Apple Watch - Walkie Talkie - New Conversation, my iPhone starts ringing!

My wife and I are having the same issue. iPhone 12 Pro running 14.3. S3 running watchOS 7.2

Any one have any updates this has been going for months now!

I'm on 14.3 and it's just started!

Same for me.

partner tried to WT me today. Phone rang (null) watch didn’t do anything. Seems to be going backwards.

I have the same problem! Has apple come up with an answer to this? How can I stop the phone from ringing, it’s really annoying

Yup... same problem here. iPhone 12 Pro Max running iOS 14.3, and Apple Watch series 6 running watchOS 7.2

Everything was working fine when they came out with the update watch 7.2

amd iOS 14.3

now the issue came back yesterday but it seem random

sometime It rings for a second and sometime it does not

Hello apple anybody there to respond when you will fix this issue it has been four months since people reported this problem and no action.

Same problem since 14.3 and 7.2.. When will this be fixed??

Same issue. Really odd. Some observations:

it works as expected when the phone is not connected.

if the phone is connected, sometimes it rings like a normal call. Other times it wont be it actually starts an active call (the green phone icon appears on the top left). If you select it opens the phone app with the call but then immediately shows call cancelled. I wonder if that was the case always and now with the privacy changes it is logging the call?

They didn’t say anything. However I am glad that I am not the only one experiencing this issue. Two of my coworkers have no issues with their devices. It seems that the 11 & 12 phone models are the ones having the issues the most.

Also, I’ve tried the following, none of which resolved the issue:

1. turn devices on and off
2. delete FaceTime and walkie talkie apps
3. signed out of AppleID
4. Erase and unpair Watch, then restore from backup. (I didn’t want to setup Watch as new just yet. Too much work to get all settings back in place.
5. deleted and re-added Walkie Talkie contacts

I can confirm that my partner’s iPhone XS and Watch series 5 does not exhibit this issue.

I can confirm that if the iPhone screen is asleep, the phone won’t ring when someone else initiated Walkie Talkie. But if the phone screen is awake, it will ring once if someone else initiates the Walkie Talkie

Stealth Rodeo wrote:

I was having the exact same issue. Updating to iOS 14.3 Public Beta 2 from iOS 14.2 fixed the problem completely.

This is wonderful to hear!!

Let's hope iOS 14.3 will soon be released.

If you scanned the notes for iOS 14.3 Public Beta 2 (or any public beta version of iOS 14.3) does it mention anything about Walkie Talkie or FaceTime audio bugs?

theredsoxman wrote:

iOS 14.2.1 seems to fix this.

Fingers crossed!!

You seem to be right! I downloaded iOS 14.2.1 and initial testing seems to have indicated this has been fixed.

If this update did fix this issue, then . . .

. . . I wish that the Senior support person I talked to for like 2 hours a few days ago would have done his homework. I was one of three or so calls related to this issue that I made to AppleCare. My last call was to see if the team could ascertain if Apple Engineers have acknowledged this issue and that at some point it would be fixed, because then I wouldn't bother with signing in and out of AppleID, etc.

The Senior support person was not cooperative. He didn't check his sources to see what he could find. I know they have databases like that because years ago when I had a different issue, the support person said they're checking to see if my issue was acknowledged. And after much digging while I was on the phone, she acknowledged that the issue is documented, no workaround is available yet. Oh well...!

Same here! With my iPhone 12 pro max and watch6!

When I press the yellow button in walkie-talkie the Phone X of my wife rings once.

But it is strange that it is not the other way around, when she is contacting me - my phone doesn't ring!

In both ways: The walkie-talkie connection works, and you can speak and hear!

What's happening!?

This does make me wonder is issues at the server end is part of the problem. Other iCloud services not working properly include iCloud tabs. That hasn’t worked properly for weeks. Others on the forum complain about it too.