How to Enable or Disable Call Barring on iPhone and Android?

Call barring helps you avoid certain types of incoming or outgoing calls on your phone. It’s often used when you don’t want anyone to disturb you or prevent accidental calling to undesirable numbers. It gives you control over the entire category of calls.

Types of call barring include incoming call barring, outgoing call barring, and international call barring.

• Incoming Call Barring: Incoming call barring lets you block specific categories of incoming calls from reaching your device. It helps you avoid undesired calls while roaming.
• Outgoing Call Barring: Outgoing call barring prevents the user from making specific or unintentional outgoing calls. It blocks premium-rate numbers and saves up on extra charges.
• International Call Barring: International call barring restricts your phones from calling other countries' numbers. It can be useful to avoid accidental dialing and high charges and manage phone usage while traveling.

Restricting unwanted calls from reaching you enhances your device privacy and security, gives you control over your call, and avoids extra charges.

Call barring prevents spam and phishing attempts by blocking unwanted and unauthorized calls. It also gives you the power to control the misuse of the company or personal phone by forbidding employees from making unnecessary outgoing calls.

You can control the entire call category by determining what incoming calls your device will receive and what calls it cannot make. You can also limit your staff members' access to specific numbers. 

For example, a security guard of a company can use call barring to send and receive calls only from residents and emergency services.

Blocking international and premium-rate calls restricts you from receiving and making accidental outgoing calls from such numbers. It helps you avoid extra phone call charges and keep your phone bills within the budget.

Activating call barring may vary depending on whether you use an Android or iPhone device.

To enable call barring on Android or Samsung, follow the following steps:

1. Open the Settings on your phone app.
2. Navigate to the Supplementary Services or Call Settings.
3. Click on Call Barring and choose Voice Calls.
4. Select the type of call barring you wish to activate.
5. Enter a call-barring password if required. (usually 0000 or 1234 by default)
6. Confirm to activate the service.

iPhones don’t have built-in call-barring features, so you must integrate a third-party call-barring app. TrueCaller is the most popular barring app, which allows you to restrict receiving unwanted calls on your iPhone.

You can install the app from the App Store and follow the following steps to enable call-barring on iPhone:

1. Grant the necessary permissions and allow Truecaller access notifications.
2. Open the Settings on your iPhone, scroll, and tap the Phone.
3. Select Call Blocking and Identification.
4. Turn it on to enable it.

Deactivating call barring is as simple as enabling, but the process differs between Android and iPhone.

To turn off call barring in Android, follow the following steps:

1. Open the Settings on your phone app.
2. Navigate to the Supplementary Services or Call Settings.
3. Click on Call Barring and choose Voice Calls.
4. Select the specific call restriction you wish to deactivate.
5. Enter a call-barring password.
6. Confirm to deactivate the service.

If you use third-party apps like TrueCaller to block calls on your iPhone, you can deactivate it by following these steps.

1. Open the Settings on your iPhone, scroll, and tap the Phone.
2. Select Call Blocking and Identification.
3. Toggle all switches off to deactivate it.

Roaming restrictions, password management, and dependence on network support are some limitations of call-barring.
 

• Limited to Specific Call Types: Call barring prevents specific categories of calls from being made rather than exact numbers. So, if you want a specific number to reach you, barring won’t be a suitable choice.
• Roaming Restrictions: Call barring may not work as expected when a subscriber is in other countries, leading to extra charges or the inability to make specific phone calls.
• Password Management: Since call barring uses passwords for activation and deactivation, forgetting the password may cause problems while changing call access.
• Network Support: Even if the phone has a call-barring setting, not all networks support it. So, make sure that your service provider offers this feature.

Call barring helps you control incoming and outgoing calls on mobile and landline phones. It can help you avoid unwanted calls and premium-rate numbers and enhance your device's privacy, security, and cost control.
 

When you enable call barring, it restricts specific incoming or outgoing calls from calling your device.

Call barring allows you to block an entire category of calls, like incoming or outgoing international calls, while call blocking allows you to block specific numbers from calling you.

"Barring" a number essentially means blocking incoming calls to that number, so anyone trying to reach it will not be able to connect.

The call barring code is 0000 by default for all subscribers.