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Why block someone on your Mac?
An essential component of protecting your online privacy is blocking people who are sending you unsolicited messages by phone or SMS. However, you may improve your privacy in a lot more ways. These include erasing cookies, clearing cache files, removing your browsing, search, and download history, and limiting access to your camera and microphone to just trusted apps. That would take a lot of time to complete by hand. But you don’t have to carry it out by hand. The privacy feature on my Mac X can take care of everything. It can also remove items from your Recent Items List, manage program permissions, erase the list of Wi-Fi networks that your Mac keeps, and clean away your browser’s cache. Try it out for yourself by downloading it for free from this link.
How do I Block a Contact in Mac Messages?
Mac users who use iMessage and the Messages app frequently receive a lot of spam, which typically requests that you click on a link or reply with a 2FA code that is delivered to your device (never do this!).
While it’s not possible to completely stop spam from appearing in messages, you may filter out repeat offenders by blocking any unfamiliar contact.
Here’s how to ban users from a MacBook:
- Click on Messages
- Pick a discussion to have with the person you wish to block.
- From the menu bar, select Conversation ➙ Block Person.
- Block
- If you’re like most people, you use more than just messages. You also use six or seven additional messengers, such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Slack, and Telegram. It’s confusing and exhausting to have all these apps open and hop between them. What if you instead transferred them all to a single app? You can use IM+!
- IM+ eliminates the need to switch between windows by combining any number of chat apps into a single, user-friendly interface that loads quickly. In order to minimize distractions, you can even set up distinct notification groups (such as business and personal) for certain apps while still enjoying the benefits of notifications. With any contact in any messaging service, you may use IM+ to share text messages, images, videos, voice chats, and other items.
How do you block a new number on a Mac?
What if, before they’ve had an opportunity to get in touch with you, you already know which number you ought to block beforehand? There’s no easy fix for this. Basically, you want to use messages to ban them after adding them to contacts.
In the event that they haven’t gotten in touch with you yet, here’s how you block them on Mac Messages:
- Open Messages ➙ Settings and add a new contact with their phone number or email address (if they use email for iMessage). (Command +,)
- Open iMessage ➙ Blocked.
- Press the plus sign (+).
- Pick the recently established contact.
How can I get someone unblocked in FaceTime or Messages?
Pick the person you wish to unblock by going to Settings > Blocked in Messages or FaceTime, selecting them, and clicking the ‘-‘ symbol. After that, they will be unblocked in Messages and FaceTime for every device linked to your iCloud account. You should also block a specific individual if you find yourself getting bothersome FaceTime calls on your Mac.
- Open the FaceTime app on your Mac.
- To block a phone number, right-click on it.
- To block this caller, click Block.
And that’s the way it’s done! On your Mac, you may now block unsolicited calls and texts.
After reading their message, block the sender.
This approach works well if you wish to examine a sender’s message before blocking them since you’re not sure about them:
1. Launch the Mac Mail application.
2. Pick and view one of the sender’s messages. Examine the email for a moment to see if you need to filter it out.
3. Move the pointer over the message header’s sender name.
4. Select Block Contact after clicking the arrow that displays.
The sender’s name in your message list will then have a blocked icon next to it, and their messages will have a banner indicating that they have been blocked next to it.
Advanced Blocking Method:
For users who desire complete control over blocked senders, this approach is ideal:
- Launch the Mac Mail application.
- Choose mail from the menu bar at the top.
- Select Settings from the menu that drops down.
- Select the junk mail tab by navigating to the upper-right corner of the pop-up window.
- Select “Blocked.”
- Click the plus button to add email addresses to the block list.
- Choose Move it to the trash under When email from a blocked address arrives to prevent receiving messages from blocked senders in your inbox.
On a Mac, how can I hide messages from senders I don’t know?
You can modify the Messages app’s View to only display messages from known contacts if you don’t want to ban someone entirely but still don’t want their messages to appear in your app. The iPhone can also be used with the same feature.
First, launch the Messages app.
- Select View from the menu bar menu.
- Pick recognized senders.
- Only communications from people you know will now appear in your messages. You cannot see any messages from unknown numbers.
- Click View and choose All Messages to display all messages once more.
Taking Control of Your Privacy on Mac:
It’s essential to know how to block people on a Mac in order to prevent unsolicited calls and messages. You have the option to block a number that you don’t want to receive messages or calls from, preventing them from reaching you. However, these techniques are limited to numbers that you are already familiar with. They won’t block new spam calls or texts from numbers you have never seen before. They will let you make sure those numbers don’t get through again, though.
Retrieve a recently erased message or exchange:
A message or discussion that you delete is placed in the Recently Deleted folder. Items in the Recently Deleted folder are viewable and recoverable for a maximum of thirty days. The messages disappear from all of your devices after 30 days. The texts were entirely removed from iCloud after 40 days.
- Select View > Recently Deleted from the Messages program on your Mac.
- It’s possible that you last deleted a chat in the previous 30 days if you don’t see Recently Deleted.
- Click on the sidebar chat.
- Take one of these actions:
- Click Recover to retrieve a recently erased message or chat.
- Click Delete to remove a recently erased message or conversation permanently.
