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Screen uncategorized calls
If Smart call blocker is on, and your
telephone is set to screen uncategorized
calls, the telephone will not ring when
receiving the following incoming calls:
• Incoming calls with absent caller ID
numbers; or
• Incoming calls with numbers that are not
in your phonebook, allow list, nor block
list; or
• Incoming calls with names that are not in
your star name list.
The telephone plays a screening
announcement to the caller and asks the
caller to respond before putting the call
through to you. The telephone has two
screening options. You can set your Smart
call blocker to screen these calls by asking
the callers to record their names and then
press the pound key (#). Alternatively,
you can screen these calls by only asking
the callers to press the pound key (#). See
Screening announcement on page 40.
• You can set Smart call blocker to screens
and filters all uncategorized calls from
numbers or names that are not yet saved
in your directory, allow list, block list, or
star name list. You can easily add incoming
phone numbers to your allow list and block
list. This allows you to build up your lists of
allowed and blocked numbers, and Smart
call blocker will know how to deal with these
calls when they come in again.
• The telephone announces to the caller
with “Hello. Calls to this number are being
screened by Smart call blocker...” If you
have recorded your name in the screening
announcements, your recorded name will
replace “this number” in the announcements.
See Screening announcement on page
40.
• If the caller hangs up before the call is
screened, or without leaving his/her name
while the call is being screened, the call will
be logged as missed call in the caller ID log.
• While a call is being screened, you can press
TALK or on the cordless handset to stop
screening and answer the call.
• When the telephone rings and announces
the caller’s name after screening a call, you
can press OFF to silence the ringer. You
can also press CALL BLOCK on the cordless
handset or telephone base to reject the
call directly, and the caller’s number will be
added to the block list.
• If you pick up a screened call, the telephone
then announces the screening options. You
can press OFF on the cordless handset to
hang up the call. The caller’s number will not
be added to the block list.
• If the Smart call blocker feature is on and
in screening mode, and you receive a call
waiting call:
- If you have already picked up a
screened call, the telephone checks
whether the call waiting call’s number
can be found in the phonebook, block
list or allow list. It also checks whether
the caller name is in the star name list.
After that, the telephone displays the
caller ID information or Blocked call
accordingly. You can press TALK or
on the cordless handset to take the new
call.
- If the telephone is screening a call, the
call waiting call will be ignored and
logged as missed call in the caller ID
log.
• Robocalls are unable to respond to the
screening announcement, and therefore,
will not get through and ring. If you want to
allow some robocalls to get through, save
their names in the star name list. See page
35.
• The telephone can respond to remote
access code while it is playing the screening
announcement. This allows you to access
your answering system from an unknown
number remotely. See Remote access on
page 55.
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