Siri refuses to call international number not supported by Apple.

I can't call any international numbers using Siri! Siri calls only numbers of countries supported by apple, but not any other country. I have all my contacts in international format, thus for instance a US contact is written as "+ 1 (3 digit area code) 7 digit phone number" and a dutch number as "+31 (two digit area code) 7 digit Phone number". These two countries have apple support and when asking Siri to call a person in those countries it performs the operation immediately. This is my problem: I live in Curacao and the numbers are written as "+ 599 (9) 7 digit phone number" and when I ask Siri to call someone's phone in my country it return the answer "Sorry, xxxxx, I can't call xxxxx's phone". I read some discussions on this topic and not any of the hints given helps my problem with Siri. Basically what I think that happens is that Siri decides to verify that the number you are trying to call is input correctly, and if Siri thinks that number is erroneously input by the user, it denies making the call. This is stupid, because the number is input correctly and it should just make the call like the user has input it in his contacts. The only way I can make calls via voice command is if I disable Siri, and then you can use the “simple voice command” of the iPhone’s (like existed before iPhone 4S).


I tried calling US costumer service support to report Siri's glitch, but this is impossible with Apple's narrow minded costumer service personnel. They don't give away either any e-mail or phonenumber to contact a person that can really give you a solution for your problem or at least to report it.


Do anyone know where you can contact the Apple Developers (in this case the ones that develop Siri), so maybe in the future they fix this problem with the new versions of iOS?

iPhone 5, iOS 6.0.1

Posted on Dec 16, 2012 8:27 AM

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Oct 23, 2013 4:38 AM in response to Sergio_78

My Problem is the same....


It as been a while since i had this problem with siri since IOS6, everytime i say to siri, ''callperson x" she recognizes the person x saying calling person x and after a few seconds responds with "sorry i cant call person x in that number".




Im from Mozambique, Maputo Local numbers are 9 digits Example 845666545 and the country code is +258


I looked for the fix for a while googling it and searching for fixes here on apple suppport but nothing seams to work
I tryed
- Reseting siri (On/off)
- Rebooting Phone (On /off)
- Changing all the numbers with the country code (+258 for mozambique)
- Restarting Facetime
- Enabling facetime restritions
- On off Iclound for contants..
- etc..


Tryed a lot of things and now im getting nervous because siri is a old thing now...i just updgraded my Iphone5 to IOS7.0.3 hopping that problem gets the propper solution but no wins....still the same problem...one little thing that is important asking siri to call someone and it cannot call...😠😠


PLZZZZ APPLE SUPPORT US

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