Sometimes when using your smartphone, you may want to know how to hide caller ID on Galaxy S8 or Galaxy S8+ Plus. The reason for this is that sometimes you don’t want others to know whose calling or you want to protect your identification. In this case, below we’ll explain how to hide or block caller ID on Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ Plus
Hiding your caller ID
Check out for ways you can hide your number on your Galaxy S8
- Go to the Homescreen
- Hit the Dialer App
- Select ‘more’
- Select ‘Settings’
- Select ‘More Settings’
- Select ‘Show my caller ID’
- Select ‘Hide number’
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However, these settings are mostly dependent on network
Most times, you wish to utilize the possibility of being able to call with an ‘’Unknown caller ID’’. If you indeed make a call with the suppressed phone number, then the recipient contact will not be able to view your caller ID on the display.
Instead, it displays ‘’private number’’ or ‘’unknown caller’’ on the screen. If you wish to make a call on your Galaxy S8 or Galaxy S8+ Plus with a hidden caller ID, follow the below guidelines.
Go to the Dialer app and then hit on the “More’’ icon on the upper right side of your screen. A pop-up menu appears. Select on ‘’Settings’’ and hit on ‘’other settings’’ on the next menu. An entry ‘’your phone number’’ appears. When you press on it, you will have the options
- Hide number
- Network standard
- Show number
Choose ‘’hide number’’. Your selection will be sent directly to your mobile operator. For all calls made from then on, your caller ID will not be displayed which basically means that you will be calling with a suppressed number.
