Call forwarding
Call forwarding
Here’s a pretty cool feature you may not even have known you had. It lets you
route all calls made to your iPhone number to a different number. How is this
useful? Let us count the ways:
* When you’re home. You can have your cellphone’s calls ring your home
number, so you can use any extension in the house, and so you don’t
miss any calls while the iPhone is turned off or charging.
* When you send your iPhone to Apple for battery replacement (page
346), you can forward the calls you would have missed to your home or
work phone number.
* When you’re overseas, you can forward the number to one of the Webbased
services that answers your voicemail and sends it to you as an
email attachment (like GrandCentral.com or CallWave.com).
* When you’re going to be in a place with little or no AT&T cell coverage
(Alaska, say), you can have your calls forwarded to your hotel or a friend’s
cellphone. (Forwarded calls eat up your allotment of minutes, though.)
All you have to do to turn on call forwarding is go the home screen and select “settings” >
“Phone” > “call forwarding”.