Number Blocking on iOS 26.2 gone! Why?
I've recently updated to iOS 26.2 on my simple iPhone SE, and no sooner than I received a call from an unknown number - and quickly understood it to be a scam caller - I discovered I was unable to block that number. Apple have been consistently shifting the 'block number' facility around from one iOS upgrade to the next over the years, and now, On iOS 26.2, the function has apparently been completely removed. So the question is why?
Furthermore, finding information online to be able to block unwanted calls is impossible, and any information available is either inaccurate (eg the 'orange hand' block option myth on swiping left on a received call number does not appear, only the blue clock and red bin/remove options do), or pertain to other functions entirely, not 'number blocking' specifically.
My logic is that this very basic and important function should be increasingly made easier to access, not harder, with every upgrade, as it saves people time, stress, unwanted fear and concerns about receiving unwanted/spam/scam calls - an increasingly prevalent blot on the communications vista.
For an important global corporation like Apple, with all its analysis and R&D capacities, not to have reviewed and understood this is extremely unlikely, so it can only mean one thing; it's deliberate. Why?
And when will we get a fix??
iPhone SE, iOS 26
next to the name of the Contact in the Recent list of calls.