iPhone making random calls

I am having the problems of phantom calls. The phone calls someone without my knowledge. The person on the other end hears my conversation on an 'open phone.' It shows up in my recents. Tonight, I made a call to a person with last name 'Sims.' After placing the phone back in my holster, it called someone with the last name 'Simmons.' I could have accidentally touched the other number, but it happens too many times and the redialed number is not always an 'adjacent' number. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

WOW--WOW and I thought it was just me! Mine made a call to a person in my phonebook 7 times to here Home phone and I never had my phone out of my bag at the time, I was working how freakin weird. The first time it did it logged it once and she heard just some garbled talk. But this last time where it called 7 times it did not log anything although again she heard garbled open phone chat. It has to me an AT&T thing, Im calling them in the morning to see *** is going on.

So anymore of these happenings?

I had this happen but it was my bluetooth that made the phone call. Some random button pushing on the bluetooth initiated the call to the last person i called.

Happened to me as well. Called it called a local area code random number. I have verson 1.1.3 and I think i has something to do with the new update since I am having other issues as well with the new upgrade like passcode lock wont work.

I hope apple actually reads these posts and tries to fix these issues. Apple is suppose to be the best but lately it seems I have been having issues with my iPhone as well as my other two computers.

My iPhone did the same yesterday. It made two calls, both were the last two people to call me. It appears to be very random as it made a reply call almost 10 hours after someone called me. The 2nd random call was made about 4 hours after someone called me. Both times my cell was in the standby mode, screen in sleep.

The only change I'd made since the day before was docking my phone for the first time in over a week.

Hi bullygirl,
Here are my answers to your questions. My phone also makes random calls, which is particularly annoying as I've just spent a week abroad and was charged an arm and a leg for roaming.

1 Were the phantom calls logged in Recents, in other words, does your iPhone acknowledge that it made the call?
Yes

2 Was the call(s) placed to a number in your *Contact List*?
Yes
2a was this number(s) in your Favorites List?
I think so, but I'm not sure I have track of all random calls my phone makes

2b was it a redial?
not always
2c or was it a completely random call to a number you don't know?
no


3 Did the phone call another iPhone, other smartphone, regular cell phone, land line etc?
regular cell phone
3a Was the other phone nearby when it received the call?
On at least one occasion, yes, but I don't think that's always the case

4 iPhone Firmware version 1.1.4

4a Serial numbers of affected phone- replace some of the middle numerals with x's if you don't want to fill in your full serial. This is to determine if there was a problem that relates to factory conditions- maybe there was a really dusty day etc. 7174xxxxWH8

5 Do you use a bluetooth device with the offending phone unit- was it active at the time? Keep in mind that other technology may be influencing your phone.
yes and yes

6 Is there any static electricity in your local environment? Houses and cars both can build up significant static. Do you get little shocks in the place you were at when the iPhone placed the call?
not that I'm aware of

7 Was your phone attached to a charger at the time the calls were made?
no

8 Local/home wireless configurations, proximity to cell repeaters and such could also be helpful.
nothing that I would say is 'always the case' when it happens
9 Is your iPhone factory, hacked or using third party products or apps?
factory

Any help? Personally I think it's the blue tooth headset, which is Jabra... although if I want to get the headset to make the phone call I can't get it to do it.

So much to add to the puzzle 🙂
Gabriela

Mine also did this, but always to the same contact. I was on version 1.1.3 at the time. I thought I was going crazy. I assumed that maybe when I was calling someone from my 'favorites' list, that it was calling someone in that list after I hung up with my first call, and I somehow didn't notice. My friends kept calling me saying I had called them (I hadn't talked to them recently). I thought maybe the touch screen thought I wanted to call another favorite by my head bumping against one of them or somesuch. If I recall the favorite screen pops up after you end a call that you started from that screen? That's what I assumed anyway.

It did this for a short time after I bought the phone. Maybe two weeks (I updated to 1.1.3 when I first synced it the first time). It stopped doing this after two weeks or so. I haven't had a repeat since it stopped. I haven't seen this since 1.1.4 either.

My phone will randomly dial a number while I am on a call.

The last time this happened I was talking to my girlfriend with the phone held flush to my face. I wasn't moving at all. In fact, my right elbow was propped up on the passenger seat so my hand was stationary as well.

The next thing I know I'm in midsentence with her and I hear ringing. I look down and my phone is dialing a business client of mine and my gf is placed on hold.

Needless to say, if I hang up it'll show as a missed call and they'll call back to find out what I needed so I wind up having to explain to my client the situation that "my phone randomly dialed you.. but I'd still love to talk to you (not)".

The people my phone has been calling are random. They are in my contacts but not my favorites. They are definitely not in my redial. I have reset my phone and am completely confused because in order for me to willingly do what my phone is doing I have to go through several strokes on my phone.

no idea where to go from here...

I've had my iPhone less than a week. This happened to me too the other day (but hasn't happened since then,)
After making a call to one of my favorites---the phone redialed (on its own) 3x. I saw it happening each time.

THe person called me back wondering why I had called back 3x.

I assumed some type of user error on my part. I reset the phone. Has not done it since.

Does Apple/AT&T know bout this?

My phone has done this at least 6 times in the month I've had it. With one exception, it hasn't been a redial, and every call has been to one person in my contact list. The last time it happened, about an hour ago, the phone was sitting on the kitchen table while I was in the bathroom. Rather annoying, not for me, but for the guy I keep calling....

My husband and I both have IPhones. Our two sons have both cautioned us separately, that, after we speak to them and hang up, our phones "re-call" them on their standard cell phones AND on the landline, if that's RECENT number we used. They can hear us talking, but we don't know our phones recalled them.

Two different IPhones. 3 different numbers...all "favorites", all "recents". The phone sometimes calls them 3 or 4 times in a row. We both have 1 minute autolock on our phones.

1 Were the phantom calls logged in Recents, in other words, does your iPhone acknowledge that it made the call?
YES

2 Was the call(s) placed to a number in your *Contact List*?
2a was this number(s) in your Favorites List?
2b was it a redial?
2c or was it a completely random call to a number you don't know?
*It was redial*

3 Did the phone call another iPhone, other smartphone, regular cell phone, land line etc?
3a Was the other phone nearby when it received the call?
*Cellphone (two different numbers on different days), nowhere nearby*

4 iPhone Firmware version
4a Serial numbers of affected phone- replace some of the middle numerals with x's if you don't want to fill in your full serial. This is to determine if there was a problem that relates to factory conditions- maybe there was a really dusty day etc.
7U7412NXXXX

5 Do you use a bluetooth device with the offending phone unit- was it active at the time? Keep in mind that other technology may be influencing your phone.
*Yes. I think that's what started the problems. It is a Motorola H700 which is meant to be 'off' when the boon is closed. I can find no way to make it ask the phone to 'redial' when the boon in closed... but the problem seems to happen with the 'off' H700 in my pocket next to the 'standby' iPhone. BTW, there is also a PArrot Minikit paired with the iPhone. That was off when this happened.*


6 Is there any static electricity in your local environment? Houses and cars both can build up significant static. Do you get little shocks in the place you were at when the iPhone placed the call?
No

7 Was your phone attached to a charger at the time the calls were made?
No

8 Local/home wireless configurations, proximity to cell repeaters and such could also be helpful.
*Nothing unusual*

9 Is your iPhone factory, hacked or using third party products or apps?
*Um... this is an Apple forum. Would I really go into detail here? Anyway, I'm running 1.1.1*

I will add my name to the list of IPhone owners whose phone is making calls on it own. Today I had it on the desk next to me. I received a text message from a friend that said my Iphone called her. She is in my contacts and favorites but as I said the phone was just sitting on my desk...I may have to limit its minutes if it keeps this up!

I have also had this problem since I first got my iPhone last summer. It was randomly calling people in my favorites list. The problem stopped as soon as I removed everyone from my phone's favorites. I had forgotten about the problem and assumed a firmware update had solved it, so last week I re-added a few contacts to my favorites list. And then the random calls began again. I find it completely unacceptable that Apple hasn't addressed this problem, as it has been a documented issue on this very forum for at least six months. And to any power user or apple employee reading this discussion and assuming that we're a group of morons who don't know how to lock our phones, let me assure you that this problem goes beyond "user error". Thanks to bullygirl for helping to focus this thread. Here are my answers to her questions.

1 Were the phantom calls logged in Recents, in other words, does your iPhone acknowledge that it made the call?
YES

2 Was the call(s) placed to a number in your *Contact List*?
THE CALLS ALWAYS COME FROM MY FAVORITES LIST

3 Did the phone call another iPhone, other smartphone, regular cell phone, land line etc?
ALL OF THE ABOVE. IT'S CALLED MY MOTHER'S IPHONE (5 STATES AWAY), MY FATHER'S MOBILE PHONE (100 MILES SOUTH) AND MOST RECENTLY MY GRANDFATHER'S LANDLINE IN AUSTIN, TX.

4 iPhone Firmware version
4a Serial numbers of affected phone- replace some of the middle numerals with x's if you don't want to fill in your full serial. This is to determine if there was a problem that relates to factory conditions- maybe there was a really dusty day etc.
FIRMWARE VER. 1.1.4
SERIAL NO. 7T7274#####

5 Do you use a bluetooth device with the offending phone unit- was it active at the time? Keep in mind that other technology may be influencing your phone.
NOPE. I THINK THEY LOOK SILLY.

6 Is there any static electricity in your local environment? Houses and cars both can build up significant static. Do you get little shocks in the place you were at when the iPhone placed the call?
NEIN

7 Was your phone attached to a charger at the time the calls were made?
NYET

8 Local/home wireless configurations, proximity to cell repeaters and such could also be helpful.
I CAN'T ACCURATELY ANSWER THAT QUESTION SINCE IT SEEMS TO HAPPEN RANDOMLY. I WILL TELL YOU THAT I LIVE IN THE MIDDLE OF LOS ANGELES AND IT'S HAPPENED ALL OVER THE SPRAWLING METROPOLIS.

9 Is your iPhone factory, hacked or using third party products or apps?
I'M TOO MUCH OF A SCAREDY-CAT TO HACK MY IPHONE. BY THE WAY, WEREN'T WE SUPPOSED TO HAVE AN APPSTORE BY NOW?