Number Shield

I've been using this for well over a year now... I was getting a bunch of calls that were not for my phone and a couple that I know I've told to not call my phone, but of course they'll still do it. The regular block function did ok but blocked people could still leave messages which defeats the point of blocking them. I don't want them calling my phone AT ALL. Enter Number Shield. Talk about 'you might as well give up and report the number as inactive' because you cannot get through NOR leave any messages. PERFECTION. Once you've got your settings lined up properly for the app to identify contacts within the app it works like a charm. I no longer receive a bunch of random calls & if one does magically get through, I just block it & reload my block list. This may happen once a month if that. Usually it's a random number but once you activate block and or blocking a similar sting of number patterns it's "SILAAAAANNNNNCCCEEEE PUNK!" Like Dragon Fly Jones, especially if they're using auto dialers. Get the app!

Starting with the good: Blocks numbers of my choosing rather than a community database. Blocks up to 5 entire area codes (goodby DC). Blocks neighborhood spam numbers. And my favorite- Adds allowed numbers by wildcard (adds all numbers from a PBX, like my healthcare provider). Have not seen that anywhere else. And more - simple clean interface, no ads, no nagging to upgrade, etc. The not so good: Very slow updating when the list is large. Just adding or removing a single number takes too much time. I get the feeling that updates are done by “starting over”.

This is still one of the best cures for robocalls. I’m surprised it doesn’t get mentioned more in the press. My original review is shown below. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This app is just what I was looking for. There are several highly rated subscription apps that handle robocalls and known scammers. However, I don’t get so many calls that I mind manually blocking these calls. What drives me nuts, however, are the calls from a range of numbers that are probably coming from the same entity. This app is perfect for this situation. I have been trying to keep the ranges down to a few thousand numbers because I think the developer said that Apple will only allow one million blocked numbers. No problem—this should do the trick. Did notice one glitch when setting up my iPhone X. The second number entered will keep the app loading. To fix this I just force quit the app, and all subsequent numbers entered fine.