Where is the blacklist on a Samsung phone? Whitelist for Android or how to protect yourself from unwanted contacts

What is a phone blacklist? This is a special section where the user can add subscriber phone numbers. All incoming calls from numbers added to the emergency situation will be blocked by the system. A very convenient thing. But sometimes it becomes necessary to familiarize yourself with the numbers added to the emergency situation. So how do you find the blacklist on your phone? As you understand, it all depends on the specific firmware version installed on your smartphone.

Samsung

Find the “Phone” icon on your desktop and click on it.

Here, find the “Menu” button – highlighted in red.

When you click, a menu will appear in which you need to tap on the “Settings” line.

Now - “Blocking numbers”.

And here are the subscriber numbers added to the emergency situation.

To remove a number from the black list, you need to click on the minus button opposite the desired number.

Xiaomi

Go to the Phone application.

Click on the "Menu" button.

Here - “Antispam” or “Black List”.

Tap on the line “Black list”.

Here is a list of blocked numbers.

To unblock, click on the number and select “Unblock”.

Meizu

Go to the Phone application. At the bottom of the screen, find a button in the form of three dots, click on it to display a menu.

Select “Settings” from the menu.

The next item is “Black list of users.”

The black list has opened. True, in our case it is empty.

In the same way, you can access the emergency on other devices, including Lenovo, Fly, Alacatel, etc.

Whitelist for Android or how to protect yourself from unwanted contacts


For quite some time now modern phones and smartphones have a built-in function called “Black List” - the ability to add contacts or numbers to the list of those with whom you do not want to communicate. However, sometimes you need to protect yourself from everyone - except a select few. This list has its own name - “White List”.

Not all phones have the ability to create white lists by default, this also applies to gadgets with Android OS. What are the ways to solve this problem? First, try using the services of your operator cellular communications(We have a telephone, remember?). For example, a megaphone has a “white list”; that’s what the service is called. You can add up to hundreds of any numbers to this list; if they call from another number not included in the list, they will receive a message about an erroneous call. Everything seems to be fine, but there is one thing - the service is paid. And not everyone has a megaphone. So let's try another way.

Android OS provides its users with the opportunity to install a great variety of applications; is there really not one of them that you need? There will be! Whitelist Call Blocker is a program designed just for this (and the name already hints).

So, download it for free from the play market and install it on your device. Now something like this will appear on the screen of your gadget: new icon with an old telephone set.

However, we won’t launch it yet - we need to reboot the device. After the reboot, look at the menu. And here there is a pleasant surprise - it is in Russian; The translation is really not very good, but the main thing for us is functionality, right?

So, let's look at the menu items:

  • Settings:
    • Enable notification icon;
    • Show their subscribers in subscriber history;
    • Turn on the timer;
    • Enable Logging (for support only).
    Everything should be clear here.

  • Edit group list (please select the groups you would like to give permission to call you):
    • My Contacts;
    • Starred in Android;
    • Friends;
    • Family;
    • Coworkes.
    For example, check the first item - and only those who are in the phone book can call you.

  • Edit individual contacts (Please select the contacts you would like to give permission to call you): And here you can specifically mark those who can call - and not the entire phone book.

  • Schedule.
We choose what we need, go to home page and click “Services are disabled” - the inscription changes to “Service is activated”. And everything is ready. This is how easy it is to protect yourself from unwanted calls on Android - install an application with the White List functionality. Simple and free.

P.S. Phone number incoming call(how the device receives it) must be exactly as written in the phone book - otherwise an incorrect determination may occur. For example, it is necessary to use “+7” and not “8” at the beginning of the number.

UPD: An error occurred in the application

It is worth noting that the program may not work correctly on all phone models. For example, we have a telephone ZTE blade a5 pro. If you install the Whitelist Call Blocker application on it, enter certain numbers white list and enable it, then when calling from a number not included in this list, the program generates an error and the call goes through:

If such an error appears on your phone, then you can try to look for a replacement. For example, Call blocker. After installation, go to settings:

Now anyone who wants to call you from any other number that is not included in the allowed number will not be able to do so. Works great against collectors, for example.


The author of this material is I, Yuri Pakholkov. I provide services for writing programs in Java, C++, C# (and also consulting on them) and creating websites. I work with sites on CMS OpenCart, WordPress, ModX and self-written ones. In addition, I work directly with JavaScript, PHP, CSS, HTML - that is, I can improve your website or help with web programming.

Although mobile connection is an integral part of the daily life of almost every person, often it causes a lot of inconvenience. Thus, many are faced with constant calls from various organizations conducting sociological surveys, banking institutions, online sellers and other annoying callers with whom smartphone users want nothing to do. Fortunately, all Samsung Galaxy devices have a tool called a “blacklist”. It allows you to block incoming calls and text SMS messages from specific numbers, thereby limiting the owner of the gadget from unwanted communication. Let's look at where the blacklist is located on a Samsung phone, as well as how to add and remove a contact from its database.

Search blacklist on Samsung

Blacklist is included preinstalled programs on many devices running operating system Android. And Samsung is no exception in this regard. To find the blacklist on Samsung, you need to:

There is another way to get blacklisted:

Depending on the Samsung model and operating system version, menu sections may have different names. However, this should not cause you any difficulties, since there will not be any special differences.

How to add a contact to the blacklist?

If a person on the blacklist wants to contact you, then when you try to call, the system will consider the number dialed by mistake. Adding a subscriber from the phone book to the blacklist is done as follows:

You can also block a phone number through the standard Samsung Galaxy Messages application:

After completing these steps, the blacklisted subscriber will no longer bother you with his calls and SMS messages.

Procedure for removing a number from the blacklist

If a subscriber from the phone book was added to the blacklist by accident, to unblock you you will need to remove his phone number from the blacklist. Let's figure out how to remove a number from the blacklist on a Samsung phone:


Once you have succeeded in removing a contact from the blacklist on your Samsung phone, the subscriber will be able to contact you and send text messages without any restrictions.

Creating and clearing a blacklist through additional software

If standard application blacklist does not suit you for some reason or does not work correctly, you can use it to block incoming calls third party software. Among these programs, the most popular are:

  • "Black list";
  • "Call blocker";
  • Call Blocker;
  • Blacklist.

They all function according to a similar algorithm, so as an example, let’s look at how to add and remove a number from the blacklist using Call Blocker:

  1. Download this utility to a mobile phone. This can be done with Play Market absolutely free.
  2. If your Samsung Galaxy runs on Android 4.4 or higher, a message will appear on the screen asking you to install Call Blocker as the default application for sending and reading SMS. Confirm the change by clicking Ok.
  3. After downloading the program, open the “Black List” section and click “Add Contact”.
  4. Manually enter the phone number you want to ban, or select a contact (multiple contacts) from address book, call history or message history.
  5. To block calls and SMS messages Check the boxes next to the appropriate items. If you want to receive notifications when a subscriber tries to contact you, additionally activate the “Enable notification” item.
  6. Confirm your actions by clicking "Add".

To clear the blacklist created through Call Blocker, just re-run this program, go to the “Black List” tab and click on the red cross next to the desired subscriber.

Your question:

How to detect blacklist in Samsung phones?

Master's answer:

Sometimes situations happen when annoying callers call and get annoying. For mobile phone owners Samsung phones, phone developers have created a special option, like a “black list”, where you can add contacts with whom you do not want to communicate.

You can add mobile phone numbers, landline numbers, as well as international numbers. If a subscriber's number is blacklisted and he starts calling you, his call will go unanswered and a message will appear that the number was dialed incorrectly.

To add a number to the “black list” you must perform the following steps. We go to the phone menu, select the “Settings” item, and then enter “Applications”. After that, find “Calls”, enter “All calls” and select “Black List”, then turn on “Activation”.

After that, select “Add to list” from the menu. In the case when an unwanted subscriber is recorded in the phone book, select the “Add from phone book” item or dial phone number in manual mode.

You can enter an unwanted number from the call log. To do this, find the number and select “Add to blacklist”.

If you have chosen a number by mistake, we find it in the black list and uncheck the box next to it. Another way is the “Remove from list” option.

You can also edit the Black List through the call log. To do this, find the desired number and, by calling context menu, select the item “Remove from blacklist”.

Option names may differ for different Samsung mobile phone models. In case the model mobile phone is outdated, the “blacklist” option may be missing. However, despite this, you have the opportunity to activate the “black list” on the official website of the mobile operator.

Good afternoon, my dear readers!
Today’s article was written primarily for owners of smartphones from a well-known Korean brand :) And it talks about how to set up a black list of contacts in Samsung. Why did I decide to write about Samsung? Yes, because this function is hidden somehow especially deeply in it :)

For example, we used Samsung GALAXY S4 with Android Lollipop.

From some people I sometimes hear the opinion that this phone feature is unnecessary. That they are always happy to hear from everyone :) But I, for example, am completely tormented by spam in the form of SMS and calls from all sorts of financial organizations offering to invest money somewhere, insure something, etc. And the further we go, the more this information garbage becomes .
So how can you protect yourself from this?
You can do this using third party applications. For example, this is possible in the paid version. But do you need to install another program on your device if your phone can do it itself?
But let's start already.
You received a call, the interlocutor was sent away by you, and you wanted to never hear his voice again. What are we doing about this?
We go to the call log, select the desired (or rather, no longer needed) number, click on it, and hold it for a while. A menu appears in which we select “Add to blacklist”.


Another situation is that the spammer is timid, does not dare to call and limits himself to sending SMS messages.
The sequence of our actions will be approximately the same. We go to the SMS log, select the same message, press and hold until the menu appears. Select “Add to spam numbers”.


That's sorted out.
Now let’s talk about how to look at our blacklist and remove the number from there (what if? :)
Go to “Settings” - “Calls” - “Call Rejection” - “Black List”. Hidden deep, as I promised :)




Here we see all the numbers that are rejected when trying to call you. If desired (rather strange, in my opinion :) you can remove all or some numbers from there.