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I'm visiting my 80+ year old mother and she seems to be on every call list possible. Looking for a recommendation for a iPhone app that will help reduce these calls. Criteria: easy enough that your grandmother could use it. works with iPhone 6 If it makes a difference her home phone number auto transfers to her cell number Thanks in advance Speak softly and carry a | ||
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If her provider participates, robo calls to landlines can be blocked using NoMoRoBo. "If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards | |||
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No experience with iPhone, but here's an article that lists a bunch of apps with pros and cons. https://www.imore.com/how-bloc...am-calls-your-iphone Android tells me in the caller ID if a call is Spam or even likely a Scam. It's nice. I report calls as spam regularly, and I hope that it improves Google's database of spam numbers. | |||
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Wish my ATT Note5 did that. I have a 'Do Not Answer' contact that I dump them into. Have one that calls me 4-6 times a week. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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Hiya seems to be doing the trick for my iPhone 6s | |||
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| eh-TEE-oh-clez |
My quick Google Fu says it's a Nexus and Pixel phone feature. Hopefully it trickles down to other phones as newer Android releases get pushed out. | |||
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Look at the Do Not Disturb feature on the iPhone & have it only allow phone calls from Contacts. ++Call Blocking feature ...let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. Luke 22:35-36 NAV "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Matthew 10:16 NASV | |||
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| Dances With Tornados |
I've been using NoMoRobo on my cell phone for about 2 months. I was getting an average of 8 to 10 crap phone call per day and now it's dropped to maybe 1 per week. Very pleased so far. $1.99 per month. | |||
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| Victim of Life's Circumstances  |
I was with AT&T landline since early 1970s. I moved last year and TWC cable had a package deal that made the landline nearly free so I took it. My old # transferred and nomorobo was part of the package. I didn't cancel my AT&T until I lived with TWC for a couple weeks to be sure I was satisfied. It works great. Most calls I got on landline were junk even though we were on state and national do not call lists. Several junk calls per day. I called AT&T to cancel and the cs retention expert begged me to stay. I told her the junk calls were the reason I left and that nomorobo was such a fine product. She said well we offer that at AT&T. My answer was why did you keep it a secret? ________________________ God spelled backwards is dog | |||
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^^ This. I'm running HiYa and TrueCaller on an iPhone 6 an still get five to ten telemarketing calls a day. Even with those applications, the phone still rings but it flags some as SPAM calls. | |||
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Sadly, this feature has become a lot less useful now that the motherfucking oxygen thieves are spoofing caller ID to make it appear they are calling from real people's phone numbers in your own local area code. The pieces of shit. | |||
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| You can't go home again  |
NoMoRobo has worked great for me and for anyone I've recommended it to. Used to get several call a day now i get a couple a week and it's set and forget. --------------------------------------- Life Member NRA “If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve." - Lao Tzu | |||
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I use the AT&T Call protect app on my iPhone 6. It auto blocks known spam calls but those not on the list have to be manually blocked. | |||
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| Too old of a Cat, to be licked by a Kitten  |
Been using this for a while and it works well. The Working Police..... "We the willing, led by the unknown, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful." | |||
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Hiya is what I use. My phone still rings, but it tells me if it is a call from a telemarketer, spam, or fraud. After the call, I can block the number. NRA Benefactor Life Member | |||
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| Stupid Allergy  |
Nomorobo works great for us. Well worth $1 a month "Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway." Steve McQueen... | |||
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NoMoRobo works fine on my iPhone. Verizon just started offering a trial of a Caller Name ID service, you get a name rather than just a number. Might say "FREE OFFER" or something like that. So far that seems worthwhile also and I may use both that and NoMoRobo.
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I use Mr Number which does the same thing. | |||
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I just got two spoofed calls in the last few minutes. Both showing local area code and cell phone prefixes. One was credit card loan and the other was health insurance seller. Sadly, I cannot set my iPhone to only allow contacts through since I use the phone for work. So both callers today got to listen to my sick son play Halo while I installed a new router at my exwife's house so they can have faster connections. Oh and I hate COX cable. For your mom, it might be best to just let the iPhone only allow contacts through and everyone else can just leave voicemail. Not minority enough! | |||
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Here is how I have attacked this 'issue' in the past; I load a 2 second ringtone of silence and set it as the default ringtone. Then I set known numbers (family, friends, doctors, etc.) to a sound creating ringtone. Now when an unknown number calls no ring sound is created. It's not an elegant approach, but it works. “Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won.” – Barack Hussein Obama, January 23, 2009 | |||
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