[Electronics-Talk] nice ios innovation!

[Lori Motis]

Did you know that you can block a call without making a contact?
Whenever I get an unwanted call on my iPhone, I go to my recent calls
and double tap on the more info button, just to the right of the
number,  then flick right to the button that asks if you want to block
this caller. That is all you need to do. I do it a lot, for all those
telemarketing calls,  and it works great.
Lori AKA food Lady


On 1/10/17, Barbara O'Connor via Electronics-Talk
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> That's the way I do it too, Ray. I'd like to know what the advantage is to
> this other way.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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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Lori Motis
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