Silence Incoming Calls by Turning Over Your Microsoft Lumia 535

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Hello and welcome to VisiHow. In this video we are going to show you how you can flip your Microsoft Lumia 535 in order to silence an incoming call that you do not wish to answer.

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Steps

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    To begin with, we are going to turn the phone on by pressing the power button on the right-hand side of the phone
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    This will activate the phone.
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    Now in the lock screen we are going to swipe up to get to the Home screen
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    If we swipe down we're going to go to the easy option of accessing the settings very quickly
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    You'll see all settings at the right-hand side of the screen
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    Press on that to go straight into settings. We're not wasting any time today.
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    Now, we're going to go to audio
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    You may have to scroll to find it. Press audio. It's going to open up the audio menu.
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    Next we want to swipe across from right to left to get to enhancements
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    Here we can see we have flipped to silence
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    It should say, Flip face down to silence ringer. So if your phone is ringing, and you don't have time to, or you don't want to talk to someone right now, or you don't have the opportunity to answer the phone call, but also you don't want to worry about which button to press, and you just want to do it very quickly, it's a very, very helpful and useful function on this smartphone. Then you can just turn the phone face down to silence the ringer.
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    So we're going to activate that
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    Turn the feature on by sliding your finger across the rectangle. There we go. It's activated, and that's all you need to do.
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    We can go back to the Home screen by continually pressing the back arrow at the bottom left of the screen
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    So if your phone is ringing, and you cannot answer at this time, and you want to stop the ringing quickly, you just turn your phone face down
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    Then the phone call will cease to irritate you and to ring.
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    So this concludes our tutorial on how to activate or deactivate, if you no longer want it, the function on a Microsoft Lumia 535 to silence incoming calls by placing the phone face down
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    If you have any questions or suggestions about this video, please leave them in the comment section below. You've been watching VisiHow. Goodbye.
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I do not have an audio under settings on my Lumia 535 phone with Windows 10?

How do I get that setting on my phone?. I have tried: Several. I think it was caused by: After I updated to Windows 10, I cannot flip my phone to stop ringing

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