How can I fix no dial tone when making calls on iPhone 16 Pro Max?

There has always been a dile tone but for some reason I can’t hear it! How do we fix it ???

My daughter has the same phone and she can here the phone ring tone when she is calling the other person, how do I get that back on my phone???

The sidetone indicating ringing is not a dial tone; cellphones have never had dial tones. The ringing sound that you hear comes from the switch at the number you are calling, so if you aren’t hearing it the remote network is not sending it.

Going back to copper wire landline, when you made a call you wouldn’t hear the ring sound until all of the switches closed between your line and the switch for the number you called, and it meant that the connection was successful, and sometimes there would be a delay, as there were a finite number of wires and switches.

With cell phones, it isn’t that different; when you make a call the switch for the receiving end has to find the mobile phone you called; it could be anywhere in the world. It has a hint, because cell phones periodically contact the network and say “here I am”, so the called carrier first tries the tower that received the most recent “ping”, then tries towers around that one moving further out until it actually finds the phone. Until it finds the phone you hear silence; when it connects you will hear a ring sound sent by the called network switch. But if the called user answers immediately you won’t hear the ring.

The ring tone is different from a dial tone. I’m not sure if you’re just interchanging the names or exactly which is giving you issues.

But in either case, when I have no ring tone, I’ve called my carrier, AT&T and they’ve reset something on their end and they tell me to restart my iPhone and it’s fixed.

Have you contacted the support team at your carrier?

The ring sidetone is sent by the network of the person you are calling; it isn’t generated on your phone or even by your carrier. Many carriers have stopped sending it.

As I already posted in this thread:

Going back to copper wire landline, when you made a call you wouldn’t hear the ring sound until all of the switches closed between your line and the switch for the number you called, and it meant that the connection was successful, and sometimes there would be a delay, as there were a finite number of wires and switches.

With cell phones, it isn’t that different; when you make a call the switch for the receiving end has to find the mobile phone you called; it could be anywhere in the world. It has a hint, because cell phones periodically contact the network and say “here I am”, so the called carrier first tries the tower that received the most recent “ping”, then tries towers around that one moving further out until it actually finds the phone. Until it finds the phone you hear silence; when it connects you will hear a ring sound sent by the called network switch. But if the called user answers immediately you won’t hear the ring.

But that’s the thing, the people that I’m calling aren’t answering quickly at all. It’s just a lot of silence( which makes me believe my signal is failing) and then poof, you either hear a voice or a voicemail. But nothing indicating the call successfully connected.

The ring sidetone is sent by the network of the person you are calling; it isn’t generated on your phone or even by your carrier. Many carriers have stopped sending it.

As I already posted in this thread:

Going back to copper wire landline, when you made a call you wouldn’t hear the ring sound until all of the switches closed between your line and the switch for the number you called, and it meant that the connection was successful, and sometimes there would be a delay, as there were a finite number of wires and switches.

With cell phones, it isn’t that different; when you make a call the switch for the receiving end has to find the mobile phone you called; it could be anywhere in the world. It has a hint, because cell phones periodically contact the network and say “here I am”, so the called carrier first tries the tower that received the most recent “ping”, then tries towers around that one moving further out until it actually finds the phone. Until it finds the phone you hear silence; when it connects you will hear a ring sound sent by the called network switch. But if the called user answers immediately you won’t hear the ring.