Voicemail Notification

Voicemail Notification

Voicemail apps and dialers often show a notification like "New voicemail from 555-123-4567" instead of ringing your phone — normal call blocking never sees these, since no call happens on your device. Voicemail Notification closes that gap: it pulls the caller's number out of the notification from a chosen voicemail/dialer app and blocks it the same way a call would be blocked, by Non-Contact or Database.

Setup

1. Under Screening > Notifications, select the voicemail/dialer app you want covered (only apps already enabled there can be picked).
2. Open Voicemail Notification, pick that app, and choose whether to extract numbers from the notification's Title, Body, or both.

Options

• Number/Text Rules (default on) — also check the extracted number against your Number Rules and Text Rules, not just Non-Contact/Database.
• Allow if Call Allowed — skip the block check if this number had a recent, non-blocked call in your own Calls log (last 3 entries, within 10 minutes). This covers the case where a call was allowed through (e.g. by Repeated Call, Dialed Number, Answered Number, or a whitelist Number Rule) but the recipient didn't pick up in time, so it went to voicemail anyway.

Notes

• Repeated Call, Dialed Number, and Answered Number are calls-only trust signals and are not applied directly to voicemail notifications — a voicemail isn't itself a call. Use Allow if Call Allowed instead to carry over a recent call's allow verdict.
• STIR/SHAKEN can't apply here either, since there's no way to verify a notification's number against carrier attestation.
• When a number is allowed, the app-level Alert configured under Actions > Alerts fires, same as ordinary Notification Screening.