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Is it possible to export the numbers I have blocked calls/messages from? I have changed phones and would like to import that list into it.

4 days later

Natively, I don't believe that's possible.
I have been scouting for every existing setting in my phones for more than a decade now, and I do not remember having ever seen it as an option.

I have no idea if it's possible to do that with an app, but if I had to guess I would say it's not?

Personally what I ended up doing was to create a naming convention, and add every number I want to block as a contact under that name convention.

In most messaging apps, you can block existing contacts, that way in apps like Telegram, WhatsApp, these "blocked" contacts won't be able to see your profile.

What I do is that I add each number to a new contact, that way you can backup these undesirable numbers with all the rest of your contacts.

Every now and then, I go to my messaging apps, and block the new undesirable contacts I have added.

I am totally aware that it is unpractical, it's a lot of labor, and it's probably not worth it, but I've been doing that for years, because I would regularly switch between iOS and Android, and it was the only reasonable way to keep that list of both contacts and blocked numbers between these two platforms.

In practice, contacts are trusted phone numbers in a sense, so I'm not sure what the security implications of behaving that way are, but I've been getting 1-3 undesired phone calls per week, and at some point I just figured that I would go a little less insane if I could not lose that list of numbers when switching platforms.

I will add that I think backup features do allow to move that list between phones, but I'm unsure if it's the case for SeedVault as well.

EDIT: And it usually involves restoring the entire backup, which is probably not wanted if the phone was already set up.

I have the blocked also in contacts... in a separate group

6 days later

Thanks for the replies. That's a lot of work, though.
I don't know if this is happening everywhere, but in my country the spam calls became insufferable.

I get 10+ calls daily with a recording trying to scam me and the numbers seem to come from the same actors, because they have a pattern, like the first numbers are equal and the last ones vary a little bit.

Besides your suggestions, do you know if it's possible for an app to intercept the call and perhaps block them based on some criteria? For example, it would block if the number stars with "99331".

If you know of some app or at least with Android API would allow that (I could try writing the app myself).

    BigWalrus198 Besides your suggestions, do you know if it's possible for an app to intercept the call and perhaps block them based on some criteria? For example, it would block if the number stars with "99331".

    You can do that with the stock app. You just have to block the number "+99331*".

        carboneos

        Daaaamn, didn't know that. I'm adding some numbers right now to test.
        I see you added a "+" before the number, is that the country code?

        Generally the calls I get are from the same country and the country code (+XX) is omitted.

        Will try varying masks.