IPhone doesn't recognise contact calling without country prefix

All my contacts are saved with the country code prefix so that when I travel internationally I can dial my contacts directly. However, when I receive a call from one of my contacts calling without the country code prefix, the iPhone doesn't recognise the contact as the number calling. The only way it works is when I save the contact twice - once with and then without the country code prefix. Is there a fix for this?

You need to change your region settings accordingly in order to make this work. Numbers that do not work within the set region without the country code will be a headache. Why not put everyone with the right prefix? That way you won't have to worry about any of this ever again...
Here's what happens when you change region on a number that's not prefixed correctly:
For example, Austria is +43
05-1717 is the customer service hotline for the train network.
Now, if you have some other region set, like America for example, calling 05-1717 will go out as +1 057 171 7 and will error out accordingly.
For contacts and messaging:
Lets say their number is +41 76 593 65 00
But you have it saved as 076 593 65 00
The region set is America:
So +1 is implied, and being that that number is Swiss, your phone will not recognize it as the same person.
Because it sees the number as +1 076 593 6500.

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