Call Forwarding Deactivation Code: In today’s time, mobile phone has become the most important part of our life. From banking to online payment, office work and talking to family, almost every important work is done through phone. In such a situation, if your call gets forwarded to some other number and you are not even aware of it, then it can cause big trouble. Many times people start call forwarding themselves and forget to turn it off later. In some cases, this feature can also be activated by changing the settings of the phone. In such a situation, it is important that you keep checking from time to time whether call forwarding is active on your number or not.
After all, what is call forwarding?
Call forwarding is a facility in which calls coming to your mobile number are automatically transferred to some other number. For example, if you have forwarded your number to another number, calls coming to you will go directly to that number. This feature is very useful for those who use more than one number or want to forward their call to another person at a particular time. However, if this feature is accidentally left on, your important calls may go to some other number instead of coming to you.
To activate call forwarding in Jio, Airtel, Vodafone-Idea and BSNL, users can turn it on by going to Settings > Call > Advanced Settings > Call Forwarding in their phone. Apart from this, telecom companies also provide some special codes, with the help of which call forwarding can be easily activated. Users can set call forwarding as per their need for all calls, busy calls, unanswered calls or in case of being out of network. This is the reason why this feature proves to be very useful for many people, but it is equally important to know about it.
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Check immediately with this secret code
If you suspect that call forwarding is turned on in your phone, it is very easy to check it. For this, dial *#21# in your phone’s dialer and press the call button. After this, information will appear on the screen whether call forwarding is active on your number or not. If call is being forwarded to any number then you will also see its information. This method works on almost all major telecom companies like Jio, Airtel, Vi and BSNL. With this you can know the status of your number in just a few seconds.
Easy way to stop call forwarding
If call forwarding is on in your phone and you want to turn it off, there is a simple code for it. If you use Jio, Airtel, Vodafone-Idea and BSNL SIM in your phone, then call forwarding can be removed using the following code.
Jio call forwarding deactivation code
- Deactivate call forwarding code for all incoming calls: *413
- Deactivate code for unconditional call forwarding: *402
- Deactivate call forwarding code for busy calls: *406
- Deactivate call forwarding code for non-answerable calls: *404
- Deactivate call forwarding code for unreachable calls: *410
Airtel Call Forwarding Deactivation Code
- Deactivate call forwarding code for all incoming calls: ##21#
- Deactivate call forwarding code for busy calls: ##67#
- Deactivate call forwarding code for non-answerable calls: ##61#
- Deactivate call forwarding code for unreachable calls: ##62#
Vodafone idea call forwarding deactivation code
- Deactivate call forwarding code for all incoming calls: ##002#
- Deactivate call forwarding code for busy calls: ##67#
- Deactivate call forwarding code for non-answerable calls: ##61#
- Deactivate call forwarding code for unreachable calls: ##62#
Deactivation code for BSNL call forwarding
- Deactivate call forwarding code for all incoming calls: ##21#
- Deactivate call forwarding code for busy calls: ##67#
- Deactivate call forwarding code for non-answerable calls: ##61#
- Deactivate call forwarding code for unreachable calls: ##62#
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