▷iPhone: How to block calls from unknown or hidden numbers 🥇

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How to automatically silence all unwanted calls
How to block specific contacts on iPhone
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Your iPhone can help you fight phone spam. In particular, there is an option to automatically silence all calls from unknown or hidden numbers. We explain in this quick tutorial how to activate it.

Since iOS 13, iPhones have made it very easy to mute unknown numbers. Just activate a native operating system option : therefore no need to download a third-party application like Bloctel with uncertain effect. Thanks to the integrated functionality of iOS 13 and 14, no calls from unknown numbers will bother you anymore.

There are fewer and fewer direct sellers calling with unknown numbers. It must be said that since we can see the caller's number, hidden numbers don't really inspire confidence. This is why in addition to blocking hidden numbers, the system also blocks all numbers that are not in your address book. Because the direct sellers generally fall back on numbers 06, 07 or 09 seemingly innocent.

How to automatically silence all unwanted calls

For that, it's very simple :

Go to Settings> Phone
Go down to go in Silent stranger calls
Activate the option

Apple explains that when this option is enabled “calls from unknown numbers will be silent, sent to voicemail and displayed in the recent calls list” and that “the device will continue to ring for incoming calls from your contacts, people that you've called recently and those from Siri's suggestions ”.

Of course, this option is only suitable for those who normally never receive calls from hidden numbers or from unknown numbers. If you are used to receiving these types of calls for good reasons, the filter applied by the iPhone may be unpleasantly effective.

To remedy this while reducing the number of telephone spam, in this case, we recommend that you use one or more third-party applications. Next to Bloctel, the official government application, we find in particular “Should I answer” or even Robokill. However, these applications often require payment for a subscription. The alternative is to use the built-in features of your iPhone to gradually block all the numbers behind which call centers are hiding.