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Does iPhone now ask for callers to confirm their identity if they are not a contact in your phone?
I was on a call and then another call came in but
I've been thinking about this, and figured it might be a decent discussion on this sub. I'm always "connected" to people all the time, the past year or so I have made good habit of using "do not disturb" on my phone. I'm hitting a some sort of a point where with work, friends, etc, I just for the love of god what to "unplug" and have 0 way of contacting me. I don't even want to be able to check if you texted me, I don't even want to see the missed calls.
I used to have another number on our company plan. But Jesus H Christ, telemarkets and scam callers still find it. I want to be left the fuck alone sometimes.
First thought, obvious, chuck your phone. I've done this, but honestly, sometimes I just want to browse reddit, read whatever, steam some music, something to decompress, and inevitably I see the missed calls and texts. I know it's there, so it's impossible to ignore.
I'm hoping some of you can sympathize with my perspective, and there's no malcontent with it. I just need to be left the fuck alone sometimes but I also want an internet connection.... Nothing is better than driving way out into nowhere just blasting some music on Spotify and not thinking about shit, until you get a fucking call.
I really wish there was some sort of firewall service I could port my number to. I wish I could have "push 1 for this, push 2 for that" before my phone even sees a call. I wish I could actually go offline on my own terms.
I'm just going to leave that as that. I really would like to see what everyone else has to say. I would like to see ideas how to fix this problem. In fact, I bet some business plan could be made. Seriously, if someone charged $X/Mo and I could just not have texts and phone calls come to my phone for X period of time, holy shit, I would buy that instantly.
How do you all stay sane while also wanting to reap the benefits of being online?
Edit: basically, ideally, I just want a number that can't be callled or texted by anyone. How can I do this?
The first time I noticed this I was at work yesterday having to make an outgoing call. I got an automated message saying “If you record your name as reason for calling, I’ll see if this person is available”. The next few times I noticed it was these unknown/scam numbers calling me, and the iPhone apparently asking them the same question. How does this work now?
Seems like a bug introduced in IOS 9
To me this seems like a bug introduced in IOS 9 that should get fixed automatically in future.
For outgoing calls, it continues to highlight in blue the specific number among multiple numbers in the contact on pressing ⓘ in the recent contact list.
For missed calls, it has stopped highlighting in blue but it still continues to show the label (like iPhone, mobile etc. ) for the missed call number on the main screen having all recent calls.
The specific 'sub-contact' shows directly beneath the contact's name in the call history; same whether you answered it or missed it.
Even if your contact has several numbers in the same category [some of my company contacts have several 'mobile' tags] the phone knows which one of those called.
Simply tapping the caller in the list will dial that number, which is far quicker than the old method of finding the correct one in another list, accessed by the ⓘ button.
Screen shot shows a call from a contact's "mobile" number:
