If you do not wish for others to be able to see your number appear on their caller ID display when placing a call from your Apple iPhone, you can disable it. Just follow these steps.
- From the Home screen select “Settings“.
- Scroll down and choose “Phone“.
- Toggle “Show My Caller ID” to “On” or “Off” as desired.
Now the people you call will not be able to see your number on their caller ID display. They will instead see your number show as “Private” or “Restricted”.
If you don’t see the “Caller ID” setting on your phone or you can’t toggle it, your carrier may have it disabled. You can often find other ways to disable caller ID if this is the case. For example, Verizon customers can dial “*67“ followed by the number you are dialing to block caller ID. Visit your carrier’s website for more information.
Caller ID cannot be disabled for Facetime calls.
Revathi says
May 5, 2018 at 10:50 amIs there any problem, if i enable caller ID?
Abhishek says
September 8, 2017 at 4:11 amShow my caller Id is not working Show my caller Id is on but not off
MS says
March 11, 2017 at 10:23 pmIf you don’t see the “Caller ID” setting on your iphone or you can’t toggle it as it is greyed out, you may have inadvertently disabled it with your carrier. Log in to enable it, wait 5 minutes, and redo on you phone. Voila it appears!
Steve Zielinski says
November 25, 2016 at 9:59 amMy sprint carrier for my iPhone 7 does not seem to have the option to turn on caller ID. Everyone in my contact list says I show up as unknown. Help!!!
Nancy says
November 9, 2016 at 2:46 pmAm using Iphone 6s on Tigo carrier in Tanzania and i can not toggle it on or off. Neither does the *67 add number works for me😔. What can i do?
Shiven says
November 2, 2016 at 12:17 pmi am using iphone 7 and using vodafone number of delhi ncr now what should i do to activate show my caller id if i am unable to toggle it while want to activate.
Rohit Arora says
September 19, 2016 at 2:06 amHey i am using iphone 6 and using vodafone number of delhi ncr now what should i do to activate show my caller id if i am unable to toggle it while want to activate.