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One of my contacts is annoying me with text messages. I could block them, but then I'd never be able to see the messages they send and I want to have the ability to do that.

So instead the idea I had was to turn off text message notification sounds / badges / etc for just this one specific contact.

Is this possible? It seems like I can turn off notifications for people not in my contacts, but really I just want to turn them off for this one specific person.

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Leave them in contacts rather than remove, but set all their ringtones/messages sounds to a silent ringtone.

There's one here linked from this page - How can I get a silent ringtone on my iPhone? on the iPhoneFAQ site.

You'll still get the notifications, but no sounds.

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  • but i'll still see the text messages on my home screen even though it won't play a sound, yeah? is there any way to prevent these from appearing on my home screen?
    – annoyed_by_one_contact
    Commented Nov 27, 2014 at 17:17
  • Only by removing them from Contacts & setting the notifications pref as you suggested in your question.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Nov 27, 2014 at 17:19
  • argh! and there's no way to access the text messages that a blocked caller sends me? (really i want "the same thing as blocking the person but i can see the messages they've sent me if i want to)
    – annoyed_by_one_contact
    Commented Nov 27, 2014 at 17:20
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    You can't really block & not block at the same time ;-)
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Nov 27, 2014 at 17:37
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    This is about two years after the question...but would apple.stackexchange.com/questions/189972/… be a better answer now?
    – Jeff.Clark
    Commented Mar 15, 2017 at 14:27
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Leave them under your contacts and then click the "do not disturb" when you click on the info of their text message.

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    This has been renamed to “Hide Alerts” in more recent versions of iOS.
    – J Cobb
    Commented May 17, 2019 at 15:56

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