Re: Ios and hidden numbers

[Jan Kleinhans]

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: viphone@googlegroups.com 
  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 <jhkleinh...@telkomsa.net> 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

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Re: Ios and hidden numbers

[Chris Chaffin]

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  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
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Ios and hidden numbers

[Jan Kleinhans]

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

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