How To Create A Conference Call On The IPhone Under IOS 10

Ever need to talk on the phone to more than one person at a time, and all you have handy is your iPhone, No worries, it’s easy to create a conference call with your iPhone, here’s how. Add Call” button, then find the number for the second party you wish to include on the call in your contacts list. The original caller will be placed on hold while the second number is called. Once you are connected to the second party, tap the “Merge Calls” button. This will add the new party to the initial phone conversation. Repeat the above steps to add any additional parties to the conference call. If you’re already on a call and another party calls you, tap the “Hold and Answer” button that will pop up on the screen and then tap the “Merge Calls” button to add the new caller to the conference call. Note: CDMA networks may not be able to add, swap, or merge calls in certain situations. See the iPhone user guide for more details. For more tips and tricks on how to make better use of your Mac, iOS device, Apple Watch, or Apple TV, be sure to visit the “How To” section of our website. MacTrast Senior Editor, and self-described "magnificent bastard," Chris Hauk owns Phoenix Rising Services and writes for everyone's favorite "bad movie" website, Big Bad Drive-In. His first Apple product was an iPod Classic 9 years ago, and he has since added a MacBook Pro, a number of iPads, iPhones, and multiple Apple TVs to his collection. He lives somewhere in the deep Southern part of America. Yes, he has to pump in both sunshine and the Internet.

Be sure to let the first person you called know that you’re putting them on hold to add in another person. When they answer, tap Merge Calls. When the second person answers your call, you’ll see a button that says “Merge Calls” appear on your screen. To merge your current call with the first person you called, tap Merge Calls. This will allow you and the two people you called to all speak to one another. If you’d like to add more people, repeat steps two and three after each call is connected. If there are more people you’d like to add to your call, you can do so now. To add a fourth participant, tap Add Call once again. This will put the two people you initially called on hold, so once again be sure to let them know you’re doing this before tapping Add Call. When this person answers, tap Merge Calls to add them to your existing conference call. If you want to remove one person from your conference call without ending the call altogether, there is an easy way to do so.

Now, we’ll show you how you can remove a single person from a conference call on iPhone. After setting up your conference call, tap “i” in the top right corner to view more options. Once you have your conference call set up, you’ll see an “i” button in the top right corner. Tap this button to view a list of the members included in your conference call and reveal additional options. Tap End next to the name of the person you’re removing. Find the name of the person you’d like to remove from your call. Beside their name, tap End. This will remove that person only and allow you to continue your call with the other people. Continue your conference call with the remaining participants. After removing one of the participants, finish off the rest of your conversation with the people remaining in the conference call. Tap the Red Phone button to end the call entirely.

When you’re all done speaking with the group, tap the Red Phone near the bottom of your screen to end the call entirely. This will disconnect the conference call and hang up on everyone simultaneously. Be sure not to tap this button by accident, because then you’ll have to go through the process of setting up your conference call group all over again. During a conference call, you might want to have a quick private conversation with one of the people in the group, without everyone else being able to hear what you’re talking about. This can be especially true for people using conference calls to discuss business matters. If you want to know how to speak privately with one person while keeping your conference call going, keep reading! Tap the “i” button in the top-right corner to see a list of participating members in your call. To view a list of participants in your call, tap the "i" button in the top right corner of your screen. This will bring you to a screen with more options. Next to the name of the contact you’d like to speak privately with, tap Private. View the list of people you have included in your conference call. Beside the name of the person you wish to speak to privately, tap Private. This will put the other people in your call on hold, so let them know that you’d like them to stay on the line. Tap Merge to go back to speaking with the entire group. To return to speaking to your entire conference call group, tap Merge. Well, that covers just about everything you could possibly want or need to know about making conference calls on your iOS device. We hope you found this article helpful. In our next few tutorials, you can learn about things like setting up your voicemail, blocking or unblocking people from calling you, and how to check your voicemail messages.



Do you need to speak to several people at once, but cannot arrange a face-to-face meeting, You can do a conference call. You can connect up to 5 people in one call using your iPhone. Note that the steps are similar for making a conference call on most other phones too, whether they are Android, BlackBerry, Windows or other. First, call one of the participants using the Dialer on your phone. Inform your first participant that you will be adding more people to the call. Tap on the Add Call button. The first call will be put on hold. Repeat the process till you have added all participants. Merge Calls. This will bring all the participants together in the same call. Note that you can receive an incoming call while on a conference call. Just tap Hold & Accept. If you want to add the caller to the conference call, tap on Merge calls. Also, tap on the blue “I” to see the participants of the iPhone conference call. If you want to remove someone from the conversation, tap End. If you want to talk to a participant in private, tap Private. Furthermore, you can mute your voice during the conversation, so you can hear others but they can’t hear you. Tap Mute to do that. Also, you can enable speaker mode by tapping Speaker. When this is activated, you can minimize the call and go to the Home screen.