Why are my contacts being saved as international numbers? I put in the standard US number...

My contacts aren't being saved as regular US numbers--and when I go to call someone using my contacts it says my plan does not support international phone calls....

Go to the phone app, dial *228, press 1 when prompted. Wait.
When the call disconnects, close all apps. I even reset the phone (off and on, nothing dramatic).
Wait at least three minutes.
Check your contacts.
Apparently sometimes Verizon thinks we're in another country, and doing the *228 thing gets it grounded back here in the USA.

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After doing this, you'll need to follow this user tip to restore your contacts from your last iCloud backup: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4841. As you'll see, this involves pulling the internet connection from your wifi router (or just turning it off) during the restore process as soon as your phone restarts. That will allow you to turn off iCloud contacts syncing and save the recovered contacts to your phone. Then you can restore the internet connection, allow the restore process to complete, then delete your daughter's contacts from your account (if you haven't already done so) and enable iCloud contacts syncing again to merge the recovered contacts with your account.

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