This poor little bunny is confused. I am not sure I see a solution for my problem here so far but maybe one of you smart people can help.
I have a US SIM and a UK SIM (where I live). Usually I take the US SIM with me to the United States and it becomes my iMessage and my Facetime phone number. When I look at the list of places I can receive messages and facetime calls, it lists only that phone number and also my icloud email address.
Recently my wife has gone to the US and made use of that same SIM card. I assume she went through the same thing of allowing iMessages and Facetime to use that phone number when she was there. AND, as I always do, switch back to her UK number when she comes back home.
Well, on my recent trip to the US by myself, every time somebody facetime'd my wife it rang her phone AND my phone. She was in the UK and I was in the US, so it had nothing to do with handoff. And we each have our own iCloud accounts (although she is using a phone I used to use ... but it was reset and restored with her data on it, so I doubt that's it).
I thought, I can solve this problem by running facetime explicitly on a particular phone number, but that doesn't seem to work anymore. Instead, there's just a Facetime link in the contact that you're supposed to press. I cannot imagine why this is ringing both our phones at the same time, on different continents.
EXCEPT: the people doing the calling have that same phone number in TWO SEPARATE ENTRIES in their contacts: one for me and one for my wife.
Could that be it? Could it be looking at the phone number, coming up with two icloud personalities, and ringing them both?
If you have insights, I am much obliged!
[Added later]
I just realized even that doesn't make sense. Right now we're both in the UK using our UK numbers. People are Facetime'ing my wife but they can't be using that US number to do it because it's not registered on imessage for either of us right now. Yet it continues to ring both our phones! Now we're in the same house, but ... Oh my.
