How to Call Someone That Has Blocked Your Phone Number on iPhone and Android

May 29, 2023Nicole Jones

Can I call someone who has blocked my number and has blocked private numbers from calling his number?

Yes.

Blocking features on iPhone and Android can get you out of the nuisance calls. Certainly, you may be regarded as the nuisance caller by someone and blocked form his/her phone.

A serious fall out in the relationship with your friend or other underserved reasons can lead to the block from the person.

When you are dealing with an emergency or have compelling personal reasons to call the person that has blocked your phone number, that is when this post can come to your rescue.

In this post, you can get 6 free ways to call someone who has blocked your phone number.

Call Someone from a Blocked Number

Caution: This post is helping people who want to call someone from a blocked phone number, to deal with an emergency, and not to bother people or interrupt others with harassment.

In case that you are not blocked by someone, all the calls including yours are blocked in Do Not Disturb Mode. You should call someone at different times of day, or call twice within a short of space can both get through a DND barrier. However, the real call block will never be bypassed in this way. What you should do to call someone who is blocking you by following the ways below.

Part 1. Hide Your Caller ID

Caller ID displays the caller's phone number (for all unblocked numbers) on the phone. Caller ID Blocking blocks your number from being displayed through Caller ID.

So, when you are blocked by someone, you just need to hide your caller ID, and the person will not know you.

To hide your caller ID is simple.

On iPhone: Go to "Settings" > "Phone" > Scroll down to find "Show My Caller ID" and toggle it off.

On Android: Go to "Settings" > "Call Settings" > "Additional Settings" > "Caller ID" > Select "Hide Number".

Then your calls to the person who blocked your phone number will remain anonymous and you can bypass the blocked list.

Hide Caller ID

Call and Message Blocking is a temporary feature that lasts up to 90 days. After that, you can call the person normally, except that the person subscribes to carrier plan, e.g. Verizon Smart Family.

Part 2. Disguise Your Phone Number

The second method of calling someone who has blocked you is hiding your phone number and list your phone number as hidden, private, unknown, anonymous or others, instead of your real number.

Go to your Phone app and open the Keypad, enter the special code, "*67" and then input the phone number that you want to call and tap "Call" to start calling the one who blocked you.

Disguise Phone Number

The special code is *67 in the US, *141 in UK and *1831 in Australia or New Zealand.

Part 3. Other 4 Solutions to Call Someone from a Blocked number Call a Landline

If the above two solutions do not work, here are 4 solutions you can follow to call the person who is are blocking your phone number.

Call a Landline

Land-based home phones do not allow the number block. If you have the person's home phone, just call him/her directly.

Call a Landline

Use Another Phone

If you are in an emergency, just borrow a phone from your friends or someone is nearby, use another phone to call the person who blocked you.

Ask for Help from Mutual Friends

If you get the mutual friend, just turn to the mutual friend for help to diffuse the situation.

Change Your Phone Number

The last method is you can change your phone number and try to give a new call to someone who has blocked you.

Surely, if the person decides to block your call for one reason or another, you have to bite your nails.

Part 4. Rescue Messages and Call Logs from Someone Who Blocked Your Number

While you still work hard to call the person who has blocked you, you must want to keep in touch with him/her. Even though you are not successful to call the person, you will not want to lose the data between you.

Here, a recommended data extractor software, Aiseesoft iPhone Data Recovery, can help you make it.

It is the data recovery and backup utility, which can get the deleted and existing data from iPhone to computer. Working with call logs, text messages, contacts, photos, app data (Kik, LINE, Viber, WhatsApp, Messenger, Facebook, QQ, WeChat, etc.), music, videos, and more, it is capable of recovering the files from iPhone directly or iTunes/iCloud backup.

iPhone Data Recovery

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  • Extract various data like contacts, messages, call history, photos, calendars, notes, etc., from iPhone to computer.
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Step 1. Connect iPhone to computer
Run this software on your computer after the successful installation. Connect your iPhone to computer with the USB cable.
Follow the on-screen instructions to unlock iPhone and tap "Trust" button on iPhone to let this software detect your iPhone.
Connect
Step 2. Preview iPhone data
Once this software detects your iPhone, click "Start Scan" and this tool will scan your iPhone. The whole time will depend on the data size on your iPhone.
After the scanning process is done, you can click the data type from the left sidebar and view the details on the right window.
Preview
Step 3. Extract iPhone data to computer
Select the checkbox of the items, and then click "Recover" to extract the data from iPhone to computer immediately.
The data marked as red is the deleted items while the black is the existing data on iPhone.
Extract

Android users can visit this post to recover the blocked calls on Android phone.

Part 5. FAQs about How to Call Someone from Blocked Numbers

Does * 67 still work?

Yes. But if you call emergency numbers or toll-free numbers, * 67 does not work.

What does * 82 mean on a cell phone?

* 82 is a Vertical Service Code. It supports call line identification, regardless of user preference, on a per-call basis in the United States to dial to unreserve numbers (private callers).

Does * 69 block your number?

* 69 doesn't block your number. It is the Caller ID Block, which lets your phone number hide on the Caller ID system.

Conclusion

Blocking calls on phone can help protect privacy and avoid nuisance calls. However, once you are blocked by someone, but you have an emergency to call the person, you should follow the solutions here to unlock it. Surely, all the solutions are mainly helping those who make the call legally. The last tip is that you should backup the data between you and the person who blocked your phone number, because you never know what will happen to you.

Do you still think it is a tough task to call someone from a blocked number?

Which solution does help you exactly?

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