Phone

Make and receive calls with the Phone app.

• Phone calls, FaceTime audio calls and FaceTime video calls all in one place.
• Choose a new unified layout that brings together your Favorites, Recents, and Voicemails
• Favorites offers one-tap shortcuts for calls and messages to your most important contacts.
• Recents displays recent conversations and missed calls. Search for previous calls, transcribed voicemails, and contacts using a broad range of search criteria.
• Voicemail Summaries powered by Apple Intelligence appear in-line with missed calls and help surface the most important information.
• Keypad search lets you quickly find and call existing contacts by typing in their name or number with the alphanumeric keypad.
• Contact Posters let you customize exactly how you appear when you give someone a call. Choose from various treatments for photos, Memoji and your name.
• Record live calls or FaceTime audio calls from the Phone app and review the transcripts in the Notes app. When you start a recording, the Phone app automatically announces that the call is being recorded.
• Conference calling with up to 5 people.*
• Visual Voicemail offers a written transcript of your voicemails. Save Visual Voicemail messages as notes, voice memos, or share them using Messages, Mail or AirDrop.*
• Live Voicemail lets you see a real-time transcription as someone is leaving you a message, and you can pick up the call if it’s something you want to address in the moment.
• Custom voicemail greetings.
• Automatic Mic Mode picks the right Mic Mode for you. Voice Isolation blocks out ambient noise and spotlights your voice. Wide Spectrum will leave ambient noises unfiltered, allowing your voice and all the sounds around you to be heard.
• Text responses make it easy to send a response in a single tap when you can’t pick up a call. Use suggested replies, or create your own custom text responses.
• Remind Me Later helps you remember to return calls that you can’t pick up in the moment.
• Ask Siri to place calls, return calls, and check your voicemail.
• Hold Assist lets the Phone app wait on hold for you and alerts you once a live agent is available.
• Call Screening lets you screen incoming calls from unknown numbers. Your phone will pick up the call for you and ask for a name and reason for the call before the phone even rings.