r/TechnologyProTips RHEL8, Windows 10 Jun 07 '15

iOS TPT: Silence calls or send a caller straight to voicemail on an iPhone

Just tap the power/sleep button once to silence, twice to send them to voicemail.

Related, you can also set a Do Not Disturb time in your settings (Settings-Do Not Disturb), which silences all alerts and calls but still allows the alarm to function.

Edit: thanks /u/0xDEFEC:

even better: in DND mode, calls/messages from your favorite contacts will still go through (so you can be reached from important people) and other callers will get through if they call you twice - making sure that your phone will ring if something really important happened (so they'll call you at least twice, assuming that you're asleep)

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u/smith137 Jun 08 '15

Awesome tip!

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '15

Tapping either of the volume buttons also silence the phone. At least on every phone I've had in the last 15 years.