How to ignore a call? When someone calls me and I don't want to pick up nor reject (sending to voicemail), I silence the ringing and have to wait until the ringing is over before I can use my phone again (the screen is stuck on showing me that I'm getting a phone call).

I want to be able to both silence the call and get back to what I was doing immediately, even if the other side is still ringing. Is this possible?

I'm on a Samsung S7 Edge with Android 6.0.1.
Macrodroid , easy to learn automation app can help you

You can create a macro as below to


Reject calls
Create customisable SMS to let the callers know reason for rejection





To activate the macro you have two choices :


In Constraints add the condition you want the macro to run, like day of the week or time of day
From the app widget . Select the widget, drop it on to your home screen and assign this macro to the widget. You would then be able to manually enable / disable the macro if the earlier option is not suitable


To understand how MacroDroid works and required settings,  my answer here