Mac Messages app showing phone numbers not names

Just updated to Ventura and my Messages app is now only showing phone numbers, not names.

All the phone numbers ARE IN my Contacts. My MacBook and iPhone work fine with this. It is NOT an icoud issue, but messages is not talking to my Contacts for the names. If I try to connect the phone number in Messages with Contacts it makes me create a NEW contact, rather than letting me connect the two. HELP! Anyone know what's up??

--My contacts are NOT synced thru iCloud, and worked perfectly on my previous computer. (Which I copied over to this one)

iMac (M1, 2021)

Posted on Aug 8, 2023 12:44 PM

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Posted on Apr 5, 2024 9:30 AM

I solved the same issue. After reading some replies above, it did occur to me that on my iPhone, I sync all of my contact info from Google. I have used Google as my back up long before iCloud. Therefore on my mac mini or macbook, Open contacts -> Add account - > add google account. As soon as i did this, all of the names /pics/contact info synced on all of my iMessage's and will now be in your Contact app as well. Good Luck!

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