iphone making random calls

Has anyone considered that there may be spyware installed on your phone? There are applications such as mobilespy and flexispy that allow people to download software on your phone in order to see all of you texts, photos, phone calls, etc. I believe they can also make outgoing calls although not 100% sure. Might be worth looking into.

No, basically they do not. As was explained in the information when you signed up and created your account, this is user-helping-fellow-users forum, NOT an offical Apple Corporate Support forum. If you need technical support from Apple, you need to telephone them.

Well thanks for the helpful input. Now if someone could be as helpful and actually offer some form of solution to the problem that would be great. Thanks in advance.

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sharonq wrote:

Has anyone considered that there may be spyware installed on your phone? There are applications such as mobilespy and flexispy that allow people to download software on your phone in order to see all of you texts, photos, phone calls, etc. I believe they can also make outgoing calls although not 100% sure. Might be worth looking into.

Unless the iPhone has been jailbroken, this is not possible.

Here is steve jobs saying "we do not ship junk"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu0qeb_rJYU

but they have, since the iPhone dials randomly while at rest on a surface (not in a pocket).

therefore I nominate the iPhone for the iTurd award 2012 for the most hyped and pricey piece of crap up to date.

Apple does not seem to be fixing this issue.

and the iTurd award 2012 goes to the iphone. for making multiple random calls from the phone number list, without the owner ever intending to make a single one of those calls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsoxyDMO2EQ

My phone dialled my boss at 3 am - I woke up because it had activated speaker phone and I heard it wring and go to his answering machine. The phone was locked sitting on my bedside table. Nothing disturbing it. When I checked the log it had called two other people. Not a good time of day to ring up your boss. I'm high profile in the public - I have many people in my contacts like the Premier of my province - glad I wasn't dialling him at 3:00 am! A bit creepy. May need to get the 5 sooner than later!

my iphone 4 (t-mobile hungary) called up the last number from the recents, 2 days after updating to the latest iOS6. The phone attempted calls in every 30th second for 1hour 42minutes. These calls' duration was 15seconds, assuming the message service played then call ended. It happened when I was sleeping at 2.45 am didn't realize anything until received the phone bill. Unfortunately I was in the US and the called number was an UK number so this "call" costed me alot (330$) - roaming zone

Now I can wait for my provider to investigate the situation and pray to God they put a sum to my credit and I won't loose that money. I'd never thought I could have a problem with an Iphone 4 like this. I had to invest a lot of energy to this and I feel unsupported, shame on you Apple!

Mine just did it four times in fairly quick succession. I shut my phone off to stop it, then looked here before I re-booted it. My husband had just left the house in our "new to us" car that has bluetooth phone connection so I just called him to see if he was messing with it in the car. AHA! I had not turned my phone's bluetooth off so it was, apparently, still connected and not allowing him to connect when he got into the car. He kept attempting ot re-pair it and did the dialing from the car in our garage. Guess I'll turn my bluetooth off when I'm at home.

I discovered that my iphone 4s has been making random calls yesterday when a friend from Australia asked why he had so many missed calls at all hours of the day and night. I suppose I should be glad they didn't connect or I would have had a massive phone bill. I've since found out he's not the only one to have the calls. The weird thing is mine weren't in my call log. I've tried resetting my phone so hopefully that will do the trick.

Just a quick notice to say this is still happening. My phone is randomly making and receiving calls with nobody on the other end. It's mainly between mine and my husband's. We'll be sitting there, not touching our phones, and suddenly one will say it's receiving a call from the other while the phone doesn't say it's making a call. Or they both start randomly calling the other. Whenever we pick up, it's completely silent on the other end.

Please tell me somebody has found a fix for this or tell me Verizon covers getting a brand new phone, because this is very, very aggrivating and it's not only spending some of our minutes, but it's also signing me up to bogus lines like "Cat Facts" and I'm fairly certain it's also driving up my data charges for some reason.

We have had the exact same problem with my son's iPhone 4.. but we have AT&T, not Verizon.

His phone will randomly call our home phone number, as well as several other contacts on his phone, but there is no answer when I pick up. Then on his iPhone, at the same time his is calling our home line, it says that the home line is calling his iPhone. When HE picks up, there is no one there. This has been going on now for the past 3 nights.

Ironically, last night, his iPhone was completely SHUT OFF and it still made 2 calls to the home line! How is this even possible?

Please someone give us a clue as to what is happening! Since it does not seem to matter whether the carrier is Verizon or ATT, I tend to think it is an Apple problem.

So mgreg16, you think its Apple's problem that your home phone says its calling your sons iphone? Even when his is calling in? Honestly this sounds like Operator error more than anything, phones dont just make calls unless things such as liquid damage or power surges have occured.

Recently in the last few months my phone is actin up too. People call me to say there was a missed call from me where as I never called them. But then two nights ago when we were fast asleep in the middle of the night my phone which was on my bedside called up my hysband's phone and we both woke up to the ring only to find out that the call was from my mobile. Will Apple be able to solve this? It is very embarrasing to say the least.

I had this problem for weeks and found it very annoying and embarrassing, but I think I have found a fix. The problem seems to be that voice-activated dialling by default bypasses the lock. So with the phone in my pocket and supposedly locked, the "home" button is sometimes pressed, and then voice control over-rides the lock and attempts to interpret whatever sounds it hears as voice commands, sometimes getting "dial" and part of a name.

If you go into"Settings", then select "General" then "Passcode Lock", set a passcode, and then turn Voice dial *off* you will still be stuck playing random songs when you don't want them, but at least you won't accidentally make expansive and embarrassing phone calls.

it is not possible to prevent Music Voice Control from overriding security. Apple ought to change that.

Thanks, Agemegos, but unfortunately, many of the calls were made when the phone was sitting on a desk or nightstand. There was no way the home button was pressed.

We actually took it to our Apple Store and they restored it there completely. Didn't stop it from happening. We bought a new iPhone, thinking that was the problem. Nope. Still kept happening. So now we think it is the phone number itself. We have not yet tried to get a new number, but that is our next step. The random calls are not as frequent, but they are still occurring. We think somehow a virus was downloaded in some App or something (not sure what) that accessed my son's iPhone contact list and is just randomly calling numbers found there. The others above may have also inadvertently downloaded the same virus somehow, which is why it is also happening to others.

Anyway, if we/when we get his phone number changed, we will LYK if that solves the problem for us.