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> I created an iPhone app called MyHumans that takes the opposite approach with a whitelist using your phone contacts.

iOS 13 now does this: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/06/06/ios-13-silence-unknown-...

The only reason I know about this feature: My iPhone prompted me to turn it on yesterday. I turned it on, and it is working admirably so far (multiple spam calls blocked, and my dad got through as expected.)

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Wow, finally. These calls are driving my grandma crazy, I showed her my Pixel has been able to block spam calls for at least a year but that iPhones somehow had no equivalent. She was trying to block one number at a time but obviously it wasn't effective.

The major difference is you don't have an easy way to turn off the call blocking with the iOS 13 setting if you need to accept a call from an unknown caller (recruiter, scheduled call, whatever). On iOS 13, it's hidden in the settings app and there is no way to temporarily disable for a period of time so you don't forget to turn it back on.

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