iphone making random calls

I have the same problem here in Italy with a WIND carrier. In my case, people just call me and say that they've received missed calls from me, while I never called them! It's even more odd to know that these number are neither among my contacts nor in the list of the numbers I called! I even asked my operator for a list of numbers I called and still non of these random numbers were among my calls... I'm so frustrated and it's so annoying! I was even accused by some of these people that they will report the case to police if I continue disturbing them! Mamma mia, does anybody know how to solve this problem please? Can't anyone from Apple investigate this issue? Any iOS update?? oh dio...

My iphone 5 did this last year and I took it to an Apple store. It called people, sent text messages, the camera would flash taking a picture, etc. They said it was a known problem related to the screen. It only happened at night when it was on a table, face down. They charged me over $100 to replace the screen. Everything was fine until this week, when it started texting at random again.

If it is a known problem with their screens, we should not have to pay to replace the screen. It was not damaged or anything else wrong with the phone.

I think I found the problem. First off, I rarely use bluetooth headset with this particular AT&T phone. But though none active, I have several paired up with it. Last night while the random calls were happening, I deleted all recent calls from the phone except my home phone number. I turned off the phone went to bed. I turned on the phone in the morning, sure enough within 5 minutes it started calling my home phone. I look at the iPhone, it showed no bluetooth connection icon, while I was looking at it, it made another call to my home phone while the previous call is still active. While I was fussing with the iPhone to figure out what's wrong, I received a call, while I was on the call, the iPhone put that call on hold and started calling my home phone again. While it was doing all that, it revealed that there is a Bluetooth connection with a VOX headset. I gathered all my Bluetooth headsets both from the house and from the car, all of them were either dead (no battery juice) or completely off. So, for some strange reason iPhone thought that I was connected to a Bluetooth headset that is not even on, and not only that it thought I was actually pressing the dial button on that ghost Bluetooth headset. In order to be 100% sure that the issues are not caused by an actual headset, I looked at my other iPhone to see if I ever paired this VOX headset with it. As it turns out that I had, so I tried to connect to the VOX headset with no avail. So, I am sure that the iPhone was connecting to a ghost headset.

How I solved it: I removed all paired Bluetooth devices from the affected iPhone. That’s it. Hope this would help someone.

After researching this problem and/or similar problems all involving iPhone 5's , 4's and 6's too, I'm convinced that this is a REAL issue and not something that Apple should be ignoring. Some forums actually have belittled people when they were describing their problems with the random unattended calling from a locked iPhone. Apple simply denies there is a problem despite the fact that there was a known bug in a previous iOS (7?) that allowed calls to be made from a locked phone. Apple rarely admits to causing problems or making mistakes...

In my case, I received a bill from AT&T which showed a HUGE charge that indicated I was over my limit by about 1300 minutes - @ $00.45 per minute. Yes - it was a 585$ bill. I discovered that my phone (Not ME) had dialed a random number and maintained the connection to that number for several hours. This number was called once a day for 4 consecutive days, the longest call lasting over 7 hours. I KNEW I never made those calls, but unlike other descriptions, my device DID reflect those outgoing calls. I don't think my phone would have lasted 5 consecutive hours let alone 7+. SO I disputed the charges, but it's tough to prove those calls weren't made intentionally when your device is showing the outgoing calls. The number was a Business Communications company and when I called the number from a different phone, I was prompted for a pin number to connect. AT&T basically explained to me that they were going to refund the charges, but it was clear they were doing me a huge favor by doing so. My phone has not made any unattended calls since those days in January, but now I'm paranoid as heck that it will happen again. I'm going to back up my phone and do a reset.....I can't think of any other way to really wipe it clean, despite the work it is going to be to re-install the essential applications. This time, to be safe, I'm only going to install the apps I need - I'll forget about the toys and games for now....I'm due for an iOS upgrade so I'll do that too....I just hope something like this will never happen again. Good Luck!

My phone has been making and receiving unexpected FaceTime calls for the past several weeks. My phone will be sitting on a table, or wherever, when I receive a call from one of my contacts. "So-and-so would like to FaceTime." If I decline the call, the person calls me back asking why I called. I swear I didn't call, but phone records on both devices show otherwise. I haven't found many answers to this issue. iPhone 5 running iOS7.

This has been happening to me as well. Calling random numbers not in my contacts and they don't show up in my outgoing call logs. I have an iphone 5, OS 7.0.4....only reason I know it happening is because these people I have no idea who are call me back! So has anyone really figured out a solution?

I have an iphone 4 with latest IOS. Never had a problem with it. Last night I woke up in the middle of the night and thought I heard a radio on very low. Then I realized it was the recording on a voicemail, and the sound was coming from my phone. I picked it up and it had spontaneously dialed the last number I had dialed 8 hours previously. The phone was plugged into the charger and was in the sleep mode. I don't use a bluetooth headset. I don't use voice dial. Very strange, but I'm glad I found out this is happening to others. Verizon.

I discovered that my phone number had been spoofed! The calls have stopped but I did report it to my state attorney general and to the FTC.

Problem with this is finding the place that did it. They change their caller ID often...but my has at least stopped.

Wow. I never heard of this, until it happened to me last night, and then I started researching the issue today.

My iPhone 5S, running iOS 8.4.1, was sitting on my nightstand, locked, plugged into a charger. Bluetooth is off, because I don't use it. I heard a voice, so I got up to look out the window. Then I heard another voice, and realized it was my phone. It was calling two numbers from my recents list. I kept hanging up, but it would dial again a few seconds later. Then it went to the Home screen, then to Search. I waited to see if something would be entered into the search field, but it didn't. But then it started launching apps, like NFL. I powered down the phone, so I could go to sleep.

I have powered on the phone, and used it, this morning. But the problem has not reoccurred yet.

Reading through this years-long thread, I see the same symptoms have persisted for all these years. I propose that at least the majority of 'solutions' posted here have nothing to do with the problem. Many times, it is coincidence when you take an action and then the problem stops. This is not a hardware button problem, or a voice activation problem, or a Bluetooth pairing problem. This is most likely a virus installed with a recently installed app, or some malicious service on the Internet spoofing our phone numbers.

I will continue researching, to see what has been figured out.

Just had this same issue minutes ago. My iPhone dialed the last number I called. Good thing it was my home phone. Is this a virus, a bug? What is happening? I had it in my kitchen charging and it called my home phone at 4:00 AM. Can Apple please address this already? I might be turning it off at night to prevent this. I have wiifi call turn on. It was connected to my Pom Sport bluetooth earphones as I also left them chargeing over night. Those are the only two things I can think of causing something.

Apple.... any input on this?

It seems like there are actually a number of issues, or at least multiple ways the issue appears:

* Some phones are repeatedly redialing the last called number

* Some are dialing a random number from the recent calls list

* Some are not seeing evidence of a call on their phone, but are being told they have called someone (sounds like spoofing to me).

* Some, like mine, only called one time, to a number not in my contacts and that I do not believe I have had previous contact with.

I have an iphone 5s running ios 8.1.3. I woke up this morning and saw on my home screen what looked like a missed call from my own number, but in the recent calls list it turned out to be an outgoing call from my phone to a number I do not recognize that was cancelled before the call connected. I should add that it was not a random group of numbers, but a legitimate phone number in my country (I have not called to see who it is). I did not make any calls prior. This happened while the phone was charging next to my bed with a (presumably) authentic apple charger (an older model).

While these may all be related, it seems to me that there might be far different circumstances for the different versions of this issue, and any one simple solution is not going to apply across the board. And the more I think about it, the less convinced I am that this could be an accident.

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