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I've been trying to get serious about claiming specific periods of the day for productivity, and have been trying to find a good way to allow my wife to still contact me in case of emergencies while otherwise preventing other distractions from coming through on my phone. The new Do Not Disturb features are exactly what I've been looking for, and I really like some of the specific touches like the ability to let people call twice to bypass the setting.

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That's a nice feature, but still looks half-baked for me. It's now ios6 and you still need to jailbreak your iphone to blacklist people harassing you with phone calls or imessage. What I do need is a blacklist feature which send to /dev/null people I don't want to talk to or receive imessage or sms from, and the DND feature looks more like a whitelist only available to phone calls. Maybe in ios 7 ? It seems like a basic feature and I wonder which Apple Developper Program rule prevent to develop such an app available in the app store.

Can't you just blacklist on your provider?

No, I can't ! There's no way a provider could help you block unwanted imessages sender or unwanted facetime caller anyway. What is your provider who let you do that for free on behalf of apple products ?

well ok, with imessage it doesn't work, but you also talked about phone calls. I agree, blacklisting should be there.

If you are using a Blackberry, my Blackberry App (Callernizer) does exactly that.

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