How to send calls not in contacts to voicemail

You can avoid unwanted calls by blocking certain people and sending unknown and spam callers directly to voicemail.

Block voice calls, FaceTime calls, and messages from certain people

In the Phone app

• Tap Favorites, Recents, or Voicemail. Tap

  
  next to the number or contact you want to block, scroll down, then tap Block this Caller.

• Tap Contacts, tap the contact you want to block, scroll down, then tap Block this Caller.

Send unknown and spam callers to voicemail

Go to Settings

• Silence Unknown Callers: You get notifications for calls from people in your contacts, recent outgoing calls, and Siri Suggestions.

• Call Blocking & Identification: Turn on Silence Junk Callers (available with certain carriers) to silence calls identified by your carrier as potential spam or fraud.

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How to send all calls not on my contacts list directly to voicemail or hell ?
can google voice do that ?

I tried searching but couldn’t find any solutions.

I’m tired of spam calls and this is the only free viable solution as long as I fInd the way to setup that in Google voice setting.

Thank you.

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   I've searched far and wide, but everything out there just tells you how to set the settings to send a contact to voicemail automatically. That's great and everything, but I get a lot of spam calls from new numbers and I want to send all incoming calls to voicemail unless they are someone that is in my contacts.

   In other words, right now when I go to sleep I have to put my phone on vibrate or I get woken up by spam calls. But I WANT to get woken up if it's my girlfriend, daughter, mom, boss, et cetera.

   
   
   

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   Download the Forums for Android™ app! Download

2. What phone?

   On my Samsung Note 4, I just went to Settings/Applications/Call/auto reject

   there are 4 items there you can set up.

   One of them is: Auto Reject List/Unknown Number "Checkbox"

   put a check in that and they are gone.

   there are apps that can do what you say, but the phone is going to ring anyway and wake you up.'

   Under "Call settings" is "Call Forwarding" which is an all or none thing.

   You can get to most of those settings and even more:
   Contacts/Settings and a big menu opens up.

   on Play store, there are a large number of apps to experiment with.

   https://play.google.com/store/search?q=call forward app

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PSA: Enable Google's new spam prevention feature now. Credit: Getty Images.justin sullivan

Google just gave us another good reason to use its phone app: better protection from spam callers.

The company's phone app for Android has a new setting that can automatically detect spam calls and send them straight to voicemail so your phone never even rings.

The app now has a "filter suspected spam call" option in its settings. When enabled, suspected spam calls will be routed straight to your phone's voicemail. Your phone won't ring, and you won't get a missed call notification.

If the caller does leave a voicemail, you also won't get a notification, though you'll have the ability to view missed calls and voicemails that have been "filtered."

Google's phone app has had built-in warnings about suspected spam calls for some time, but this change takes things to the next level as these calls can now be muted automatically. To enable the setting, you first need to make sure you have Google's phone app installed (it comes standard on some phones, like the Pixel, but for some phones you'll need to download it separately and set it as your default phone app).

Then, simply go to Settings -> Caller ID & spam -> Filter suspected spam calls.

Of course, robocallers are only getting more and more sophisticated, so even Google may not be able to catch all the offenders.

But the app also provides a way to report phone numbers that may have made it through its systems, so future calls may be easier to block.

Karissa was Mashable's Senior Tech Reporter, and is based in San Francisco. She covers social media platforms, Silicon Valley, and the many ways technology is changing our lives. Her work has also appeared in Wired, Macworld, Popular Mechanics, and The Wirecutter. In her free time, she enjoys snowboarding and watching too many cat videos on Instagram. Follow her on Twitter @karissabe.

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