iPhone 5 calls go straight to voice mail

Actually, you are all wrong, even if the 'do not disturb' settings are switched off calls still go direct to answerphone after one ring. The answer is to go into the general settings and turn the screen auto lock feature to 'never'. When you want to turn your home screen off simply push the on/off button, problem solved, simples.

Not even Apples helpline could sort this, useless, why this should happen I dont know, maybe Jonny boy Ives could earn his vast salary and get it sorted.

I'm having severe issues going between towers. Even Downtown Seattle I walked out of a building and it said I had 4G. Missed calls that went straight to voicemail, then I receive the notification I have a voicemail some time later.

I called in and certain areas switch over to the Edge Network. But I did a test with 3 family iPhone 5's. Calling them from a land line, only 1 of the three rang. The rest went straight to voice mail. I continued randomly test calling and it varied. But it was obvious not all calls were making it to the phones showing 3 bars of service.

They instructed me to turn off Settings->Cellular->Enable LTE to off. Got mixed results off doing that.

I continually just reboot my phone or flip it to airplane mode, then back off to get it to jog the network. I've also reset network settings a number of times.

I never had this issue before with my 3G or 4S phones.

With so many replies, I'm not sure if I'm replicating this answer, but, for whatever:

The test for me was a call from my iPhone to the offending phone (my wife's) which resulted in standard # of rings.

A call from our office phone (among others) went directly to vm.

I went to Settings/Do No Disturb/Allow Calls From and switched from "Favorites" to "Everyone".

Prob solved!

Thanks...that was exactly my problem....the Do Not Disturb was on manual and always...so, everything was going straight to Voice mail.

But thanks to your correct problem solving it works now! Thanks a million I really didn't want to re-set back to new.

OK mmclifton,

Click "This helped me" my post and others will find the solution.

Glad I could help!

Hi

I am on the UK and experienced the same problem. I solved it by changing settings/Mobile/Voice & Data from 4G to 3G and everything started to work as normal. Sorted out the issue of calls going straight to voicemail.

Hope this helps.

I re-set the Do Not Disturb setting to allow ALL calls to come in and it fixed the problem.

There is an easy fix, your phone is in DO NOT DISTURB mode. Look for the crescent moon in the upper right hand corner to the left of your battery. Go into settings, click on Do Not Disturb, and manually turn it off. Sometimes this gets accidentally turned on when the control center window scrolls up and you're trying to scroll it down.

I've since updated to a iPhone 6. Problem still an issue.

For Do Not Disturb - a schedule of 10PM - 7AM ?? Is there a bug and it will make the call drop between 7AM - 10PM? Or is this just people that turned it on and forgot?

Via AT&T support I've disabled LTE, and the above. Apparently there is some HD Voice deal that is not properly rolled out in all areas. And the phone or the service cannot properly handle things, and your calls go straight to voicemail. I've had AT&T forward unanswered calls to a skype number I have, but the delay with forwarding leaves the person calling you listening to rings that I don't hear. They typically give up, and if they are nice send me a text message.

This issue is well documented across all networks, but I'm confused as to what to do about it. Seems like the "feature" has the adverse effect of dropping 75% of my calls. This is with 2-3 bars showing of service.

TThis is an I going issue with me. Totally fed up with Sprint. Apple has replaced the phone twice. It works for a week or so, then voicemail a day later. I dud switch off the cellular, but does this mean I will be using up all my data? I only have 1 g

SSprint replaced my SIM card. Ok for a month, but sam thing now.

I Have AT&T. Same issue. i assumed that meant it was the phone, but you exchanged yours? When you got the new phone, did you start it as new or did you do a restore from an iCloud backup?

NO, not from restore. The Apple Store activated the phone and when I returned home I had to redownload the apps from ITunes.

UUgly. So then it wasn't something corrupt in your settings. What the heck is this??? You exchanged phones and still have the problem. We have different carries and same problem. I am on iPhone 6. You?

Apple told me it was the settings on the phone and was a Sprint problem. Obviously it is an Apple problem as different carriers have same problem. Odd though, I had the phone for nine months before this problem started. I just wish they could fix it.