How to Make Your Mobile Phone Number Appear As a Private Number

Sometimes you want to make your call private temporarily or have all calls block your calls origin.
Find out how to enhance your privacy here.

Steps

1. There are many ways to enable call blocking. If you have an old phone, skip to step 5.
2. First, look around for a option under your phone's call settings menu called "Show/Hide My Number
3. When you select it, it will most likely be set to "network default," which means that displaying Caller ID information would be dependent on your carrier's network setup for your mobile number. Change it to "hide number" to have the phone ignore the network setting and stop reporting your caller ID information.
4. Check if it works by making a test call. You may also need to turn your phone off and back on for the change to become effective.
5. If it does not work or the option is not available, begin your call with *67, if you're in North America. So, for example instead of dialing 1-718-555-0123 you would dial *6717185550123. If in the United Kingdom and Ireland, then dial 141. If in Australia then dial 1831 before the number, for example

Tips

• If using a GSM phone/network, then dialing #31# before the number would block the caller origin for that call.
• If you have your Caller ID info blocked permanently, then dial, *82 in the US or 1470 in the UK, to unblock it only for the next call.
• If its not working as described, call your mobile service provider to have them walk you through what needs to be done. Just remember to emphasise to them on if you want to be able to temporarily block outgoing call info on your own or to block all outgoing caller ID info.
• You may also contact your mobile service provider to see if they can or will block your name from being displayed and showing your location or "Wireless Caller" instead.

Warnings

• Some carriers/phones don't support hiding your number.
• Blocking your number from being displayed on outgoing calls may cause difficulty getting through to certain numbers that won't accept blocked calls or that need to recognize the incoming number, e.g. voicemail might start asking for your mobile number.
• When calling certain toll-free numbers and emergency services your number may still be relayed despite other call blocking methods.

Things You'll Need

• A mobile phone
• Active service with a mobile service provider

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Sources and Citations

• FCC
• Ainslie.org

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