i *must* put the +1 or +44 etc....every now and then I go through my contacts to make sure it's there. I need the uniformity or my OCD kicks in
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Super anal retentive OCD question but do you put the +1 in your Contact phone numbers?
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It's funny but I still feel a twinge of needless worry about adding "+1" to a phone number.
Why? Back in the old days of land lines, having to dial "1" before a number meant you had to pay for that call. Even though that no longer applies to calls within the US on most US carriers, that "feeling" is still there for just a tiny moment when I see I'm dialing +1 XXX-XXX-XXXX.
Hell, even back in the days of seven-digit dialing on land lines, you could end up paying for a call even to the next county over! So most phone companies required a "1" before any billed call, even to the same area code. I still remember having to ask my parents for permission to call my grandparents in the next county over back when I was a kid in the 80s. It was a "1" then the seven digit number!
This stuff gets burned into your brain at a young age and it's hard to shake it.
Why? Back in the old days of land lines, having to dial "1" before a number meant you had to pay for that call. Even though that no longer applies to calls within the US on most US carriers, that "feeling" is still there for just a tiny moment when I see I'm dialing +1 XXX-XXX-XXXX.
Hell, even back in the days of seven-digit dialing on land lines, you could end up paying for a call even to the next county over! So most phone companies required a "1" before any billed call, even to the same area code. I still remember having to ask my parents for permission to call my grandparents in the next county over back when I was a kid in the 80s. It was a "1" then the seven digit number!
This stuff gets burned into your brain at a young age and it's hard to shake it.
I live in Finland and I have an OCD of always putting +358 on every contact.
I don’t add the country code for the numbers in the same country where I’m currently living at. however, I do add +(country code) to every international number I keep on my contacts.
I have moved to a different continent twice in the last 11 years. Every time I change my country of residence, I update my contact list, it’s not easy and definitely not fun
I never add the 1 and always remove if it snuck in there. This is the only way to live. Also the toilet paper should always come over the top. Just a couple basic laws of the universe.
I enter the +1 (or +64 for this part of the world) when entering them manually, however I have a few with no prefix. When someone calls me and I create a contact from the call history it won't add the +64 by default, and sometimes I don't remember to change it.
Of course, when I go overseas I need to add any + codes that are missing.
In NZ we had to dial the area code for any billable call, even if it was the same area code. So all 7-digit numbers were free, but a billable call within the same area code was 0+code+number.
This persists to all cellphone calls today; technically they're billable calls (even though virtually everyone has free calling now) so you still need to dial the area code even if you're calling someone in the same room.
Of course, when I go overseas I need to add any + codes that are missing.
In NZ we had to dial the area code for any billable call, even if it was the same area code. So all 7-digit numbers were free, but a billable call within the same area code was 0+code+number.
This persists to all cellphone calls today; technically they're billable calls (even though virtually everyone has free calling now) so you still need to dial the area code even if you're calling someone in the same room.
That’s not quite true, especially if you travel internationally. For example, if you’re a US based person and just store your local numbers as (xxx)xxx-xxxx or any variation without the +1, it will work within US, but the moment you travel outside the country, calling back that number could be a hit or a miss.
With a Portuguese phone all of my numbers have the international code. Partly it’s ocd but partly it’s that years ago I noticed when I was in the uk my ability to ring or text numbers that didn’t have the international code depended on what uk operator my phone was diverted to. Sometimes it would go through and 5 mins later it wouldn’t, because I had walked further and the uk carrier has swapped from say bt to ee.
I don't know if you missed this whole pandemic thing... but there isn't a lot of travel anymore, and there likely won't be for a long time.
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yes. i always add the initial +country code to ALL numbers ever since iPhone 4 days.
pre-covid traveled to almost a different country every week most years.
i needed to do add the initial + country codes.
plus, as you point out. the fool proof way to ALWAYS have the iMessage or phone call name resolve to a name in my contacts is to ALWAYS use the initial + country code.
also, the so-called Dial Assist thing can not figure out special international dealing prefixes.
I really don’t appreciate that you shared my phone number on a public forum.
I usually take out the "+" and just leave the "1"... i.e. 1 (555)555-5555... For some reason the plus (+) sign looks odd to me so I started removing it.
I have mine set to NOT have the +1.
However, if someone shares a Contact with me, often it has the +1, I simply remove it. But, I do all my changes to Contacts and such, in Microsoft Outlook, via a Windows PC (or via a browser on PC). Then everything syncs...
However, if someone shares a Contact with me, often it has the +1, I simply remove it. But, I do all my changes to Contacts and such, in Microsoft Outlook, via a Windows PC (or via a browser on PC). Then everything syncs...
Would only matter calling from other countries than US right? What's weird is when I first got iPhone and would save contacts from #s, sometimes they would have the +1 but sometimes not.
Yea toll was so ridiculous. Could call someone miles and miles across PA for no toll but someone literally next door could be toll. And why was toll more than collect calls out of state?? And yea the 1 was nice because you could not use it for a number you weren't sure on and it would fail if it was toll
'+1' to this. I prefer having the full numbers in my contacts. It's just a habit I got myself in ever since the first phone I owned - a Sony Ericsson T310 (graduated to T610 few months later). Off note, that T610 will always have a special place in my heart. Amazing little device.
I sync my contacts with a non-apple service and in that service they all have the local country code, but in the iPhone contacts app they are shown without. All international numbers are shown with country code. I assume the iPhone will automatically use the correct country code if I travel to another country since I have dial assist turned on. I may be wrong.
This is a very important topic actually due to the fact when I am outside of the US and overseas, those numbers I do not have plus 1 in front of do not let me text or dial out and my own caller ID shows from a different random country
I always put the +1 because if I travel internationally and I get a local SIM card, then the phone cannot dial those numbers correctly and I have to memorize and manually dial, an absolute PITA. So I am also OCD about adding the +1 in front of all US and Canadian numbers.
My grandmother would practically throw down the phone if we were calling at the wrong time because she didn't want us wasting money on the fees!