The process of rerouting an incoming call to another number is called ‘call forwarding’. You can divert all your office calls to the office phone while you are off on vacation, which can be coined as a luxury in all true sense. This will help you ignore the calls of anyone and everyone and still have your phone.

The call forwarding feature can be made available to you either by your mobile phone.

  1. Setting up Call Forwarding on Your iPhone

iPhones are a special class of smartphone made by Apple located in California, USA. The company was founded by Steve Jobs. He was a brilliant man, to be honest. The phones are a special high quality and superior range of phones, which are very expensive and tough to afford. Here are five steps to do the same and that so in a proper manner:

  • Open the Settings App.
  • Select Phone.
  • Select Call Forwarding.
  • Turn Call Forwarding ON.
  • Enter the number you would like to forward your calls to.

  1. Setting up Call Forwarding on Your Android Phone

Android phones are the most famous kind of smartphones available in the world. Android is made, Google and provides ample freedom to its manufacturers to play with it and tweak with it according to their needs. And it also provides the end user with the same opportunity. It is very user-friendly and provides users with a world of apps to choose from for their needs and any kind of use. Android phones are the only reason that smartphones have gained popularity in the present day market and has made smartphones a necessity.

Such phones are manufactured by many companies such as market leader Samsung, Xiaomi MI, Oneplus, Oppo, Vivo, Micromax, Moto and, many other brands. Here are four steps to do the same:

  • Open Settings.
  • Select Call Settings.
  • Select Call Forwarding.
  • Turn Call Forwarding ON.

  1. Setting up Call Forwarding on Your Windows Phone

Windows phone has windows operating system made by Microsoft, which for founded by Bill Gates.

The windows phone interface is like the windows 8 for computers and was much more user-friendly. Though the windows phone did not gain much popularity, they were easy to handle and had very good connectivity. The scarcity of apps available on the windows platform led to the downfall of windows phone. Its primary manufacturer was Nokia. It even had to face a downfall because of the non-selling property of the Windows phone. Here are four steps to do the same:

  • Open Settings.
  • Select Calls + SMS.
  • Select Call Forwarding.
  • Turn Call Forwarding ON.

  1. Setting up Call Forwarding with Short-Codes

Another way to set call forwarding on your phone is to go via service provider and set it up through the codes. It is a very special method which does not depend upon the phone that you are using. It makes call forwarding as a basic feature rather than a luxury to acquire. Here are five steps to do the same:

  • Dial **21* followed by the number you wish the calls to forward to, followed by #.
  • For example **21*13106565655#.
  • Press ‘yes/ok/send’.
  • You will either see a message on your screen or receive a text message saying that forwarding has been enabled.
  • Restart your phone.
  • When you wish to stop forwarding your calls, dial ##21# to disable call forwarding.

NOTE

  •  Call forwarding your calls may/will affect the call voice quality.

As the phone call is diverted to a third party it may cause hindrance to the call quality.