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Telemarketer Call Rings When My Phone is turned off. How do I stop it besides blocking the number?

I turn my red side button off to turn off phone, yet the iphone 6 rings when some telemarketers phone. They don't leave a voicemail message so other comments do not address this rather new phenomenon for me. How does it happen and how do I prevent this ringing?

Posted on Dec 14, 2020 8:25 AM

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Posted on Dec 14, 2020 2:20 PM

Okay. That's the mute switch. It doesn't turn off the phone or put it in Airplane mode.


Scammers use lots of ways to get around blocking them. There are limits to what you can do. You may want to go to Settings>Phone>Silence Unknown Callers.

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Telemarketer Call Rings When My Phone is turned off. How do I stop it besides blocking the number?

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