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How to Restrict Calls to/from Phone

Hi! My grandfather has Alzheimer's and is notorious for answering every single phone call - including spam calls. He is not aware that they are spam calls, so I put a DND setting on that only enabled notifications from a handful of numbers. However, he has discovered that he can turn on and off the DND setting. He is also able to see his missed calls from the phone app and has started calling back the spam callers. Any ideas on how I can disable calls to and from his phone for an exception of the 5 numbers.

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Yes, you can use Screen Time. Go to Settings > Screen Time > Communication Limits > During Screen Time, and choose Contacts Only. Pair the Contacts down to just those you want to allow communications with and set a Screen Time Password to prevent him from making any changes to the Screen Time settings. More information is here:

Communication Limits on iPhone with Screen Time