Q: Siri tries to send messages to _$!<mobile>!$_
Ever since iOS 10, I have really strange problem. If I tell Siri over BT/voice to send a message to (firstname, lastname), she asks me "What would you like to say". Then I say my message and she asks me if I am ready to send. I say yes. She says she is sending it. I then immediately get a message that the message failed to send. When I look, it seems like she tried to send a message to "_$!<mobile>!$_" as a text (SMS):
The (firstname, lastname) is a person in my contacts. She correctly identified the person. The person has cell phone number populated. And in fact - also uses an iPhone.
My messages shows this:
The 'contact' she tries to send to is:
This happens ONLY on Bluetooth or when I speak directly to the phone. It does not seem to happen 100% of the time, though; I am pretty sure I sent to the same person over BT a few days ago. So if I browse to Contact and send a message from there or reply to a thread I already have in my message history - no problems, ever.
Tried:
- backed up the phone completely using my PC; nuked it completely, restored backup
- removed the Contact sync from all email accounts, re-enabled contact sync
- verified that there is nothing strange in the contact "mobile' fields...
At a loss.
iPhone 6s, iOS 10
Posted on Sep 21, 2016 8:47 AM


