Turning off the ringer & Changing the home button

When my phone rings and I don't want to answer it for whatever reason, I intuitively press the home button to try and send the call into voice mail (and therefore also stop the ringing). However, the voice control setting comes up.
1. How do you quickly and easily send the phone into voice mail and/or stop the ringing? (I don't want to have to change the volume in Settings every time I go in a meeting).
2. How do you change the functionality of the home button so that it doesn't go to voice control? There are many other things I would like to do via that button - e.g. send call to voice mail, go to internet - rather than activate voice control (which I don't even use).
Thank you

Hi.
1. The stop the phone from ringing press the volume button during the ringing. The phone will still be ringing to the caller and it will put them through to your voicemail after a set number of rings as normal.
2. You cannot change the functionality of the home button.
Hope this helps, Rodí

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