iOS 17.0.3 Silence Unknown Callers silences all callers not in contacts list

Silence Unknown Callers:

With iOS 13 and later, you can turn on Silence Unknown Callers to avoid getting calls from people you don’t know. This blocks phone numbers that you've never been in contact with and don’t have saved in your contacts list. If you’ve previously texted with someone using their phone number or if a person has shared their phone number with you in an email, a phone call from that number will go through.

Incoming calls will come through from people that are saved in your contacts list, recent calls list, and from Siri Suggestions to let you know who’s calling based on phone numbers included in your emails or text messages.

If an emergency call is placed, Silence Unknown Callers will be temporarily disabled for the next 24 hours to allow for your iPhone to be reached.

More information on the above here 👉 Detect and block spam phone calls - Apple Support

Axel F.

My understanding is it's supposed to work as it is working on your iPhone 15 Pro. If a caller is not in your contacts list, it's "unknown" and it should be sent to voicemail. That's how it worked on my iPhone 13 Pro max, then my 14 Pro Max, now my 15 Pro Max.

I myself have not experienced this particular issue. I do have that feature enabled on my phone and it seems to be working just as has been suggested. The only thing I can think of is I have noticed on my phone when there’s an update some features will have turned on and off by themselves obviously because of the update. After an update, sometimes I see that settings have changed all by themselves (perhaps, resetting themselves back to a default setting?). Agents who insists how something should be? Well, I think we all know with cell phones anything that can happen will happen. Glitches glitches glitches.

I have used this feature for the last couple years. It appears to have stopped working correctly with the 17.0.3 upgrade. Same phone as before but now it is letting through unknown callers even though I have the option of silencing them enabled.

I have this same problem. With the new ios17.3 (?) update, silence unknown callers does not silence unknown callers. I am getting 5+ calls per day from phone numbers I do not know and have had no dealings with. I assume they are spam because none of them choose to leave a

message.

I don’t know if a rule has changed from “numbers not in the contact list” to “callers who have told their carrier not to pass along their caller id “ because all of a sudden after this update it seems like any number under the sun can ring my phone despite the fact that I have silence unknown callers toggled on . And… they do, all day long.