How To Hide Number On Airtel 2024

Are you an Airtel user? Are you searching for How to hide your number on Airtel? Do you care a lot about your privacy and would like to hide your phone, but you just do not know how? If you answered yes to any of those questions, count yourself lucky. You have come to the right place. In this article, we will be answering the age-long question: ‘how to hide number on Airtel”.

There are multiple reasons a person will want to make his caller ID unknown to the person he/she is calling. Even if at the moment, you do not see a reason to hide your number, you might just find yourself in a position where making your caller ID unknown will be needed. So keep reading as I show you how you can hide your caller ID on the Airtel network.

What Does It Mean To Hide Your Number On Airtel

If you have ever received a call from someone and instead of the caller’s name or phone number to be displayed, it shows “UNKNOWN”, making the identity of the caller anonymous, then viola; the caller hid their number from you. Therefore, to hide your number simply means to withhold your identity from the receiver while making a phone call. Simply put, it means remaining anonymous on a phone call. Now, I know you are asking, “Why will someone hide their identity?” or why should you hide your identity? Keep reading to get the answers you so desire.

Why Should I Hide My Phone Number?

As stated earlier, their so many reasons people hide their caller ID. I will be showing you a few below.

Security reasons: due to the current state of insecurity in the country, it will not be strange to see people hiding their identity before making some calls to numbers or persons that are not trusted.
A sense of anonymity: you may choose to hide your number before making some calls just to maintain a level of anonymity. For example, if you are calling into a radio, tv, or online show, where you do not want your identity to be revealed, then you will have to consider hiding your phone number.
You may just be hiding your phone number from a particular person. For example, if someone owes you money and you know that they will not pick up if they know it is you calling, all you have to do is hide your number and call, and voila! They will pick up because they do not know the identity of the person calling. Therefore, you see, hiding your number may just be the smartest thing to do in a situation like this.
Using a work phone to make calls or making work-related using your phone number

These are just a few of the reasons you might consider hiding your phone number, there are many other reasons I could not mention here, but you get the point. Whatever your reason may be, it is totally justified and acceptable. Now let us look at how we can hide our Airtel number.

How To Hide Your Number On Airtel?

There are two methods you can use to hide your Airtel number, they are:

Using USSD code
Phone setting
Third Party Apps

Hiding Your Phone Number Using USSD Code On Your Airtel Line

This is the oldest method in the books and it is very efficient too. With this method, all you have to do is put the USSD code *31# in front of the recipient’s number before dialing. i.e. *31#RECIPIENT PHONE NUMBER, for example; if you want to call this number 09020000000 and you wish to hide your caller ID from them, all you have to do is dial *31#09020000000 and just like that, your ID will be hidden from this person.

The good thing about this method is that your ID is only hidden from this particular person and for the duration of that particular call. So if you want to keep hiding your phone number from this person or others as well, you will have to keep adding *31# before every number you wish to hide your ID from.

If you want to hide your caller ID from all the contact on your phone and for every call you make, then simply dial *31# on your phone. Then, you will receive a message that “outgoing caller ID service has been disabled”. If you do this, then your caller ID will be hidden for every number you call.

Now let us look at the second method.

Hiding Your Phone Number Through Your Phone Setting

It will interest you to note that this method is not restricted to just the Airtel network. It is a generalized way of hiding your phone number irrespective of the network provider you are registered with.

Now let us look at how this method works.

The step in this method varies depending on your phone type. For those with the small, older versions of mobile phone (commonly known as button phone), go to the call setting on the phone and locater “hide caller ID”. Then, turn the hide caller ID feature on and voila! Your caller ID will be unknown to those you are calling.

Asides from hiding your phone, you might also be interested in knowing how to check your Airtel Number.

For Android Devices

Do the following:

Open your phone and go to the phone setting. The “phone setting” app is usually displayed along with your app’s menu, so, it should not be difficult to locate.
Click on “all settings”
Next, select “additional setting” from the list of options
Then, select “caller ID”
You will see “hide number” click on it
Your phone number will then automatically remain hidden for every call you make on that phone.

Another way you can do this is:

On your mobile phone, open your dialer or click on the call icon
In the top right corner, you will see three vertical dots, click on it
A drop down menu will appear
Click on setting from the menu
Next, click on “calling accounts”
You can now click on the Airtel Sim you wish to hide
Then, click on additional information
Next click on “caller ID”
Lastly, click on “hide number”

Easy right?

Please note that, while the first process of this method will hide your phone number on all calls made using that phone, regardless of the SIM and Network on use, this second process will only hide your number for calls made using the Airtel number you selected at step 6 above.

Hiding Your Phone Number Using Third-Party Apps

Third party apps are mobile applications that enables you effectively hide your caller ID. There are a few of these apps and the interesting part is that you can download them from Google Play Store or Apple store for free.

Some of such apps are; Call App and 2nd Line both of which are available on both Android and IOS devices. to download them, go to your app store and type in the name on the search bar, or you can just click on the link above for android devices.

If after making your call or for whatsoever reason, you do not want to hide your phone number again, then you can also conveniently disable this feature. I will show you how to do that below.

How To Disable/Remove Hide Number On Airtel Through Phone Setting

For those with the small, older versions of mobile phone (commonly known as button phone), go to the call setting on the phone and locater “hide caller ID”. Then, turn the hide caller ID feature off and voila! Your caller ID will be unknown to those you are calling.

For Android Devices

Do the following:

Open your phone and go to “phone setting”. The phone’s setting app is usually displayed along with your app’s menu, so, it should not be difficult to locate.
Click on “all settings”
Next, select “additional setting” from the list of options
Then, select “caller ID”
You will see “show number” click on it
Your phone number will then automatically be made visible for every call you make on that phone.

Another way you can do this is:

On your mobile phone, open your dialer or click on the call icon
On the top right corner, you will see three vertical dots, click on it
A drop down menu will appear
Click on setting from the menu
Next, click on “calling accounts”
You can now click on the Airtel Sim you wish to hide
Then, click on additional information
Next click on “caller ID”
Lastly, click on “show number”

How To Disable/Remove Hide Number Using USSD Code

If you did dial *31# to hide your Airtel number, then to make your number visible again, all you have to do is; dial *31# again and you will receive a message that “outgoing caller ID service was enabled”

In other words, if you dial *31# for the first time, caller ID will be disabled, meaning your caller ID will be hidden. If you dial it the second time, caller ID will be enabled, meaning your caller ID will be made visible to recipients.

Conclusion

Hiding your phone number on Airtel is as easy as turning on the television, so you do not have to sweat it trying to figure out how to hide your phone number or how to make it visible again. I believe with this article, I have been able to provide you with easy-to-follow steps on how to hide your number on Airtel. If you tried any of this method and it did not work for your line, then contact the Airtel network provider using this link https://www.airtel.com.ng