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iPhone call forwarding indicator
Posted on July 4th, 2009 3 commentsEver since I started using my iPhone, I wished it had a call forwarding indicator. I typically give out my cell number as my main number when meeting people, and then forward the iPhone to wherever I am. Sometimes, I forget to turn off the forwarding when I leave again, making me unreachable.
To my delight, I discovered that since upgrading the OS to 3.0 my iPhone 3G now indicates when the call forwarding is active with an icon on the status bar.
I haven’t seen this feature announced, so I am not sure if it is part of the overall 3.0 package, or if it is a feature specific to my carrier: Rogers Canada. The screen shot below shows the phone with the indicator on.
iPhone 3G on Rogers with call forwarding on
3 responses to “iPhone call forwarding indicator”
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Works for me. Unfortunately only for call forwarding on all calls and not for ‘on busy’. One step forward.
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Brian July 20th, 2009 at 22:29
If I enable airplane mode, then disable it, the CF icon is not on. I have to go into Settings, Phone, CF. Then the icon comes back. This is nearly as bad as no icon at all.
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Silly that it doesn’t track the state through airplane mode on/off.
To turn CF on and off, I stopped using Setting/Phone/Call Forwarding. Now I have a “Call Forward Home” entry in my address book with the number *21*99999999999# (replacing 9s with my home number) , and “Call Forward Off” number #21# . Both of those are set as favorites, so I can quickly turn on and off the forwarding. Other carriers may use a different code than the 21.
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