How To Stop Phone From Ringing

Every time my iPhone rings with an incoming telephone call, the rest of my Apple devices ring in unison, turning my kitchen into a cacophonous digital orchestra. Making matters worse, my iPad and Mac often go along ringing for a few seconds afterwards I've answered the telephone call, leaving both the caller and me startled and confused. Sound familiar?

The trouble is compounded by the fact that nosotros're all stuck in our homes, with roommates, spouses and kids, each of whom has multiple devices that might besides ring. It doesn't take too many calls to drive yous crazy. Trust me, I know the frustration.

Thankfully, at that place's a single switch that will limit incoming calls to but your iPhone. If you're in the addiction of placing or answering calls on another Apple tree device, you tin can, at the very least, limit the number of Apple devices that band when an incoming call comes in. I'll walk you through everything you need to know.

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Don't permit incoming calls to your iPad and Mac

There's a master switch that will route calls to all of your Apple devices, or keep them simply on your iPhone. With it turned off, your other Apple devices will finish ringing when yous receive a call, and you lot'll no longer be able to identify or answer calls on your Mac or iPad. Here are the steps you need to follow:

iphone-calls-on-other-devices — With the flick of a switch, only your iPhone will ring going forward.
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one. Open the Settings app on your iPhone.

2. Scroll down and tap Phone.

3. Select Calls on Other Devices.

four. Slide the switch labeled Allow Calls on Other Devices to the Off position.

That should take intendance of whatever Apple devices other than your iPhone ringing when you get a call. Pass those instructions forth to your spouse, roommate or kids.

Allow calls on but some of your devices

It's also possible to cease calls from ringing on just one device, your Mac for example, but non your iPad. Yous'll need to visit the Phone section of the settings app but like in the steps above and turn off the device(due south) y'all want to stop receiving calls on.

Y'all'll too need to follow these steps on each device yous want to turn off:

disable-calls-on-mac — If you lot don't desire your Mac to ring, you can plough it off in the FaceTime app preferences.
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Terminate your Mac from ringing

one. Open the FaceTime app on your Mac

2. Click on FaceTime > Preferences in the menu bar at the summit of your screen.

3. Make certain the box next to Calls from iPhone isn't checked.

4. If it does have a checkmark, click the box to remove information technology.

disable-calls-on-ipad — Don't have a need for your iPad to ring each time yous get a call on your iPhone? Nosotros get it.
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Finish your iPad from ringing

one. Open the Settings app.

2. Scroll downwardly and tap on FaceTime.

3. Slide the switch labeled Allow Calls on Other Devices to the Off position

After you've tweaked which devices volition and won't ring, or turned the feature off birthday, your next phone call should exist a little less startling. For more cool tips, be sure to read up on Apple's new iCloud folder sharing for all of your devices, making information technology a contender for replacing Dropbox. Also, get started with trackpad support for your iPad, and so master all of the key features in iOS 13 and iPadOS 13.