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Block callers with iOS 7 :)

I just blocked my partner's iPhone to test this out.

The first time he called my number his phone rang a few times and then said "call failed". He tried again and every time after that it went straight to voicemail.

My phone had no notifications and nothing under missed calls.
 
Damn, I wish I had this a month ago. I was receiving calls from a (952) 232-5611 with varying scams that I suspect were nothing but phishing attempts. The first call was because I had reported having been in an accident, which I had not. Then I had won a drawing I had never entered, then I had reported having diabetes, which I don't, and finally I supposedly reported using a prescription drug which I don't.

By the way, the caller does NOT have to be in your contact list. You can block it while in your Recents list.
 
lukejc1 said:
What sort of notification, if any, do you receive when a call or text is blocked?

Even if I block someone, I would like to know that they called and my phone blocked it.
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Then you might not want to use this feature but instead add the particular phone number to your contact list and set a silent ringtone (and none for vibration) for it.
 
I tested this feature last night. I temporarily block my girlfriend, we tested it and no call (it rings once and goes to engaged tone) and also iMessages do not appear although they are confirmed delievered on the senders device.

....Now, a warning!! When I removed her from the block list her calls once again come through but messages do not. I tried everything to re-enable messages (cleared blocked list, reset iMessage etc.)

I ended up restoring the phone and reinstalling IOS7.

I'm not on the developer program so cannot submit this bug.
 
MozMan68 said:
I always just created a contact called SPAM (even with a pic of a can of Spam) and would just add numbers to that contact if they ever came through. Also gave it one of the gentler ringtones so I would know not to answer.

I'll just continue to do that and just block my SPAM contact so all newly added numbers are automatically blocked.
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My contact is called Scammers.
But I like this. I recently signed up for AT&T smarts lists which includes the ability to block up to 30 numbers among other features I don't use. I think it is $5 a month. I'll be discontinuing that service when iOS 7 comes out.
 
For blocked calls it just goes straight to voicemail and they are able to leave voicemails for you.
If you go to voicemails and scroll all the way down, theres a thing that says Blocked and all your blocked voicemails go there.
 
lukejc1 said:
What sort of notification, if any, do you receive when a call or text is blocked?

Even if I block someone, I would like to know that they called and my phone blocked it.
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I'd careless.

I blocked a fellow employee and he stated it went straight to voice mail. He left a voice mail (been 3 minutes) and I haven't received a notification of the voice mail.

I love this feature. I think my most favorite.
 
Tbh I kinda wish there was an option to alert me that the call had been blocked. kinda like DND.
 
malevolant said:
If you get a spam call, go into your call history, click the "i" on the phone number, and scroll down. You can block them without adding them :)
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I seem to have trouble tapping on i, I usually end up calling the number back instead. Hope they increase the tap area.

I would nice to be able block a call straight from the incoming call screen as well. :)
 
I'm glad this feature is coming. I'd like to see it eventually expanded allowing it to be configured:

1. have the blocked call added to a log or not
2. notification of having rcv'd a blocked call or not
3. control over whether the blocked call rolls to vm or not

Personally, I'd configure mine to:
no logging of blocked calls,
no notification of blocked calls,
and definitely no vm from blocked callers.

If I block a call I don't want any portion of it getting through, even to vm.
But I'd like the ability to configure it as I see fit.
 
Halamire said:
For blocked calls it just goes straight to voicemail and they are able to leave voicemails for you.
If you go to voicemails and scroll all the way down, theres a thing that says Blocked and all your blocked voicemails go there.
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But what if ( Like me ) you don't use voicemail, what happens then?

What happens to the blocked call, where does it go, does it still get blocked. :confused:
 
So I tested this feature the other day, I noticed one thing after I added someone to my 'Blocked' list for Messages, FaceTime and Calls.

iMessages to my iPhone and iPad were not received, but the iMessage still got received on my iMac (OS X 10.8.4). This is not the forum for this topic, but I had to add someone to my list for certain reasons and even though my iOS devices didn't get the messages, my iMac continued to alert me of all incoming iMessages. So it kind of worked.

Calls do go to Voicemail, nut sure if thats a good thing yet.
 
saving107 said:
So I tested this feature the other day, I noticed one thing after I added someone to my 'Blocked' list for Messages, FaceTime and Calls.

iMessages to my iPhone and iPad were not received, but the iMessage still got received on my iMac (OS X 10.8.4). This is not the forum for this topic, but I had to add someone to my list for certain reasons and even though my iOS devices didn't get the messages, my iMac continued to alert me of all incoming iMessages. So it kind of worked.

Calls do go to Voicemail, nut sure if thats a good thing yet.
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Probably just because Apple hasn't added the feature to OS X yet.
 
0dev said:
Probably just because Apple hasn't added the feature to OS X yet.
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I'm hoping thats the issue and is why I posted my OS version because I don't have Mavericks yet and was hoping someone who does can verify if its the same in OS X 10.9.

Besides this minor issue, I like this feature.
 
Dalton63841 said:
It only blocks people in your contacts list though. That's kind of useless. Personally, if I'm blocking your calls, you are not on my contacts.
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How many people don't list the people they don't want to hear from in their contact list. I have a generic 'Don't Answer' contact and put all numbers in that list. Just blocking them will be easier, IF it makes it into the final product. There are a lot of groups that will not want us blocking their calls... The national realtors group killed the junk fax bill a number of years ago. Still can't figure out why...
 
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