Vtech LS6381-2 Users Manual - Page 41

• The telephone can respond to remote Block this call: access code while it is playing the • Press 3 or CALL BLOCK to block the screening announcement. This allows call. The telephone plays the block you to access your answering system announcement "The number you from an unknown number remotely. are calling is not accepting your call. See Remote access. Please hang up." to the caller. The Screened call options telephone number will be added to your block list. After the telephone screen a home call and starts ringing, the handset screen Send this call to the answering system: displays Screened call. Press • Press 4 to forward the call to the HOME/FLASH or to pick up the answering system. call. After you picked up the call, the End this call: telephone announces "Call from..." and • If you do not want to take the call, the caller's name, and then announces, press to end the call. "To answer the call, press 1. To answer and always allow this number, press 2. NOTES To block this number, press 3. To send this • For home calls that are "out of area", call to the answering system, press 4. To "Private", or without caller ID, only repeat these options, press *". options 1 and 4 will be available. The Allow this call once: telephone announces "To answer the call, press 1. To send this call to the • Press 1 to answer the call. The answering system, press 4. To repeat telephone number will not be added these options, press *". to your allow list. • If you select option 4 to send the call to the answering system, the caller can Always allow this call: leave a message even if the answering • Press 2 to answer the call. The telephone number will be • added to your allow list. system is off. • When the telephone is ringing, you can press MUTE/DELETE to mute the ringer temporarily. 80 Screen robocalls This option is suitable for you to filter calls that uses autodialers to deliver If Smart call blocker is on, and you prerecorded messages, for example, have set profile to screen robocalls, robocalls and telemarketing calls. the telephone plays a screening announcement to the caller when NOTES receiving the following incoming home • The telephone announces to the calls. It asks the caller to press the pound caller with "Hello. Calls to this key (#) before putting the call through number are being screened by to you. Smart call blocker..." If you have recorded your name in the screening • Incoming home calls with numbers announcements, your recorded that are "out of area" or with name will replace "this number" in numbers set to "Private"; the announcements. See Screening • 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. announcement. • The screening feature of Smart call blocker is applicable to home calls only. • While a home call is being screened, you can press HOME/FLASH or to stop screening and answer the call. Screen calls without asking for caller • If Smart call blocker is on and you names receive a call waiting home call: When screening a home call, the telephone announces to the caller, "Hello. Calls to this number are being screened by Smart call blocker. If you're a family member, friend or invited caller, please press pound to be connected. If you're a solicitor, please hang up now." After the caller presses the pound key (#), the telephone announces to the caller "Please wait a moment while your call is connected.". The telephone starts ringing, and you can answer the call. • Smart call blocker will not screen a call waiting home call without number while on a call. You can press HOME/FLASH or to take the new call. • After you have picked up a screened home call, the telephone checks whether the call waiting number is 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 then displays the caller ID information 81