Hi. I have an iPhone 5S running ioS 10.3.1 My phone number has apparently made it into the world-wide spammers' data base, because I have recently been plagued with a deluge of spam calls.
Is there a way to set up my iPhone so that callers in my "Contacts" ring through to me, but callers not in my "Contacts" go straight to voicemail without ringing?
Thanks in advance.
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), 3.06 GHz C2Duo 12GB RAM
A. Yes: https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
B: No: phone calls are basic functionality of the iPhone. I don't think an app can intervene.
The only solution I can think of is to put your iphOne in Do Not Disturb mode and use the "Allow calls from contacts" in the do not disturb setting.
Thank you for your reply. I don't really want to add numbers to a "blocked" list anyway. What I would like to do is to set up the phone such that any incoming phone number that is *not* in my Contacts goes straight to voicemail. This feature is available on my VOIP landline, btw, and it is a Godsend.
The inference from your reply is that no such feature is available on the iPhone itself. Blocking spammers one number at a time is not very efficient. Changing phone numbers is of course totally impractical, since it would require me to notify all my contacts, and expect all of them to correctly change their contact info, and also there is the matter of the large number of websites etc. that have this existing number as my contact info.
A. Is there a way to request or suggest features for future releases of ioS?
B. Do you know of an iPhone App that might be purchased that performs such an operation?
It would seem that programming to do this is fairly straightforward. The iPhone is already capable of conditionally dealing with calls differently depending on time of day. This is conceptually similar, conditionally operating on the call differently depending on whether the originating number is in my Contacts or not.
Anyway, one way or the other, thank you for your prompt reply.
Settings → Phone → Call Blocking & Identification
is the only option to add numbers to blocked list.
The other option is to contact your carrier to issue you a new phone number.
Perfect! This is exactly what I wanted to do. Thank you very much.
iPhone. Send non-contact calls to voicemail?
