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rachinc1
User level: Level 1 (36 points)

iPhone calls ring on Mac Studio, not iPhone, for extended time

I was out of the house today and got a call from my dentist that they had to cancel last minute. When I got home I heard the iphone ringtone coming from my mac studio desktop, but didnt understand why the call was going to only my computer and not my phone so I walked over to the computer and saw that the name on the caller id was the same dentist that I had spoke to on the phone a few minutes ago and below the call it said "16:30" which means the call had been ringing to my desktop computer for 16 minutes and 30 seconds. thats highly irregular. see attached screenshot. this has to be a bug, it's never done that before. CAn apple fix that? Mac Studio 2023, Apple M2 Ultra, macOS Golden Gate 27.0.1


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Posted on Sep 29, 2026 8:20 AM

2 replies

neuroanatomist
User level: Level 9 (72,871 points)

Sep 29, 2026 10:45 AM in response to rachinc1

Did the caller leave a voicemail? The count-up timer that you see in the Notification Center is not a timer for the call ringing, but rather it indicates that a voicemail is being left by the caller and the timer indicates the duration.


A voicemail of extended duration can sometimes happen due to a glitch on the mobile carrier side. The 'Unlock to View' message indicates that if you unlock your Mac and iPhone, you would see the Live Translation of the incoming voicemail message (though if it's a carrier glitch there would likely be nothing to translate).


More info: Use Notification Center on Mac - Apple Support


You can turn off phone call notification on other devices on your iPhone in Settings > Apps > Phone > Calls on other devices. You can shut everything off, or just turn off a specific device.



Personally, I see that notification with an incoming call, but it disappears once the call ends (depending on if the caller leaves a message and the duration of that message). If this happens routinely/frequently, then bugs can be reported to Apple here:

Feedback - macOS - Apple

rachinc1 Author
User level: Level 1 (36 points)

Sep 29, 2026 7:53 PM in response to neuroanatomist

No they did not leave a voicemail. Later that day i got a call from someone i knew, and i answered it on my mac studio desktop. but yet my iphone continued to ring even though I had already picked up the call on my desktop computer. (before I upgraded to golden gate, i would take calls all the time on the desktop computer and the iphoen wouldnt continue to ring). this feels like a bug with the new OS.

Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256367284