When you unblock someone can you receive the messages they sent while they were blocked

darjamsin wrote:

Ok but then what if you need to use your iPhone or iPad for something important - and you don't want any distractions for the time being , or you are expecting an important call; and your friend (whom you don't want out of your life) is spamming your inbox with messages? - given that you can't tell them to stop because you're too busy or they don't want to stop because they (I don't know) think it's funny or something stupid like that?

That's when you use the Do Not Disturb feature. That's precisely what it's intended for. You will not be bothered with notifications but all the communications will be there when you want to see them. It's precisely the temporary blocking system you seem to be looking for.

Do not disturb feature is not adequate for what the user wants in this situation. DND will forward it but you will still be able to see the notifications and etc. You are free to look at the DND features and details in apple's support articles. Let me try and help you understand the point that may be alluding you. Sometimes people want to take a break from certain people or people in general. For example, lets say someone said, "hey I really need to stop answering texts for a week until I get _____ done." It would be useful for the user to block either the main points of contact or just their entire list in general. If you use DND you will STILL SEE THE NOTIFICATIONS clear as day either as a badge on the message app or the messages itself when looking at the conversations menu. DND is not appropriate for this type of situation but is mostly useful for when you are in a meeting or etc. Hence the phrase "Do not Disturb". It is meant to be for very very short term use. If the user could rather block messages from contacts and see them later then the desired functionality would be the device not showing the user that it got anything at all until the user manually decides to lift the block and hence retrieve all the messages that were captured in that time so that they may politely respond back to them when they are ready. If at this point you still do not understand then I am unsure how to simplify it further. Hope this clears any confusion you've had about this topic

zone159 wrote:

Do not disturb feature is not adequate for what the user wants in this situation. DND will forward it but you will still be able to see the notifications and etc. You are free to look at the DND features and details in apple's support articles. Let me try and help you understand the point that may be alluding you. Sometimes people want to take a break from certain people or people in general. For example, lets say someone said, "hey I really need to stop answering texts for a week until I get _____ done."

It still eludes me why that requires blocking anything. If I don't want to answer people, I don't. It's very simple. My choices are not dictated by my phone. In fact, I sometimes <gasp> turn off my phone when I want to take a break from people in general. Airplane mode can also be useful.

But, what I think makes sense is neither here nor there. The feature you want doesn't exist. Submit your feedback to Apple:

http://www.apple.com/feedback.

Thanks for the suggestion, I have already submitted my feedback 🙂. The problem is you are referring to yourself. Whereas everyone is different, hence the need for features and customization in a user interface to help personalize the experience for each person. Also airplane and turning off your phone seem pretty extreme in order to do something simple like block off texts. People may want to use their phones for internet, outgoing calls, or even the weather app which may get annoying if they are constantly having to switch their phone between on and off or airplane mode. Thanks anyway, I understand you are trying to help 🙂

well, if someone still reading this or come across this, i blocked a person then unblocked that person, i did not receive that person's messages but while switching apps by using the open apps menu, i could see all the messages that person sent me. but once i opened the messages app they disappeared

I think this would be a great feature.

Melipop wrote:

I think this would be a great feature.

Then submit your feedback to Apple. They're not reading here.

What I have found that works is to place my phone in airplane mode, restart it and if you have a Macbook log in and retrieve your imessages. Nine times out of 10, the blocked messages will appear.

zone159 wrote:

Also airplane and turning off your phone seem pretty extreme in order to do something simple like block off texts.

Such a feature already exists. Turn off text notifications. Settings>Notifications>Messages.

I'm assuming that you are a male from your answer (not assuming that all males are the same but it is the majority of men/boy/males think the same)

but imagine if you're partner and you had been cheated on you....! The deleted conversation and blocked numbers are what you would be looking for, for evidence. You would want to know the last blocked number and you would want to find out the last conversation that held in place I would, wouldn't you??

Wow, bad assumption....

And your argument is nonsensical. The purpose of blocking a number is so that you no longer are harassed by someone you do not wish to be harassed by. Blocking numbers is not some tool to help people to cheat. And they have zero to do with deleted numbers. If you are looking for evidence, get a private dick. Blocking is designed to protect iPhone users (especially juveniles) from being bullied, harassed, and otherwise having their privacy invaded. It is not a tool for spying on your cheating partner....

GB

jkhandb wrote:

I'm assuming that you are a male from your answer (not assuming that all males are the same but it is the majority of men/boy/males think the same)

but imagine if you're partner and you had been cheated on you....! The deleted conversation and blocked numbers are what you would be looking for, for evidence. You would want to know the last blocked number and you would want to find out the last conversation that held in place I would, wouldn't you??

Thank you for giving me the best laugh of the day so far. I'm assuming your not an native English speaker or you would have assumed by my name that I'm a woman. And I am.

If I thought my partner was cheating on my, I'd confront them. If I realized I didn't believe the answer they gave me, I'd know that, regardless of what they'd done or not done, it was time to end the relationship. You don't need "evidence" to know when you've stopped trusting your partner.

gail from maine wrote:

Blocking is designed to protect iPhone users (especially juveniles) from being bullied, harassed, and otherwise having their privacy invaded.

I keep hoping it will have some effect on the robot calls for lower credit card rates. Of course, it doesn't.

Wow, bad assumption....

You mean we're not a boy? 😉

TThat is true and I agree with what you say

Meg St._Clair precariously and calculable deleted his/her post in which I was replying to, which was very and arrogant and condescending (if that's the spelling)

blody at check I am British Meg St._Clair

And it is 'if my partner was cheating on ME!!!' not My. (Native English speaker!

I Know many men and women with st Clair name. first and second.

most at of which are of Africa decent

i am sorry for being rude because you do give very good advice on this forum