How to Set the Number of Rings Before Your iPhone Goes to Voicemail
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Thank you so much! It worked! Loved the extra tip on how to get the plus(+) sign!! However can you let everyone know that 30 seconds is the max number of seconds it allows...

Is there a max number of rings allowed? I am trying to get about 20 rings before VM, however I set it for 240 and its going to VM at 6 rings no matter how far out i go

Great stuff - worked perfectly - got a good 30 secs now before voicemail kicks in. Thanks for such a clear set of instructions.

this does NOT work. just wanted to change the number of rings before going to voicemail. the instructions end up trying to go to call forwarding. and *#61# is Invalid!

lyn bosch Hi there. Let me encourage you to try it one more time! Perhaps one star or number went in wrong for you! It worked for me and so many others, it seems! I hope you've got it now!

Thanks for your advice,it now means my wife has longer to look for phone in her handbag before it goes to answer phon!!!! Yippee

Thank you very much for the detailed directions. I was looking for the "telephone number" to be in its usual format, but then I typed in the number that appeared on my phone's screen, and it worked. Maybe now I can get to my phone before it goes to voicemail.

Thanks worked on my old I-phone 5 in the UK on O2. Now can get to my phone before its transferred to call answering.

This does not work.

It worked on my iphone X. Thanks! I have AT& T in Ohio, US. I have always been frustrated that by the time I get to my phone it stops ringing. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!

This worked for me in UK on O2 network - Thanks. The only issue was accessing + symbol. I then read thro' all instructions and followed the directions outlined in later text. I completely disabled my call forwarding by entering 30 which is fine, 'cos it takes a while to locate my phone when I'm busy.

The number that comes up to forward is unknown to me. It should forward to my voice mail.

That did not work at all. At step three I did not get a thelephonenumber. I live in Sweden and perhaps it dos not work her,

Is this a joke? Why should I have to jump through hoops to do something that should be in a Settings Menu right there on the phone?

This method doesn't work if your carrier is Verizon!!!!!!

Terrific.. Ta very much. This trick will save me breaking my neck rushing to pick the phone up and fumbling/dropping the thing.

Wow! Thanks for this info. It works! Much appreciated. : -)

Those are a crazy amount of steps fo follow just to change the number of rings ill just hit the "beat it " button before goin thru all that

Thanks for useful info, I contacted Virgin costumer support and they weren't able go give me the correct info. I followed the steps and it works just fine. Set it to 30 seconds

It wrks for iphone 6, but 2 rings even though you do 5secs which is 1 ring. How can it go directly to voicemai? Anyone? Thanks

hey, OKenji! 1. Mine was going straight to voicemail and THAT was the problem for me! I couldn't find my phone by calling my cell number because it was not ringing for me! (Just in case you hadn't thought of that yet!) If you put 0 for the numb of secs. in, that should work. If not, leave it blank.

I agree with everyone else, why is # of ring tones not a menu item? I guess Apple thinks we are all software developers. I have spent the last hour trying to get this done, thank you for this page, it was clear, concise, and it worked on my 5s.

I don't know why iPhone has to be such a pain in the ass, as well the Apple developers. They have to make every thing so damn difficult for their customers! The being able to change the number of rings on an iPhone should be one of the many features that's included!

Works on iphone 4 and 5s, PLEASE NOTE, to those who have said this doesn't work, it is network dependent! Both my phones are on O2-UK! To the OP, thanks for a clear simple solution! (why cant we have this setting in the menu!!)

Instructions very clear, unfortunately this did not work on my iPhone 7 plus:((( Guess I'll be standing in the long Verizon store line...SMHO!!!

This will not work for iPhone 5. We are now dinosaurs!

Brilliant! Thank you! - and I kept getting options ending in 'disabled' tooo, until I realised there was a * before the #61# and that took me to the right page where it all happened beautifully!

All options that come up end in "disabled." Any other ideas? Great step by step. Thank you.

This did not work for iphone 5 - states "call failed" How do you change # of rings on Apple iphone 5 - mine only rings 3 times and I miss 9 out of 10 calls

Can't believe it. Who'd have known? Been trying to find a solution for 2 years. Thank you!! Kate

I have an iPhone 6s and it worked perfectly ... THANKS

Too easy thanks !

That worked for us iphone 7 and iphone 5 both using IOS 10.1.1

How did it work on your iphone 5 and my phone says "call failed" it couldn't have been an iphone 5

Thank you so much! I have Kashmir ringtone and I never got to hear any lyrics before it went to voicemail.....now I can! :)

*#61# DOES NOT WORK

Didn't work :(

Ohhhh I LOVE that this information was not only available but clear to understand step by step for my iPhone6S. Now I dont have to panic every time my phone rings, only to miss the call and redial everyone!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

Whoo Hoo! No more frantically searching through my purse or under things on the coffee table to find my phone before it hangs up. Thank you!

All I get at step two is "Error performing request Unknown error.Interrogation failed. Its driving me mad. Apple should make this SIMPLE

Its not apple is your network. I.e. like At&t or Verizon or ...

Fantastic worked first time on Iphone6. Thanks.

Fantastic fix - worked first time on IPhone 6S Thanks Lynarc

I kept getting error message in the very first phase on my Iphone 6. I replaced the suggested interrogation code in Step 2 with *#004# and AT&T sent the Step 3 screen that allowed me to successfully follow Steps 3 - 5.