{"id":617537,"date":"2023-03-13T11:59:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T16:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/13\/how-to-block-a-number-on-your-smartphone\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T11:59:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T16:59:14","slug":"how-to-block-a-number-on-your-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/13\/how-to-block-a-number-on-your-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"How to block a number on your smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are all sorts of reasons to block a number: an ex who can&#8217;t take a hint, relentless telemarketers, or\u00a0those scammers who love spoofing. When your phone has buzzed one more time than you can take, it&#8217;s time to block that number. But how? Here are the steps to take depending on your OS and carrier.Do Not Call ListThe first way to reduce the number of unwanted calls coming to your phone is to ditch telemarketers by putting your number into the\u00a0National Do Not Call Registry&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/how-to-block-number-on-smartphone\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Joan Pecora<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are all sorts of reasons to block a number: an ex who can&#8217;t take a hint, relentless telemarketers, or\u00a0those scammers who love spoofing. When your phone has buzzed one more time than you can take, it&#8217;s time to block that number. But how? Here are the steps to take depending on your OS and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":617538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23950,2909,192],"tags":[6342,5767],"class_list":{"0":"post-617537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-block","8":"category-smartphone","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-block","11":"tag-smartphone"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}