How to Turn Off WiFi Calling? A Step-By-Step Guide
If your smartphone has WiFi calling enabled, it means you can make and receive phone calls using your home’s WiFi network. This is an excellent option if your home is located in an area with weak cell signal or if you have a cell phone plan with limited data. If you prefer to use WiFi Calling, you may want to check out our guide on giving your network a WiFi Boost.
However, if you tend to make calls in rooms with weak WiFi signal or like to talk on the phone while walking outside, your phone may switch back and forth between cellular networks and WiFi. This will cause your phone stutter and drop calls, which can get frustrating fast.
If you’d like to turn off WiFi calling on your phone and just stick to using your cellular plan for calls, it’s easy to disable this feature. We’ll show you how to do this on most smartphones so you can achieve this goal with ease in minutes.
How to turn off WiFi calling on an iPhone
If you have an Apple device, here’s how to turn off your WiFi Calling feature on iPhones.
- Open the Settings app on your iPhone from your Home screen.
- Tap Cellular, then WiFi Calling
- Click the toggle button to disable WiFi Calling on This iPhone.
- If prompted, confirm that you want to turn off WiFi calling.
Turn off WiFi Calling on a Mac
Using a Mac computer or laptop to make calls? You can disable WiFi calling on your Mac using your iPhone with these steps.
- Open your Settings on your iPhone.
- Click Cellular.
- Tap Calls on Other Devices.
- Look for Allow Calls On and find your Mac.
- Click the toggle button to disable WiFi Calling on your Mac.
How to turn off WiFi calling on an Android phone
Since Android runs on a variety of wireless devices, each device may require a slightly different method to turn off WiFi Calling. Find your phone below and follow the step-by-step instructions below to turn off WiFi Calling on your Android device.
Turn off WiFi Calling on most Android phones
- Tap the Phone app.
- Tap the 3 Vertical Dots to open the menu.
- Click Settings.
- Tap Calls.
- Tap WiFi Calling.
- Tap the toggle button to disable WiFi Calling.
Turn off WiFi Calling on Google Pixel phones
The steps in the Android section should work for most Pixel phones. Here is an alternative method you may find easier.
- Open the Settings menu. You can usually do this by swiping up from the bottom and clicking the icon labeled Settings.
- Tap Network & internet.
- Click Calls & SMS.
- Tap the section below “WiFi Calling” the reflects your cell phone plan provider. This may look different depending on which provider you use.
- Tap the toggle button to disable WiFi Calling.
Turn off WiFi Calling on Samsung Galaxy
- Tap the Phone app from your Home menu.
- Tap the 3 vertical dots to open the menu.
- Click Settings then Call Settings.
- Tap the toggle button to disable WiFi Calling.
Turn off WiFi Calling on Motorola
- Swipe down from the top with two fingers to access the quick menu.
- Click the Settings Icon.
- Tap Network & Internet.
- Click Mobile Network.
- Tap Advanced.
- Tap WiFi Calling.
- Tap the toggle button to disable WiFi Calling.
Why Turn Off Your WiFi Calling?
While WiFi calling works great if you’re trying to save data on a limited cell phone plan, there are many reasons why you may want to disable this feature. For example, if you have a slow WiFi connection, using your WiFi to make phone calls can slow down your internet speed, since your phone calls will share bandwidth with your other devices.
If you love to make calls while traveling, commuting or walking, disabling this feature may help improve the quality of your calls by preventing your phone from attempting to connect to every single WiFi network you come in contact with.
And lastly, turning off WiFi Calling is one way to improve the quality of your calls in a room that has a poor WiFi signal. However, if you’re experiencing weak WiFi in some areas of your home, you can always follow the steps in our guide on how to eliminate WiFi deadzones. And if you’re an EPB customer, you can always sign up for EPB Smart Net Plus to power all your devices flawlessly at once with warp-speed WiFi in every corner of your home.
What to remember:
- Turning off WiFi Calling is an easy process that can help improve the quality of your phone calls, especially when you’re outside of your home.
- With most types of phones, you can disable this feature in your Settings. Go to Settings, and click Cellular / Mobile / Connections. Then tap WiFi Calling and toggle it off to disable this feature.
- The process is similar on each device, but some steps may be a little different depending on which phone you’re using. Check out the sections above to step-by-step guides for each individual phone.
