How to block numbers on iPhone after iOS 26 update?

melindo5074 wrote:

Why did Apple make it harder to block unknown callers???

Really basic question: Why are you blocking spam calls? That spammer’s number will never call you again. Spammers intentionally use a different fake number for each call, expressly to make spam call blocking useless.

Call blocking is only useful to block someone you know from calling you.

GreyArcher29 wrote:

Your reply isn't relevant to the thread.

He's spot on.

And you're wrong.

Not in this case.

I get repeat calls from the same number - I don't know them and they're unsolicited marketing calls.

There's a word for such calls.

Spam!

You don't know that the calls are from the same number, only that they appear to be from the same number. That's a huge difference.

The reply isn't relevant - it doesn't address the question about the removal of the ability to block calls.

Actually I do know the calls are from the same number.

Please refrain from trying to man-splain what I do or do not know.

georgevargas wrote:

. I REALLY hope the next post on this thread is a solution to the issue as presented by the original poster.

Actually, the solutions have been posted many times in this thread. The problem is that some users don’t like the solutions and think it should work differently.

For those users: https://feedback.apple.com

Please, not just for my edification but for the edification of all interested parties, point us all to the "solution" posted on this thread and not the work around. The solution would be the steps to stop the aforementioned options from not rending immediately when you select the i next to a phone number on the recent calls list. The workaround most stated, which is not the solution, is having to open and close the phone app repeatedly after selecting the i. To be clear, my question is what are the steps to access the options of block contact, share contact, add to favorites, etc., immediately upon selecting the i (information) icon?

It may well work like that on your iPhone, but it does not on my wife’s SE 2000.

As georgevargas noted below, the issue is that a simple screen option to block a caller is no longer available; toggling back and forwards between the home screen and the phone number that you wish to block is not progress in the 21st century. It worked before, so why introduce a complicated routine to do something that was simple?

Like so many things in IT, people just like to tinker and do not complete a full test of all changes.

When Apple provides all iPhone users with free hardware upgrades then changes to programming will be as the programmers intended - until that day just test changes before they are released, it isn’t too difficult.

You’ll need to use the link I provided in my first post to report the bug to Apple Support.

Nothing like this on. mine!

I mean I have SE3 and no blocking possible from [recent] and no magical orange hand.

I also have an SE and do not get the hand either. I always had the block feature until this weeks update

Dont see the orange bands, only the bin and blue clock. also tried restarting the phone.

Yep, this does work but e shouldnt have to faff about , come on Apple sort this out !