iPhone calls going straight to voicemail

having the same intermittent issue. keeps cropping up--my phone does not even ring . ... goes straight to vmail. no recommended fixes have repaired the problem so far.

My 13 iPhone in-coming calls go directly to voicemail. Need to fix

This is happening to me too. Last week my phone was sending my parents straight to VM, and this evening my best friend. My phone never rings and I only see the missed call when I get their texts asking me to call them back. The issue is intermittent, but frequent. Silence unknown callers is off.

calls in my contact list going straight to voice mail.

My iphone doesn't always accept calls or send texts if it's to another phone that's not apple (Iphone). The call will go straight to voicemail. Many of these calls are in my contacts too! Is this ever going to get fixed?

This fixed it. Not sure if anyone else has tried it but my problem is no more.

My iphone began going striaht to voice mail after IOS 17 update.

I am missing important business calls.

Carrier (TMobile) says it is not them

Tried various protocols to set TIME before roll to voice but none work

Very unacceptable.

Apple needs a fix fast

FIRST: Are there missed calls in Phone/Recents on the phone? If they are not the problem is in the network, because the calls aren’t getting to your phone. Contact your carrier: 

• check with your carrier that they don’t have a local outage, and that you didn’t have any settings that would have immediately invoked voicemail, such as call forwarding.
• check up on them at Down Detector - Crowdsourced outage checker

If they are in Recents here’s what to check:

• Check the MUTE switch on the left side of the phone, above the volume buttons. It should be towards the screen
• Check the volume setting. With the Home screen displayed, press the VOLUME UP button on the left side of the phone. It’s above the VOLUME DOWN button.
• Go to Settings/Phone. There’s a switch for Silence Unknown Callers. If it is on any calls from numbers not in your contacts will go directly to voicemail.
  • If you keep it on, in Settings/Phone make sure Dial Assist is enabled; it is needed to accurately match an incoming call to a contact.
  • Remember that banks, doctors and other professionals may not call you from the same number that you have in your contacts for them.
• Also in Settings/Phone: Make sure Call Forwarding is off.
• iOS 14 & older: Go to Settings/Do not Disturb. Turn it off if it is on. Also turn off Scheduled. With both off none of the other switches there matter.
• iOS 15: Go to Settings/Focus, and verify that all focus settings are disabled.
• iOS 16: Open the Control Center and turn off Focus.
• Go to Settings/Sounds & Haptics. Make sure there is a sound assigned to Ringtone.
• Go to Settings/Accessibility/Touch/Call Audio Routing and make sure Auto-Answer Calls is off.
• Go to Settings/Screen Time/Communications Limits. Tap each of the 2 entries and make sure both are “Everyone"
• Restart your phone-->Restart your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
• If all else fails, talk your carrier into replacing your SIM card (thanks to ASC user DShelbyD)

This is a total pain in the butt that Apple does not have a "Select rings before going to voice mail" option in settings. I am sick and tired of jumping through hoops getting information on the Apple website as well as YouTube. My phone rings 3 times and goes to voice mail no matter what I do. I have an iPhone 11, iOS17.2.1

I have punched in codes and cotacted my carrier...NOTHING WORKS!

Just started today and I have checked all my settings. I haven’t had this issue before and I don’t even realize that someone called.

This worked for me:

Go to Settings/Phone. There's a switch for Silence Unknown Callers. If it is on any calls from numbers not in your contacts will go directly to voicemail. If you keep it on, in Settings/Phone make sure Dial Assist is enabled; it is needed to accurately match an incoming call to a contact.

Has nothing but issues since latest update of IOS. Apple helpline told me to do a factory reset. Did that and still not resolved. Asked what I do next person could not help. Can’t uninstall update but phone worked without issue prior to this. Anyone had similar issues I think it is a software glitch Apple having none of it. Thankfully it is a works phone so returning it tomorrow not taking responsibility for missing important calls

I had this problem come up out of seemingly nowhere last week. Every call popped up for a half second with no ring or vibration and straight to VM. I had weird things like this years ago with a Samsung phone and remembered they were caused by an app. So I removed the last app I installed, which was right before this started happening, and it fixed it. What was the app? Rush Bowls, a smoothie/health food eatery. How that was affecting incoming calls, I have no idea.

Same issue now for a week or two.....driving me nuts

I have an issue that all calls come straight directly to my voice mail and give me no chance to answer the calls. My phone is unmuted at all time and those are my frequent callers