Can I Block Phone Calls And Texts On Jitterbug

Jitterbug Text Message

Jitterbug text messages are piece of cake to send and receive once you activate the service. That's correct, you have to activate it. Because this cell telephone is designed to exist piece of cake to use, the company set information technology up so but the bones services are installed. This makes it piece of cake for those who have difficulty using a prison cell telephone to perform its most basic tasks, which is to make and receive calls. However if you're comfortable with the basic functions you lot tin showtime to add the additional services.

Activating Text Messaging

Yous have to remember Jitterbug customer service to actuate the text messaging service. (Note: When you telephone call yous always have to verify your Jitterbug phone number and your complete address including zip code.) As long as yous have the J model or later, they can get ahead and activate the "Simple Text" text messaging service.

They say you lot have to make sure to leave the phone on for upwards to the next 4 hours so that the update can accept identify. In practice, however, these updates have taken only almost 15 minutes so far.

How it Works

In one case your phone has updated, there will be a "Text Messages" carte item. All you have to exercise is select it and press "Yes". Then y'all make up one's mind whether to send, receive or delete a text bulletin. Since you've just installed the service, permit's send a bulletin.

Sending a Text bulletin

You will be asked if you desire to create your ain message. If y'all choose "Yes", then you tin beginning composing your message in the standard way (in that location is no predictive text or iTap etc). To cull a letter on the key, you press it once if it the first letter of the alphabet on the key, twice if it is the 2nd letter on the key, and thrice if it is the third letter on the central.

Once yous're "Done?" select "Yes" to cull a recipient. You lot tin choose anyone in your Jitterbug's phonebook or type in a new number and select "Yes" when you're washed. The Jitterbug text message is immediately sent.

Receiving Texts

When a letters arrives, you can just click Yes to indicate that you desire to read it. If you've signed up for their Wellness Tips service, these will arrive every bit text messages once a day.

Pre-Written Letters

In that location are also twenty pre-written messages you tin can send. These are quite useful, and more important very convenient. Instead of clicking "Yes" to Etch your own bulletin", don't click "No", but rather printing the down arrow which take you to the pre-written messages. You merely select which one you desire by clicking "Yes", then choose the recipient from the phone book or dial the number and click "Yes" to send.

These are the pre-written messages:

How are you lot?
Phone call me
Yes
No
I'm busy
Love y'all
I miss you
Thank you
Congrats!
Happy Birthday
Doing fine
Thinking of you
Feel better
Have a corking day
Practiced night
You're welcome
Where are you?
Will arrive soon
Will call you later
On my style

Text Message Quick Get-go Guide in the Mail!

About a week after activating the Simple Text service, I receive a Quick Start guide in the mail. This is a fold-out brochure that goes through everything in detail with pictures and text. I even learned a few things:

The "0" push button enters the "0" character in whatsoever text message
The "#" button adds a space
Pressing the "*" push button switches the modes from 123, ABC,Abc-s,Abc-West and abc (more than on this below)
The "No" button moves dorsum a space or deletes the previous character
You press the "one" button to wheel through these special characters: ". , - ' @ " ! ? / one"

Modes

123 Style is for entering numbers in your text message
ABC Mode is for entering capital messages
Abc-s Manner is for capitalizing just the first letter of a judgement
Abc-W Mode is for capitalizing the commencement letter of every give-and-take (this I didn't know)
abc Mode is for entering all lower case messages

I'm impressed by the clarity and completeness of the guide.

And then, I hope y'all tin can come across that sending and receiving text messages on your Jitterbug telephone is pretty easy.

Update: No Left-Right Pointer Keys

jitterbug flip phone arrow keys

One aspect of texting with their flip phones that I didn't notice until recently is that there are no left-correct arrow keys on this phone, only upward-down keys. If you brand an mistake while composing the message, you unremarkably have to delete what y'all wrote after the error instead of navigating to the typo and correcting it.