Getting through the iPhone silent/mute?

B0bbyEwing

I've been meaning to ask this for weeks but keep forgetting. 
I thought you could get round the iPhone being on mute thing by following up your phone call immediately once the first one rings out? I was sure I'd heard that before but either it doesn't work or no longer works. 

My wife is a damn nuisance with her phone being on silent all the time. So the other week when I was calling, calling, calling - she never got any of them. 

My call was only important but say it's an actual serious emergency then is there wa way of bypassing the user having put their phone on mute or not? 

Emmia

B0bbyEwing said:

I've been meaning to ask this for weeks but keep forgetting. 
I thought you could get round the iPhone being on mute thing by following up your phone call immediately once the first one rings out? I was sure I'd heard that before but either it doesn't work or no longer works. 

My wife is a damn nuisance with her phone being on silent all the time. So the other week when I was calling, calling, calling - she never got any of them. 

My call was only important but say it's an actual serious emergency then is there wa way of bypassing the user having put their phone on mute or not? 

I think your wife would need to change your contact settings in her phone to make your number bypass "silent".

Flugelhorn

on my android phone there is an overnight setting where you can set certain numbers to bypass or if the same number phones twice in 15 minutes then it will ring. doubt you can get round the setting but she may be able to do something similar

If I really need to contact someone I text them

Sarahspangles

B0bbyEwing said:

I've been meaning to ask this for weeks but keep forgetting. 
I thought you could get round the iPhone being on mute thing by following up your phone call immediately once the first one rings out? I was sure I'd heard that before but either it doesn't work or no longer works. 

My wife is a damn nuisance with her phone being on silent all the time. So the other week when I was calling, calling, calling - she never got any of them. 

My call was only important but say it's an actual serious emergency then is there wa way of bypassing the user having put their phone on mute or not? 

It’s Settings > Focus > Do Not Disturb > People > Allow Notifications From > Phone Calls > Allow Calls From

She then has a choice of Favourites (which is a group you create in Contacts) or Allowed People Only where you add them in individually, say if you have a lot of Favourites.

Under Phone Calls she also has the option to Allow Repeated Calls. I found with that one I got some calls I didn’t want, but your wife may not.  I have elderly contacts who assume if you don’t answer you were just in a different room, so they call again assuming you really want to take their call in work hours….

Your wife would also need to check her Sleep settings don’t change the rules in a way she doesn’t want. 

elsien

Although just add that if your wife is not picking up your multiple calls, she may not wish to override the settings to  allow them through anyway. 

Just a thought. Maybe your multiple calls are as annoying to her as her lack of answer is to you? 

Wonka_2

B0bbyEwing said:

My wife is a damn nuisance with her phone being on silent all the time. So the other week when I was calling, calling, calling - she never got any of them. 

My call was only important but say it's an actual serious emergency then is there wa way of bypassing the user having put their phone on mute or not? 

Maybe our wives are related 😉

Given the hypocrisy that I’m always supposed to be contactable yet she can apparently ignore the agreed form of contact I’ve taken to ringing twice and if no answer using the ‘find my iPhone’ alert.  This seems to be loud enough that even if she doesn’t respond immediately someone usually tells her that it’s her phone making a god-awful noise 🤣

DullGreyGuy

B0bbyEwing said:

I've been meaning to ask this for weeks but keep forgetting. 
I thought you could get round the iPhone being on mute thing by following up your phone call immediately once the first one rings out? I was sure I'd heard that before but either it doesn't work or no longer works. 

My wife is a damn nuisance with her phone being on silent all the time. So the other week when I was calling, calling, calling - she never got any of them. 

My call was only important but say it's an actual serious emergency then is there wa way of bypassing the user having put their phone on mute or not? 

Easiest is for her to set you up as one not to be muted but this may be a bit of a problem if you are calling her for a non-urgent thing during a presentation she is doing etc. 

Presumably you aren't an iPhone user? If you are then presumably you are setup as Family so could use the Find My to ping her phone or Lost Mode to ping her phone with a short message if you call her and she doesn't answer but its an emergency

Emmia

DullGreyGuy said:

B0bbyEwing said:

I've been meaning to ask this for weeks but keep forgetting. 
I thought you could get round the iPhone being on mute thing by following up your phone call immediately once the first one rings out? I was sure I'd heard that before but either it doesn't work or no longer works. 

My wife is a damn nuisance with her phone being on silent all the time. So the other week when I was calling, calling, calling - she never got any of them. 

My call was only important but say it's an actual serious emergency then is there wa way of bypassing the user having put their phone on mute or not? 

Easiest is for her to set you up as one not to be muted but this may be a bit of a problem if you are calling her for a non-urgent thing during a presentation she is doing etc. 

Presumably you aren't an iPhone user? If you are then presumably you are setup as Family so could use the Find My to ping her phone or Lost Mode to ping her phone with a short message if you call her and she doesn't answer but its an emergency

And of course she could put the phone into airplane mode, which would stop all calls and messages being received... 

DullGreyGuy

Emmia said:

DullGreyGuy said:

B0bbyEwing said:

I've been meaning to ask this for weeks but keep forgetting. 
I thought you could get round the iPhone being on mute thing by following up your phone call immediately once the first one rings out? I was sure I'd heard that before but either it doesn't work or no longer works. 

My wife is a damn nuisance with her phone being on silent all the time. So the other week when I was calling, calling, calling - she never got any of them. 

My call was only important but say it's an actual serious emergency then is there wa way of bypassing the user having put their phone on mute or not? 

Easiest is for her to set you up as one not to be muted but this may be a bit of a problem if you are calling her for a non-urgent thing during a presentation she is doing etc. 

Presumably you aren't an iPhone user? If you are then presumably you are setup as Family so could use the Find My to ping her phone or Lost Mode to ping her phone with a short message if you call her and she doesn't answer but its an emergency

And of course she could put the phone into airplane mode, which would stop all calls and messages being received... 

Airplane stops cellular data, you can still used WIFI whilst in plane mode which means iMessages and Find My still would get through... in principle so could calls if they have wifi enabled calling