Check your phone settings to avoid missed calls

Manage your Phone app settings to make sure that you don’t miss phone calls.

Manage sound and vibration settings

To change your phone call and notification volume:

On your phone, press the Volume button.
At the right, tap More .
Under 'Ring and notification volume', slide the volume level to where you want it.

To check your vibrate and mute settings:

On your phone, press the Volume button.
At the right, above the slider, tap Ring .
- To turn vibrate on or off, tap Vibrate .
- To turn mute on or off, tap Mute .

Learn how to change volume, sound and vibrate settings on your Pixel phone.

Check Do Not Disturb settings

Check that Do Not Disturb is turned off

From the top of your screen, swipe down.
Next to Do Not Disturb , check that it’s turned off.

Learn more about how to turn it off or change its settings to allow notifications.

Delete preset schedules for Do Not Disturb

Open your phone's Settings app.
Tap Sound and vibration Do Not Disturb Schedules.
Next to the preset schedule, tap Settings Delete Delete.

Check Bedtime mode settings

Make sure that Do Not Disturb doesn’t turn on automatically when using Bedtime mode. To turn it off:

Open your phone's Settings app.
Tap Digital Wellbeing and parental controls.
Under 'Ways to disconnect', tap Bedtime mode Customise.
Under 'When Bedtime mode is on', turn off Do Not Disturb for Bedtime mode.

Check Driving mode settings

Make sure that Do Not Disturb doesn’t automatically turn on when you're driving. To turn it off:

Open your phone's Settings app.
Tap Sound and vibration Do Not Disturb Schedules.
Next to 'Driving mode', tap Settings Turn on automatically.
Turn off When driving is detected.

Check your gesture settings

You can turn some gestures on and off to interact with your phone.

Active Edge (Pixel 2–4)

Check that you didn’t silence your incoming calls by squeezing your phone with Active Edge. Learn how to use Active Edge.

Stop silencing calls while using Active Edge

Open your Settings app.
Tap System Gestures Active Edge.
Turn off Squeeze to silence phone.

Change how hard you squeeze Active Edge

Open your Settings app.
Tap System Gestures Active Edge.
Move the 'Squeeze sensitivity' line to the left or right.

Flip to Shhh (Pixel 4a and later, including Fold)

To keep flip to Shhh on and stop silencing your incoming calls, keep your phone face up.

Check that flip to Shhh is off

Open your phone's Settings app.
Tap System Gestures Flip to Shhh.
Turn off Use flip to Shhh.

Manage your notifications and Call Screen settings

Turn on Phone app notifications

Check that your notifications aren’t blocked in your device settings:

Open your phone's Settings app.
Tap Apps All apps Phone.
Turn on All phone notifications.

Check your Call Screen settings (Pixel 4a and later, including Fold)

Tip: Call Screen is only available in the US for users who are eligible.

Open the Phone app .
Tap More Settings Caller ID and Spam.
Check that See caller and spam ID is turned on.

Check blocked numbers

Open the Phone app .
Tap More Settings Blocked numbers.
Make sure that the phone number you want to receive a call from isn’t listed.