How To Block A Number On Android

Block a Number on Google Phones

Google’s Pixel devices come with the company’s own Phone app set as their default dialer app. You may also find this dialer present on phones from other manufacturers.
Automatically Block Potential Spam Calls The Google Phone app has a feature that automatically blocks potential spam calls. It uses a database of reported spam callers to figure out if the number is spam. Do note that this feature is a hit or miss (it misses most of the time) since Google’s database isn’t as comprehensive as, say, Truecaller’s.
Auto-Block Unknown Callers While not a great solution, if you temporarily want to block all unknown callers on your phone, you could turn on the option to automatically block unknown callers.
This will block calls from phone numbers you don’t have in your contacts.

Block a Number on Samsung Phones

Samsung phones don’t come with Google dialer, but Samsung’s own dialer. Here’s how to block a number in the same.

Block a Number on Vivo, iQOO Phones

Some Vivo and iQOO phones come with the Vivo dialer app pre-installed. If you can’t quite figure out how to block a contact, here’s how to do it.
A toast “Added to blocklist” should appear once the number is successfully blocked.

Block a Number on OPPO, OnePlus, Realme Phones

Since all three brands are subsidiaries of BBK Electronics, phones from these brands have the ODialer app present inside ColorOS.

Block a Number on Xiaomi, POCO, and Redmi Phones

If you have a Xiaomi device with the HyperOS Phone app, here’s how to block a number on it:
So these were some of the ways you can try to block a number on Android. Blocking on Android is pretty straightforward, regardless of the dialer you’re using. If you don’t know how to do the same on iOS, our Block a Number on iPhone guide can help you do that. The process of unblocking a contact is also similar across dialers, and usually takes a bit of adventuring into the dialer settings to find the option.