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iPhone: Enable or Disable Caller ID

iPhone: Enable or Disable Caller ID

By Mitch Bartlett 23 Comments

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.

  1. From the Home screen select “Settings“.
  2. Scroll down and choose “Phone“.
  3. 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.

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  1. Linda says

    October 21, 2020 at 9:57 am

    Help
    I need to turn on my caller ID but I don’t have the option to turn on/off caller ID on my iPhone 6 / 6s.
    I need to know how for a dating app. I have straight talk service NC

  2. Kathy Aston says

    September 22, 2020 at 3:22 pm

    I don’t have the option to turn on/off caller ID on my iPhone. When people call me, they see the name of my previous company. How do I change my caller ID? I have an iPhone 8.

  3. Jennifer Harley says

    September 21, 2020 at 6:53 am

    HERE IS THE BUMMER.

    VODACOM… OVERRIDES CALLER ID RECOGNITION BECAUSE THEY WANT YOU TO *PAY* .
    OKAY ITS ONLY r10.00 / MONTH BUT HOW DARE THEY

    I RECENTLY GOT A VODA CONTRACT BUT I HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THIS KIND OF ACTIVITIES.

    IT’S BORDERS ON EXTORTION

  4. Alma F Forte says

    August 12, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    When I go into Settings, then Phone on my iPhone 11, there is no option to enable or disable caller I’d. It simply is not there!!!! In a chat session with the carrier’s technicians, I was informed that the account showed that called I’d is enabled. It clearly is not. Enabled on my phone as recipients of my calls see my number come up.as private or restricted. Help please!!!!

  5. Athi says

    August 12, 2020 at 1:08 pm

    My incoming calls doesn’t show the caller Id whereas my caller Id is enabled but still doesn’t appear who’s calling what must I do to fix that it’s irritating😊

  6. Bikram Singh says

    July 31, 2020 at 7:14 pm

    i can not disabled shoow my id? How can i do it?

  7. Luke says

    July 29, 2020 at 12:41 am

    Every time someone calls my phone and the number comes up private even though they don’t have caller I’d turned on it still comes up as no caller I’d on my phone how do I fix this

  8. jennifer says

    June 11, 2020 at 8:44 am

    what happens if your iphone xr doesnt have the “show my Id” option???

  9. Tay Johnson says

    April 30, 2020 at 6:15 am

    This is was helpful. My Caller ID is my phone number. How do I change it to my name? Thank you!

  10. Dulani says

    April 7, 2020 at 2:58 am

    Show my caller id is not working.show my caller id is on but not off

  11. Andile says

    March 14, 2020 at 3:13 am

    Hey i am using iphone 6 and using vodacom number of South Africa now what should i do to activate show my caller id if it’s toggled on but doesn’t show whose calling?

  12. Sagar Bhaltadak says

    March 12, 2020 at 12:43 pm

    I want to turn off my show my caller ID ,but I can not get off…why it is happening so??

  13. Ruby saini says

    March 6, 2020 at 4:22 am

    I want to turn off my show my caller ID ,but I can not get off…why it is happening so??

  14. Martie says

    March 2, 2020 at 2:28 am

    Hi I have a Iphone 11 pro max and I’m nor abe to disable my caller id, It is greyed out???
    How can I fix it????
    .

  15. Shelley says

    October 14, 2019 at 5:41 am

    The caller ID will not toggle off on My I ph xr. I have reset all settings,l which made no differenice.

  16. Rishi Rishad says

    September 29, 2019 at 11:29 am

    Why I can’t desable caller ID on my phone

  17. Revathi says

    May 5, 2018 at 10:50 am

    Is there any problem, if i enable caller ID?

  18. Abhishek says

    September 8, 2017 at 4:11 am

    Show my caller Id is not working Show my caller Id is on but not off

  19. MS says

    March 11, 2017 at 10:23 pm

    If 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!

  20. Steve Zielinski says

    November 25, 2016 at 9:59 am

    My 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!!!

  21. Nancy says

    November 9, 2016 at 2:46 pm

    Am 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?

  22. Shiven says

    November 2, 2016 at 12:17 pm

    i 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.

  23. Rohit Arora says

    September 19, 2016 at 2:06 am

    Hey 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.

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