How to call with a hidden number in any operator

Privacy has become almost impossible to achieve today, but surely you have ever thought about making a call preventing your number from being registered in the receiving terminal. The way of doing it has changed in recent times. It is still a relatively simple task, but not everyone knows how to do it.

Perhaps you want to call someone but they do not know where you are calling from, or it is a company or service to which you do not want to give your phone number. Or even simpler, you simply want to play a phone prank without getting caught. In this article we will explain how to call with a hidden number, both on iPhone and Android, regardless of the operator you have hired.

Details to be considered

Making a call with a hidden number does not mean that we have impunity to carry out any type of action through a telephone call. The receiver's phone company will know what number it is, so if in case of committing any illegal action, the judge can rule that the company reveal said phone number.

Calls with a hidden number will also not work for calls to the emergency services or police. In all these cases the number will be identified by the recipient of the call. In some cases these calls will simply not be possible since some people or companies manually block the reception of calls with hidden numbers, so they will not even know that they have called them directly.

Hide the number promptly on Android or iPhone

If we only want to hide our number for a specific call, all we have to do is add the prefix # 31 # to the number we want to call. Let's take an example if you want to call a 999333999 we will have to mark # 31 #999333999.

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Not in all countries or operators it is the same prefix, in some the prefix changes to the * 31 #, so it would be advisable to try it before calling yourself if you have another phone, or with someone close to you.

This method will work in all companies, both Movistar, Vodafone or Orange.

Hide our number on iPhone for all calls

The previous method is simple but there are other options that are better if what we want is to use it a lot. If we have an iPhone and we want to hide each and every one of our calls, the process is simple.

What we must do is enter «Settings» and go to "Phone", within these options we look for the one of "Show caller ID", we will only have to deactivate this option. From now on all your calls will be hiding the id (your number).

hide iPhone number

It may be that these options are not available to us, that is because some carriers come with this blocked by default. In these cases the solution is to contact them to ask them to unlock the line to let you configure it to your liking. It will have no cost.

Hide our number on Android for all calls

The method, it may vary depending on the version of Android that we have in our terminal, it can also vary between layers.

As we have commented previously, we will have to hide the caller ID as we have already explained with the iPhone. We shall open the phone app in our Android terminal, and touch the three points that we will find at one end, to access the settings.

The next step may vary depending on the Android version. We will look for something similar to "Call settings" and enter "Additional settings". We will look for the option "Show caller ID" or we will mark the option «Hidden number» if our terminal has it.

hide Android number

In our case in pure Android Pixel, from Android 8 we will have to enter the call app and then in «Settings», from there to «Call accounts», we go to our sim card and in "Caller ID" we can deactivate it.

From this moment all our calls will be hidden from the receiver of the same, if we want to deactivate it we return to this setting and change it. In some cases the option may appear inaccessible in grayThis is because the company does not allow it, so we will have to contact them to solve it.

As well we can do it ourselves if we have our company's app, either Movistar, Vodafone or Orange.

How to hide our number on a landline phone

Although it is a species in danger of extinction, many people still use the landline at home, it seems little useful today, but many people turn off their mobile phones as soon as they get home, either to disconnect or simply because they also use for work. In this way, the landline is something more personal and intimate that we share only with those who really matter.

landline

We can hide our landline number in a very simple way, for this, all we have to do is dial the prefix 067 before any phone number, for example if we want to call 999666999 we will have to dial 067999666999. The recipient of the call will receive a call as unknown or hidden.

It may be that in some countries this varies, instead of using the prefix 067, the # 67 or # 67 #, in most cases most likely all options will work. It is best if we test it ourselves with a test call to make sure it works properly.

Remember that:

It is important to remember that all this is possible regardless of the operator we use, both Movistar, Vodafone and Orange work with these methods. It is also of importance Remember that calling with a hidden number is not exempt from responsibilityIf we commit any infraction or crime using the call with a hidden number, it can be identified through the operator, as long as a Judge of the order after a possible complaint.

Also keep in mind that some companies or individuals may have restricted calls from hidden numbers, so when we try to make a call to them this will not be possible, so we will have to reactivate our ID if we want to make said call.


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