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LeannMartin1 Author

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10 points

FACETIME CALLING WRONG PERSON

I tried to make a Facetime call to my partner from my Iphone4 to his Ipad. I made the call the exact same way as I usually would by going to my recent call list and clicking on his name. However the call connected to my partners friend, someone who's e-mail address and phone number I do not have. This has happened a few times since but does not happen every time I call my partner.

Also, my partners brother has now tried calling him and got through to a complete stranger leading me to believe that there is something wrong at my partners end - not with my phone.

Does anybody know what this could be and any way of fixing it? Thanks 🙂

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Posted on Sep 18, 2012 6:08 AM

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Charlotte_R

Level 1

11 points

Posted on Dec 8, 2016 3:16 PM

This just happened to me when I tried to call my dad, and I think I've figured out why. I still have my dad's old phone numbers stored in my contact info. Also, my dad was not in wifi and has "data" turned off for facetime calls. I think my phone found someone else on facetime using the old number and called them instead. Deleting any old numbers in your phone and making sure that the person you're trying to call is ready to accept a facetime call (has cell data on if they're not in wifi) would probably fix the problem.

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Sep 10, 2015 6:52 AM in response to Vitor S.

Vitor S had it right:

For me this worked:

"Please check your contact (the one you are calling) if they have older phone numbers or even old email addresses. Removing the old number should fix this"

FACETIME CALLING WRONG PERSON