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Garlic123 Author

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Email instead of phone number for texts

IPhone 8 query: when texting the To box will only populate with an email address instead of phone number. Help??

iPhone 8

Posted on Jun 13, 2020 6:00 PM

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Lawrence Finch

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Posted on Jun 14, 2020 7:06 AM

Are you actually typing in the phone number, or the name (which lets the Messages app choose). Also, if this is a thread that was originated or responded to by the recipient using their Apple ID then the thread will continue using that original method.

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