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I turned off the feature that shows calls on my MacBook because of this. It's nice that the UI shows "Scam Likely" as the caller, but maybe give me an option to filter out those calls entirely? Let them go to voicemail or something... who is answering the phone when the caller is unknown and identified by the UI as "Scam Likely"?

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That's a T-Mobile feature, not an Apple feature, and you can change your settings to block the calls instead of just ID'ing them.

https://www.t-mobile.com/resources/call-protection

Awesome, thanks. I enabled it. That should cut down on at least ~40% of the junk calls I get.

Yes! I would even go so far as to say if the caller isn't in my phonebook let them go to voicemail. Or at least give me the option in settings. If I don't know who's calling they're getting my voicemail 100% of the time.

Elsewhere in the replies it was suggested that you put your phone on Do Not Disturb and configure it to allow calls from your contacts to get through. That might be a hacky solution?

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