iOS 7 Block is the name in the form of which you will recognize from today on a function that many have been asking for for a few years now in iOS, and the company decided to implement it only now. Practically Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), implement in iOS 7 un blacklist almost completely, which allows us to block voice/video calls, but also messages. More precisely, using the blocking function you can block the possibility of contacts, or some phone numbers, from calling you using the mobile network or Apple's FaceTime system, but you will also block them from sending you iMessages or SMS messages .
The contacts for whom there are blocks will receive a busy tone when calling, and the messages sent to you will never arrive, without that person knowing that you have blocked them, or you finding out from somewhere that the messages are blocked. In the case of iMessage, there is still a problem, because blocking on an iPhone does not equal blocking on the entire system, so that a iMessage sent to your email address will arrive on a Mac, for example, if you are logged in with the same email address in the Messages application in OS X.
To block contacts or phone numbers, you have 3 options, which I will detail below:
- you can block any contacts directly from the new FaceTime application that is available in iOS, blocking by accessing a contact, scrolling to the bottom of the screen, selecting the Block this Caller button and confirming the alert;
- you can block any contacts or phone numbers that are not in the phonebook using the Phone application from which you will select the phone number or contact, scroll to the bottom of the screen, select the Block this Caller button and confirm the alert;
- the last option is to access the Settings application and the Phone, Messages or FaceTime menus, each of them displaying a sub-menu called Blocked, in which blocked phone numbers/contacts are represented.
Choosing the last option will give you the possibility to block, most likely, contacts or phone numbers only for certain services, but you will not be able to block calls from unknown numbers and this is the blacklist from iOS 7.
so we don't receive sms messages from blocked contacts somewhere in a file that only we can access (with the password for example)? do we just not get them at all?
You don't see them anywhere.
kinda nasty then. that is, it would have been much better to receive them somewhere, but not to receive any kind of notification. finally…
After I put iOS7 on my 4s it went ok, then I gave it a DFU, and when I got out of it my screen flashes. I downgraded to 6.1.3 and it worked, now I installed 7 again and it flashes the same way. What to have?
Nice that the post I posted earlier was deleted. Did I make a mistake in what I said?
And blocking known calls???
It can somehow
For Vally – of course
Nanny, are you all with me? Seriously. If you block someone, it means that it bothers you/ you don't want to know about him, why would you still want to see if he called you or not?!?
From which menu can private calls be restricted?
In iBlacklist there was an option and for calls with a hidden number it was very good, does this option also exist?
@George: What does the article say?
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