While dialing my iPhone 15 Pro, the displayed dialing format is now international without my changing any settings nor updating iOS

The issue is that if you are looking at a business website, they group their telephone numbers in 3, 3, 4. The standard US domestic grouping. When you are trying to compare two numbers with different groupings it makes it more difficult to determine if you are dialing correctly. It is frustrating. It is a needless change. It is a change that causes confusion. These things are happining more and more with each new software release. For eg,....

We are trying to dail a number that looks like this....

2** *** ***3

but it is grouped on our phone app like this...

2* **** ***3

Now, iPhone users must interpolate to find out if what they are trying to dail on an iPhone is what is on the business website. Cross check is now required, where it wasn't before when the number showed up like this...

2** *** ***3

That's an easy glance to make sure it's right.

Now we have to transcribe what we are seeing. It's adding another step. The exact opposite of Steve Jobs ethos as he molded Apple during his tenure. He talked about quicker startup times; fewer processes; more simple processes. We are seeing more steps to every single thing we do now. Eg, now on AppleTv, when you want to change the order of icons on the screen you have an extra step which is to long press on an app icon and then select "Edit Home Screen". Prior to this change, only the long press was required to get into the screen icon order edit. Another example is on your macOS dock. If you want to keep an open program icon in the dock you now have to right click on that icon, move up to options, move over to the right and select "keep in dock". Prior to this change you just right clicked on the icon and moved up into the pop up list and selected "keep in dock". There was no move to the right. That is another additional step. We are seeing program changes that make no sense like this iPhone telephone number grouping change. We are seeing extra steps being added by programming that add to he time we spend selecting features on Apple products.

All this is going the wrong way. Away from efficiency, simplicity and ease of use. Toward inefficient, complicated, difficult to use. Any programming company reading this sentence would agree. Any logical human being reading this sentence would agree.

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I didn't think it matters as I'm currently still making phone calls with no issues. If I did, I would have included it in the original post.

I won't be restoring from backup. That is sending me down a rabbit hole due to something Apple continues to do. If I did that every time an issue like this happened, I would be restoring from backup twice per day.

I don't update to current software any more as everyone realizes that you just introduce the new generation of bugs and problems when you do that. On macOS you risk killing your bluetooth and wifi connectivity due to glitches in Apples new software. When I changed to the new 64bit compatible macOS there was no warning from Apple that all my 32 bit programs would be rendered bricked with no way to go back, so I don't upgrade, I don't update, unless I buy a new computer that comes with the new software and I have no choice.

Also, that is a standard reply for every situation and I am looking for specific answers as to why my iPhone has changed when I did not change any settings nor did I update software. Seems Apple is now reaching out and changing things without us updating iOS. Maybe it is the carrier (TMobile) doing this but I doubt that.

I didn't think it did.

I tried both of those prior to posting this. Any other suggestions?