Yes, Siri must have heard what I said to my guide dog and interpreted it as a 
phone call request. Mind you, when I ask Siri to play Radio 4 here in the UK, 
some days she will comply and other days she will insist on playing Tempo FM. 
Perhaps the same gremlins in action?
Harry

> On 11 Nov 2019, at 16:19, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I am not sure how anybody could pocket dial somebody with an iPhone unless 
> they leave their device unlocked and with the Phone app open on either the 
> Favourites or Recents tab. Even then something conductive which most clothing 
> is not, needs to press on the touch screen. I have owned iPhones for almost 
> 10 years and in all that time I don't think my phone ever called somebody 
> unless maybe I was deleting recents very quickly and I hadn't swiped down to 
> "Delete" before double tapping.
> More likely maybe SIRI somehow got activated and it thought maybe it heard 
> something and interpreted it as making a phone call.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
> TaraPrakash
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2019 8:08 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: AirPods pro strange phone call!
> 
> It seems like  A case of what is commonly known ass butt dialing.  
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Nov 11, 2019, at 2:52 AM, 'Harry Bell' via VIPhone 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> A bizarre event this morning: I’m away on holiday and I took my guide dog 
>> out early in the dark. As we left the building, with iPhone in a zipped 
>> inner pocket, my new AirPods pro read out a new text message because 
>> suddenly outside there was mobile phone reception. And then my iPhone rang 
>> my pension provider! I hadn’t rung tgem for a couple of years and I 
>> certainly hadn’t asked Siri to do anything. Very odd! How can this have 
>> happened?
>> Harry at the seaside in Filey UK 
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