"Block Caller" option is missing in iOS 26.0.1 on my iPhone SE

On opening

after 15 minutes while open

And after closing the contact and reopening it goes immediately back to the first short version

I will try https://apple.com/feedback

but they don't allow photos.

May also try beta FBA that does.

SIRHCSRAEB wrote:

Thanks, the only good reply here.

This is a discussion by volunteers, fellow users. Sometimes, it takes a while to get to the answer. Sometimes there is more than one answer. Disparaging people you may want help from in the future may not be the wisest course.

I have since spoken to a EX programmer / Coder used to work for Apple.....interesting to say the least.

The whole idea of reducing Battery life & making life difficult from Apple for all of us is for the 'Customer' you & me to go out & purchase a NEW phone!! My ex Apple employee advises keep hammering Apple to change this ideology of many years to fix these problems. The Apple answer to this is is you have a phone that is 3-5 yrs old, they are NOT interested as per the complaints & answers on this platform. Im off to purchase a 'Samsung' ive had enough of being cast aside by 'outsourced' so called programmers that are paid about $20 an hour.

OK, I click on the Info button next to a call, and see very few options. Then I press Home and the Phone app disappears. I open it again and it still shows the Info screen, but now there is more on it - BUT, still no Block Caller button. What am I doing wrong?

This so frustrating that nothing is working to block calls. Apple go back to what worked, please! It was so simple to press the i then scroll down and click block. What happened???

Apple, this is very annoying to have updates that screw things up.

Struthruth wrote:

I have the same problem with my SE 2020 since the last update however I still have the block caller function on my iPad Mini.

Did you read the Home button solution on the last page?

Maybe set your forum default sort order to "Oldest" in your user preferences to follow the thread as it was posted.

See the pic below about Classic and Unified View

• iOS 26 and higher versions have two views in the Phone App in the Recents tab
• Use the classic view to block callers. Tap the More Info button  next to the name of the Contact in the Recent list of calls.

an addendum to my original response. After pressing the “i” if you scroll to the bottom and don’t see the call block option, then long-press the home button until more options appear. If the last option is still not call block, long press home button again. The difference is that for the long-press to work one must have scrolled to the bottom already before long-pressing

I already have the classic view on my phone and it doesn’t work. I have an SE phone which previous comments have said seems to be the problem. My long press of the home button as I discussed is all that works for my phone.

OK so the problem with the block caller is now a thing on most apps for me. When the options menus load only half the usual options are there and then some of the links don't work, and I have to go back to home and reenter the app to bring up the menus - also Youtube has stopped validating google. I am stuck now - nothing works without having to reboot each screen and app up to three times. Also Safari screen rendering is well off it won't size properly and I have to hunt for buttons and the fingerprint authorisation on the home button is taking 5 attempts each time.

I have this too, there is no info button and someone else suggest there would be an orange hand when I swipe left but that isn't there either. I think Apple has employed dark web hackers to make there phones less secure. When my plan is up I'm moving to Android, between updates that cause the phone to go flat in half a day, updates that make everything harder to read on screen, and now opening the door to hackers, I'm done with them.