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iMessage shows me Contacts email address

When I want to send a new text, I select the compose/new message and then search for a contact. If I only have the contacts mobile phone number - no problem I can only send the text to that number. But if The contact has an email address - that becomes a choice that you can accidentally select and send your text to. Why? If I wanted to send an email that is what I would do. This is very frustrating and I need to turn it off. Please note - this is NOT me asking how to stop sending texts from my email (there are a ton of answers for that question). That is not my issue. My issue is when I accidentally send a text to someone’s email address which I should NOT be able to do.

iPhone X

Posted on Feb 25, 2020 9:34 AM

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Posted on Feb 25, 2020 10:11 AM

If I am understanding what you are doing correctly, no, you can’t turn that off. When you select a contact, you bring up all the information that is stored for that contact and if an email address is in there, you can’t remove it.

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