If you put your para transit phone number into your contacts, that call will go through. That’s actually better than having the carrier do it, because they probably will screen it out as a Robo.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 28, 2019, at 12:48 PM, Andy Baracco <w...@socal.rr.com> wrote: > > > When my paratransit provider calls, the phone will say "scam likely. The > result could be a missed ride. i can't take that chance. > > Andy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Deb Cook Lewis > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2019 12:23 PM > Subject: RE: Silence Unknown Callers is great! > > I like the way this is implemented on Android somewhat better though and for > that reason I haven’t implemented it on my Iphone although I’d like to. > On Android, it doesn’t block all unknown callers but blocks those that might > have spam characteristics. I had a lot of calls in my recents on that phone, > a few of which were spam. It identified them all correctly. > But I do get some legitimate calls from people I haven’t bothered to add to > my contacts because they don’t call much, usually related to some event I’m > part of or whatever, and they’re definitely not spam. So I feel like this is > too global. Another example of calls I get are from state agencies which mask > their numbers using other numbers. No idea why, it’s totally supid, and I can > recognize them even if they’ve never used that number before, but it makes it > impossible to enter them in your contacts because they never call from the > real number. > On my Android phone, it was able to determine that these weren’t spam, but if > they were, I could make a rule for that and they’d probably all be. > So I hope that Apple will get more sophisticated about this over time because > I like the concept. > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Richard Turner > Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2019 10:12 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Silence Unknown Callers is great! > > I know some have complained loudly and persistently about iOS13, but if it > added nothing but the silence unknown callers, it is completely worth it to > me. > > I was checking my recent calls list for a completely unrelated issue and > there was a number I did not recognize from another State. It happened at a > time I was using Voice Dream Reader and I had no idea a call had happened. > They didn’t leave a voice mail, so as I do with such things, I blocked the > number. > > But, I did not get interrupted, which is fabulous in my book. > I have received an increasing number of robo calls in the last 6 months, so > this is worth any other issues to me. > > Just my 2¢ worth. > > Richard > > 🖖 Live long and prosper > > > Check out my web site at: www.turner42.com > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/MWHPR1701MB19010FF2FC9D236A8804EE7AB7800%40MWHPR1701MB1901.namprd17.prod.outlook.com. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/03d001d57632%2440ad4fc0%24c207ef40%24%40gmail.com. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/008401d57635%24b80f4390%240201a8c0%40AndyPC. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/23A9C7D6-F83F-4C23-9268-5B75DC7763FA%40gmail.com.
