iphone 5 dialer can not successfully dial numbers after a programmed pause. The speed at which the dialer attempts to dial the remaining numbers is too slow. Does anyone else have a similar problem?

I have the same problem. IPhone 5 is playing back the digits after a pause way too slowly, like one key every 2 seconds

But ironically I DO get connected to the extension after the pauses. So it's like in the background it's working correctly but the playback of the tones is slow.

I have this same problem. I'm trying to dial my landline office voicemail from my iPhone, so I must dial three separate numbers with wait or pause between each. The sequence looks like this (with fake numbers):

1234567890;2345678901#,,1234123# where the semi-colon is a "wait" and the 2 commas are 2 "pauses".

With the semi-colon the phone "waits" for me to press DIAL to continue, but the rest of the numbers either isn't heard or is just going t-o-o s-l-o-w-l-y and my voicemail hangs up.

I replaced the semi-colon with 2 commas & it worked better, but not everytime.

There's another discussion of this in the apple forum -- so you're not the only one with this problem.

One person had success by turning off wi-fi before dialing. That worked for me once, but not always.

Sometimes the tones dial slowly -- about 5 seconds apart. Sometimes it works. No joy.

Don't know if it's relevant, but my iPhone 5 is with Verizon Wireless (in California).

I have a genius bar appt for tomorrow evening. I'll let you know if I have success.

Thanks for the info. I have had exactly the same experience -- sometimes it doesn't work at all and my voicemail hangs up on me. Other times my voicemail has accepted my call, but I keep hearing the tones like my phone is still dialing! Occasionally, it works as it should.

I will definitely let you know what happens at the genius bar tonight.

If you haven't already, I suggest you search on this forum for: "pause" and "wait" not working. Several others have had the same problem.

Correction to my recent post: search for

The "pause" and "wait" does not work properly.

(Sorry about that.)

I went to the Apple store. No results yet. For more info, see my longer post by searching for

The "pause" and "wait" does not work properly.

I'm having the exact same problem. I have two series of pauses programmed in in the sequence...the phone is supposed to dial a number, pause for the number to connect, enter another number to connect to a specific mailbox, pause, then enter the mailbox code. I've had this programmed in for years and it's worked w/o fail until iOS 6. No question in my mind it's the operating system. It actually connects to the initial phone number, even though I can still hear the phone dialing slowly. It won't ever complete the second step because it's fiddling around with the SLOW dial of the initial code so it won't enter the password when being prompted to do so.

Sounds like we're all having variations of the same problem. I've been on the road -- not even hooked up to wi-fi -- so I question whether that comes into play at all.

Same issue. Hope this gets resolved soon.

same issue here, with lots of verizon iphone 5's...

Thought I was nuts, same issue. Same sequense worked on iPhone 4s but 5 doesn't work. Keep sending out tones even when it gets thru but have the time gets kicked out of the system. Trying to call into a Citrix Phone system and it needs all the numbers to give back your messages. Apple needs to step up here and take care of this it's not the service providers it's an iPhone 5 issue....

I'd be really curious if someone with an iPhone 4s running iOS 6 can chime in.... Does it work or does that combo experience the same issue as the iPhone 5 users are reporting?

iPhone 4s with iOS 6 worked fine, just upgraded to iPhone 5 same data base, doesn't work.

I am having the same issue and it has create issues for me. I have a lot of programmed numbers for when I drive and now it's a pain to dial manually.

Any clues on when we can expect a fix?