How Do I Mute My Phone During A Conference Call

While on a telephone call on iPhone

When you lot're on a telephone call, you lot tin switch the sound to the speaker or a Bluetooth device. If you get another incoming call, you tin can respond or ignore it.

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.

Adapt the sound during a call

To change the volume, press the volume buttons on the side of iPhone. Or swipe down on the telephone call banner, then practice any of the post-obit:

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

Utilize another app while on a call

Get to the Home Screen, then open the app.
To return to the phone call, tap the green phone call indicator at the summit of the screen.

Respond to a 2nd telephone call on the same line

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

Ignore the call and send it to voicemail: Tap Ignore.
Finish the commencement call and respond the new i: When using a GSM network, tap Terminate + Accept. With a CDMA network, tap Stop and when the 2nd call rings back, tap Take, or elevate the slider if iPhone is locked.
Put the first call on concur and respond the new 1: Tap Concord + Have.

With a phone call on concur, tap Swap to switch betwixt calls, or tap Merge Calls to talk with both parties at once. See Start a conference phone call.

Notation: With CDMA, you can't switch betwixt calls if the second call was outgoing, but you lot can merge the calls. You tin't merge calls if the second call was incoming. If you end the 2nd call or the merged call, both calls are terminated.

On models with Dual SIM, annotation 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 apply for a call. If you lot receive a call on 1 line while the other is in employ for a call, and no Wi-Fi connection is available, iPhone uses the cellular data of the line that'south in utilise for the call to receive the other line's call. Charges may apply. The line that'due south in use for the call must be permitted for information apply in your Cellular Data settings (either equally the default line, or as the non-default line with Allow Cellular Data Switching turned on) to receive the other line'due south call.
If you lot don't plough on Wi-Fi Calling for a line, whatsoever incoming phone calls on that line (including calls from emergency services) go directly to voicemail (if available from your carrier) when the other line is in employ; you won't receive missed call notifications.

If you set up conditional telephone call forwarding (if available from your carrier) from one line to another when a line is busy or not in service, the calls don't become to voicemail; contact your carrier for setup information.

Beginning a briefing call

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

Note: Conference calls may not be available if your telephone call is using VoLTE (Voice over LTE) or Wi-Fi Calling.

While on a phone call, tap Add Call, make another call, then Tap Merge Calls.

Repeat to add together more people to the conference.
During the briefing call, do whatsoever of the following:
- Talk privately with ane person: Tap , and then tap Private adjacent to the person. Tap Merge Calls to resume the conference.
- Add an incoming caller on the same line: Tap Concur Call + Reply, and so tap Merge Calls.
- Drib i person: Tap next to a person, and so tap Cease.