How to stop my phone from auto answering

My phone is auto answering and I've tried everything to make it stop...help?

iPhone 16 Pro Max, iOS 26

Posted on Dec 18, 2025 2:21 PM

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Dec 18, 2025 2:29 PM in response to Katana-San

I have turned my phone off and then back on as well as a reset and it still has not fixed the problem.

When a call comes in, the phone automatically picks up the call. I will be out of the room and hear voices and it's coming from the caller because my darn phone has decided to answer the call on it's own.


I have checked the settings and it is not set to auto answer, so I am at a loss??

Dec 18, 2025 3:44 PM in response to DrMommy911

DrMommy911 wrote:

My phone is answering calls on it's own.

I will be in another room, hear my phone ring and before I can get to it, it has automatically answered the call.

I have turned off and on the phone as well as doing a reset and it has not fixed the problem.

Hello~ Have you completed this? Try Settings>Accessibility>Touch>Call Audio Routing>Auto-Answer Calls. Turning it off?


~Katana-San~

Dec 18, 2025 4:07 PM in response to DrMommy911


DrMommy911 (Author)

Perhaps you may need to decidedly go through long list of

related topics to narrow down and find info to change that?


iPhone User Guide - (Table of Contents) Apple Support

//support.apple.com/guide/iphone/toc


This allows one to see more of the articles in one place; yet

even so, there are more Support articles from Apple online.


See sample list of ones from 'Table of Contents' as follows:


Phone:


Sometimes seemingly unrelated items may be found

within a different topic article; as in a 'blue text' link..


Similar yet different example in Messages: Table of Contents

may also be worth reading among articles there, to be sure!


And Voicemail is an odd mystery. On occasion I find a Voicemail

from a few years ago. A few times, I had expected to get Email,

instead of a Voice Message.. [I've turned off Voicemail and Siri.]


After finding information from my Mac, easily: I'd need to share

those articles. (Or just a PDF. in Preview from Mac to iPhone.) I'd

sought to use AirDrop since that had worked. ~ The .PDF Article

took a different route. It has never been seen, after that AirDrop.


Said in iPhone, to look into Books app. Not one thing was found.

Finally I used my gmail app to send the item to myself. Instead of

the AirDrop. Worked out well, and most direct, too. (But why?)


.There's times I miss a lot of older tech; reliable, works w/o electricity

& most cats won't use vintage keyboards, on mechanical typewriters.


An A.I. search in DuckDuckGo, in browser, may help sift through

the dozens of possibilities from Apple Support articles and topics.

While the Table of Contents for iPhone is usually found under Tips.


How to stop my phone from auto answering

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