Phone

Make and receive calls with the Phone app.

• Phone calls, FaceTime Audio calls and FaceTime video calls all in one place.
• Favorites offers one-tap shortcuts for calls and messages to your most important contacts.
• Recents displays recent conversations and missed calls. Search for previous calls, transcribed voicemails, and contacts using a broad range of search criteria.
Contacts gives you access to contact information, from phone numbers and email addresses to birthdays and anniversaries.
Keypad search lets you quickly find and call existing contacts by typing in their name or number with the alphanumeric keypad.
Contact Posters let you customize exactly how you appear when you give someone a call. Choose from various treatments for photos, Memoji and your name.
Record live calls or FaceTime audio calls from the Phone app and review the transcripts in the Notes app. When you start a recording, the Phone app automatically announces that the call is being recorded.
• Calls remain connected even if you jump into other apps, so you can multitask with ease.
• Conference calling with up to 5 people.*
• Visual Voicemail offers a written transcript of your voicemails. Save Visual Voicemail messages as notes, voice memos, or share them using Messages, Mail or AirDrop.*
• Live Voicemail lets you see a real-time transcription as someone is leaving you a message, and you can pick up the call if it’s something you want to address in the moment.
Custom voicemail greetings.
Automatic Mic Mode picks the right Mic Mode for you. Voice Isolation blocks out ambient noise and spotlights your voice. Wide Spectrum will leave ambient noises unfiltered, allowing your voice and all the sounds around you to be heard.
• Text responses make it easy to send a response in a single tap when you can’t pick up a call. Use suggested replies, or create your own custom text responses.
• Remind Me Later helps you remember to return calls that you can’t pick up in the moment.
• Ask Siri to place calls, return calls, and check your voicemail.
• Silence Unknown Callers gives you the option to automatically send unknown numbers to voicemail. Your phone will only ring for people in your contacts, recent outgoing calls, and Siri Suggestions.
• Blocked Contacts allows you to identify unwanted callers and blocks phone and FaceTime calls from those numbers.
• A range of ringtones and vibrations allow you to choose distinct alerts for certain people.
• Wi-Fi Calling lets you make or receive a phone call on a Wi-Fi connection, so you can stay connected in areas with little or no cellular coverage.*
• 5G cellular service support on iPhone 12 models and later.**
• Call Announcements gives you the option to hear the name or phone number of the person calling you even when you’re not looking at your device.
• Dial Assist automatically determines the correct international or local prefix when dialing.
• Call Waiting allows someone to call you while you’re already on another call.*
• Call Forwarding relays calls made to your number to another number that you specify.*
• Call relaying gives you the option to make and receive phone calls on your iPad, iPod touch, and Mac.
• External audio support gives you the option to move between your device speakers and bluetooth headsets or a nearby speaker, like HomePod. Initiate calls from your HomePod or route the audio of an existing call through HomePod.


Apple Watch Features:
• Make and answer phone calls right from your wrist.
• When you hear or feel the call, send the call to voicemail, answer using your iPhone or send a message.
• While you’re on a call, adjust the call volume, use the keypad or even switch the call to your iPhone.
• Listen to voicemails.
• Ask Siri to call someone in your contacts.


*Requires carrier support
**Requires carrier support and a 5G plan