I cannot get the 'names' of my contacts to show up in iMessages, only phone numbers

in SETTINGS on my iPhoneX, OUTLOOK is NOT A CHOICE. I still cannot get the 'names' of my contacts to show up in iMessages on my MacBook Air, only phone numbers.


other, or more, directions or ideas?



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MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.15

Posted on Mar 15, 2020 11:02 AM

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Posted on Mar 15, 2020 11:44 AM

You can't. MS Outlook is a 3rd party app. Contacts stored in or synced to the Outlook app are not available to cores services of the phone.


You would have to sync those contacts with the contacts app on your phone in addition to or instead of to Outlook.

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I cannot get the 'names' of my contacts to show up in iMessages, only phone numbers

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