What Happens When You Block Someone On IPhone? - Moyens I/O

There are several valid reasons to block a contact on your phone. If someone is constantly sending you phone calls, text messages, or FaceTime calls, it’s OK to block them for as long as possible. But have you ever thought about what happens to a person you block? Can they reach you despite your blocking? Read this guide to learn more about the consequences of blocking someone on your iPhone.

Blocking an iPhone contact (which can be a phone number or email address) ensures that the person no longer communicates with you via phone calls, iMessage, FaceTime, and other native Apple communication apps and services. Jump to the section below to fully understand what happens when you block someone on your iPhone.

Table of Contents 1. Phone Calls 2. Text Messages and iMessage 3. Face Time 4. Mail How Do You Know If Someone Has Blocked Your Number On iPhone? you are responsible

1. Phone Calls

The most obvious action after blocking someone on your iPhone is that the blocked number/contact cannot reach you via phone calls. But what happens to phone calls afterwards? Will their calls be automatically rejected? Will you receive a notification of what they are looking for? What answer does the blocked person/number get each time they call you – after being blocked?

Well, according to my experiment, the consequences of blocking a person depend on your network provider. To put it simply, the response that blocked contacts receive when they call you will largely depend on your network provider.

Some network providers notify the blocked caller that your number is not reachable, while others forward the blocked person’s call directly to your voicemail. In the latter case, contacts you blocked can still leave you voicemails. Interestingly, voicemails from blocked contacts are not grouped with your regular messages. Instead, they are located under the voicemail section of the Dialer/Phone app.

2. Text Messages and iMessage

Before you can block a number on your iPhone, you should see an alert informing you that you will not receive calls, messages, and FaceTime from blocked contacts.

Here’s what happens when you block someone on your iPhone and they try to send you a text. First, they will be charged by the network operators for the text message(s) and the text will be sent. However, because you have blocked the contact, their text will not be delivered to your iPhone. The same is true for iMessage.

Messages from blocked numbers will not be delivered to your inbox. And on the sender’s side, messages will not be marked as ‘Delivered’.

3. Face Time

From the explanations above, you should have some idea of ​​what it is to block contacts on FaceTime as well. They can’t make FaceTime audio or video calls to you. When a number you blocked on your iPhone calls you on FaceTime, the call rings forever from the caller. On the other hand, your iPhone will not ring and you will not be notified of the call.

4. Mail

If the person you blocked has an iCloud address linked, they can still send your emails. Mails are marked ‘Blocked’ and will still appear in your regular inbox.

However, you can configure your iPhone’s Mail app to move email from blocked contacts to Bin. To do this, follow the steps listed below.

Stage 1: Launch the iPhone Settings menu and select Mail.

Step 2: Next, select ‘Blocked Sender Options’.

Stage 3: Finally, choose ‘Leave in Inbox’ if you want emails from blocked contacts to stay in your inbox. Otherwise, select ‘Move to Pane’ if you want emails from blocked contacts to be automatically moved to the Mail app’s Pane.

Note: Blocked contacts can still send emails to your iCloud email address using third-party email clients (Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, etc.).

If you are using Gmail on your iPhone, you should check what happens when you block someone on Gmail.

How Do You Know If Someone Has Blocked Your Number On iPhone?

While you won’t be notified when someone blocks your number (or email address) on their iPhone, the combination of these tips is definitely a clear indication that you’ve been blocked:

• Your iMessages sent to the number are not marked as Delivered for a long time.

• The person is not picking up your FaceTime calls.

• Calling the person’s phone number will always lead you to their voicemail.

• The person is not responding to your emails.

• You can reach the person via phone call using another number.

If you suspect you have been blocked by someone using an iPhone, try checking the tips listed above. If they check all, especially the last one, you are most likely blocked.

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These were all the highlights that were successful after you blocked someone on your iPhone. You can reach a blocked contact without unblocking them via calls, email, text messages or even FaceTime. They just can’t contact you. Note that the same goes for when someone blocks you on their iPhone.

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