I've had ATT block my number since the first iPhone.

All my personal contacts have their number in my 'Phone, along with that number preceded by *82. My number is then blocked for all outgoing calls by default. If one of my contacts calls me, I see their name in Caller ID. If I call someone in my Contacts, I use the *82number so that specific call is unblocked for them. Most of us don't accept block calls (and yes I see some little irony there).

Recently, all my personal calls have been showing up blocked when dialing *82numbers. I've verified that the *82 prefix is no longer unblocking calls. ATT advises this should work. However, it does not.

I plan to call ATT again to see if they can replicate the problem at their end.

In the meantime, I'm wondering if anybody else has the same problem.

And I'm wondering if it could be the 5.1 update. I think the problem existed before 5.1.1.

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Mister, that's a ten-gallon hat on a twenty-gallon head.

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Since YOU are the one initiating the calls you make, what are you gaining by BLOCKING your ID?

I believe you are correct in your assumption about accepting BLOCKED calls . . . I don't.


EDIT: My apologies for not having an answer for your post. I am just very curious as to your gain.

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Bill
Flagler Beach, FL 32136

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/17/2012 05:54AM by WHiiP.

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WHiiP
Since YOU are the one initiating the calls you make, what are you gaining by BLOCKING your ID?

I believe you are correct in your assumption about accepting BLOCKED calls . . . I don't.


EDIT: My apologies for not having an answer for your post. I am just very curious as to your gain.

So that people or companies that don't have his cell number won't get it.

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WHiiP
Since YOU are the one initiating the calls you make, what are you gaining by BLOCKING your ID?

I believe you are correct in your assumption about accepting BLOCKED calls . . . I don't.


EDIT: My apologies for not having an answer for your post. I am just very curious as to your gain.

So that people or companies that don't have his cell number won't get it.

WHY call those people or companies then?

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Bill
Flagler Beach, FL 32136

Carpe Vino!

Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire.
— David Rains Wallace

WHY call those people or companies then?

There are times when I might need information from a company or business on a one time basis. As I have no idea which companies will use caller ID to mine my cell phone number and make subsequent calls, I like to block my CID.

And many times in the course of doing business, there are times when there is no need to give out any phone number, let alone my 'Phone number. If and when necessary, my landline can take a message, and it doesn't impact my limited calling plan. Already I average almost two spam texts a month.

I don't need more. No, I don't need or need to pay for unlimited texting.

So again: Anybody with an iPhone on ATT have their number blocked? I was able to unblock it via *82 on a per call basis, but that no longer works.

I'm trying to find out if it's ATT, my 'Phone, or iOS.

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You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

-An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

There is no safety for honest men
except by believing all possible evil
of evil men.

Pixels were born to be punished. -Frederick Van Johnson

Mister, that's a ten-gallon hat on a twenty-gallon head.

I *love* Sigs. It's Glocks I hate.

If in fact *82 stops working for you I would use Google Voice instead. That's what I do, I don't have any problem giving out my google voice number because if I start getting calls from people I don't want I can set it up so that number goes to a message that plays the disconnected tone. If I get a call from a company looking for me on my regular number I tell them "He got a new number, do you want it?" Then I give thme my google voice number. Then I block them.

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If the blocking is only for 'occasional' calls when you can't get to your landline or need to make one-off calls to companies, i'm not sure why it's not more efficient just to block your caller ID info for those calls individually using *67, and have a regular address book. (Less overhead for you, once you're in the habit of adding *67 to your dialing pattern, which is easy in my experience.)

I know this isn't the answer you want, but it is a solution.

Also, you do realize that 'blocking' caller ID info is ineffectual when dialing toll-free numbers, right? They get your deets anyway.

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rj
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i'm not sure why ...

That's ok, it's not relevant.

It's decidedly not more efficient to manually block calls instead of automatically unblocking calls. And that's not really germane to my question.

I'm really not interested in philosophical discussions regarding my choice of blocking my number. Also, my system has worked very well and quite efficiently until now.

So, please, to the question at hand.

I'm trying to figure out if the problem is with ATT, my 'Phone, or iOS.

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You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

-An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

There is no safety for honest men
except by believing all possible evil
of evil men.

Pixels were born to be punished. -Frederick Van Johnson

Mister, that's a ten-gallon hat on a twenty-gallon head.

I *love* Sigs. It's Glocks I hate.

On my ATT iPhone, you can manually turn off/on call blocking by going to Settings, Phone, Show my Caller ID, Off/on. If you have it to OFF, then your call will show "BLOCKED" or "NOT AVAILABLE" when calling any (as far as I know) number.

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On my ATT iPhone, you can manually turn off/on call blocking by going to Settings, Phone, Show my Caller ID, Off/on. If you have it to OFF, then your call will show "BLOCKED" or "NOT AVAILABLE" when calling any (as far as I know) number.

My ATT 'Phone is the same way.

But if I recall correctly, using the OS to block my Caller ID did not let me automatically show my number using the *82 method I mentioned in my original post.

Calling my 'Phone from my blocked landline (Sonic.net) show as Blocked on the 'Phone, but using the *82 prefix reveals my number, as it should. It just doesn't work from my 'Phone to the landline.

As this is a recent development, it may be a bug in iOS 5.x.

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You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

-An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

There is no safety for honest men
except by believing all possible evil
of evil men.

Pixels were born to be punished. -Frederick Van Johnson

Mister, that's a ten-gallon hat on a twenty-gallon head.

I *love* Sigs. It's Glocks I hate.