Spam Group FaceTime Calls with over 32 members

This started happening to me this. Someone texted the group to ask who it was. One of the numbers said they and a friend were fooling around doing a tik tok prank. I removed myself from the chat. This has happened at least 10 more times with new numbers. Apparently 2 people choose random numbers and FaceTime. I’ve spend the last half hour “blocking” all of the numbers in each Group FaceTime. I’ve had 3 random new numbers since. It’s unbelievably annoying and I cannot believe there is no way but to turn off FaceTime on ALL of my devices to get this to stop. Gotta love Tik Tok. So glad it’s making so many people “happy.”

i do not think it is a tik Tok prank. A prank also tends to be funny after all is said and done. Manipulating peoples numbers to all call each other at one time through face time is not the work of these teenage Tik Tok fanatics. When this happened to me, I was incredibly freaked out, especially when it was happening at 2 in the morning.

But why should any of us have to disable a service for weeks!!!!!! I use my FaceTime every day or two. It’s just crazy to me that these idiots are still calling my phone every day and I can’t stop them even though they’re blocked.... major flaw on Apples part

This just started for me last night and has continued this morning. I started blocking callers, but I expect that, like spam, the calls will continue with other phone numbers. Unfortunately, as with calls on the iPhone, blocking or declining calls still allows a caller to leave a message.

Apple, please make necessary changes to prevent blocked callers from leaving messages and set something up so the only people who can get through via FaceTime are the contacts that one has on their phone. Having to disable FaceTime just to prevent spam callers is ridiculous.

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!!

Omg this happened to my husband last night! I answered because it looked like a familiar area code and I figured it was his siblings calling from Oklahoma. To my surprise it was like 7 people asking for a girl named amber. I told them they had the wrong number and hung up. Then I realized they had a group chat and had texted “dinner for 7” 🤦🏻‍♀️. Anyways I texted them to eff off and left the group chat. My husband called me telling me that they called like 5 times while he was working. He just blocked them so hopefully that’s the end of that. People just have too much time in their hands!!!

Agreed. Blocked should mean no more calls period and there should be an option for contacts only should we choose to only speak to people we know on FaceTime. I’m seriously considering going back to Samsung cause I think the breach is so huge. They call relentlessly and I can’t understand how a billion dollar company hasn’t addressed it and thinks it’s ok. It’s such a violation. who knows what they do if you accidentally answer. Can they hack your cell, your camera!!! I don’t know and I don’t want to find out.

I picked up to see what was going on I heard what sounded like you young kids voices

commenting on the background of my video

i had no option to end the call so I had to shut off my phone which I did immediately after telling them never to call me again as I did not know them

didnt call for 8 hours or so And is now spamming me

as I said it says FaceTime but it didn’t look like FaceTime. There was no video for them just icons kinda like a men’s room symbol from the neck up

and as I stated above there was no button to end the call or do anything else like turn my camera off , flip which camera nothing

should have taken a screen shot

serioulsy? why is this still an open issue and continuing? seems like it has been open plenty long enough for Apple to have found a resolution... I mean no one out side of my contact list is supposed to be capable of facetiming me... why am i getting facetime spammed? what is the point even?

Just had weird thing happen. My FaceTime went off and I didn’t recognize the number so I didn’t answer. When I pushed info it had like 20 numbers attached. I blocked them all. My face time kept calling with the numbers anyway. I finally had to shut off my FaceTime. Have you heard of this? Numbers were from Oregon area

This happened to me last night around 1AM. I actually sleep with earbuds in, listening to relaxing sounds through my iPad, and I was woken up by a FaceTime call coming in. I figured it was just someone dialing wrong, but then it wouldn’t stop. After it started ringing a third time, I forced myself to wake up enough to figure out that the heck was going on. I realized they were group calls and immediately started blocking numbers, but every time I got one blocked, a new number would appear. It got up to 12 people on the call by the time I finally just deactivated FaceTime and turned on Do Not Disturb on both my iPad and my phone. I asked around on social media to see if anyone else I knew may have ever had the same problem, and the only real answer I got was that it could be related to a TikTok trend. I poked around a little on TikTok this morning (I have it downloaded but have never really used it) and sure enough, there are several videos that all seem to have been made in the last few days of groups of kids/teens prank calling random numbers on FaceTime just to see if anyone picks up and reacts in a funny enough way for them to post. Super annoying, but I’m hoping that’s all this is! The one thing that weirds me out though, is yesterday morning, I got a bunch of spam calls from different numbers, though all in my state (NJ) in rapid succession, and two of them actually managed to leave voicemails with almost identical clicking sounds. No idea if there’s any relation between the two things but it’s definitely creepy. I really want to write it off as a TikTok prank but the weird calls earlier in the day and the persistence of the FaceTime calls really makes me wonder. I wish someone had a real answer!

This just happened to me. Repeatedly over the last few hours. A different group each time, but I noticed two numbers were always in the group. All other numbers were changing with each group. Finally, I answered and kept my thumb over my camera. There were two people. One man and one woman. They didn’t seem to know each other. I did not recognized them. They primarily kept their faces out of view and I heard the woman say, “Yo! This is weird” the she laughed. A third person quickly popped in then hung up. All other numbers remained ringing in small different color boxes on the screen.

It seemed like those who answered were just as clueless I was; as if they too were getting random FaceTime group calls. The two numbers that kept reappearing in all group calls never answered. The people who did answer were from different numbers. After hanging up.

The strangest part is that I could not end the call. There was no option to end the call. Given that I didn’t want to be seen and had to keep my thumb on the camera, my gestures were limited, but none of the usually screen taps or swiping worked. I had to turn the phone away from me than power it completely off. It seemed like the only way to end the call. I turned the phone back on and kept it on airplane as I blocked each number in each group. The groups contained 3-5 people, except for the one I answered. That contained 18.

My mom who is 80 years old just started getting unwanted FaceTime calls on her iPhone. Started happening two days ago on Thursday, Feb 25. We blocked about 70 numbers that are not in her contacts. We still got FaceTime calls through the early morning hours. I called Apple and they cant do much to stop it. Except they recommend either change your number or change your Apple ID. You would think a company which has billions of dollars would make it easier to Block unwanted FT calls. GEEZ!

They need ADD a option in FaceTime settings to disable Group FaceTime calls. My mom only needs to talk to one person. One of her doctors uses FaceTime to chat with her since the start of the COVID pandemic. She doesn't need Group FaceTime. Why cant you disable it ?

David Hawkins

Plano TX

This happened to me yesterday and today. It appears to me that the Group FaceTime call was connected, even though I did not answer it. The callers in the Group FaceTime had my same area code. I was able to block all the callers individually, but I was called again today with a new set of numbers. Obviously there is a new bug with FaceTime Group calls that people can exploit. I have disabled FaceTime and uninstalled the app. I will let you all know if I find any other solutions short of changing my phone number.

This is so upsetting... My 90 year old grandmother was harassed by these repeated calls from 4:02am-- 7:40 am non-stop last night!!! She got no sleep and at one point answered (not realizing it's facetime) and they were all laughing at her. APPLE YOU NEED TO DO BETTER. This is completely unacceptable that there has been no effort to resolve this ongoing issue. Does anyone have the tiktok videos or articles speaking to this tiktok prank? I couldn't find anything but I am furious. I will disable her facetime but she uses that to see family since she can't because of the pandemic.