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iPhone Silencing Known Callers

I turned on the setting "Silence Unknown Callers", which worked well for a long time, but now callers that are in my contact list are being silenced. Any ideas, other than turning this setting back off, which I have already done?

Posted on Jul 20, 2022 11:32 AM

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Posted on Jul 20, 2022 11:34 AM

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Jul 20, 2022 11:34 AM in response to paulpinkney

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