{"id":2041,"date":"2017-03-28T22:49:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T22:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tom-nan.com\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2017-03-28T22:49:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T22:49:11","slug":"screen-unwanted-calls-for-free-on-i-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/28\/screen-unwanted-calls-for-free-on-i-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen unwanted calls for free on i-Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: There are several ways to do this, I don\u2019t claim this way is better, it\u2019s the way I do it because it\u2019s free and doesn\u2019t require adding any apps to your phone.
\nCaveats: Your mileage may vary depending on which phone you have.\u00a0 I have an iPhone 6.\u00a0 Time to accomplish depends on how many contacts you have in your address book.\u00a0 It took me about an hour.<\/p>\n

If you’re like me you get a lot of unknown, unwanted calls on yout phone. These not only are aggravating and waste your time but you can also accidentally give out information you don’t want to give out.\u00a0 This post outlines how I did it for free without adding any new apps to my phone and without buying any ring times…<\/div>\n
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Believe it ot not, the iPhone comes with ALMOST all of the things you need to complete this.\u00a0 The most important thing you need is a completely silent audio file that\u2019s less than 10 seconds long.\u00a0 You can make this and put it on your phone using iTunes as a ring-tone.\u00a0 There are descriptions of how to make ring-tones and put them on your phone on the Internet, I won’t describe how to do that but I used a free open-source program called Audacity to accomplish the task (Recall I use Audacity to digitize my vinyl records from time to time).<\/div>\n
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The steps to do this from start to finish are:
\n1. Create a silent audio file for your ring-tone.
\n2. Convert it to the file format for a ring-tone
\n3. Sync it to your phone using iTunes.
\n4. Make the silent ring-tone your default ringer.
\n5. Assign ringtones to ALL of your contacts.\u00a0 I have 3 tones to distinguish between Family, Friends, and Acquaintances.\u00a0 (this is the most time consuming part).
\n6. Record a new greeting. Mine is something like this:<\/div>\n
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HELLO
\nYou’ve reached the voicemail of Tom Cardinal,<\/div>\n
If you’re hearing this message I don’t recognize your number or am unable to answer.\u00a0 If you’d like me to call you back please leave your name, number and a brief message.<\/div>\n
Thank you<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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7. You\u2019re finished.<\/div>\n
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So here\u2019s how it works:
\n– If a person on your contacts list calls your phone will ring.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t answer they\u2019ll get the greeting and will usually leave a message.
\n– If a person NOT on your contacts list calls they\u2019ll hear the ringback but your phone will play the silent ring-tone until it goes to your voicemail greeting\u2026 They\u2019ll get the greeting and will probably leave a message if the call is a valid call.\u00a0 If the call is a valid call you can add them to your contacts and assign a ringtone.
\n– If a number is NOT on your contacts list and it\u2019s a scammer they may leave a message but you already know (and they probably do too) you won\u2019t call them back\u2026 They might leave a message\u2026 but you can delete it\u2026 the only risk is if they fill your voice mailbox so it can\u2019t receive more messages until you delete some of them.<\/div>\n
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This works VERY well for me, Today alone I\u2019ve received 9 calls from the same number in South Dakota but there are no voicemail messages from any of the call. I’m sharing here so others can shut the scammers down too.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note: There are several ways to do this, I don\u2019t claim this way is better, it\u2019s the way I do it because it\u2019s free and doesn\u2019t require adding any apps to your phone. Caveats: Your mileage may vary depending on which phone you have.\u00a0 I have an iPhone 6.\u00a0 Time to accomplish depends on how … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-help","category-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}