Call Protect App. My phone remains a black locked screen but rings with my contacts calls. Eligible at&t subscribers are already protected with automatic fraud call blocking and nuisance call warnings, using the power of the at&t network.

Temporary call blocking only works with the at&t call protect app installed and enabled. At&t released a new app today called at&t call protect that aims to prevent you from having to deal with unwanted calls. The app, unsurprisingly called at&t call protect is free and available from the ios app store.
I have to unlock my phone and pull down my notification window in order to answer a call and many times miss it.
If you are an at&t mobility customer and you don’t want to wait, here’s more good news: At&t call protect is available right now for download as an app, or by going into your account settings on myat&t and turning it on. But it’s a meaningful step at a time when carriers. Users can also report spam calls and manually block numbers for 30 days at a time.