Individual Ringtones for duplicate entries in Contacts?

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Individual Ringtones for duplicate entries in Contacts?

I've set up three different people (my wife, daughter an me) in the Contacts app to have the same phone # and ringtone (which is different from the default ringtone setup in Settings). 🙂

When my wife or daughter call me from the home phone, I'd expect that the iPhone would ring using the ringtone I've setup for them.

However, the iPhone rings using the default ringtone instead. 😮

Any idea why and how to get the iPhone to ring me using the ringtone I've setup for these contacts?

Thanks

-Mike

OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), Svrl Apl Prdcts

Posted on Mar 25, 2016 8:28 AM

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Soniq2 Author

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Mar 26, 2016 7:40 PM in response to Soniq2

Ok, here is the solution to the problem.

I have the same phone number listed in my contact card, my wife's contact card and my daughter's contact card (which is our home phone #).

The minute I removed the entry for this phone # in my contact card, my iPhone produces the correct ringtone when called from that #.

Perhaps, in Apple's mind, whenever someone calls from my home phone #, its going to be either my wife or my daughter, not me (there is no option in my contact card as the owner of the iPhone to set the ringtone like there is in other contacts).

-Mike

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