Blocked contacts completely erased

[chk]

I have been iPhone since the 3GS. I also blocked all the random sells calls and text and litany of others.

I woke up this morning and started getting messages from people I had blocked but didn't want to hear from.

I also added a car salesperson who was calling like 5 times in a row. I wanted to unblock later once I need to speak to them.

When I went to remove I had 3 blocked numbers. Years of adding numbers to blocked list gone.

It would have taken me hours to swipe through and delete each individual number.

Where did they all go? I am running iOS public beta on an iPad.

Did iOS 26 do something. I went to verify on iOS 26 I have both the messages and phone disabled not even an option.

Has anyone else seen this? I don't use iCloud message and I have yubikey 2fa as well as disable iCloud for web.

I'm stumped I worked for Apple as iOS/MacOS engineer at Infinite loop but unless I'm sleep deleting blocked list can't figure this one out.

 

[Paddle1]

Well, that's beta software for you I suppose. It's pretty tough to know what actually happened, perhaps the amount of blocked contacts was overwhelming.

 

[chk]

Suppose you could be right. Having worked at Apple they don’t like customer “data loss” regardless. I’m not ranting and raving just curious if other experienced an issue. Hardly doubt running iPad public beta would be the root cause. It was my team at Apple I know tracks these threads on Macrumors so if more people report it they’ll be aware.

 

[russell_314]

It was my team at Apple I know tracks these threads on Macrumors so if more people report it they’ll be aware.

I’m surprised Apple has a team just to track issues on MacRumors. That’s pretty cool

 

[chk]

I’m surprised Apple has a team just to track issues on MacRumors. That’s pretty cool

Not just macrumors. It aggregates many of the forums. They care about sustaining peoples software between releases and data loss is a blocker issue. They have to have insight into software when it breaks to respond as quick as possible. Pretty much same team who handles all the "This app crashed would you like to report to apple." It all gets aggregated and correlated.

 

[russell_314]

Not just macrumors. It aggregates many of the forums. They care about sustaining peoples software between releases and data loss is a blocker issue. They have to have insight into software when it breaks to respond as quick as possible. Pretty much same team who handles all the "This app crashed would you like to report to apple." It all gets aggregated and correlated.

I know they used to have a present on social media where you can actually talk to the tech-support there. Now you just get an automated message saying go to the Apple support website. I guess Tim had to do some belt tightening with the budget 😂