AT&T ActiveArmor App and AT&T Call Protect Pricing: AT&T Spam Blocker Features Compared

The ActiveArmor mobile security app costs nothing and is included with any AT&T wireless plan. ActiveArmor advanced mobile security costs $7 per month for each phone line, and AT&T states the subscription auto-renews and bills monthly unless you cancel it. Postpaid lines are billed to the AT&T bill; prepaid lines are billed through the Apple App Store or Google Play instead.

Not the version most people need. Automatic fraud call blocking, spam labeling, category call routing, a personal block list, device security checks and data breach alerts are all in the free tier that comes with your wireless plan. The only thing that costs extra is the advanced tier at $7 a month, and most of what it adds is identity monitoring rather than call blocking.

AT&T raised the price of advanced mobile security from $3.99 to $7 per line starting on or after February 18, 2026, and added features to go with it: up to $1 million in identity fraud reimbursement, real-time credit profile alerts and payday loan monitoring. Existing subscribers were moved to the new price automatically from their next billing period unless they downgraded or canceled.

Standard is the free app included with your plan. Advanced is $7 a month and adds thirteen things. Only two of them are about phone calls: Caller ID for numbers outside your contacts, and Reverse Number Lookup with a 200-query daily cap. The other eleven are identity, finance and internet features: dark web monitoring, credit and payday loan alerts, VPN, Safe Browsing, insurance and a password manager.

On wireless, yes in practice. AT&T Call Protect was the older name for the call-blocking service and those features now live inside the AT&T ActiveArmor app, on the Calls tab. Searching for Call Protect and landing on ActiveArmor is not an error. AT&T Phone Call Protect on the home phone side is a genuinely separate product with its own controls, and it is not part of the wireless app.

Nothing, on both sides of the house. The wireless call-blocking features that used to be branded Call Protect are in the free tier of the AT&T ActiveArmor app, included with your plan. On home phone service, AT&T Phone Call Protect is an included feature you switch on in the AT&T phone portal. Neither has a separate line item on the bill.

It blocks fraud calls automatically, and it lets you decide about spam. AT&T sets calls scored as fraud to Block by default. Calls scored as spam are labeled where possible, and you choose whether to allow them, block them or send them all to voicemail. Choose Custom and you can set different behavior for telemarketers, political callers, account services, nonprofits, surveys and other.

No. AT&T does not filter text messages inside the ActiveArmor app and says so on its own support page, pointing you instead to the tools Apple and Google build in. On iPhone, open Messages, tap the Filters icon and choose Manage Filtering. On Android, open Google Messages, tap your account icon, go to Message Settings, then Protection and Safety, and turn on Text Protection. Both paths, plus which carriers filter texts at the network, are set out in how to stop spam texts.

Three usual causes. Setup was never finished, because AT&T requires the app to be downloaded and the features enabled rather than switching on with your plan. Or the spam setting is still on Allow, since only fraud calls are blocked by default. Or the call was simply never scored as spam, which happens constantly with new campaigns that nobody has reported yet.

Because Always allow contacts is switched off, or because a call routing rule is catching them. AT&T provides that toggle specifically to guarantee saved numbers are never blocked or sent to voicemail. There is a second cause worth checking: if you have routed calls to voicemail without an active voice mailbox, AT&T warns that calls from numbers outside your contact list will not go through at all.

AT&T does not publish an area code blocking feature for ActiveArmor. What it documents is a personal block list you add numbers to one at a time, plus category routing for spam and a separate control for private and withheld callers. If blocking a whole area code matters to you, that is a real difference between AT&T and Verizon, whose paid Plus tier does offer it on some Android devices.

Turn the individual features off inside the app, on the Calls, Device and ID tabs. If you are trying to stop paying, that is a separate action and AT&T flags the mistake people make: uninstalling the app does not cancel the service. Downgrade to the free version or cancel the subscription in the myAT&T app, on att.com, or by calling 611 from the phone.

Where you cancel depends on who bills you. AT&T-billed postpaid subscriptions are downgraded or canceled in the myAT&T app or on att.com, or by calling 611, 1-800-331-0500 for postpaid or 1-800-901-9878 for prepaid. If you subscribed through Google Play or Apple, cancel it in that account instead. AT&T notes that within 48 hours of downgrading or canceling, the personal data it used is deleted and your reports and alerts cannot be recovered.

At what it is built for, yes, and free is the right price for it. Automatic fraud blocking and category routing clear a real share of obvious robocall traffic. What it does not do is reduce how many calls are placed to you, and no carrier filter does. AT&T scores calls after they are dialed. The dialing is decided by how many places publish your number.

Yes, but through a different product. AT&T Phone Call Protect covers digital home phone service and is included. Fraud calls get a busy signal instead of ringing, suspected spam shows on caller ID with a type such as Political, Nonprofit, Telemarketer, Survey or Robocaller, and a verified caller shows a [V]. Press *61 after an unwanted call to block that number, and *80 to undo it.

Yes, with a different administration path. AT&T extends the license to business customers and to corporate responsibility users, and allows one copy of the app per device. The difference is who you deal with: AT&T states that business customers need to contact their AT&T Account Manager to change or cancel the subscription rather than handling it in myAT&T or over the consumer support line.

No, and it is not built to. ActiveArmor decides which calls ring, which get a warning label and which drop into voicemail or a busy signal. Nothing in it changes how many calls are dialed at your number, because it never touches the people-search listings, marketing files and lead lists that publish it. Volume falls when the listings come down, not when the filter goes on.