Spam Group FaceTime Calls with over 32 members

this happened to me a few nights ago. there was more than 10 people for all of them. since it seemed a little odd, i just rejected them all and it stopped after two nights and like 4 calls in total, didn't need to turn off my facetime or anything.

This happened to me 2 nights ago. I received about 20 FaceTime attempts in about a 45 minute period. I ended up having to block every number on the thread. That seems to have stopped it.

it’s AMAZING that Apple doesn’t 1) have a decline feature 2) doesn’t have an option to not accept facetime from people who aren’t contacts. This could be easily solved, Come on Apple!!!

Two ways to stop this for a bit: One is to go into facetime settings and make it to where your number cannot be facetime, 2 is to disable facetime all together for about 45-Half an hour. Hope this helps.

This has been happening to me for the past 2 days and I’ve disabled my FaceTime and that helped me with the spam group calls however, the same FaceTime group calls are sending me iMessages and I keep receiving them even though I blocked every number.

Because this is a spam thing, I'd go one step further. It's possible that you could be invited to a facetime call with a few strangers in the group, but highly unlikely that you don't have ANYONE from your contacts in the call. So a good option would be block or silence all facetime group calls that don't have a known contact in them.

I blocked every single one of the number and I noticed there one one specific iCloud account from someone and everyone kept asking about that person. Blocked all numbers and seemed to stop for me

The only thing that stopped this for me was to turn off FaceTime. So frustrating. Apple needs to step it up and fix this issue.

I guess Settings > Phone > Silence Unknown Callers should work for you.

Yes - it would be a simple feature. Only allow FaceTime calls from contacts. Done.

Settings. FaceTime.

uncheck email.

this stopped it for me.

This happened to me just now!

I answered it because it’s a work phone and I’m on call. When I did, several video boxes popped up and they did have video in it. No people, just looked like walls with some art. When I realized what it was, I hung up and it called back 11 more times.

This happened to me. First call came in at 12:57 am and continued until 2 am. Two people were registered in contacts from a soccer team I was on. I thought I was added to some groupchat by them accidentally. I messaged one and found out she was another victim. I turned my phone on airplane mode and when I woke up, I received 5 more calls. I was really done at that point and called Apple Support and was transferred to Tech Support. Received very few suggestions there other than talking to the complaint assistance at FDC. I also received a text message from one callers in a group chat with 28 other numbers. The word I was able to make out was definitely concerning. I’m ready to change my phone number.

this happened to me last night and a couple nights before that. it is VERY scary, i don’t like that there will legit be 30-50 people on it. I answered it one time & no one else was on the facetime, it was just me. It showed that people were “waiting”... meaning they hadn’t answered either. I blocked them all this morning. But i do not like that it is still going on because it concerns me that this is a hacker or something more!! & especially around 1am. like come on, i get freaked out enough, but i wouldnt answer any more calls from these numbers! because they legit are from all around the world & it’s just scary /:

This started happening to me last night, non-stop FaceTime calls. I had to shut the phone off. This morning I turned the phone on and it started again. I have had a total of 27 facetime calls. I never answered them. I went through and blocked each number and shut off faceTime. I hope Apple fixes this bug soon!!