We discussed how to know if someone has changed their number on iMessage. Skype shows you when someone is active, too, and can be a good way to verify someone is well. Services like Skype and Zoom are popular options many of us have on our phones and computers and may provide a way to connect with someone. If it rings more than a few times, it’s an indicator your number is blocked Calls heading straight to voicemail? Try a different number unknown to the person if the calls still go straight to voicemail, you’ll know it’s probably not a blocking issue. Try emailing from a different email address. If someone has blocked you, the emails associated with your contact in their iPhone will also be blocked from the Mail app. Even if they block your number, it won’t affect these other services. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat – all have bespoke chat functions you can use to message someone to see if they’re alright. If voicemail service starts after a short ringing, you are either blocked, or the number has been changed.Call on the recipient’s contact number.The other person could be out of their cellular coverage area and not connected to WiFi that can cause messages to remain undelivered. Messages are not showing as delivered know if your number is blocked, but not always reliable.
If the number were active, the other person would continue receiving messages. Those messages would appear in the chat below a ‘delivered’ or ‘read’ badge. Any messages sent after you’d been if the number is changed, it would show up in the chat, but never see the ‘delivered’ badge. IMessage constantly shuffles the ‘delivered’ or ‘read’ badge to the last message in the conversation that was delivered successfully. This trick can indicate if someone has changed their iMessage or not. If the Contact’s Name and the Send button are blue, they have iMessage available, and you’ll use that. If the Contact’s Name and the Send button are green, they don’t have iMessage available, and you’ll send them an SMS (or MMS). Your best bet is usually to respect that and maybe try again in a few months to see if things have calmed down. Whether a person is screening your calls indefinitely or has blocked you outright, the result is the same: They don’t want to talk to you. (If they hang up on you immediately, that’s telling as well.) Worst-case scenario: You’ll live forever with the mystery of whether or not you’ve been blocked.Īnd yet, it’s not the worst mystery in the world when you get right down to it. Remember: You don’t need to reach the person you need to see how long it takes to go to voicemail.īest-case scenario: You’ll be able to talk to the person and find out why they don’t want to accept your calls.Call on another phone immediately after that.Pick a time when it’s likely the person you’re calling will be free.The point is if you can’t reach a person on your phone but can reach them on another phone. Use your work phone, borrow a friend’s phone it doesn’t matter. If you think you’ve been blocked, try calling the person’s number from another phone. Sometimes, the simplest solution is the best one. The good news (well, as much as any news about this situation can be good) is that there are aįew trial-and-error methods you can use to hazard a reasonably good guess. The answer is, “maybe.” If you’re looking for a definitive way to discover whether someone’s blocked your phone number, the bad news is that there isn’t one. Some calls ring on your end, but never alert the other party you’re calling. They might have iPhone’s “Repeated Calls” feature enabled, which lets you bypass Do Not Disturb when you call twice within three minutes, alerting the other person you’ve called. Some users have Do Not Disturb enabled on their iPhones, which won’t alert them to your calls. There’s a bit of a hack to this, though.This is a sign someone is simply choosing not to take your calls instead of letting it naturally go to voicemail. If the call rings several times, then heads to voicemail, your number hasn’t been officially blocked.How do you know if someone changed their phone number in iMessage Call them