I want phone to ring longer before switching to answer phone

Not knowing your phone make & model I can offer advice from my own previous handsets, please Go into your settings menu, select phone setting & then answer setting, choose the longest amount of ring cycles offered, if this is not an option, try selecting a longer ring tone, or downloading a song as a ring tone, which will then play the length of the song making it ring longer... I hope this helps....

Contact your cell phone provider and ask about "Extended Ring" - I used to work for Sprint/Nextel and was available from them, no doubt others do too. We would add it for free at that time, some elderly or impaird needed more time to get to the phone.

The number of rings is controlled by the answering machine, not the phone. What make and model answering machine do you have on your phone line?

its network dependant any network will keep the line for 30 sec only for ringing

turn ur answering mahine off with ur provider

you would have to call your provider to make the ring longer on your phone

If its going to your carriage service provider message bank then you need to reset this for a longer period. The carrier message bank is managed by the carrier.

If the cordless has an answering service, then you need to scroll through the menu on the phone to select answering functions and select 6 rings or longer.

You will have to have the admin lengthen the voicemail answer time, i would add another 15-20 seconds.....but this will make all calls ring your phone longer before going to vociemail

Hi the only way you can make the phone ring longer is to goto settings scroll down to call select call then select call divert then select cancel all diverts after you have dont this then select divert if busy turn this on then divert if out of reach turn this on the select divert if not available now leave them like that then when your phone is switched on it wont goto answer unless your on phone to someone else or you hang up on someone.
With the settings like that it will goto answer phone if phone is off or if you have no signal or if you are on phone to someone else but now your phone will ring for aslong as someone rings you for.
Let me know if you need further assistance