Default text message contact

Since ios13, my wife’s iPhone will default to her mums landline number when creating a new message rather than her mobile number. How do we stop this from happening, and make the phone choose her mobile number?

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Posted on Sep 22, 2019 1:59 PM

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Posted on Sep 22, 2019 2:08 PM

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