can't hang up phone calls

I've recently started experiencing a problem with my iPhone X (current iOS) where I am unable to end a phone call. I have to wait for the other party to hang-up. More specifically:


During a call I'll go to the Phone app's keypad screen, intending to locate and press the red phone icon at the bottom to hang-up. However, the phone icon at the bottom is green, not red. That makes no sense. The icon should not be green when I'm in a call (a green phone icon is obviously for an inactive phone to place a call).


In other words, during a call the keypad's hang-up button (red phone icon) is not present. Instead the call initiation button (green phone icon) is displayed.


Even though it's green (when it should be red), I've tried pressing it anyway to see if that will terminate the call, but it doesn't.


I've seen a few other threads by people who are unable to hang-up, but the details of their issues are slightly different than mine (which is why I started a separate thread). For some people, they are unable to wake the screen during a call. To be clear, that is *not* my problem. My screen wakes up. For other people, they are able to get to the keypad screen and see the red phone icon, but pressing it does nothing. Again, I'm not even seeing the red icon -- mine is inexplicably green (as though I'm not even in a call).

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Posted on Oct 13, 2020 7:50 AM

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Posted on Jan 4, 2021 6:42 AM

I have a temp work around: I'm on an iPhone 12 Max Pro - and IOS 14.3 and have this same problem. Not sure if this problem is universal for everyone with my same hardware/software build (it was also a problem with IOS 14.2). I assume Apple will fix it soon??!! It seems the bug occurs when you exit the phone app to use for the phone for other purposes while still in a phone call, and then try to return to the call via the standard built in green Apple IOS Phone app. When you return via that route, the phone doesn't seem to even know you are on a call and you can't hang up, and it is NOT obvious how to hang up at that point. (Aka, you get the 'green button' instead of the 'red button'.)


The solution is to SWIPE UP (or double tap home button on some older models) to enter the APP SWITCHING function, and to return to the active call -that- way. There you will get your red hang up button back.


(Apple: FIX this ASAP! This is a basic critical iPhone function and security risk for your users. And NO-reboot doesn't NOT solve this issue.)

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