How to stop spam phone calls

The most effective way I have found is to use the Call Screening option called "Ask Reason for Call". Spam callers are not giving their name and reason for call, so that means the phone will not ring and important callers, such as a doctor's office, would be giving their name and reason for call, so you would not miss those. A caller who does not give their name or reason for call will also not be allowed to leave a voicemail.

Screen Calls

The numbers will still be available to you in the Unknown Callers list, but do not clog of your recent call log. The numbers in the Unknown Caller list can be bulk deleted very easily at any time if you wish.

Start here: Screen and block calls on iPhone - Apple Support

In addition, reach out to your cellular provider to see what is available. As Bob states, blocking contacts is a waste of time, unless you know the contact and have confirmed the contact point.

Don't know why, but that option didn't work for me at all. It wasn't until I enabled Xfinity's spam filter that the junk calls fell to nearly zero after a few weeks of it training on what was junk and what wasn't.

"Ask Reason to Call" did nothing. The phone would still ring, and the spammers could still leave voicemail messages.

"Blocking" is a complete and total waste of time if you are asking about "junk" calls.

Why? Spammers use special software to disguise the actual number that is calling. You see another made up number on your iPhone......not the actual real number that is calling.

Sure, you can block the made up number, but that won't stop the real number....which is disguised....from continuing to call you.

Nothing that you can do about this, unfortunately.

Kurt Lang wrote:

Don't know why, but that option didn't work for me at all. It wasn't until I enabled Xfinity's spam filter that the junk calls fell to nearly zero after a few weeks of it training on what was junk and what wasn't.

"Ask Reason to Call" did nothing. The phone would still ring, and the spammers could still leave voicemail messages.

Do you have Live Voicemail enabled? See what happens if you turn that off.

That's already off. But Xfinity's filters have it under control now. Instead of getting three or four spam calls (from the same three spoofed area codes) every day, it's now down to only two or three a month.

Mac Jim ID wrote:

The most effective way I have found is to use the Call Screening option called "Ask Reason for Call".

One of Apple's greatest recent updates.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

Mac Jim ID wrote:

The most effective way I have found is to use the Call Screening option called "Ask Reason for Call".

One of Apple's greatest recent updates.

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