How To Fix The iPhone Making Random Calls Issue
iPhone random calls issue.
In this case, your iPhone is making random calls on its own, without you knowing it!
Don’t worry! You’re not the first and won’t either be the last one experiencing this issue.
We’ve isolated the most common random calls causes on iPhone and have listed a fix for each scenario.
All that you have to do is browse them all and apply the recommended solutions. They will help you to avoid other similar embarrassing situations.
5 Ways To Fix The iPhone Random Calls Issue
1. Manually Lock Device
Very often, the iPhone accidentally calls a contact from the ‘Recents’ call history if you don’t lock your device as soon as you stop using it. This cause is the main factor of triggering random calls on any smartphone and not just the iPhone. You can accidentally touch the display and dial a random entry from the iOS Call app when you bring your iPhone in your pockets, or while holding it in your hand without looking at the display.
Fix: Use the Side button to instantly lock your iPhone whenever you stop using it. Also set the Auto-Lock setting to the minimum of 30 seconds.
How To: Settings -> Display & Brigthness -> Auto-Lock -> 30 Seconds.
2. Disable Voice Control
Voice Control is an Accessibility feature that has been introduced in iOS 13. It allows users to interact with an iPhone using voice commands.
Your Apple smartphone could pick up various names found in your Contacts list, while listening for commands, and thus mistakenly consider that you want to call someone.
How To:
Open the Settings app and browse for Accessibility -> Voice Control -> Disable Voice Control.
3. Disconnect Bluetooth Devices
Random iPhone calls can be also accidentally generated by various Bluetooth devices that are paired to your smartphone. You could accidentally press a button and trigger a call. A third party Bluetooth unit can have a faulty accessory that causes the random call, or your kid could toy with a device that’s connected to your iPhone.
What you can do is check all connected devices and disconnect what’s no longer needed.
How To: Settings -> Bluetooth -> Tap “i”, next to the [device name] -> Forget this device.
4. Screen Repair
Hardware issues can also trigger random calls on iPhone. If you dropped your iOS device and damaged the display, even without cracking it, the touch screen could start acting strange and pick up false taps.
The same goes for aftermarket screen repairs. If you replaced the display of your iPhone with a part that isn’t genuine, the screen can react strangely some times and could easily trigger accidental calls. More details can be found here.
5. Other Rare Fixes
The three fixes are the most common causes that generate iPhone random calls. Below are a few more isolated solutions that are more rarely used:
– Restart iPhone: rebooting the iOS can always fix minor glitches. If an accessory isn’t acting as it should you can try to force restart your iPhone.
How To: Click in this order the Volume Up -> Volume Down -> Side Button (hold until the Apple logo flashes on the screen). Be patient until the device restarts. Provide your Passcode and you’re ready to go.
– Reset Settings: You can bring back the factory settings on your iPhone and see if this fixes the random calls issue.
How To: Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset All Settings.
Are you experiencing random calls on your iPhone? Is any of the above fixes working for you? Let us know in the comments section available below.
Related: You might also make sure that your iPhone is always updated to the most recent software version available. iOS 14 is packed with new features. Check them out here.
Help! I will be in the middle of a phone conversation and my phone starts to call someone else… no recent calls… just on my contact list.
Is it possible that you accidentally touched the screen and started a new phone call?
This is very weird. My phone has literally just made 5 calls according to my recents, luckily family members, and I wasn’t even in the same room as my phone. This has happened before and in both instances my iPhone was screen down on top of my iPad, cold that have something to do with it
Yes, that is the problem I’m having too. Super annoying, especially when the phone randomly calls someone and puts my call on hold, causing me to lose a call after waiting on hold forever!
Same darn thing happened to me today ( Sept.8/21) My phone called a contact in Italy, put the person I was talking to on hold. Suddenly, my call reverted back to my original contact!
Goblins in my phone!
That’s scary. Is there a chance that you’ve accidentally tapped the screen and somehow initiated the call without being aware of it?
me too – usually the same contact is called during a call to someone else – this feels like a new bug…
Thanks for reporting. Can you try using the speakerphone when you’re in an active phone call and keep the iPhone at a distance from your head? This will make sure that no accidental taps are occurring. Does it still randomly call the same contact?
I’m not the person who wrote the question but this happened to me while my phone was on speaker and sitting on the table, so nothing was in contact with the phone at the time of the second call. It just suddenly dialed a number from the recents list.
Thanks for confirming Eileen. This sounds like a serious issue.
P.S.: Just to exclude one more thing, your iPhone’s display is in fine condition correct? We had cases of cracked iPhone screens that would start registering fake taps.
It seems to happen to me when I am ending a call, pressing the red phone to end call and the other party hangs up first and the screen reverts quickly to your recent calls and you press a contact’s name and phone them
Thanks for the feedback Roy. Yes, that’s an interesting find. It makes sense and it can occur quite often.
Yes, that is the problem I’m having too. Super annoying, especially when the phone randomly calls someone and puts my call on hold, causing me to lose a call after waiting on hold forever!
Thanks for reporting it. Is there a chance that your device recently got a screen replacement? We’ve seen reports of iPhones registering lots of ghost touches. All of them have one thing in common and that’s an aftermarket screen replacement.
iPhones are pure garbage. I have had mine for a year and it has done the same thing numerous times. The software is so poorly designed. The ‘recents’ listing should not have a way to make calls. Recents should only provide information such as dialed numbers or received calls. Unfortunately if you miss the tiny blue I dot, the phone is already calling someone you didn’t intend to. Stupid people are designing software these days. Never had a problem with android. Seems like more iPhones have cracked screens that are costly to have fixed, expensive batteries you can’t change yourself, proprietary chargers, slippery cases, buttons that are hard to activate because they are in the wrong place. Pure garbage and never again.
I can understand your frustration up to a point. You can always sell your device and switch to Android. Why do you continue to torture yourself?
iPhone randomly called a number which is not in recent calls or in contact list. But that number has been previously saved in my contact list and deleted it 2 years ago. Is there any chance to know how this number popped out of no where
That’s strange indeed. Not sure how this could have happened…