Hi guys, David David here and in this video, we're going to explain what to do when your
iPhone goes straight to voicemail. Well, that's gonna happen for a number of different reasons.
So we're just going to start with the most common one in my opinion, which is that Do
Not Disturb is turned on. Do Not Disturb is a feature that is designed to not disturb
you, surprise surprise, but it does send all incoming calls to voicemail. So to turn off
or to check if it's on, let's open Control Center. Yeah. On an iPhone X, swipe down from
the upper right-hand corner. And for iPhone 8 and earlier, swipe up from the bottom
of the screen. And look for that Moon icon. As you can see, it's actually on my iPhone right
now because I don't want to be disturbed. You'll know it's on that moon will be purplish, the icon will be
white. Just tap it — tap it to turn it off. Yep. It says Do Not Disturb is off at the top.
Now people can call you. Now, do not disturb is one of those features that has automatic
Settings. So there's a couple different ones. Let's go to the Settings app and then to Do
not disturb, do not disturb. There it is, right. So do not disturb can be scheduled itself,
like by default. Yep. Uh, I think it's like a P.m. To 7 a.m. So that you don't get Disturbed
at night. You can turn that off. You can turn that on you just have schedule and you'll
see it from 10 to 7. You can adjust that if you want. Now one of the newer features that
Apple introduced is do not disturb driving which is designed to save lives. You're not
picking up the phone while you're driving the car. So at the bottom of this menu, you'll
see the little do not disturb while driving and then activate David's is set to manually
here. Yeah, but you can also uh activated automatically now David had a cool story about
the gym. Yeah, sometimes I go to the gym and on an elliptical or treadmill and you start
moving your iPhone might actually think you're in a car because they're going so fast, right?
Uh, so it might actually turn on at the gym or you know going for a run I guess so it's
out automatically it's a good feature, but it can be annoying and all of a sudden all
your calls are going straight to voicemail. Yeah. Um, so that's another serve that's off.
Next thing is Airplane mode. Airplane mode is Airplane mode — it just it disables all
the external Uh cellular frequencies from your device. Yep, uh Pilots don't like it.
So once again go up in the Settings app, right at the top airplane motor that switches on
that means your iPhone is an airplane mode that airplane icon upper right-hand corner
of the screen. We don't want that on right and you could also do that in Control Center.
Yep. Yeah airplane. Yeah. Yeah. So the next troubleshooting step is it's your fault. Um,
a lot of the time people think that their iPhone is going straight to voicemail because
they look down and they see that they have missed calls, but in fact the ringer volume
is just all the way down. Yeah, and one of the main reasons this happens is that the
volume controls on the side of the iPhone are not necessarily affecting the ringer volume
on your iPhone. So you could be like blast in the YouTube volume, you know, and then
ringers doing anything. So let's go to the Settings app Settings and then scroll down
to sounds and haptics Optics at the touch and then ringer and alerts. So in this case
David has his ringer all the way up, so he's going to be cool whether he pressed. Go ahead
press the ball. Up and down buttons just you'll notice that he can adjust the volume independently
of the ringer volume. Yeah, so can I touch your phone for sure. So we used to ask an
Apple. Can I touch your phone? Okay. So if you take this and you slide it all the way
down all the way down people think they're they're going straight to voice mail because
they're like, I turned up the ringer all the way but it's not touching it. So it's a good
idea to actually have this up so you don't lose or you could do you could just have changes
buttons turned on tap that switch. Now you can actually control both you can but I think
it's kind of dangerous for me anyway because I I would be turned this down and then my
alarm doesn't go off in the morning because I was listening to you know, YouTube video
really quiet at night or something. So if your ringer is all set, it's not your fault,
right? The next thing we do is to make sure you aren't blocked. Uh, or you haven't blocked
someone else. Yeah. If you're blocked your calls when you call then we'll go straight
to voicemail. If you've walked someone that person tries to call you. Uh, there's different
ways. You just had a bad breakup and you made up and you didn't unblock them yet, that could
be the issue. That's grandma. You know who wants, you know, just calling you. Yep. Anyway,
so see who you've blocked go to Settings and then scroll down to phone way down here. Yep,
and then uh tap where it says call blocking and identification and it has not blocked
any if anyone I don't know if people to block, yep, that's why I stay on your good side.
Yeah, exactly. So if there's no block that's not the issue. The next step is to check for
a carrier Settings update, right? So there's only one way to do this carrier Settings update
sometimes, uh, it'll go straight to voicemail because your iPhone isn't connecting properly
to the cell towers in your area. That's what a carrier Settings update is designed to fix
open the Settings app scroll down tap General tap about white here for 10-15 seconds, a
pop-up will appear that says Settings update tap update if not dates available. No palpable
shops was that yeah. Just gotta wait, wait it out. All right. Yeah next step call your
wireless carrier and say hey all my calls are going straight to voicemail. No, what's
wrong with my network? Right? And then they'll send it to the Apple Store and they'll say
well this doesn't have anything to do with us. It's because carrier so anyway, yeah,
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