My contact appears while searching for a phone number that's not mine, not in my own contact record!?

OK, I have noticed there is a ton of mistaken number "associations" wrongfully made by Siri, all sitting there under my name in Contacts — and only when viewing my own contact, and only when doing so on iPhone (not on MacBook Pro).

They all seem to originate from Siri scouring my email records for "phone-like" numbers. One of them was a book's ISBN number being suggested as my phone number. Another one was an online access account number being suggested as my phone number. Practically every voicemail transcript listing some other caller's number, has resulted in Siri accusing it of being my number.

When each one of them is tapped on, there is an "ignore" option. I'm painstakingly ignoring each of them.

Apparently if I don't know these suggestions were made, and I have not deliberately chosen to non-ignore "ignore" each one, my associates with iPhones get the unwarranted number suggestions propagated outwards to them.

This is madness.

Apple, for the love of all that is decent and good, please stop this kind of nonsense. Please.

No, the strange number was never mentioned from me to anyone, let alone him.

I emailed him today about an important ongoing issue. Unbeknown to me, he had texted "me" yesterday (actually he texted a strange number listed in his contacts as "maybe" me).

Not only is the number not in my contact record, it's not in any of my contacts.

I even searched my Apple Mail records on my MacBook Pro, and an email appeared that, for a moment, seemed like it might be from that strange number, but upon closer inspection, it was not related. It was a home phone (VOIP) voicemail notification email from 2012 that bore only a passing resemblance to the strange number in sharing the same area code and first 3 digits of the number.

Let me reiterate:

Not only is the strange number connected to my name on my associate's iPhone, it's also showing as connected to me on my own iPhone.

I could understand that "someone" out there wrongfully connected a strange number with me.

But I need to know how to "disconnect" or disassociate myself from the strange number on my own iPhone.

Thanks to anyone who can help.

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OK, I found that the number was present in an email from July 2019, one of many in the same email. It was mistaken by Siri as being associated with me.

Does anyone know how to prevent such association from propagating outward?

Thanks for the replies. My pressing question was how to disassociate the strange number from my name on my own phone. I seem to have found the answer. See my more recent post (above). If there is no inaccurate association on my own phone, then I can rest assured that any mistake on someone else's side, did not come from my side. Thanks again.

To say "other people don't have access to the search data on your phone" ignores the fact that his phone does have access to the same search data in focus, merely because I sent him email(s).

Let's not gloss over the problem merely moving it from one corner of the room to another.

The fact that other people have the same kind of miscarriage of information happening (from their own receipt of innocuous emails / messages from whomever), so long as they are on an iPhone... is a problem.

The fact that we all must fight against "Siri" / iOS continually inaccurately associating numbers with contacts, is what led to the serious mis-sent message issue — notwithstanding that his "Siri" misled him because of being an email recipient, and my Siri sought to mislead me because of being the email sender.

The lack of receiving the text led to me writing a letter of resignation and almost sending it.

The suggestion to not to stress is a nice sentiment, but not really applicable. :-)