[Electronics-Talk] nice ios innovation!

[Barbara O'Connor]

That's the way I do it too, Ray. I'd like to know what the advantage is to this other way.

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> On Jan 10, 2017, at 1:46 PM, Ray Foret jr via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Well, wait a minute.  I block numbers all the time without having to create a contact just to do so.
> 
> 1.  Hang up on the call you don’t want and go to the recents tab.
> 
> 2.  From there, find the number you want to block and press the “more info” button just to the right of it.
> 
> 3.  Now, one of the options that will appear on this screen is “block this caller”
> 
> 4.  Follow the prompts and caller is blocked.  
> Again, no need to create a contact just to block.
> 
> 
> Sent from my Mac, The Only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in
> 
> Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray,
> 
> Still a very happy Comcast XFinity Voice Guidance, Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone7+ and Apple TV user!
> 
>> On Jan 10, 2017, at 12:30 PM, Barb O'Connor via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Sounds rather nifty but, aren't you going through extra work, creating a contact, only to block it? Are you creating a contact because you can't block the number without doing so? I guess I don't quite understand.
>> 
>> Barb
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: Jude DaShiell via Electronics-Talk 
>> To: electronics-talk at nfbnet.org 
>> Cc: Jude DaShiell ; blindtlk at nfbnet.org 
>> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2017 11:58 PM
>> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] nice ios innovation!
>> 
>> 
>> I only discovered this one because I had occassion to block phone numbers. 
>> My procedure for blocking phone numbers works well for me in that I get 
>> the number that called and add it to my contacts and put the name 
>> Advertiser in the company name field, then I move down to block number and 
>> hit that to have that contact blocked.  Advertiser is lots easier to put 
>> in as a name than anything the scammers on the other end can think up to 
>> confuse matters.  What I wrote so far is just background.  In earlier 
>> versions of ios, when a call like that came in the advertiser could leave 
>> voicemail.  With the current ios running though, any call from a blocked 
>> number that leaves voicemail now just gets put in the blocked voicemails 
>> folder.  When you open the blocked voicemails folder you'll see a count of 
>> blocked messages and now at the top right of the screen there is a delete 
>> all blocked voicemail.  If you hit that button, those voicemails get put 
>> into your deleted folder.  This next thing I'm going to guess on.  I think 
>> deleted mail folder may now have a different behavior in that blocked 
>> voicemail messages that get put into deleted folder may be automatically 
>> cleared from deleted folder.  I'll find out when next I get a voicemail 
>> message I listen and then delete.  If it's the only one in the deleted 
>> folder my guess will have been correct otherwise it won't be that much 
>> effort to just clear all deleted messages.
>> 
>> 
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