Siri tries to send messages over BT, to _$!<mobile>!$_

[bigboy29]

Any ideas?

Ever since iOS 10, I have really random problem. When in the car, if I tell Siri over BT to send a message to (firstname, lastname), she asks me "What would you like to say". Then I say my message and she asks me if I am ready to send. I say yes. She says she is sending it. I then immediately get a message that the message failed to send. When I look, it seems like she tried to send a message to "_$!<mobile>!$_" as a text (SMS):

The (firstname, lastname) is a person in my contacts. She correctly identified the person. The person has cell phone number populated. And in fact - also uses an iPhone.

My messages shows this:

The 'contact' she tries to send to is:

This happens ONLY on Bluetooth. It does not seem to happen 100% of the time, though; I am pretty sure I sent to the same person over BT a few days ago.

Tried:
- backed up the phone completely using PC; nuked it completely, restored backup
- removed the Contact sync from all email accounts, re-enabled contact sync
- verified that there is nothing strange in the contact "mobile' fields...

At a loss. :|

 

[zackattack784]

Any ideas?

Ever since iOS 10, I have really random problem. When in the car, if I tell Siri over BT to send a message to (firstname, lastname), she asks me "What would you like to say". Then I say my message and she asks me if I am ready to send. I say yes. She says she is sending it. I then immediately get a message that the message failed to send. When I look, it seems like she tried to send a message to "_$!<mobile>!$_" as a text (SMS):

The (firstname, lastname) is a person in my contacts. She correctly identified the person. The person has cell phone number populated. And in fact - also uses an iPhone.

My messages shows this:

The 'contact' she tries to send to is:

This happens ONLY on Bluetooth. It does not seem to happen 100% of the time, though; I am pretty sure I sent to the same person over BT a few days ago.

Tried:
- backed up the phone completely using PC; nuked it completely, restored backup
- removed the Contact sync from all email accounts, re-enabled contact sync
- verified that there is nothing strange in the contact "mobile' fields...

At a loss. :|

I've had the exact same issue. Haven't found a way to fix it. But I'm interested what others have to say. I've experienced on BT and off. But the time I experienced it off BT I had just disconnected from my car BT.

 

[bigboy29]

I've had the exact same issue. Haven't found a way to fix it. But I'm interested what others have to say. I've experienced on BT and off. But the time I experienced it off BT I had just disconnected from my car BT.

Actually you just made me realize that I was not completely accurate in my description: I actually had this happen when I was testing with Siri directly on the phone also, not just over BT. So it is not BT I think but rather Siri / dictation that makes this happen for some reason.

In real life, the only time I want to talk to my phone is over BT so... that's why this is really a BT scenario for me...