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Tee1
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

I have numbers blocked but they can still leave voicemail. please advised

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Set the "Busy/Decline" conditional call forward to an invalid or US number, ie:

*67*8080000000#

Then calls that are "blocked" by the native calling app, or by yourself manually, will be directed to a fast busy tone, instead of your voicemail where they can further annoy you.

 

To undo/reset this dial: ##67#

 

Unanswered calls, and calls when your phone is offline will continue to route to voicemail as usual.


@LovesToPM wrote:

@Tee1 Basically there is no way (yet) to leave voicemail active for some callers and turn it off for others.

 

And with the current setup, blocked calls are forwarded to voicemail.


There is but it's not a feature offered by Public Mobile. With some thrid-party apps, a phone number can be added to a spam list. The app can be programmed to quickly answer the call and then hang up when the number matches anything in your list. This will prevent the person from leaving you a message.  You do need to remove any blocks in the stock contact list/phonebook apps because you need to let the call ring through. The third-party apps allow the call to ring once and then they disconect the call automatically for you.

 

 

LovesToPM
Mayor / Maire

@Tee1 Basically there is no way (yet) to leave voicemail active for some callers and turn it off for others.

 

And with the current setup, blocked calls are forwarded to voicemail.


@Anonymous wrote:

@LovesToPM wrote:

@Tee1 wrote:

I have numbers blocked but they can still leave voicemail. please advised


There is no direct option to disable voicemail but a work around can be found here.


But that would stop all callers. Not likely what the OP is after.

 @Tee1 : When listening to voicemail, as soon as you don't recognize the number or it's a junk message then just press 7 for immediate delete. If you're on the $10 or $15 plans then you can also access your voicemail from a different phone, to avoid using outgoing minutes from your plan.


@Anonymous   Fixed that for you! 😉 

Anonymous
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@LovesToPM wrote:

@Tee1 wrote:

I have numbers blocked but they can still leave voicemail. please advised


There is no direct option to disable voicemail but a work around can be found here.


But that would stop all callers. Not likely what the OP is after.

 @Tee1 : When listening to voicemail, as soon as you don't recognize the number or it's a junk message then just press 7 for immediate delete. If you're on the $10 or $15 plans then you can also access your voicemail from a different phone.


@CannonFodder wrote:

@LovesToPM  Except that solution then leaves the OP with NO voicemail messages, including the ones they actually want to receive.....


In that case, best to leave things as they are. Do you have other suggestions?

@LovesToPM  Except that solution then leaves the OP with NO voicemail messages, including the ones they actually want to receive.....

LovesToPM
Mayor / Maire

@Tee1 wrote:

I have numbers blocked but they can still leave voicemail. please advised


There is no direct option to disable voicemail but a work around can be found here.

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