Phantom Call on FaceTime

[pine man]

Late last night I received a Facetime call from a friend. When I answered, my friend was surprised that I had called late at night but when I said that I hadn't rung her, she had rung me, she said she hadn't.

After a brief discussion it became apparent that neither of us had instigated the call and that, somehow, FaceTime appeared to have connected us both at the same time?

We both have iPhones and appear on each others contacts list. Neither of us was even in the same room as our individual iPhones when they rang so it wasn't a case of mistakenly pressing any buttons. My calls list shows that the FaceTime call I got was from my friends phone number.

Any ideas?

 

[Raz0rEdge]

Without the physical buttons on the iPhone, you can't even blame butt-dial anymore.

It's one thing to get a regular phone call from a spammer that is spoofing numbers and have them randomly get a number of your friend, but that would show up as a regular phone call. FaceTime calls require you to specifically choose Video call from the contact card to initiate it, so not quite sure how it would happen accidently.

 

[pine man]

Thanks for responding.

I've been doing a bit of research and it appears that random FaceTime connections are not unheard of and even, what you could call, targetted, contact between two users who know each other.

The general concensus seems to suggest a problem within FaceTime or IOS or both. The trouble is modern phones are too damned smart! Bring back the good old days of two tin cans and a piece of string.