How to Block Calls, Messages or FaceTime on iPhone iOS 7

Whether you often plagued by harassing text messages and phone calls, especially some spam iMessages. If your iPhone is running iOS 6.X, and jailbroken, you can install some tweaks such as “iblacklist” to stop harassing messages. But for iOS 7 users, they luckier. IOS 7 comes with a feature can block specific messages, calls or FaceTime. You just need to add those annoying contacts to blacklist.

How to block phone calls, messages in iOS 7

Step 1: Go go Settings app, slide down you will see the Phone menu, click it.

Step 2: Sliding down, tap on “Blocked”

Step 3: Tap the “Add New…” button. You’ll see every contact stored on your device appear on-screen, just tap on one to add it to your blocked list.

Another scenario is that you not add this malicious contact in your Contacts, how to block it?

If someone has recently been sending you harassing or annoying text messages, you can block them directly from the text message app.

Step 1: Launch the Messages app and select the person you want to block.

Step 2:Tap on Contact and then Info.

Step 3:Scroll down and tap Block this Caller.

If someone you’ve blocked sends you a text message, it will show it as “sent” on their device, but you will receive nothing.

So you shield the designated contacts, then never received their calls until you unblock the contacts in the blacklist.

How to unblock contact in iOS 7 to re-enable them to send text messages, calls for your.

Just swipe from right to left across the contact in the Blocked page. Tap on it to remove the contact from your blocked list.

You can also block contacts from the Messages menu. From the Settings app, scroll down and select Messages, then follow the instructions above to add or remove contacts. Please note that both the Messages and Phone settings share the same blocked list.