Q: Messages shows phone numbers instead of contacts
Messages on my iPad displays almost all conversations by phone number instead of by contact. If I tap the phone number at the top of a conversation I'm given the option to add it to an exisiting contact, and I can navigate to the appropriate contact and see that the phone number is already there. Oddly, I have one contact whose conversation shows by contact with the photo and everything.
All messages are properly displayed by contact on my iPhone and in Messages on my iMac.
On the iPad, I went to iCloud preferences and deselected 'Contacts' choosing to have them removed from the iPad and then synced them again. I've also reset the iPad (i.e. held Home & Power buttons until it shut down and then the Apple screen reappeared before releasing the buttons). The problem persists: Messages doesn't know about (most of) my Contacts.
What else can I try?
Thanks in advance,
Steve = : ^ )
iPad Pro, iOS 10.0.2, 4G; 128 GB
Posted on Sep 27, 2016 9:16 PM