How To Put Iphone Call On Hold

While on a call on iPhone

When you're on a phone call, you tin switch the audio to the speaker or a Bluetooth device. If you go another incoming phone call, you tin answer or ignore information technology.

The Phone screen showing buttons for options while you're on a call. In the top row from left to right are the mute, keypad, and speaker buttons. In the bottom row from left to right are the add call, FaceTime, and contacts buttons.

Adjust the audio during a call

To change the volume, press the book buttons on the side of iPhone. Or swipe down on the call banner, then exercise any of the following:

Mute: Tap the mute button.
Put the call on hold: Touch on and concur the mute push button.
Talk handsfree: Tap the sound button, then choose an audio destination.

Apply some other app while on a telephone call

Go to the Abode Screen, then open the app.
To render to the call, tap the green call indicator at the top of the screen.

Answer to a second call on the aforementioned line

If you're on a call and receive a second call, do one the following:

Ignore the telephone call and transport it to voicemail: Tap Ignore.
End the first telephone call and answer the new 1: When using a GSM network, tap End + Accept. With a CDMA network, tap End and when the second telephone call rings back, tap Have, or drag the slider if iPhone is locked.
Put the first phone call on concord and respond the new one: Tap Hold + Accept.

With a call on concord, tap Bandy to switch between calls, or tap Merge Calls to talk with both parties at once. See Start a conference telephone call.

Note: With CDMA, you can't switch betwixt calls if the second call was approachable, but you lot can merge the calls. You can't merge calls if the second phone call was incoming. If you finish the 2nd phone call or the merged telephone call, both calls are terminated.

On models with Dual SIM, note the following:

Wi-Fi Calling must be turned on for a line to enable that line to receive calls while the other line is in use for a call. If you receive a call on 1 line while the other is in use for a call, and no Wi-Fi connection is available, iPhone uses the cellular data of the line that'southward in use for the call to receive the other line's call. Charges may utilize. The line that'southward in use for the call must be permitted for information use in your Cellular Data settings (either equally the default line, or every bit the non-default line with Let Cellular Data Switching turned on) to receive the other line'south call.
If you don't plow on Wi-Fi Calling for a line, whatsoever incoming phone calls on that line (including calls from emergency services) get directly to voicemail (if available from your carrier) when the other line is in use; you won't receive missed call notifications.

If you set provisional call forwarding (if bachelor from your carrier) from i line to another when a line is busy or not in service, the calls don't go to voicemail; contact your carrier for setup information.

Get-go a conference call

With GSM, you can set upwards a conference call with up to five people (depending on your carrier).

Note: Conference calls may non be bachelor if your telephone call is using VoLTE (Voice over LTE) or Wi-Fi Calling.

While on a telephone call, tap Add Call, make some other phone call, then Tap Merge Calls.

Repeat to add more people to the conference.
During the conference call, practise any of the following:
- Talk privately with one person: Tap , and so tap Individual next to the person. Tap Merge Calls to resume the briefing.
- Add an incoming caller on the aforementioned line: Tap Hold Telephone call + Answer, and then tap Merge Calls.
- Driblet ane person: Tap next to a person, then tap End.