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Numbers coming in incorreclty - showing as foreign countries
Whenever I receive a call from a number that is not saved in my contacts, the Caller ID shows it incorrectly. It appears as if it's adding a country code that is not correct, or just breaking the...
Sorry about that! This is a tough one cause it looks like it's a Apple SW issue with the formatting. Have you had a chance to reach out to Apple support?
I was having the same problem for months and just fixed it using what @jorfanakos wrote and it worked:
If you check under 'phone' in setting (iPhone users), the 'My Number' probably has a + in front of your phone number. I tried removing the + by re-entering my phone number and it would not accept the change.
So I looked further down where it say 'Show my caller ID" and clicked on it. What I did was turn it OFF, wait 2 seconds and then turn it ON again.
Then you return to the phone page and you should see the + is gone from you phone number when looking at the 'My Number'.
Et Voila! 😊
Hope this helps!
