How to Make Your Phone Ring Using Another Phone, Apps, & More

Make your own phone ring when it's lost or for a prank

Losing track of your phone can become a major inconvenience for the safety of your information. Your phone can also be used to pull a prank on your friends by receiving a call from a “very important person” who they need to talk to. It is also useful for testing out how loud of a sound you want your phone to emit. There are a wealth of options that can be performed with your phone’s settings, external apps and proper coordination.

Ways to Make Your Phone Ring

The easiest way to make your phone ring is to call it from another phone. You can also use a website like CallMyPhone or an app to make your phone ring. If you want to make your phone's ringtone play, you can do that from the Settings app. You can also use Find My Device to track a lost phone and make it play a sound.

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Calling From Another Phone

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  1. If you have another phone available to you, you can use it to call your own phone. You can use your house phone or borrow a phone from another person. Make sure to ask for permission when using someone else’s phone
    • If the call immediately fails or goes to a mailbox to leave a message, the signal may have failed, and you may need to try again, or the phone is turned off and will not make a sound.
    • If the phone is ringing but you do not hear a ringtone, a phone that is set to silent may be set to vibrate. Listen for a faint hum from your phone while moving around the house or area to make the device more audible. If placed in vibration mode, you may hear it vibrating against other surfaces, such as a table.
    • Try to look around areas you use frequently. The phone may have fallen behind a table or furniture or is buried under other objects, which could make it difficult to hear the device.
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Calling From a Website

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  1. Go to https://callmyphone.org . CallMyPhone is a website that will call your phone when you put in your phone number. CallMyPhone states that it keeps all information submitted to the site confidential, and that data is deleted after three months.
  2. Make sure to include your country code, too (i.e., +1 for the US, +44 for the UK, etc.).
  3. There will be a brief timer, and once the timer has run out, your phone will ring.
    • You can use CallMyPhone up to 4 times in a 24-hour period. [1]
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Using an App

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  1. Download an app for your mobile device. There are apps available that will either call your phone for you or allow you to place a fake call to your own phone. The first type of app is mainly used as an alternative to using your phone's built-in calling app and might be useful for people trying to locate a lost phone, and the second type of app is mostly used for playing pranks or getting out of meetings or social obligations.
    • Note that if you're trying to locate a lost phone, you will need a separate phone to use an app to make your phone ring.
    • Try one of these free apps:
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Testing Your Ringtone

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  1. This app will usually be on your phone's home page by default.
  2. Configure ringtone audio . This step may differ depending on your phone type.
    • On iPhone, choose the Sounds & Haptics option. Scroll through to find the Ringtone option which shows your currently selected ringtone. Tap on a ringtone to play it.
    • On Android, it may be listed under either Sounds or Sound & Notification. Choose Phone ringtone to select a ringtone to play then tap on Preview to play the ringtone or tap on Apply to save your changes.
  3. You can adjust how loud you want your phone to be when receiving a phone call.
    • On iPhone, tap Sounds & Haptics then adjust the Ringtone and Alerts slider to apply your changes to keep the ringtone at the specified audio level.
    • On Android, choose Volumes then adjust the Ringtone & notifications slider to test your ringtone.
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Using Find My/Find My Device

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  1. You can use Find My (iPhone) or Find My Device (Android) to ring your own phone in case it's lost. The one caveat is that you must have set up Find My/Find My Device before your phone was lost.
  2. You may need to have the owner of the device you're using tap Sign in as guest to sign in to your iCloud or Google account.
  3. On Android, you may be required to enter the phone's PIN.
  4. While this isn't the same as making your phone actually ring, your phone will emit a sound so you can locate it.
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      1. ↑ https://callmyphone.org
      2. ↑ https://www.payetteforward.com/my-iphone-wont-ring-heres-the-real-reason-why/

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