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iPhone tips: Silence unknown caller automatically – Stay away from spam and scam calls

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These days there are more and more unknown callers calling your phone numbers. Some of them are genuine person looking for you but many of them are just scam and spam callers trying to fish you out. All these unknown callers are annoying and – especially for scam and spam calls – dangerous.

Your iPhone has the feature to automatically silence calls only from unknown caller

While there’s nothing that can stop all these unknown callers to stop calling you, but Apple has made an option to silence all these unknown callers, so that at least you don’t get annoyed by all these unknown calls.

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Here’s how to silence unknown caller on your iPhone

Follow these simple steps to keep your iPhone away from any unknown numbers calling into your iPhone, including spam and scam calls.


Step 1) On your iPhone, go to Settings.

Step 2) Inside Settings, go to Phone.

Step 3) Inside Phone and under CALLS, find “Silence Unknown Callers” and tap on it.

Step 4) Inside Silence Unknown Callers page, turn ON “Silence Unknown Callers”.

Go to Settings > Phone > Silence Unknown Callers.

Do note: calls from any unknown numbers will be silenced, sent to voice mail and displayed on recent list.

Alternative way – in case you don’t want unknown callers to be sent to your voice mail is by pressing the volume button when unknown number calling in. It will silent your phone and stop the vibration.


Bring it all together

With today’s iPhone tip to silence phone call from any unknown callers, you should never get annoyed anymore with constant phone calling into your iPhone and live happily ever after. In case you encountered any difficulties and/or have queries, don’t hesitate to put your queries or thoughts on the comment section down below. I’ll be happy to assist.

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