iPhone calls going straight to voicemail

Calls from people I know are going straight to voicemail and my phone doesn’t even ring

This is not fixed. I’ve been having people text me for several months stating this is happening. I reset my phone and it works for a bit and then the texts start coming again. It’s very frustrating.

iPhone 11 Pro Max goes straight to voicemail on incoming calls. Phone doesn’t ring, and I am not even notified that somebody tried to get a hold of me. i’m with AT&T and they say it’s not them.

My calls are going directly to voicemail

Just today my iPhone started sending calls straight voicemail. Ive tried all the online recommendations. What else?

For days my family calls were going to voicemail with no way of knowing a call was made (not on call log). It was acting like my family phone list was blocked. I finally got it fixed!

Turn off any screen call apps.

Start deleting your BLOCKED CALLS.

After deleting about a dozen, I finally got the phone to ring for calls again. Good luck.

Sorry long post I don’t think it’s the software update.. it happens randomly for me. Doesn’t matter if they’re in my contacts, where I am, connected to WiFi. I’ve had this problem even before I did the latest update.. done a network reset multiple times, all settings reset, new eSIM. Even gone as far as going to Apple to resolve the issue, they ran tests and did a factory reset. They suggested my carrier (Verizon) do a provision done on the line.. That still didn’t work.. I have had 2 replacements sent.. (one was sent back because the camera was replaced and phone did not recognize it). Do not disturb is not on, don’t have the Verizon filter app, silenced unknown callers isn’t on.. called back they had me go in settings/focus/do not disturb/ people on that has allow calls from and it was on favorites.. now changed to everybody.. went in and changed the sleep one too.. hopefully this works..

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.

Thanks Lawrence! It's the ungodly complicated Focus settings that are doing to anyone upgrading to iOS 17. I get people want options, but there's far more granularity to this than anyone actually wants. -Mike

Changing my ringtone worked---but only temporarily. Now the **** thing is back to sending calls directly to voicemail. And I've tried EVERYTHING suggested in this thread. This is absolutely annoying.

Possible Solution: I had the same issue, but only with some callers. I checked the individual contact info, and it did NOT show that the number was blocked. However, I went to Settings -> Phone -> Blocked Contacts and the person's name was listed near the very bottom. Once I unblocked it, it worked fine! I don't know how that particular contact ever got into the Blocked Contacts list, so thinking it might have been a glitch in the latest update.

The solution for me was to switch to "Do not disturb" BUT, here is the caveat:

I had "Do not disturb" scheduled ONLY overnight, but I it was not ringing during the day either.

It turns out I had to go to control center > Focus mode > Do not disturb OFF.

That's totally counter-intuitive and Apple needs to fix this.

Why do I need to switch off Do not disturb in two different places independently to activate it ???

I am on iOS 17.4.1

This is incredibly irritating.. I’ve completely gone through this.. every single setting is set correctly including focus so it shouldn’t deny or send calls to voice mail. I just reset network settings..maybe that will help but doubtful very.. iPhone 14 Pro Max. This also started after the iOS 17 update. Apple get it together

Lemaniepie wrote:

Have you fixed this issue yet

Lots of people have fixed it. As it does not have just one cause, you can see a bunch of possible solutions by just reading the 6 pages of thread you posted to.

I think I found a fix. There’s a setting in Settings > Phone called “Announce Calls” and this setting was mysteriously set to “Headphones Only.” I switched it back to “Always,” then the next day it was switched back again. I think this is a bug with AirPods. OBNOXIOUS.