Sometime recently my iphone asked me whether I want to send calls from numbers not in my contacts straight to voicemail. There are also do not disturb and focus modes which could prevent notifications for text messages.
Many people leave their cell phones on vibrate these days all the time. I often miss vibrations when I am moving my body physically. He could have had his phone somewhere he couldn’t feel them, like in his pack.
It seems that the source of the ‘because unknown caller’ element is pure speculation on the part of the searchers. There is no explanation offered for missing the text messages because that isn’t a provocative story. It is disturbing to see how many articles and headlines repeat that without verification.
