[Electronics-Talk] nice ios innovation!

Tue Jan 10 22:42:17 UTC 2017

Awesome.  I'll do that from now on.  Thanks for the tip.

Shannon Cook, MSW, CPM
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From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ray Foret jr via Electronics-Talk
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 2:47 PM
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Cc: Ray Foret jr <rforet7706 at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] nice ios innovation!

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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