When you block a number on your Android phone, it will no longer be able to call or text you. This can be a useful way to avoid spam calls and unwanted messages. However, you may sometimes need to ...

In a world of constant connection, many people mistake being reachable to being available. However, this isn't always the case, and being able to opt out of certain conversations is important for your ...

Text messages have become far more common than phone calls. And with that prevalence comes many of the problems that afflict phone use. Among these are telemarketers, robocalls, phishing scams, and ...

It's almost remarkable that, no matter how fancy our phones get, telemarketers, phone bots, and scam calls are still an enduring grievance of modern life. Just having an active phone number invites ...

Spammers and scammers and everywhere and they already have the best tool they can use to disrupt us from our daily lives. But the good news is that the tools they’re using are the same tools we can ...

If you receive unwanted calls to your phone number on an iPhone, texts or iMessages in the Messages app, or unwanted incoming calls in FaceTime, you can block them by phone number or email address.

This week a reader wrote to ask about blocking numbers on his phone. “I have an Android phone, and I get a lot of spam calls. I’ve been blocking them, but I wonder if I need to leave all those calls ...

There are few big mysteries in the information age, but one of them is knowing how to figure out whether someone has blocked your number. I'm talking about your number being blocked on someone else's ...

Answering phone calls is still a thing. You may not receive many of them, and the ones you get tend to be from bill collectors or telemarketers. But some people would rather place a call than type a ...

With the increasing number of unwanted calls and messages from spammers, telemarketers, and scammers, blocking numbers has become a crucial feature for maintaining peace and security on Android ...

Faith writes guides, how-tos, and roundups on the latest Android games and apps for Android Police. You'll find her writing about the newest free-to-play game to hit Android or discussing her paranoia ...

I swear about nine out of 10 calls I get are unwanted! Telemarketers, scammers, spammers, and other random callers are really persistent. This means my list of blocked numbers has gotten pretty ...