Calling Phone Numbers That Start with the * Sign

[Mike B.]

Hi All,

 

I'm running iOS15.5 on an SE2020 iPhone.  For the last several months I was unable to tell my phone to call any phone number in my contacts that began with the, number / pound, sign.

 

For example, when I want to forward my calls to the house I would tell Siri to  call, Forward Arcadia.  This number in my contacts is;

*72 555-444-3333

and the phone calls would be forwarded.

 

When I wanted to disable call forwarding I would tell Siri to call Stop Forward and this number in my contacts is; *73

 

Well, I checked today and Siri is now calling numbers with the * phone numbers.  I recall several others on this group an other groups that had the same problem, so y'all that use this type of calling can check to see if your phones will do this now as well.

 

 

Stay safe and take care.  Mike.  Sent from my iBarstool.

[Mike B.]

Hi folks,

 

I need to make a correction.  I stated in my initial post the following;

I'm running iOS15.5 on an SE2020 iPhone.  For the last several months I was unable to tell my phone to call any phone number in my contacts that began
with the, number / pound, sign.

The correction is to, with the, number / pound, sign.  It should read the, *, sign.

 

Stay safe and take care.  Mike.  Sent from my iBarstool.

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[M. Taylor]

Hello Mike,

Yes, you are absolutely correct; I can definitely confirm this behavior. It is maddening. I did not experience this bug until I updated to the latest version of iOS.

Strangely enough, as I have not updated to the latest version of Watch OS, I can continue to dial the telephone numbers, in question, via Siri on my Apple watch.

Mark

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