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by wbsun 556 days ago
I've decided to only receive calls/msgs from my contacts. On iPhone, you can do it by "Silence Unknown Callers". Instead of pretending I can ignore the spam calls, I'd rather take the risk when something super important are coming from an unknown number...
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That only works if you have no family. Because you risk an emergency provider being unable to reach you if something happens, or even something as simple as your kid/spouse losing their phone and trying to call you from a borrowed phone.
Not really an option for me - my child's care providers may call me from an unexpected phone number, plus the occasional doctor phone call from a number that's not the same one I call to schedule appointments, etc.
Can’t they leave voicemail? Spam basically never leaves voicemail.