FaceTime (after changing phone number)

Hi! I had the same problem: new carrier, had to wait for old phone number to be transferred and my temporary phone number stucked in. I did the restart. I also tried to turn off then turn on FaceTime. Neither them succeded then.. So what I did finally is to turn off FaceTime then restart iPhone with the turn off button (not on the screen but holding the button for at least 2 secs) and when started I turned on FaceTime again. Then it started to register and recognized my new number! :)

I swapped out my SIM card giving my phone a new cell number. However, my FaceTime number stayed the same as my old number. All I had to do was restart my phone and FaceTime resynced to the new number.

iPhone 4s, IOS5

Restoring seemed to do it, but Restoring from Backup takes moves it to the old number, and it's not really an option- I have to restore from backup. Any ideas?

I just answered my own question....to do a restore as an Apple guy told me to do once, is hold the top button and the round button until the phone shuts itself down, do not turn it off with the screen, just keep holding the buttons till the phone shuts itself down, then I turned it back on, and had two different things happen as I was doing this on 2 iphones. My phone, it still read my old number so I turned the face time option off, turned it back on, signed in, and my number was correct; on my husband's phone, it automatically updated his number for the face time, did not need to turn his face time off and on again; now it's working on both phones...🙂

I've been having the same problem with my iphone 4 IOS 5.. I have tried everything including the instructions on the last post by mamadawn516

Thanks! This worked brilliantly!

Same happen to me and I already tried what mamadawn516 posted and the result is the same I can't make Facetime recognize the new phone number.

I have iOS 5.0.1

Anyone from apple could give us some help here? thx!

I have a slightly different problem. I live in spain, with a factory unlocked iphone 4, ios 5.0.1, with an orange simcard. Facetime and imessage worked great. i visitied the uk and decided to put and o2 sim which worked great aswell. i got back to spain, put my orange simcard back in, and now my facetime and imessage wont work, because they try and verify with the o2 simcard number that was in there when i was in the uk. help!!!

Any Apple guy here???? does anyone interested to ask this questione????? we all pay you a fortune both for the phone and the applications, can you do anything to keep us happy????? what are you getting paid for????

this is a user to user help forum.no apple employee will respond here.

I think I have found the answer for this problem it worked for me I copied this from another website so thanks to him!!

Sometimes you might have the wrong number showing under the field "My number" and the field is not editable.

This might be either because you have ported your older number from a different network (via PUK code) to a new one or that you have changed sim

Do the following to correct this:

1) Switch of Wi-FI and make sure you get 3G receptiion

2) Switch off Facetime and for few seconds

3) Go to phone under settings and you should have the correct number

4) Switch facetime back on by entering your iTunes credentials

Hope this helped some of you

Thanx mamadawn516 the procedure worked for me my number has updated to the one.🙂