[Electronics-Talk] nice ios innovation!

[Jude DaShiell]

In order to block a number that number has to exist as a contact on your 
phone.  Another advantage to creating contacts then blocking them is 
that you're not at the limited mercy of the phone service provider that 
very often only allows a limited number of numbers to be blocked.

On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, Barb O'Connor via Electronics-Talk wrote:

> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:30:14
> From: Barb O'Connor via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
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> Cc: Barb O'Connor <broconnor1972 at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] nice ios innovation!
> 
> 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
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>
>  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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