Phone number changed in my contact list

Question

Level 1

4 points

Phone number changed in my contact list

Somehow, a phone number in my contact list was changed by one digit. This happened w/o me making any changes to the number. I found out by texting my friend using his name, and got a response “you are sending this to a wrong number”. When I looked at the response I saw the phone number was off by 1 digit. So, I checked my contacts & it was changed there.

How could this happen?

This also happened to my mother’s iphone. She is 84 & I thought she had done something to change my sister’s number, but she hadn’t.

So, now I have seen this happen twice.

Do you know why this is happening & how I can protect my contact list from changes?

Thank you.

iPhone 13, iOS 16

Posted on Feb 5, 2023 8:17 AM

Reply

Answer 1

Rigo_O86

Community Specialist

Feb 7, 2023 10:43 AM in response to Bekatay4692

Hi Bekatay4692,

Contacts sync across your devices where your Apple ID is logged in.

Do you and your mother share an Apple ID? You shouldn't if you do.

Otherwise, contacts are synced to accounts, whether it's your iCloud or email accounts.

Here's contacts set up info:

Use other contact accounts on iPhone

There's no way to know how you might have historically changed your contacts accounts. We can't guess more than what we've said already.

Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities.

Reply

Phone number changed in my contact list

Similar questions