Why is my child’s Apple Watch SE 2 getting calls from unknown numbers?

I bought the SE two for my daughter. It is on a child's account for a six-year-old a couple years ago. There's been no issues with calling until this year of 2025. She now has been getting phone calls from random numbers not in the contacts and of course it never seems to happen when I am around only when she is in school and regardless of it being a child’s account is supposed to only allow numbers that I have permitted to have the ability to contact her, but it is getting through the school time feature also and ringing. Yesterday it happened while I happened to be around, however, when I answered her watch, I could hear talking and then they hung up.




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Apple Watch SE (2nd generation)

Posted on May 26, 2025 02:08 PM

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Jun 21, 2025 08:00 AM in response to LD150

(It’s difficult for me to type this without sounding defensive so read with an open mind)


No I didn’t mention it in those exact words and maybe I should’ve. Nothing I’ve said indicates I’ve only set up School Time. When setting up a child’s account one of the set up processes is the communication settings. I’ve exhausted countless options before turning to the community. I only get her a couple days a week so I’m on limited time with messing with it. I’m no high level tech guy or anything like that but I have done lots of research and have talked to the Apple support for hours on different levels of security all the way from passwords to advance data protection and setting up security keys and encrypting forms because of consent forms through work and all.

Jun 21, 2025 08:11 AM in response to WheelieNick

So after contacting Apple support 2 times they have instructed me to try and update (which it was) then had me reset watch and even unpair and pair again…. And both times when finished they asked did it work…. I inform them I will not know until I get a call… they then said they would call and the numbers still showed up in recent calls they said it was normal I felt like that shouldn’t be a thing like why display. Well later that day a call came through from a unknown number so apparently it’s only certain numbers and I’m not sure what the pattern is. Just sucks cause it freaks my daughter out I dunno why it does but she’s 6 so she gets a pass.

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