Block "no caller ID" is needed feature

What really needs to happen is the "Do Not Call Registry" needs to implement a dialback feature to allow users to:

1. Immediately report the offending number, when it comes in,

2. to block that number from your phone, and

3. Prosecute the offenders.

I think a simple * code could do this, let's say *666.

The do not call report page is BS. I've filed three complaints on the site, none have been addressed.

Maybe if congress got off of their butts and did something for the people and not for corporations trying to make money off of the people this could happen. (aka Sprint charging $5 a month to give you the capability to block "Unknown Caller Id")

While I agree with your sentiment , iPhones are used by people in many different countries and it would be easier for Apple to put functionality in to allow users to address this issue than it would to advocate to have the laws enforced and modified in every country that Apple does business in. I have phone numbers in both The United States and Canada all blocked on their respective Do Not Call lists, and it hasn't really stopped spammers from calling me. Plus when you do business with a bank you often agree when you sign up for their services to allow them and their business partners to call you to offer you things based on your banking relationship, and that's legally stuff that's excluded from the registry . You have to look closely in the paperwork when you take out a line of credit with a bank, but the language is in there.

I really want Apple to use create this feature, because I'm often called by telemarketers for people who had my phone number previously , this has happened to me with two previous numbers , and I've also been called by collection agencies looking for someone with my same last name, but who isn't me, and who refuses to accept that I'm not that person . I've changed my number since, but is till get unwanted telemarketing calls by autodiallers at least once a day .

When I contacted AT&T, they told me that they could not block "No Caller IDs" due to a FCC mandate. What I also found interesting, is that the FCC created and manages the "Do not call registry". Phone number buckets are sold for good money. What better way to get numbers by creating a problem, providing a solution and capitalizing on the unknown. Sounds just like anti-virus companies. The obvoius fact in this is that the carriers can not block them, and now Iphones can not block them. Its really that simple.

You have been misinformed. The Do Not Call registry is managed by the FTC, not the FCC. https://www.donotcall.gov/faq/faqdefault.aspx.

So all of the phones that have this functionality running Android are in violation of Federal regulations?

And AT&T is saying that they can't block these calls on the cellular system even though they do allow blocking them on landlines?

I think that AT&T was giving you a line...

Actually I thought Oz had been misinformed too . But I googled "FCC mandate no blocking if unidentified callers" and I was quite surprised . It seems that AT&T is telling him the truth

See for yourself, I got multiple hits from phone carriers discussing this very topic http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fcc+mandate+no+blocking+of+unidentified+callers

And it indeed seems to be an FCC mandate . I'm really quite surprised about this. But this is all relatively omit in that Apple could easily still allow us to block those calks legally . I use Vonage for my home and business lines and I very much do have the option if blocking un identified numbers . So while there might indeed be an FCC mandate , Apple supplying a feature in their software that would allow their dump summers to have the choice if blocking those calls would in no way violate that mandate at all. While the mandate seems to discuss that you must legally supply people and companies with the ability to make private un-unidentified calls, I see nothing that would prevent anyone legally from giving a software/hardware company like apple the ability to extend a choice to it's users as to if they wanted to accept those calks, or block them and send them to voicemail .

Indeed since Apple is not a carrier , but even Vonage , who *is* a carrier ( though a VOIP carrier ) obviously can if they want to extend this ability to their clients http://www.vonage.ca/inclusive-call-features/anonymous-call-block/

If Apple were thinking about us their customers, more than other big business first, obviously they could do this .

Drdata1967 wrote:

Actually I thought Oz had been misinformed too . But I googled "FCC mandate no blocking if unidentified callers" and I was quite surprised . It seems that AT&T is telling him the truth

See for yourself, I got multiple hits from phone carriers discussing this very topic http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fcc+mandate+no+blocking+of+unidentified+callers

None of the links that search pulled up that I reviewed (about the first 10, so there might be some that missed) indicated that carriers were not allowed to block unidentified callers. A couple of them stated quite the opposite. And nothing fromt the FCC popped up in that search. Verizon Wireless offers, as a paid service the ability to block unidentifed calls.

Without combing through FCC regulations, I can't absolutely verify that the AT&T rep is mistaken. But I wouldn't consider an them an authoritative source.

Thanks, Marc. I think this will work well enough for me as my unwanted calls only seem to happen very early in the morning.

@OzVander Amazing. I wondered what these callers got out of repeatedly calling people who don't pick up.

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So wouldn't it be better to try and cure the disease rather than the symptoms? Clearly this is an issue that annoys and effects everyone, wouldn't it be better to try and get legislation which bans telemarketeers gaining your personal number and using it? I live in the Netherlands and have never had a non authorised telemarketeering call.

There will always be a workaround to technical solutions, ban the practice and solve the problem.

ADDS - Google is also your friend http://pando.com/2013/10/15/telemarketing-laws-change-tomorrow-heres-what-you-ne ed-to-know/

The US has laws that cover this. First, it is illegal to place telemarketing calls to ANY cell phone. It is also illegal to place automated recorded messages to ANY phone, cell or otherwise. And there is also an "opt out" list (donotcall.gov) that anyone can sign up for, and it is illegal to place any telemarketing call to a number registered on the list.

However, the bad guys just break the law, because it is almost impossible to trace them. And even if they get caught the fines are less than the profits they made with their malfeasance.

Yes With android there are several free apps you can install to do the job. I thought that could be possible with IOS 7 apps.... but didnt find it yet

Hello All,

Albeit late, but I created a 2 step trick to beat the stubborn intruders/ "No Caller ID"/ Restricted/"ex's"/Stalkers/ etc people who keep disturbing us on our iphones...which i would love to share...

Simply, 1. Create a contact with the name No Caller ID.

2. The same way you block callers whose numbers you have/know, block this contact called No Caller ID.

DONE...!!

It has been months and i am yet to be called by these people who were a nuisance.

Cheers...

I should have proof-tested my 'assumption'...You should have seen the look on my face when I added #31#My Number only for it to go through...I will however not relent..