The family organizer (me) but my name has changed

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The family organizer (me) but my name has changed

This is a very strange problem, I was reviewing the family sharing on my phone today, and although it still recognizes me as the organizer, eg my Apple ID my device, my email, it’s all correct except where the names are shown in the list it says Julie (me) I’m not Julie. It gets weirder, if I click on Julie (me), the screen that loads to show your name and photo, your Apple ID email address, purchase, subscriptions etc, I’ve taken a screen shot and cut out the personal information but kept this part…. I have no idea who Julie Airbnb is or why her name has suddenly populated where my name used to be. From iCloud I was able to edit the photo but I cannot find anywhere as to how to edit the name. Everywhere else I’ve looked iCloud etc it has my correct name on the account it’s only in correct on these two screens this one and the one right before where you click on the organizer. Please help.

[Image Edited by Moderator to Remove Personal Information]

iPhone 11

Posted on Jan 6, 2023 7:44 PM

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Jan 6, 2023 8:07 PM in response to g12196

I solved the problem but have no idea how it occurred to begin with.

Several months ago I started to notice that every time I would fill out my name and phone number on an application or an order from my iPhone it would want to pre populate my phone number only the number my phone was suggesting I did not recognize as it wasn’t my number, I kind of got used to it and assumed it was a software bug. It turns out in my contacts there was a Julie Airbnb, and soon as I saw the number I knew ot was that number my phone always suggested I use when filling in my number on forms.

it seems for some reason Siri associated that number for Julie as my own number. Below Julie’s number it had my number as phone Siri found as associated with this contact. Turns out that family sharing populates the family organizer screen with whomever the iPhone associates as (me) in our contacts. To resolve this I edited the contact for Julie, changed the name to my name and deleted Julie’s phone number.

I recreated a brand new contact for Julie with her number as I’m curious if my phone will try to restablish this link between me and that phone number.

problem solved but I really don’t understand how it happened.

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The family organizer (me) but my name has changed

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