Every time we make a phone call through our mobile phone (regardless of whether it is an iPhone or not), the caller ID reveals the phone number of the caller, in the same way as, for example, when they call us we also tend to know who is calling us.
In any case, there are many reasons why we decide to hide our mobile phone number when calling a person or company. For example, one of the most common is to make a call privately.
Luckily, when we want to make a certain call privately, ensuring that our phone number is not shown at the time of making it, iOS offers us an extremely simple and simple possibility to achieve it, so easy to apply that we will be able to use it again. to do whenever we need it without forgetting the steps to follow.
Call privately: how to block our phone number so that it does not appear
The option that we propose on this occasion, and which is precisely the one offered by iOS when it comes to making our call private by not showing our mobile phone number, it is necessary to bear in mind that it will only be valid for those times when we apply it manually , so it won’t be a long-term solution.
This option is useful, for example, when we want to call a specific person in this way without showing our number, thereby blocking the caller ID per call manually.
Of course, it is necessary to remember something essential: since it does not apply to all calls, we should not make the mistake of making a call in which we want to protect our number without first adding the code to achieve it, since it will not work.
Although depending on the country in which we are the code to dial at the beginning will be different, for most European countries (such as Spain), it will be enough to dial # 31 # before the phone number we want to call privately.
By doing so, the person we are calling will receive the call with the label ‘Hidden number’ , so they will not be able to know who is calling. Likewise, if you do not answer, only the ‘Hidden number’ label will appear in the missed calls section, and you cannot return it or know who really called, unless we tell you.
In case you read us from the United States, you should know that the code to dial at the beginning is * 67 , followed by the phone number.
As we have already mentioned, it is a code that we must always use for each call in which we wish to keep our telephone number private . Thus, it is useful when we do not want to hide our caller ID in all outgoing calls, but in a specific one, made to a specific recipient.
Are there long-term options to protect our phone number?
In case we want to block the caller ID on the iPhone in the long term , instead of using a specific code, it is possible to disable the option to Show my caller ID . Although we must warn that this configuration might not be available for some operators.
To deactivate this option, we must go to the Settings application, which we will find on the home screen of our iPhone, click on Phone and then on Show Caller ID .
If our operator allows the possibility of deactivating this option, we will simply have to slide the switch to deactivate it. Of course, to prove that everything works as it should, we recommend you do a test, calling a mobile phone that you have nearby, to check if it has worked or not.
In case we want to reactivate our caller ID, we will only have to slide the switch again until it is marked in green (it will be activated again).
