Missed call notification suddenly appears a day later

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Missed call notification suddenly appears a day later

I have an iPhone 6 at current patch level on the AT&T network. Every once in a while I'll look at my phone and discover that there will be one or two missed calls from as far back as one or two days ago. More often than not, they're robocalls from area codes where I don't know anybody. I probably check my phone every hour and I have the phone next to me all the time, so it wasn't like I really missed a call when it came in. I suspect that somehow the callers are somehow aborting the call even before it could ring at my end even once and they're forging the call time.

Does anybody have this experience? Are my suspicions correct about the robocallers probing the phone network trying to find legit numbers for later calls? Is there any way to stop this?

iPhone 6, iOS 10.1

Posted on Jan 12, 2017 12:09 PM

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Jan 21, 2017 3:53 PM in response to recneps

It's certainly not a common problem. If it were my phone, I'd start by resetting my network settings. Settings>General>Reset>Reset Network Settings. The only thing you'll lose are saved WiFi passwords. If that doesn't help, I'd suggest calling AT&T.

Best of luck.

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Jan 21, 2017 3:42 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

I have cell data always turned on as well as WiFi. Often, I'll be sitting at my desk at home (where there's WiFi) and I'll notice that there is suddenly a missed call that wasn't there an hour ago. A missed call from yesterday.

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recneps Author

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Jan 21, 2017 3:57 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

Thanks for the suggestion. I have a lot of passwords so I'm reluctant to do that reset. Another factor in that decision is that every one of these missed calls is an unknown number. If I try calling one of them, they seem to be either a survey or a telemarketer. So I don't feel like I'm really missing much. It's just curiosity that has caused me to bring this to the attention of the iPhone community.

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