google voice ring sound

[badgolferman]

I no longer have a land line and use my Google Voice number as a spam trap.
There doesn’t seem to be an option in the program to change the ring tone
and I can’t find a way to change sound in Notifications settings. Does
anyone have any suggestions on how to make the Google Voice have a
different ring tone?

[sms]

Two ways.

1. Change the configuration in Google Voice to "Show my Google Voice
number as caller ID when forwarding calls," add your Google Voice number
to your iPhone contacts, then set a different ring tone for the Google
Voice number. But you won't know who is calling you since the CallerID
will always show as your Google Voice number instead of passing through
the CallerID of the number that is calling Google Voice.

2. Don't change the configuration in Google Voice and instead go through
your iPhone contacts list and set a ringtone different from the default
ring tone) for your contacts. Spam calls, which will be from numbers not
in your contact list, will use the default ring tone. I think that this
is a better option, but more work initially.

You can also turn on spam blocking in Google Voice by requiring calls
coming from numbers that are not in your Google contacts to have the
caller announce themselves. This stops many spam calls.

[Matt Simpson]

On Apr 11, 2022 at 6:28:03 AM EDT, "badgolferman"

<REMOVETHISb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I no longer have a land line and use my Google Voice number as a spam trap.

This is not really an answer to your question, but a possible alternative.
Similar to you, my GV number is a spam trap. I don't have a landline, and I
give my GV number to people/companies that I don't want to give my real cell
number to. I rarely get a call to the GV number that I want to answer.

Instead of forwarding GV to my cell number, I have the GV app installed on my
phone. It is set to Do Not Disturb, so it never rings. All calls to that
number go to my GV voice mail, and show up in the GV app as missed calls. If
it's an important call (and it almost never is) they can leave a message and
I'll call back. If they leave a message, I get a push notificaton in the GV
app so I can respond quickly if necessary.

[Andy Burnelli]

Matt Simpson wrote:

> Instead of forwarding GV to my cell number, I have the GV app installed on my
> phone. It is set to Do Not Disturb, so it never rings. All calls to that
> number go to my GV voice mail, and show up in the GV app as missed calls. If
> it's an important call (and it almost never is) they can leave a message and
> I'll call back. If they leave a message, I get a push notificaton in the GV
> app so I can respond quickly if necessary.

I saw badgolferman's request and I tried to help him but when I looked on my
iPad I didn't see _any_ way to set the ringtone, so I felt bad that I
couldn't help him (but I see Steve gave him the best help so far).

As for setting up the iPad with Google Voice, I can't even make it ring!

The iPad that I'm using doesn't have a SIM card so it doesn't have a phone
number so it's using Google Voice over Wi-Fi (which works surprisingly
well).

The problem I have with Google Voice on the iPad is that it won't ring it
at all (which is even worse than the problem that badgolferman is having).

[sms]

I do the opposite. No one uses my real cell number, everything goes to
my Google Voice number and gets forwarded to one of my cell phone
numbers and if the person isn't in the Google contact list then they
have to announce themselves and spammers will rarely do that since it's
usually a robocall.

If my regular cell phone number gets a call it's pretty certain that
it's spam, i.e. someone trying to sell me a vehicle warranty or some
vacation scam.

Google Voice is especially nice when traveling outside the country. You
can just use data and the app and now there are a lot of low-cost
foreign, data-only, eSIMs.

[badgolferman]

This is an alternative that I can't use but it is intriguing. The real
reason I want a different ring tone for Google Voice is so I can tell
whether the call is coming through Voice or is it coming through my
personal cell number. Currently I can only have my phone tell me the
incoming call is Google Voice, a saved contact or some other number.
It would be nice if I could tell who is calling me through Google
Voice. I guess I can't complain since it's free.

[Andy Burnelli]

badgolferman wrote:

> The real
> reason I want a different ring tone for Google Voice is so I can tell
> whether the call is coming through Voice or is it coming through my
> personal cell number.

Steve's first suggestion will do that as I tested it myself and it works.

The problem is what Steve noted, which is that _all_ the Google Voice calls
will show up as the _same_ number (which is your Google Voice number).

If you don't mind not _seeing_ who is calling you (but you can still _hear_
who it is before you press "1" to accept the call), then that should work.

I tried to find a better answer than that but I failed while using the
Google Voice settings (which I, myself, can't get to ring the iPad).

[sms]

On 4/13/2022 7:51 AM, Matt Simpson wrote:

Since he said that all the Google Voice calls are spam, it's very easy
to do. See <https://i.imgur.com/O9nIIEn.jpg>.

You just set a different ring tone for calls from that Google Voice number.

What you lose by doing this is that you don't see the phone number of
who is calling, you only see your Google Voice number, but since they're
all spam call it doesn't matter.

The other alternative is to assign every phone number in your contact
list one phone number that is different from the default phone number.
Then any call not from a contact will be either from the Google Voice
caller or from some other unknown caller. This is a little more work to
set up but you will at least see the Google Voice caller's number passed
through.

[nospam]

In article <t36sv8$s4q$1...@dont-email.me>, sms

<scharf...@geemail.com> wrote:

> Since he said that all the Google Voice calls are spam, it's very easy
> to do.

even easier, is if all calls from google voice are spam, simply stop
forwarding them, or send them directly to voicemail.

[sms]

On 4/13/2022 9:15 AM, sms wrote:

> The other alternative is to assign every phone number in your contact
> list one phone number that is different from the default phone number.
> Then any call not from a contact will be either from the Google Voice
> caller or from some other unknown caller. This is a little more work to
> set up but you will at least see the Google Voice caller's number passed
> through.

Oops

> The other alternative is to assign every phone number in your contact

> list one _ring tone_ that is different from the default ring tone_.

[badgolferman]

All calls to Google Voice are not spam. That is the number I use in the
Home field for financial, school and shopping websites. I just don’t want
to provide my cell phone number to everyone so I give them the Voice number
instead in case they sell it to marketers.