Hi Thanks for that. Yes, I do use that feature, mainly over night time and so on, but this was just an interesting observation from wanting to use a spam blocker app.
Thanks all the same. Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Chaffin To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 4:35 PM Subject: Re: Ios and hidden numbers The only way you can definitely block unknown calls is by using the Do Not Disturb feature. There are a few other ways that you can find out there on the internet, but I have not been successful with any of them. * Go to Settings / Do not disturb. * Swipe right and double tap on Manual, it is a toggle switch, and it is off by default, so you need to turn it on. * SWIPE until you hear, allow calls from, I think favorites is the default. This is a button, so double tap it. * Now swipe until you hear all contacts and double tap to select it. Then swipe left back to the back button, you are all done. Now your phone will block any call that is from anyone that is not in your contacts. Now all calls will still show up in your list of recent calls so you can add them to your contacts if you want., and all calls will still be able to leave you a voice mail, but only calls that are from your contacts will make your phone ring. I wish Apple would add the feature so you could automatically block any call that was private or unknown. This would be very helpful. Chris On Sep 23, 2016, at 5:02 AM, Jan Kleinhans <[email protected]> wrote: Hi all The other day I was playing with an app, truecaller, which is suppose to be one of those apps that can block spam calls and also be used as a dialler, or contacts app. Now, you can, on the android version, block the so-called hidden numbers, (private numbers) but on ios this is not possible. The developers of that particular app wrote a bit stating that, due to restrictions by apple, hidden numbers can not be blocked by that app and then, I suppose, any other app doing this particular function. Does anyone out there have any ideas on this, and why it would be impossible to block those numbers on ios platform then? I remember having an old symbian phone, and an app called handy blacklist, and even with that I can block the "private" numbers. Any ideas? I find this rather an interesting situation, but a pity also that this seems to be impossible to achieve. Regards Jan Kleinhans -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
