Block "no caller ID" is needed feature

Cut your loses, switch to droid. Apple *****! And it ain't gettin any better in the future, bank on it.

You know I've read your obnoxious reply a fed times here . The thing is it's unreasonable to assume that those if us who use our phones for business, or emergency contact calls have the leisure to just restrict our incoming calls to people that are already in our address book, I want to keep myself open to legitimate calls and close myself off to people who would choose to block their caller ID, as these are almost 100% telemarketers trying to get me to buy my own credit report, or some other completely stupid or wasteful thing that eats up my time and battery.

It's not unreasonable to want the ability to block these via app or service or whatever .. And if anyone from Virgin Mobile Canada ever reads this , I'd be HAPPY to give you $5.00 a month to get this service if Apple won't provide a software solution ..

I want this too.

Just sent this to Apple through the iPhone feedback page. Maybe if more of us do the same.

"Many users, including myself, are clammoring for Apple to allow us to block calls that do not have a caller ID. These calls usually display "Unknown" or "Blocked" and are almost always from telemarketers. We understand that it's possible to block numbers for contacts in our address book/contacts. We also understand that it's possible to block all calls and then add all contacts to a whitelist of allowed callers. Both options are cumbersome, especially for those of us that use our iPhones for business, have hundreds of contacts, and add contacts frequently. Most other device manufacturers include this feature independent of blocking services offered by their carrier.

Please review this user forum thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5445762?answerId=24156187022#24156187022&ac_cid=tw123456#24156187"

I did pretty much the same thing. I'm not joking my breath though.

I have been receiving numerous calls the last few days with "No Caller ID". I have Sprint as a carrier, and they do not have a service to block these calls. What I did do (after the last call this morning), was create a user in my contacts named "No Caller ID" with a bogus number 555-5555, and then blocked it through: Settings -> Phone -> Blocked (then add the "contact" you wish to block). You can also add the contact"No Caller ID" to the blocked list by selecting "Block This Caller" in the contact page for this "contact".

The hope here is that the phone will block the call based on the contact name, and not the phone number. I tried it with a null phone number, but you can't add a contact without a phone number to the blocked list.

There is no way for me to verify that it is working (either they stopped calling me, or it's working), but I will know if it doesn't work if I receive a call from "No Caller ID".

I've been receiving these calls two - three times a day, so if I don't get another one today, I will assume it's working if not, c'est la vie.

Had another call come in this aftrnoon. It obviously keys on the number and not the name. :-(

I think I have a solution to this problem. I have been getting phone calls from blocked numbers for the past 2 days, so I setup a contact as "No Caller ID" with no phone number and linked it to a blocked caller. Last night I had a voicemail from "Unknown" but no call ever rang to my phone.

Doesn't work, it needs a number to block successfully.

This is the best workaround I've come up with:

Step 1: Create a completely silent ringtone (http://davidmeharey.com/blog/blocking-calls-on-iphone-silent-ringtone-method/)

Step 2: Make the silent ringtone the default ringtone and also set its vibration to "none". (Do the same for text alerts).

Step 3: Get a free Google Voice number (https://www.google.com/voice) and configure it to forward to your cellphone number. Choose the option to display the Google Voice number in the caller id field, rather than the caller's number. Also activate the call screening option.

Step 4: Create a new caller group on the iphone containing only a contact entry for your Google Voice number. Set its default ringtone to your original ringtone, its vibration to your original choice, etc. (Same for text alerts).

Step 5: Change your voicemail message to tell callers of your new Googel Voice number. (Or, you might be able to port your existing number depending on your area code and your tolerance level for dealing with the phone company's customer service department).

Tom- interesting however

A- Google voice is not available to everyone . It's only available to people in the United States

B- that's way complicated .

C- Apple really needs to address this so that we can deal with this without third party's or additional phone numbers , and or getting new numbers .

I wish people would stop posting the false workaround of creating a contact out of the unidentified or no caller ID number . It just plain doesn't work, and someone seems to post it every other week and then come back with "Thought it was working, it wasn't " this functionality simply isn't in any if the iOS builds at this time . I'm not sure if there's a jail broken solution, but I don't want to be forced into a jail broken solution anyway , I don't want to jailbreak my phone for security reasons . I suggest that those people frustrated by this feature not being available go and do the feature request as Celebrity DNA suggested at http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Thanks for the tip. I just sent the following comment to Apple: Please create a solution for us iPhone users to block those aforementioned calls that have their numbers blocked. Would also be great if you could direct the call straight to a greeting that tells the caller that such calls are not accepted and for the caller to unblock their numbers and to call back.