I recently had one of these group texts from a spammer to those of us with similar phone numbers. I found it best just to Hide alerts for this group chat, as various people who were spammed on the same text would reply with "stop" and other such notes. In your messages inbox, flick up till you hear Hide alerts and this will at least keep them from showing up in notifications.
-----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Carolyn Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2021 10:02 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: how do you block texts I have a strange group message that I want to block. These directions never led me to block. -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bill Gallik Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 1:21 PM To: viPhone 📩 <viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: how do you block texts Hi All, That is certainly one of several ways to block text messages from a specified source. There are at least two more ways to do this: 1) Provided the sender you want to block is in your Contacts, open the Phone app, select the “Contacts” tab at the bottom, locate the offending contact and open it, activate the “Edit” button and finally locate and activate the “Block” button at the bottom of the contact dialog. 2) Or you can open “Settings” and activate the “Phone” item. Then locate and activate the “Block Senders” button, in the resulting dialog locate and activate the “Add” button and then simply fill in the telephone number you desire to block. Seems like there ought to be a simpler way to do this. I’ve done this using both above methods and the method Dan suggested enough times that it seems easy enough to me until I start giving written instructions!!! YIKES!!!! * * * * * * * * * * * * - Bill from Ino, Wisconsin - "Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare." - Japanese Proverb On Oct 26, 2021, at 7:37 AM, Dan <dbeaver...@gmail.com <mailto:dbeaver...@gmail.com> > wrote: Ok, I figured this one out. the user guide does not explain it fully so I was confused. to do this you first have to open a text conversation. You next double tap on the name/phone number at the top of the screen. This will bring up a list of choices. The user guide says to scroll down and click on the "block this sender" button. This is not correct because this choice doesn't show up in this list. You should find the "More info" button and click on it at this point. You will now see a list of choices which does include the block button. Double tap this button and you will be prompted for your confirmation of blocking or canceling. I have already alerted the Apple folks about this deficiency in the user guide. -- Dan Beaver (KA4DAN) -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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