Hello, I turn my iPhone 15Pro running 18.1.1 off at night and back on in the AM. Recently when I turn my phone on I occasionally have phone numbers showing up on the screen before I login. Once I login there are no call/message badge indicators. The numbers belong to people in my contacts. When I check, these people have not attempted to ring in the night. One of the numbers belonged to my dentist who, on the weekend, for sure didn’t try to ring me. Resetting the phone doesn’t seem to end the behaviour. Does anyone know what this is about and how to stop it? Thank you.
Freaky! What happens if you don’t turn it off?
Hi Adam, I will try that; I imagine it will be fine - no ‘calls’ get made up/invented during the day while the phone is on. This morning after turning the phone on, there was a call ‘1 minute ago’. I hadn’t noticed the timings on previous inventions as I was so surprised by them. If the timing is usually that recent (I will pay attention to that now) perhaps it is something to do with powering up/restarting the OS.
Powering down iPhones regularly is extremely unusual, so it’s not entirely surprising that it generates unanticipated behavior (which is merely to explain it, not excuse it).
Really? Leave it on all the time?
I turn off my iPhone every night. I too have noticed artifacts of text messages, message app notifications, and phone app notifications when booting iOS. I ignore the artifacts because they always seem to be related to stuff I’ve already seen. Perhaps the info is coming from a “recently deleted” or “Recents” cache or list.
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Yes. That’s why the iPhone has an alarm feature in the Clock app to wake you up in the morning, the Standby feature to turn it into a clock when you look at it during the night, a Sleep Focus to turn off notifications and alarms, and a plethora of sleep tracking features connected to the Apple Watch, which itself has a nightstand mode. Apple assumes the iPhone will be on at all times. If it was meant to be turned off and on regularly, it would have a prominent power switch. (This is true of Macs as well—they use so little power in sleep that there’s seldom an advantage to turning them off.)
Assuming that you have power to charge your iPhone at night, there’s little advantage in turning it off every night. If you were camping and wanting to preserve battery life as much as possible, turning it off could help with that.
And from what you’re saying, there are downsides to turning it off. So you can make your life easier in multiple ways by leaving it on.
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Yeah. The only time I routinely turn off my iPhone is on a flight – anything I would do in airplane mode is stuff I can do just as easily on my iPad, and I might as well preserve battery for when I land.
Dave
Well, thank you Adam. I have been leaving it on since you initially mentioned it. No more funny phone call notifications. I have always left my Watch on all the time because I wear it at night for the sleep data and the alarm. Thank you again.
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