Apple released the first public betas of iOS 26.6 this week. Most users will notice little difference. Yet one small adjustment in how the system handles blocked contacts stands out. It reveals a long-standing but undocumented restriction that has quietly frustrated some iPhone owners for years. The change arrives as a straightforward alert. When users attempt to add one more entry after hitting the cap, iOS now displays a message titled “Blocked Contacts Limit Reached.” The text reads: “You’ve reached the maximum number of blocked contacts. To block additional callers, remove a blocked contact in Settings.” AppleInsider first reported the precise figure at https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/05/26/new-in-ios-266-beta-1-apple-maps-security-upgrade-blocked-contact-alerts . The limit sits at 20,000. Before this beta, the restriction existed without any warning. Users simply found they could no longer block new numbers or contacts. No explanation appeared. No guidance on next steps. The system failed silently.…