La Call waiting is a service through which we can manage several telephone calls simultaneously. Almost all operators offer it, and it can also be done from any smartphone model, regardless of the brand and model, as well as whether it is an iPhone or an Android phone.
What is call waiting? When we are talking on the phone and someone calls us, this service notifies us with a slight sound. Then we can decide if we want to accept or reject the new incoming call. If we reject it, the person calling us will receive the classic "busy line" message; instead, if we accept it, this call will remain in the queue, waiting.
It is an option that we can activate or not. In many cases, it can be very useful. Let's think about those situations in which someone calls us and we are busy. Impossible to know that this call has occurred until we receive an SMS warning of a missed call. If it is an important call, perhaps we would have liked to interrupt the current call to take it or, at least, put it on hold.
Call waiting was already possible in the first mobile phone models, although it was with the advent of smartphones that the mechanism became simpler and more practical.
With the call waiting service, we can interrupt the call in progress to answer the incoming call. That is to say, the person we are talking to will be put on hold (Obviously, we must be polite and notify our interlocutor that we are going to leave him waiting because we have to attend to something more urgent). The person who remains on hold will hear a signal or some background music, although this depends on each operator. Once we finish with the incoming call, we will automatically return to the previous one.
It must be said that, in most cases, call waiting is a service that all operators offer free of charge, since it is already included in their general rates. In fact, in many cases this option is already activated by default on many devices. If not, we will explain how to activate it:
How to activate call waiting on an iPhone
Activating the call waiting service on an iPhone is very easy. In fact, it is something that can be done through the phone's own settings. These are the steps to follow:
- First, we need to open the adjustments of our iPhone.
- Then we go to the section "Telephone".
- In the menu of options that appears, we select the one of "Call waiting" and we activate that option *.
From that moment on, when we are talking on the phone, our iPhone will send us a notice when a new call comes in. And we will be able to choose if we reject it or if we accept it, leaving the person with whom we are speaking on hold.
If this option is not activated, the calls that we receive while we are talking will be redirected directly to the voice mailbox.
(*) To deactivate call waiting on an iPhone, you must follow this same procedure, with the difference that, in step number 3, you must deactivate the option.
How to activate call waiting on Android phones
This procedure is valid for practically all phone models that use the Android system. It is the one we should use if we have a smartphone brands like Xiaomi, Samsung or Huawei, For example.
Broadly speaking, and although there may be some variation depending on the model, the steps to follow to carry out this action are the following:
- First we go to the app "Telephone".
- There we click on the icon of the three small dots that appear on the screen, at the top right.
- Next, we select «Settings» and from there we go "Additional settings".
- Finally, we activate the option of "Call waiting".
Xiaomi brand phones work with the Google Phone App. For them, the method to follow to activate call waiting is this:
- To start, we open the app "Google Phone".
- Then we go to the option "Calls."
- Now we are going to "Additional settings".
- Finally, we click on "Call waiting" to activate this option.
Finally, we detail the method to activate call waiting on phones Samsung, which differs slightly from the one we have explained before:
- First we open the app "Telephone".
- We access the main menu by clicking on the icon of the three points.
- Now we are going to "Settings".
- There we will "Additional services".
- To finish, we activate the option of "Call waiting".
In conclusion, we can say that call waiting is a very practical service that can be very useful in various situations. A system to improve our communications and, above all, not miss any important calls.