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by bogidon 1894 days ago
Yes. I do not get 803 calls at all anymore. Am on iOS 14.4.2. I also use T-Mobile Scam Shield so I can see all the calls that have come in from the carrier’s perspective, so before iOS blocks them.

It’s interesting, of the last 24 calls from the 803 area code (most recent was yesterday) only 9 were identified as spam by T-Mobile and blocked by them. The others were blocked by the WideProtect app. Certain all of them were spam.

(I lived in SC 10+ years ago. The only people I met there are in my contacts and excluded from the blocklist.)

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> Yes

That's good enough for me to spend $3. Thanks so much. I dug into how this particular app works, and it turns out those iOS restrictions are still in place- but the app developer is clever, and is literally turning our prefix blocks into millions of actual blocked numbers. And while he can't intercept calls, he CAN manually add and remove numbers from the built-in system block list.

Madness! But it actually works!

Is there an easy way to set up wide protect for an entire area code properly? The last time I tried it, it just kept freezing my phone and timing out instead of finishing all the lists.