Comments on: Use a Silent Ringtone to Ignore Specific Callers to Your iPhone

By: RB

RB — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:03:01 +0000

Man this is awesome. Thanks for posting. I just added 32 numbers from my “missed calls” list to one “blocked” contact. Way better than paying AT&T $5 a month to do it – and who knows if the FCC will ever stop this cluster.

By: Nony

Nony — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 03:06:43 +0000

Thanks for this. I currently have a hospital fax machine that won’t stop calling my cell phone. This seems to be the only solution!

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:04:55 +0000

Thanks for this information (and comments). I’m getting about half a dozen nuisance calls a day right now and this has been extremely helpful.

By: Don

Don — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:58:54 +0000

The inability to do this for unknown/blocked callers is the only reason I consistently jailbreak. Thank heaven for iBlacklist.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:41:23 +0000

I do as @max does. Soon as you find out its a number you dont want future calls from, just hit “add to existing contact” and slect your blocked callers contact. The silent ringtone cleverness is a good suggestion.

On topic of ringtones, you can create custom vibrations to assign to contacts. At work, we developers are 3-5 people on these slightly-divided but single long desks and phones tend to sit on desk in owner’s visual sightline, so when one vibrates, everyone is looking at their phone. To make your own good vibrations, start by going to settings->accessibility and turn on custom vibrations. Then goto settings->sounds and scroll to bottom to find vibration patterns.

By: mdavidm

mdavidm — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:43:22 +0000

My approach is similar, but a bit more effective. I set the silent ring as my default, and then assign other ring tones to specific contacts. So by default, all incoming calls are silent, but family and friends ring their assigned audible ringtones.

By: DCJ001

DCJ001 — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:57:58 +0000

With Google Voice’s settings, individual telephone numbers can be blocked, or sent to a different voicemail than other callers, or sent to your phone.

This is what I use.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZwtQNKdWzk&feature=plcp

By: Max

Max — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:28:40 +0000

I do a nifty little thing for callers I don’t care to receive calls from and this will be a nice add-on to your silent ringer. I created one contact called “BLOCK” and I add all the numbers that I want to screen to that name.

Now I will assign the silent ringer to the BLOCK name. Thanks for the tip!

When is google going to make an app that spam filters the numbers you don’t want calls from?!

Cheers