Texting Myself

I sometimes text myself messages as reminders, so I don’t forget things. Now when I text myself, it send it to me twice. One is blue, which is what unused to seeing and the other one is gray. It didn’t use to happen before. How do I stop it from sending me a duplicate text to myself?

Posted on Oct 25, 2023 6:38 PM

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genieen16

Community Specialist

Oct 26, 2023 1:54 PM in response to lstrahorn

Hello lstrahorn,

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities! What you are experiencing is expected behavior. The grey message is the incoming message that you are receiving from yourself. The blue message is the message you've sent. The same will remain true for any message you send that is an iMessage. For regular SMS text messages, the messages you receive remain grey and the SMS messages you send out are green.

Other options you have for reminders on your iPhone include the following:

We hope this information helps you out.

Kind regards!

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