Comments on: AT&T’s iPhone MMS Displaying Incorrect Sender Number

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:42:57 +0000

Hi, I sent a text message to a friend and it appeared as another number on her phone. She called the number and it actually belongs to someone. Has anyone gt a solution for this? Or is their someway I can fix it? Thanks

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 10 May 2011 20:59:25 +0000

Ugh, it's happening to me now and I'm having a hard time trying to find recent threads discussing this very topic. Never happened before. On iPhone 4 JB, but I've read it happens on 3Gs and non-JB as well.

Today it's happened again for a different contact (it's been only 1 contact this past week). I've identified when it happened for one contact, right after an MMS, but this other contact was not MMS.

I reverse searched the phones and they come up as long distance out of state (LA and FL) landlines from other carriers. I've CALLED these numbers, and it actually connects to the correct contact, which is VERY ODD.

There are two things that I can say are similar between the two contacts.

1 - The problem started from their transmission. They get texts ok, mine creates a new text thread with a long distance number.

2 - In the past, I have both used google voice via web browser to text them, which saves me time.

By: sharon

sharon — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:45:56 +0000

Hi, the same problem happened to me. I am on orange iphone and my hubby is on 02 iphone. he received pics from me on a different number and it caused a lot of touble. i texted the number n they knew nothing about it. On my phone he’s in as ice 1 as i read something on a previoys reply i tried it. I removed the 1 from his name and sent another picture and he received it off my number. God knows why but it solved the problem. Maybe if people have 2 phones and they r in as 1 and 2 or something try that. It could help. Thanx stone

By: Pot doll

Pot doll — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:24:07 +0000

After reading all the comments, i think i owe my Husband a very large sorry. 4 pictures came through from a different number, I knew they were from him, but when i recieved them, they came with a different sender, im on o2uk and so is he, i rang o2, and they said they have never heard of the phones doing that, I also rung the other number and kept on getting answer machine, so i have messaged them instead. This really need sorting NOW.

By: bryan

bryan — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:36:00 +0000

I have a 3g 8 gig i-phone and it has recently started this. I had a friend send me pictures and all of a sudden she was in a picture from a number I didn’t recognize. I asked her what number she sent it from and she stated that it was sent from her phone. I sent her a picture and she said it showed a different number as well. Weird and I agree sounds like a security issue for sure.

By: Lindsey in Florida

Lindsey in Florida — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:33:14 +0000

SAME EXACT THING IS HAPPENING TO ME. I EVEN CALLED THE RANDOM NUMBERS AND THEY ARE REAL. YOU NEED TO CALL INTO AT&T AND OPEN A TICKET. THEY ARE TRYING TO FIX IT BUT THIS IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM. THEY SAID THE PROBLEM STARTED CHRISTMAS EVE.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:44:20 +0000

This began happening to me today. I sent out some Christmas pictures & suddenly began receiving message after message asking me who’s phone I was using. I had a friend send me the number & it’s a iPhone user in Tennesee, no where near me. Fortunatley, they are understanding.

By: Hutch

Hutch — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:38:23 +0000

This has just happened to me with an iPhone on Optus in Australia. I’ve only just received a picture from a friend which was sent yesterday afternoon, and my iPhone is displaying it being sent from a number that definitely doesn’t belong to her. “Who are you?” indeed!

By: Daryl

Daryl — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:15:27 +0000

@Anna

Who are you?

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:42:58 +0000

I woke up to a bunch of “who are you”s asking me about the tailgating picture I just sent them. Luckily after I explained I really didn’t know what anyone was talking about one person sent me back a link to this article.

By: aimz

aimz — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:38:10 +0000

I’ve had problems receiving pics via MMS sometimes from a non-iPhone user but when they email no problem. And I’ve had no issues sending pics to non-iPhone users. Haven’t tried sending or receiving pics from my friends who have iPhones yet though.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:38:46 +0000

FAIL!

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:07:30 +0000

No problems here

By: theron

theron — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:17:01 +0000

my MMS doesn’t even work. message send failure everytime. and i still get the old school viewmymessage.com when i get a pic message. and yes i did the updates.

By: mvl

mvl — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:42:27 +0000

just had this happen to me… friend sent mms and i recieved it ok, but the wrong number was displayed. i smsd the wrong number and they said they had been getting strange messages all day…

By: connie

connie — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:22:25 +0000

haven’t had this problem, for me it’s a picture never showing up, today my daughter sent me a picture of a ca she was buying, an hour later she emailed me the picture, never did did get the mms. She is in Alaska on GCI, sometimes she gets my mms pictures sometimes never, I don’t get notified that there was an error or anything, we think it has something to do with her carrier and AT&T which I have.

By: Jsch

Jsch — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:09:50 +0000

No problems here!

By: Adam Weber

Adam Weber — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:00:23 +0000

I sent an MMS to my friend which we both have iPhones he got it from a number that wasnt mine. Everything is updated too.

By: Frankiezjr

Frankiezjr — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:58:49 +0000

@drew j I have an iPhone

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:31:15 +0000

I recieved three pics from a strange number I later found out was a friend… Annoying.

By: DaveP

DaveP — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:47:55 +0000

Mine & my wife’s 3G iPhones have been doing the same thing, too. Love the phones, but I’m starting to regret switching to AT&T to get it.

By: drew j

drew j — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:45:39 +0000

@ Frankiezjr this was a known major problem in g1′s for months ON tmobile..

By: Gregory Foster

Gregory Foster — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:30:07 +0000

Not happening with me.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:10:15 +0000

@Miami Mike shi* and I thought it was the Jesus phone. Come on troller if you don’t like the phone why are you at this site? Envy maybe? Every different type of device has it’s ups and downs. How’s your Fisher Price phone stack up? Douce Nozzle.

By: kyle

kyle — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:06:52 +0000

just happened with my friend sending me a pic and att said something with the broadband I dont know but this is BS anyways does anyone know if the message/pic is being sent to both numbers or just yours with some random number that is the sender

By: Miami Mike...

Miami Mike... — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:21:12 +0000

You all wanted and cryed for MMS soo bad!!! Now suffer the Dazam consequences!!! Hahahahahaha!  Iphone Cry babies! My iPhone this my iPhone that!!! The iPhone can’t cure world hunger or give give no problems” it’s a phuckin device!!!

By: Drunk

Drunk — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:56:39 +0000

I haven’t had this happen yet, but I have gotten some pics come through with that green shit several times from a verizon phone like in those pics above

By: Frankiezjr

Frankiezjr — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:55:48 +0000

I have never had this problem but again I have T-Mobile. I have mms and it works without a hitch. It has never displayed the wrong number. Maybe it’s an AT&T end fault.

By: OmariJames

OmariJames — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:39:02 +0000

Hmm. No. But someone I know said they got the mms like 6-8 hours late.

By: oneAwake

oneAwake — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:17:38 +0000

If folks in the UK are experiencing this problem as well, maybe it’s GSM. I have never seen nor heard of this problem on CDMA. Aren’t some networks in the UK similar to Att’s? Att still sucks though!

By: Biohead

Biohead — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:09:57 +0000

Add another one to the list of O2UK customers that this has happened. Looks like it’s not just AT&T.

By: LT

LT — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:08:15 +0000

Yes. This happened the other day. I sent a pic to a friend - who then told me that another number showed up instead of my contact info. At first, she replied with "who is this" .. the number then replied "who is this"

ME: GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS! AT&T: SHOULD BE DONE BY NEXT SUMMER.

By: drew j

drew j — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:01:09 +0000

the same thing happened on my tmobile g1 on tmobile for about 3 months

By: BigMeat

BigMeat — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:59:24 +0000

WONKY!!!!! The BIGGEST LOL EVER!!! beyond ROFL and LMAO!!!!!! fucked

By: oneAwake

oneAwake — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:48:51 +0000

I will give Apple credit, they made a decent device, however, this new problem only proves Att’s network is garbage. There are numerous issues with Att’s network, I do not understand why anyone would want to switch to Att. No matter how great I think a device is, it is not enough to make me switch to s crappy network.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:46:13 +0000

I have never had an issue and I’ve been using MMS since 2.2.0 on AT&T.

By: Lillian

Lillian — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:44:29 +0000

My boyfriend sent me a video and it showed up a different number but when I watched it I knew it was my boyfriend cause of his voice. Hopefully this fixes soon!

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:41:07 +0000

I have had this happen on O2 in the UK too .

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:34:59 +0000

Yea have this problem, worst part is u don’t know who it’s coming from and when u ask who it is it sends it to the number that shows so they have no idea what ur talking about. It’s a huge problem all around.

By: Myatikal

Myatikal — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:33:42 +0000

It’s all across the US.

By: Stone

Stone — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:33:22 +0000

I have only seen this to be a problem when the number I am sending to in my phone has a one in front of it (saved under contacts) but others that I deleted the 1 is perfectly fine even after sending 100mms

By: David

David — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:32:25 +0000

me and all my friens with iphones have never had this happen… is it a regional thing?

By: J

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:19:26 +0000

Might have seen a JB app that does this. Can send the wrong information, LOL

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:19:12 +0000

I’ve had this happen on O2 in the UK a few times – especially when their network was up and down over the summer.

By: Mystikal

Mystikal — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:18:10 +0000

Look at the macrumors thread engadget posted. It’s jb and non jb phones. 3g and 3gs.

By: Mystikal

Mystikal — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:17:08 +0000

It’s happened to me and countless others. AT&T has no idea. Apple has no idea. At least, that’s what they say. We need to get this to more news sites so AT&T gets this fixes. It’s a major security risk b

By: Liquidchops

Liquidchops — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:58:37 +0000

I called att about this yesterday! My friends were getting picture mail fro a completely different number! I called the number and it belonged to someone else. I was a little freaked out about it because I thought someone was stealing my account.