many telcos have this information public) or even by simply searching for your landline number on Google.

For this reason, you should consider removing your number from Truecaller's database. Note that you can't remove your number from the service if you are using the app. You'll have to deactivate your own account to get your number removed. If you were hoping to get just your number removed, while seeing contact details of everyone else who calls, you're out of luck.

If you are ready to remove Truecaller once and for all, here's what you need to do. If you are using the app on iPhone, Android, or Windows mobile, here's how to deactivate your Truecaller account

Steps to deactivate your Truecaller account

Android
Open the app > tap the people icon in the upper left corner > Settings > About > Deactivate account.

iPhone
Open the app > tap the gear icon in the top right corner > About Truecaller > Scroll down >Deactivate Truecaller.

Windows Mobile
Open the app and tap the three dots in the bottom right corner > Settings > Help > Deactivate account.

Once you have deactivated your Truecaller account, you can proceed to removing your number from the service. Here's how.

How to remove your number from Truecaller

1.      Go to the Truecaller unlist page.

2.      Enter your phone number with the correct country code. For example: +234709999999 or +919999999999.

3.      Tick one of the reasons for unlisting, or if you wish, type your reasons for removal in the Other form.

4.      Key in the verification captcha.

5.      Click Unlist.

Truecaller claims that it removes these numbers up to 24 hours after receiving an unlist request. This doesn't always mean that your number will stay off the service forever. We'd removed our mobile number around a year ago but it started appearing again on the service a few days ago even though we've never used Truecaller. Your best bet is to keep checking with Truecaller users whether they see your contact details. If they don't, you're good to go. If not, you can always ask them to unlist your number.

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