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

SE 2022, yes. Not sure that Apple has decided anything, until enough people report bugs they wont even know. https://apple.com/feedback

Bear in mind that cell provider must have some influence, both of mine are MVNOs. The one without call block action is Spusu (on EE) and the one with call blocking is Lebara (on Vodafone )

da klein wrote:

On my SE 2022 when I do scroll down there is no option to block calls from the "Calls" page on my iPhone.

You don't block from the "Calls" page directly. You tap on the entry in Calls and you should see a screen like this:

You have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of that screen, past what's initially visible.

Two IPhone SEs here on 26.1 have this issue. I have found that powering down and restarting one of them brings the Block Caller button back - but only once. If I dismiss that Info page and then return to it the Block Caller button is gone. On the other phone a restart fails to bring it back at all. I have sent feedback to Apple, but I suspect that an issue on a discontinued model will be low priority (so I'm glad to see it also happens on some iPhone 17s!)

I have mac ios 26.1, 2nd gen iphone SE purchased in 2022. What I've found is when I click the Info button next to the phone number and first scroll down the page appears mostly blank. I scroll past the Call History section and it's just a blank page at the bottom. But when I wait several minutes information starts gradually appearing and, eventually, the Block Contact shows up at the bottom of the page. I'm talking at least 10 minutes before it shows up, but it eventually does.

randalfromtacoma wrote:

I have mac ios 26.1, 2nd gen iphone SE purchased in 2022. What I've found is when I click the Info button next to the phone number and first scroll down the page appears mostly blank. I scroll past the Call History section and it's just a blank page at the bottom. But when I wait several minutes information starts gradually appearing and, eventually, the Block Contact shows up at the bottom of the page. I'm talking at least 10 minutes before it shows up, but it eventually does.

OMG you are correct, took mine about 15 minutes, line by line. Puts a new and puzzling line of investigation on it.

Oren198 just sent me a good workaround. He proposed to add the number to your contacts and then, the option to block the contact appears. There is even a simplier solution, avoiding to add such kind of dirty numbers in your contacts. Choose 'Add name' instead -> then give a name such as 'Spam' -> and then the option appears 'block contact' (it's great as in your recent calls, only the given names appears). It works for me on my iphone SE 2022, hope it will work for you guys.

I have found a workaround for the fields to pop up. When you hit the information button and you go to the blank spot and it stays blank, just go to the home screen bring the app back up and all the fields will be there. There is no need to wait. I tried this several times and it worked every time.

The home button worked the first time but not the second time. Maybe I didn’t use the correct sequence. However did find that by swiping left I found that orange hand and when I clicked on it , it opened to where you can block or block and report. That seems to be the simplest method,

i hope. At least until the next genius screw up .

Allan, I have SE2022 and get none of that for an unknown caller

You need this https://apple.com/feedback

rrohrs wrote:

I have the IPhone 17 Pro Max and just installed the latest update but have the same issue as you.

Make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom of the page.

Same issue with my Iphone SE 2022 since moving to iOS 26

To bring the rest of the fields in just hit the “Home” button and the hit the phone icon and all the fields will be there. No need to wait at all.