Select default phone number in IOS 14

This doesn’t work, it only shows ‘copy’ option when you press and hold.

Many users have expressed same problem and I am surprised how this defect is still unresolved by Apple.

Please review these screenshots and provide a patch asap on this.

Hi, I was able to fix this by going to (add Favorites) under that section you have an options for each method (Message, Call, Video, Mail) and can assign a default or "favorite" for each method. Hope this helps!

I have the exact same problem; holding the number only reveals the "copy" option.

Sooo many bugs since January 2021, unresolved after following all instructions from tech support. New iPhone SE, calendars still don't sync, icloud backs up things I told it not to back up, notifications only work sometimes, calendar alerts disappear from lock screen, text language keeps defaulting to French (apparently an old bug but one I didn't have until January 2021), phone not automatically connecting to default WiFi, and no solutions, but oohh, new "memojis!" Grr.

I am grateful to Apple for protecting me from the evils of fecebook (spelling intentional) and other security horrors, but I'd like a phone that is still, you know, a phone.

Each support session costs me a minimum of 50 minutes only to have the issue unresolved, and that's after searching online for solutions and following all recommendations to no avail. Instead the updates keep making things unnecessarily more complicated. Suddenly we can't even delete an app without re-learning their weird new way of doing it.

This may sound like just venting, and I know bugs happen, but, how much is your time worth?

Anyway, everybody stay healthy. That's really thing #1.

Open the contact and copy the number you don’t want as default. For safety, paste it to notes, but it should remain on the clipboard until you copy something else.

Edit the contact and delete the number you just copied.

Add a new phone number.

Paste the number you just copied.

Click Done.

The other number should now be the default number.

When I touch and hold the button for the contact method, there appears the option "Copy" and nothing else. No option to choose the default phone number. What can be the reason?

I am having the same issue. There appears to be no way of making a default number in a contact that has multiple numbers.

No, by tapping the selection you just make a call, it doesn’t set the number as default.

Hi gantte,

Thanks for coming to Apple Support Communities for help today setting a default number for your Contact in iOS 14.

Check out this section in the iPhone User Guide: Add and use contact information on iPhone.

"To change the default phone number or email address for a contact method, touch and hold the button for that method below the contact’s name, then tap a selection in the list."

Have a fantastic day!

Thank you, but that doesn't work. It only reveals a "copy" option, as others in this thread have stated.

So, what I believe the instructions are suggesting are to touch and hold on where it says "call" or "mobile" (with the little phone symbol) and not the phone number itself—the second screenshot above shows this. That being said, I'm still not sure it works for setting the default number 🤷🏻‍♂️

After a **** of trials

found the solitions

go to the contact

press edit

Copy then delete the current default number

(which is the first one)

press done

press edit (again)

add the copied number

now the other number is the default

This is not how this works and I am really confused. I only get the option to copy the number.

it does not work this way. Long hold will pop up Copy functionality. The only way is to Click to “Add to Favorite”

Related: If you have two phone numbers (SIM and eSIM) you can change your default outgoing number for calls and texts here:

Settings > Cellular > Default Voice Line