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My simple algorithm can easily be implemented by Apple, and made an optional configuration:

If the number is not in my contacts list I redirect it to voicemail.

If Apple gives me that I'm a happier consumer.

And most of the time, I also google the numbers that I don't recognize, and block them if they are known offenders/spammers.

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I believe there is a way to do this, if you use Do Not Disturb and make an exception for All Contacts.

Interesting idea, but sometimes I do that when I sleep, so I would need that exception list to be small.

Not really, because then you can't get any notifications you actually do want. (Turning on DND blocks every notification.)

Apple refuses to make it so you can actually manage how the "phone" can bother you, and I'm assuming they have some sort of deal with the carriers to be this way.

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