Imessage Contacts

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Block a phone number, contact, or email

Re-Enable Contact Synchronization. IMessages identifies people you text by matching their iMessage ID (phone number or email) with your iCloud's Contacts database. Restart your iPhone. Open Settings Messages turn ON iMessage. Edit Any Contact. Open the Contacts App on your iPhone and make a minor edit to any of the Contacts. This act refreshes the Contacts database and is known to fix the problem of Contact Names Missing on iPhone.

There are a few ways that you can block phone numbers, contacts, and emails.

It sounds like you’re having some trouble with iMessage, and when sending a message to a contact you’re getting the error that the contact is invalid. I’ll be happy to help out with this. First, let’s start with some basic troubleshooting. Open Messages Preferences Accounts and make sure you’re signed in with your Apple ID here. The next screen will let you set up the addresses people can contact you at using iMessage. If you have an iPhone attached to your Apple ID, you should see the phone number listed here. If you have several iPhones that log into the same address, you may see several phone numbers. With iMessage you can turn off read receipts for all or individual contacts. If you want to turn on read receipts for one person on iMessage simply open his or her Conversation page, tap on the ‘i’ button and then turn toggle for ‘Send Read Receipts’ on. Similarly to turn read receipts for one person off, disable the very same toggle.

Phone

If you're in the Phone app under Recents, tap the Info button next to the phone number or contact that you want to block. Scroll down, then tap Block this Caller.

FaceTime

If you're in the FaceTime app, tap the Info button next to the phone number, contact, or email address that you want to block. Scroll down, then tap Block this Caller.

Messages

If you're in Messages, open the conversation, tap the contact at the top of the conversation, then tap the Info button . Tap info scroll down, then tap Block this Caller.

Mail

If you're in the Mail app, open the email that has the contact that you want to block, then tap the contact at the top. Tap Block this Contact.

When you block a phone number or contact, they can still leave a voicemail, but you won't get a notification. Messages that are sent or received won't be delivered. Also, the contact won't get a notification that the call or message was blocked. When you block an email address from Mail, it goes to the trash folder. Email blocking works across all your Apple devices.

You can also enable settings to block spam phone calls.

Manage your blocked phone numbers, contacts, and emails

To see the phone numbers, contacts, and email addresses that you've blocked from Phone, FaceTime, Messages, or Mail:

Phone

Go to Settings > Phone and tap Blocked Contacts to see the list.

FaceTime

Go to Settings > FaceTime. Under Calls, tap Blocked Contacts.

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Messages

Go to Settings > Messages. Under SMS/MMS, tap Blocked Contacts.

Mail

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Go to Settings > Mail. Under Threading, tap Blocked.

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From these screens, you can add or remove blocked phone numbers, contacts, or email addresses.

To add a contact from Phone, go to Settings > Phone > Blocked Contacts scroll to the bottom of the screen, then tap Add New. Then tap the contact that you want to block. To add a contact from Messages or FaceTime, go to Settings > Messages or Settings > FaceTime, tap Blocked Contacts. Then scroll down, tap Add New, then select the contact that you want to block. To add a contact from Mail, go to Settings > Mail, then tap Blocked. Scroll down, tap Add New, then enter the contact you want to block. To unblock a phone number, contact, or email address, swipe left over the entry, then tap Unblock.

Filter messages from unknown senders

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You can filter messages from people who aren't saved in your Contacts.

To filter messages, go to Settings > Messages and turn on Filter Unknown Senders.

In Messages, tap Filters, then tap Unknown Senders. You won't get notifications for these messages.

Report spam or junk in the Messages app

You can report iMessages that look like spam or junk from the Messages app. If you get an iMessage from someone who's not saved in your Contacts, you'll see a Report Junk link under the message.

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Tap Report Junk, then tap Delete and Report Junk. Messages will forward the sender's information and the message to Apple, as well as delete the message from your device. You can't undo deleting a message.

Reporting junk doesn't block the sender from being able to send another message. If you don't want to receive these messages, you need to block the contact.

To report SMS and MMS messages, contact your carrier.

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Learn more

  • If you want to prevent calls only temporarily, you can use Do Not Disturb. When Do Not Disturb is on, it will silence calls, alerts, and notifications while your device is locked.
  • Learn more about the difference between SMS/MMS and iMessages.
  • You can enable settings to block spam phone calls.