HAVE I BEEN BLOCKED?? - Is this the only true indication to know when one has been blocked on iPhone??!

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HAVE I BEEN BLOCKED?? - Is this the only true indication to know when one has been blocked on iPhone??!

This is being posted in hopes of getting some attention for what is clearly a popular question out there and theory needs some additional testing from community members to support my findings or to disprove and explain what I’m finding and misinterpreting as the most accurate indication to finally answer the “Am I blocked on iohone” question.

Okay so I wasn’t able to find a single mention from a internet search looking to find some confirmation of my recent findings to perhaps be the ONLY true indication to confirm whether or not a person has been blocked by another iPhone user.

A few weeks back I came across a post claiming that the only way to know if you’ve been blocked by another iPhone user is to check the contact card in question and if you don’t see the “send read receipts” toggle, you’ve likely been blocked and this was pretty solid as I was able to see this disappearing and reappearing from my own contact. (This was the result of fighting with the woman I was dating just for relevance to the topic, caused by her silent treatment as social media / phone exile blocking is her level of immaturity and obsessive unblocking and then reblocking me multiples times throughout the day and evenings but never texting or calling… maybe to see if any texts would come in from me and then block me again with no- contact made. Blocked- unblocked, blocked - unblocked multiple times daily as mentioned.

I was able to confirm this because of the post I had found regarding the “send read receipts” toggle button not showing when blocked and then reappearing when she would unblock my number. So nothing new there but not 100% of an indication of being blocked or not but the closest of any other findings on the internet as most clear indicator to answer the blocked / not blocked question.

So here we go… later that week I noticed something weird I had never picked up on before and never would have i wasn’t checking our messages chat frequently myself as I love and missed her hoping to hear something from her on any one of these daily unblocking me only to block me at sometime afterwards again without any communications. The silent treatment continued but I had our chat open and saw that the “send read receipts toggle button was present and when I typed a space in the text box, the arrow on the send button was BLUE indications iMessage was active and no longer blocked.

I sent a text hoping she too might be ready to finally talk at least instead of exiled out via ghosting with zero explanation or closure after dating the better part of the year.

Anyways the message sent as iMessage and was BLUE but didn’t deliver and turned green showing “sent as text message”.

i sent another text couple mins later after noticing the blue bubble went to green but that was never blue at all, grew SMS but showing just “Text Message” not “sent as text message” as the first text changed into.

the video icon in the top right of the convo turned into a phone icon, no longer was the “send read receipts” toggle button shown on the contact card and that phone icon in the top right corner that replaced the FaceTime video icon before that, disappeared leaving no icon shown in the top right corner of our text convo.

Pretty easily I concluded that “text

Message” not longer even “sent as text message” like the first text sent said as a blue iMessage initially before changing green.

iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 17

Posted on Oct 31, 2024 9:22 PM

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Oct 31, 2024 9:22 PM in response to EyesWideOpen123

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What I don’t understand is how my sending a text triggered the telltale indicators of being blocked that weren’t showing when I sent first text. (FaceTime icon top right corner, blue send arrow while typing text and sent as a blue iMessage at first before going green SMS and the read receipts toggle button still showing … but apparently I was blocked again at the time of sending first text although all signs looked as if I was unblocked at that time and then upon sending text, went “auto-block” all likely blocked indicators now showing. That’s another question though.

So no doubt I’m blocked. Following morning, I opened up our chat and noticed that the video icon had returned in the top right hand corner so in my mind here we go again. I must’ve been unblocked for that to appear because the day before we moved from the video icon right to the phone icon to icon in a matter of minutes after sending a first text.

My phone was dying and as I still had our text conversation open, I plugged the cord in and I switched on airplane mode for a faster charge and I left my Wi-Fi connection on still while in airplane mode.

Visually everything looked exactly the same as it did before switching the airplane mode on. For no related reason other than to just turn the Wi-Fi off to reset I swiped down on screen for the control center and clicked the Wi-Fi button to off and then returned back to the seemingly unblocked text convo in question.

Instantly noticed the second that I turned off the Wi-Fi while in airplane mode that the FaceTime icon from the top right corner that was showing before switched to the phone icon.

That was strange i thought. I opened up other contacts text convos who have iPhones and they all still showed their FaceTime video icon in the too right of convo when in airplane mode and disabled the wi/fi connection . Hers was the only contact that when I turned off the Wi-Fi while in airplane mode, screen lost the FaceTime icon becoming just the phone icon.

Every single contact with a message chat who use iPhone all showed the FaceTime icon whether the Wi-Fi signal was on or off while in airplane mode.

She was the only iPhone user, contact that this happened with.

I tried this with a friend and had him block me from imessages and FaceTime and I performed the same test turning on airplane mode while the Wi-Fi connection was still intact and continued to show FaceTime icon in the top right text chat even though I was blocked at that point , just as I did before with the other contact who blocked me, the moment I turned off the Wi-Fi connection while still in airplane mode, his FaceTime icon instantly switch to the phone icon.

Sorry for a long-winded post if this is old news. I couldn’t find anything on any platforms to confirm for myself, hence wanting to share it here.

Maybe some of you will give it a test yourself and confirm if your findings match mine, so people can have one place to go when they ask this question with a real definitive answer.

Hope this helps someone if people can confirm he’s or no, with their own testing. Better to know when someone is playing childish blocking games so one can move on a little easier.

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HAVE I BEEN BLOCKED?? - Is this the only true indication to know when one has been blocked on iPhone??!

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