how would i know if someone has blocked my number?
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If you get a notification like "Message Not Delivered" or you get no notification at all, that's a sign of a potential block. Next, you could try calling the person. If the call goes right to voicemail or rings once (or a half ring) then goes to voicemail, that's further evidence you may have been blocked.
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See how fast you get to voicemail If you call a person who's blocked your number, you won't get any kind of notification about it. ... Basically: If you get a lot of rings or go right to voicemail, you're probably not blocked. If you get one ring followed by a voicemail prompt, you probably are.
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There is no direct way of knowing if someone has blocked you but a nice workaround is to briefly unblock them and check. Briefly unblock the person and search for them. It's a low-risk route as it will only take a few minutes and they won't get notified of you unblocking them.
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The easiest way to Call Someone Who Has Blocked Your Number is to borrow a phone from someone else and make a call to the person that has blocked your number. Since the new number that you are calling from is not blocked, the person at the other end will receive your call and is most likely to answer the call.
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If you have been blocked by someone with an iPhone, then calling the iPhone results in one ring, or no ring at all, before hearing a generic message stating that the person is not available. If the recipients iPhone has voicemail setup, the call is then directed to voicemail.
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["You can no longer see a contact's last seen or online in the chat window. ... ", "You do not see updates to a contact's profile photo.", 'Any messages sent to a contact who has blocked you will always show one check mark (message sent), and never show a second check mark (message delivered).']
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So there's no great way to verify you've been blocked by someone; the best you could do is ask them via another medium (e.g. text, email, etc.) and they confirm it (but someone who's determined not to talk with you anymore probably won't answer your texts or emails anyway).
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If you hear only one ring or no ring at all before your call goes to voicemail, this is a good indication you're blocked. ... If you hear three to five rings before your call routes to voicemail, you're probably not blocked (yet), however, the person is declining your calls or ignoring them.
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“The simplest way to tell if you have been blocked by an Android user is to call,” Lavelle says. Just like with an iPhone, listen for it to be diverted to voicemail or play you a pre-recorded message.
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If you were blocked, forget their name. With SMS text messages you won't be able to know if you have been blocked. Your text, iMessage etc will go through as normal on your end but the recipient will not receive the message or notification.
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Basically: If you get a lot of rings or go right to voicemail, you're probably not blocked. If you get one ring followed by a voicemail prompt, you probably are. However, if a person has blocked you, you won't see either notification. Instead, there will just be a blank space beneath your text.
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You can test the blocked by having someone call you while blocked and see what they hear and later unblock them. Go to your phone app and tap the voicemail icon. Look for a “blocked calls” item and tap that. There are the voicemail messages from the miscreants who got blocked by you.
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If you think you've been blocked, try calling the person's number from another phone. Use your work phone, borrow a friend's phone; it doesn't really matter. The point is, if you can't reach a person on your phone, but can reach them on another phone, there's a good chance you've been blocked.
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So... in other words, the only way to determine if someone has blocked you is to try and either facetime them or call them. All icons still light up on their contact card even though they may have blocked you. If you call them and they don't answer, it could mean you're blocked.
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You can't know for sure if someone has blocked your number on an Android without asking the person. However, if your Android's phone calls and texts to a specific person don't seem to be reaching them, your number might have been blocked.
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All hope is not lost though, there is ONE way to find if someone has blocked you and it's this: just react to one of their messages. If the reaction appears: you are not blocked. If the reaction disappears: you are blocked.
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“The simplest way to tell if you have been blocked by an Android user is to call,” Lavelle says. ... But if it happens repeatedly, and you're getting radio silence from both calls and texts, you should consider that you've been blocked.