Vtech LS6381-2 Users Manual - Page 40

• The telephone can respond to remote Screen unknown home calls access code while it is playing the block announcement. This allows you If Smart call blocker is on, and you have to access your answering system from set profile to screen unknown home an unknown number remotely. See calls, the telephone plays a screening Remote access. announcement to the caller when receiving the following incoming home calls. It asks the caller to respond before putting the call through to you. • Incoming home calls with numbers that are "out of area" or with numbers set to "Private"; • Incoming home calls with absent caller ID numbers; • Incoming home calls with numbers that are not in your phonebook, allow list, nor block list; or • Incoming home calls with names that are not in your star name list. Screen calls and ask for caller names When screening a home call, the telephone announces to the caller, "Hello. Calls to this number are being screened by Smart call blocker. Please say your name after the tone, then press pound." After the caller completes the request, the telephone announces to the caller "Please wait a moment while your call is connected.". The telephone starts ringing and the handset screen displays Screened call. After you pick up the call, the telephone announces the caller's name, and then asks whether you want to answer or reject the call, or to forward the call to the answering system. 78 NOTES • After you picked up a screened home • You can set Smart call blocker to call and the telephone is announcing screen and filter all unknown home the screening options, you can press calls. You can easily add incoming to hang up the call. phone numbers to your allow list and • If Smart call blocker is on and you block list. This allows you to build up receive a call waiting home call: your lists of allowed and blocked • Smart call blocker will not screen numbers, and Smart call blocker will a call waiting home call without know how to deal with these calls number while on a call. You can when they come in again. press HOME/FLASH or to • The telephone announces to the take the new call. caller with "Hello. Calls to this • After you have picked up number are being screened by a screened home call, the Smart call blocker..." If you have telephone checks whether the recorded your name in the screening call waiting number is in the announcements, your recorded phonebook, block list or allow name will replace "this number" in list. It also checks whether the the announcements. See Screening caller name is in the star name list. announcement. After that, The telephone then • The screening feature of Smart call displays the caller ID information blocker is applicable to home calls or "Blocked call" accordingly. You only. can press HOME/FLASH or • If the caller hangs up before the home to take the new call, or press CALL call is screened, or without leaving BLOCK on the handset to block it. his/her name while the call is being • While the telephone is screening screened, the call will be logged as a home call, the new call will be missed call in the caller ID log. ignored and logged as missed • While a home call is being screened, call in the caller ID log. you can press HOME/FLASH or • Robocalls are unable to respond to stop screening and answer the call. • After the telephone screened a home call, and is ringing and announcing the caller's name, you can press to mute the ringer, or 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 Star name list. press CALL BLOCK to reject the call directly. 79