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Mharfr Author

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11 points

Phone number not associated to iPhone

I have this message on my iPhone & for several days I cannot get my number to associate with my phone. About a month ago I swapped networks & got a temporary number for a few hours whilst my old number ported over. It pitted fine & I receive texts & calls on this number. This is the number on my Apple ID.

The phone number in Settings-Phone-My number however is wrong.

I’ve tried changing it but it won’t save & reverts back to this. I’ve turned off Imessage & FaceTime, restarted my phone multiple times, reinserted the sim etc. I have added my number to my Apple ID - contactable at, but it doesn’t change/stop the count down date above & still won’t let me change my number.

Can anyone please help me associate my number to my phone? I’m at a loss, all I can find are the steps I’ve done above and it’s not working.

Thank you

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iPhone 11

Posted on Apr 17, 2023 4:16 PM

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dapicso

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7 points

Posted on Oct 31, 2023 5:01 AM

I HAD the same issue. I tried a lot of steps and finally saw a simple statement that WORKED! I clicked where “in red” it said to remove the number from iMessage and FaceTime. Then I backed out of both iMessage and FaceTime and went back into them and selected my phone number again when it popped up. THIS FIXED IT in 1 minute after I had spent 45 minutes going through threads and turning stuff off and on, and rebooting several times. I hope this can help someone. It should be at the top of the “fixes”

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