[Electronics-Talk] nice ios innovation!

[Ray Foret jr]

That it does.  Seems to me that to create a contact just to block it is really an unnecessarily long way round.


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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 2:12 PM, Lori Motis via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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