They’re a pain. Those unwanted calls from telemarketers, credit-card agents, loan brokers, etc. who bug you at the worst of instances – times when you’re busy signing up a deal at work, watching a fun movie with your girlfriend, or simply sleeping. Dude, don’t you feel like throwing your cell away every time an unknown number flickers on your iPhone’s screen, and you know that it must be a call you are least interested in receiving? Well, not anymore. We tell you how to block a phone number on your iPhone, so that you watch movies without any interruption, don’t get vexed at work due to irrelevant calls, and definitely don’t have to wake up from your sleep in order to take calls you don’t want to. The following section gets you acquainted with how to block a phone number from calling you on the iPhone.
Blocking a Number on iPhone
Let me state it at the onset for you. First, your iPhone needs to be jailbroken if at all you want to get a phone number blocked. What’s more, you need to install an application that has appropriate settings for doing the same. There are two extremely good applications called iBlacklist and our very own Google Voice App. Here’s describing about both to save you from those annoying calls.
iBlacklist
With the help of iBlacklist, you can not only block phone numbers, but text messages too. What’s more, this application comes with a scheduler so that you know when it is possible for a person to reach you and when it is not.
- To start with, download this application for free from the Cydia Store.
- When you’re done downloading it, open it, and tap the screen in order to enable the app by selecting blacklist.
- Followed by that, enter the number you want to block. You can also go to your phonebook and then select the numbers you wish to bar.
- When you’re done selecting numbers, click on the Add to List option and put all the selected numbers in the blacklist.
- After you’ve done that, from the menu, select Settings Calls and choose hang up, ignore the call, or no action, whichever option you prefer for the number. Similarly, you can block an SMS from a particular person by adding their phone number in the blacklist.
Google Voice App
Google Voice App, unlike iBlacklist, offers you three options for blocking phone numbers. Here’s how you block a phone number with the help of Google Voice App:
- Go to your phonebook and select the checkbox that’s available right next to the name of your contact.
- Then, select Edit Google Voice Settings and click on when this contact calls you.
- When you’re done with it, you need to send the caller to the voicemail. This will allow your caller to at least leave you a message on your voice mail, if not be able to converse with you.
- Here, you can mark the caller as spam and hence, your phone will not ring whenever this person calls you. Instead, if he leaves you a message, you will be prompted when the message is sent to your spam folder.
- Third option is, you can directly block the caller with which, the caller will hear a message ‘this number is not in service‘. Also, in your missed calls, this number would appear as Blocked.
- Amongst all the features of blocking a phone number with the help of the Google Voice iPhone App is one feature where, when you’re listening to a voicemail, you could just mark it as spam if the message is not required for you to hear. You just have to Press the 8 key, and the number will be marked as spam for all future calls.
Try the method out on your handset, and then come back here if it doesn’t work. But if you’re successful at blocking a phone number on your iPhone, you’ll be free from all those unwanted calls that annoy the hell out of you, forever!