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.
Abhishek says
Show my caller Id is not working Show my caller Id is on but not off
MS says
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!
Steve Zielinski says
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!!!
Nancy says
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?
Shiven says
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.
Rohit Arora says
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.