Why is my iPhone silencing calls?

I am hoping that the tip to turn off ‘silence unknown callers’ will fix this. Recently, I was badly injured in a road accident. Since then I have missed a number of calls from hospital departments, medical professionals, physiotherapists and the like because this unwanted feature was silently activated without my knowledge. Bad move, Apple.

FireEscape133 wrote:

Go to "Settings", scroll down to "Phone" and open that up. In the 4th widget box down is "Silence Unknown Callers". If you select that you can turn it on and off. If someone is not in your contacts, that is considered an "Unknown caller" and therefore silences the call.

The original poster, to whom you replied, had this to say on 09/30/2020 the last time this same suggestion was made:

That didn't fix the issue. Silence Unknown Callers is off, and no one is being blocked.

Hey I called EE and their advice was to reset the phone and that has worked HS no problems since . Hope that helps you too

The above didn't help with my issue.

Try to switch off: Phone - Wi-fi Calling

Worked for me

Exact Same Problem, but solved by turning off "Attention Aware Features" in "Face ID & Attention" options in "Accessibility" in "Settings".

I just checked mine as mine was doing the same, go into settings and select phone, the “silence unknown numbers” was ticked.

I went into phone settings and found since the last update my phone notifications were off and also I had no ringtone selected 🤷🏼‍♀️

If Do Not Disturb is off then the Silence When Locked and Always Silence switches are ignored. So that is not the cause of your problem.

My carrier had to change my SIM card. Problem was fixed.

I had this same problem recently and spent time reading through and trying all the offered responses. I have iPhone12. I found the answer after looking up Silent Mode. Apparently there is a switch above the side volume buttons on the phone. This is what switches the Silent Mode on and Off.

Restarting phone fixes problem temporarily for a few days. Everything works unless someone not in my list calls then it shows the missed call but never rings. Tried everything and silence unknown is never on and again phone works a few days perfect then glitches again.

Unfortunately, if you have a 'scheduled' time when calls are silenced, this suggestion does not work as

then 'everyone' can phone when you have calls silenced. I get so many spam calls in the middle of the night, I use this option

to get sleep, only allowing favourites to call.

However, I have switched off 'silence unknown callers' and switched on 'announce calls' this is most annoying but

at least I get all my calls.

so this is my best solution (that works) until I get another update to fix my problem.

check the simple stuff first - is your silent button on - see side of your phone - the top little button should be switched up toward the screen and not down. "Bang" phone can be heard ringing now. Or power off and then on can also do the trick

rosyn68 wrote:

Oh my calls are being silenced what can I do about it

Start by reviewing the post in this thread marked "Apple recommended". Then, take a look at some of the other suggestions made in the 15 previous pages of this thread.

Go to Settings/Do not Disturb and turn it off. Also turn off Scheduled.