Surely on more than one occasion you have received a call without identification on your android, and because you don’t know you have picked up. And, in the end, it was advertising or something that interested you even less. well if you want put an end to this inconveniencewe are going to show you the steps you must take to achieve it.
In Google’s operating system, there is a way to block these types of calls, without affecting the rest of the phone’s functionality. Therefore, we speak of a simple process and No danger, which makes it highly recommended to forget about hidden numbers. By the way, it is possible to get this in the almost all Android smartphonessince all the current models comply with the minimum required version of the development for it.
This is how you block hidden numbers on Android
In the first case, we will take as reference the operating system without modifications, which is what the vast majority of current Android terminals offer (at least in the Phone application, which is the one you should use). These are the steps you have to take to forget about annoying data centers or advertising companies:
- Open the Phone application as usual and, once in it, click on the icon with three vertical dots at the top right of the screen.
- Now go to Settings and then select Block numbers (may have a different name, but very similar). Among the options you will see here is Block unknown calls. Activate the corresponding slider.
- Once this is done, you can go to the main screen of the phone, since you have finished and the changes take effect instantly.
Steps for Samsung phones
If you have a terminal from the Korean firm, you have to do some actions that are a little different. We indicate them below:
- Launch the Phone application and use More options (in the icon with three dots in the upper right area). You have to access Settings.
- Select Block numbers and here, just below, you will see a section called Block unknown/private cores. Activate this function and then the changes take effect.
- You have finished.
If you wish review the list of calls from unknown numbers that you have received, and those that you have not heard about, you can see it in the Settings of the Android Phone application. Within Block numbers is the option you are looking for to see if they would have bothered you a lot if you did not have this option active.
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