Content

• Steps
• Method 1 of 2: Changing the way you go off-hook
• Method 2 of 2: Using the Detangler Phone Adapter
• Tips

Have you ever found a cable connecting a handset to a tightly coiled telephone? How often do you unravel it: every few weeks or even days? This article will help you understand the reason why the telephone wire gets tangled in order to prevent this from happening in the future.

Steps

Method 1 of 2: Changing the way you go off-hook

1. 1 Pick up the tube and hold it to your ear as usual.
   • Pay attention to which hand and near which ear you are holding the receiver. You will most likely do this near the dominant side of your body. This concept of the dominant side may not coincide with the hand you write with, but remember that in this article we will use it in this sense.
2. 2 Untangle the cord. Hopefully this is the last time you do this in your life! Disconnect the cable from the telephone and allow the cable from the handset to extend on its own to the surface of the table or floor. Next, grip the cord firmly with your fingertips. Pulling the cord down, at the same time stretch your hand along its entire length, fingering with your fingers and unraveling the knots.
3. 3 Connect the handset back to the phone and replace it.
4. 4 Place the phone on a table so that it is next to your dominant side of your body. For example, if you are using the left side when answering phone calls, then place the phone on the left side of the table.
   • Knots occur when the handset is pulled or twisted in the opposite direction from the one in which the turns on the wire are twisted. Entanglement can occur from either side; this happens when you pick up the receiver with one hand, then transfer it to the other, and then place it on the telephone set with the hand farthest from it.

Method 2 of 2: Using the Detangler Phone Adapter

1. 1 Purchase a Detangler phone adapter. Detangler is an adapter that connects between the handset cable and the handset itself. Now, when using the phone, the cable will not get tangled, and instead will be able to rotate in Detangler.
2. 2 Untangle the telephone cable. Disconnect the cable from the telephone handset and allow the cable to extend freely to the floor. Next, grip the cord firmly with your fingertips. Pulling the cord down, at the same time stretch your hand along its entire length, fingering with your fingers and unraveling the knots.
3. 3 Install the telephone cable to the Detangler. Connect the wire to the Detangler and then connect it to the handset.
4. 4 Check how everything works. Test Detangler. This adapter is highly sensitive to even small movements. If this is not the case, then you need to try a different adapter model.

Tips

• Most right-handers use the left side to talk on the phone, so don't think that since you write with your right hand, you are holding the phone with it.