Ignoring or Rejecting Incoming Calls
When you receive an incoming call, you can choose to ignore or reject the call instead of answering. You
can reject or ignore incoming calls, reject incoming calls from a specific contact, or enable Do Not Disturb
to reject all calls for a brief time period.
Note: You cannot reject calls on shared lines. You can only silence the ringer.
Ignore or Silence an Incoming Call
You can ignore or silence a call to stop your phone from ringing. Even if you ignore the call and silence
the ringer, an incoming call notification continues to display on your phone.
Procedure
1. From the Incoming Call screen, do one of the following:
• Select Ignore for private lines.
• Select Silence for shared lines.
The Incoming Call screen disappears, your phone stops ringing, and either the Home or Calls
screen is displayed.
Reject Incoming Calls
You can reject a call and send the call directly to voicemail. Rejected calls display in the Missed Calls list
in your Recent Calls list. Rejecting calls is not available for shared lines.
Procedure
1. From the Incoming Call screen, select Reject.
Reject Calls from a Contact
You can send incoming calls from a particular contact directly to your voicemail.
Procedure
1. Navigate to Directories > Contact Directory.
2. From your Contact Directory, select a contact.
3. From the Contact Information screen, select Edit .
4. From the Edit Contact screen, select Auto Reject > Enabled and select Save.
Calls from the contact are sent directly to voicemail when the contact calls.
Rejecting Calls with Do Not Disturb
Do Not Disturb (DND) enables you to set your phone to automatically reject calls when you don’t want to
be interrupted.
When you enable DND, you see the following:
Audio Calls
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