Comment by bonestamp2
2 years ago
I recently setup a focus profile on my iPhone that only lets calls ring through from knowns contacts. There is going to be an adjustment period as I discover people and companies (such as doctors/hospitals) that I want to allow calls from and add them to the whitelist. But otherwise, it has been really nice to cut down on all of the interruptions.
You can flip on the option in the settings to silence unknown callers. It does a decent job, and prevents a lot of the manual micro-managing. I will sometimes toggle it off if I’m expecting a call from an unknown number, but it will also pull numbers it sees in texts and email and known.
I manually set this up several years ago, to only ring for contract in my address book. It was annoying, but worked. At the same time, I submitted the feature request to Apple and it came to iOS about a year later.
I found my calls have gone down dramatically since using it. I used to get 3-4 calls per day. Now, even if I have the feature toggled off, I might get a couple calls in a month. Once the number appears inactive, I think it drops off a lot of lists.
Thank you for drawing attention to this. Whenever I've scrolled past that option in the settings, I incorrectly assumed how it works and it's actually much more useful than I realized. I've adjusted my settings accordingly and I'll give it a chance. Thanks again.