Why does my iPhone show "Maybe" in Contacts for my wife's name?

I'm experiencing the same problem and now it is happening in reverse to another one of my contacts. She is on IOS 18.1 and when I text here now it says Maybe: You and Andrew.

I have tried all of the suggestions in this thread and nothing has worked. It was fine in IOS 17.x this has only happened since IOS 18.x upgrade.

I also have an issue where no notifications are received in Apple Car Play unless I'm on the Car Play screen. These bugs need to be fixed as it is very frustrating.

Well, it was good while it lasted. The siri setting fix lasted for about a month, but the issue is back again. Now instead of notifications saying maybe, it just lists the phone number like this “xxx-xxx-xxx to (wife’s name from her contact card) and (my name from my contact card).

My wife’s number is saved under her contact card, and its associated with her icloud account.

It appears to be a bug in ios 18 that is dissociating contact identifiers from saved contacts.

I also have a separate issue where imessages are dissappearing in iOS after a short period of time, that also started when iOS main version released. Never had these issues running iOs beta 18 prior to September.

The level of LIVID I’ve hit with Apple on this iOS update is unparalleled. Going on close to 2 months. Filed a report with Apple and per my communication with them every couple of weeks, ‘no update but they assure me they’re working on it’. 0.00% thinks anyone at Apple is working on it. Started after the 18 update. ONLY an issue with my husband’s number. Started that his contact was his name and ‘maybe’ his name. Then his contact wouldn’t stay in my pinned threads. Now I cannot iMessage him whatsoever. Two. Months. Never had an issue with Apple in ALL of my years with them. It’s making me LOSE MY MIND.

Did you ever find a fix for this? I’m having the same problem.

Also on ios 18. Also logged in and out of icloud. Tweaked all the Siri settings. Deleted and re-added contact.

Nothing has worked. Still showing “maybe” and “to you & <contact name>” on the notification.

I have this exact same issue. Also happens with my wife, who has been in my contacts for many years. This only happens on my phone. My other devices are unaffected. I have also tried various other fixes and none have worked.

Very clearly a bug in iOS 18. Pretty frustrating for a core feature like this to working incorrectly.

Same exact issue. Only happening with my wife. Weird thing is that it just started for me this week when she had to go travel for work out of state. I’ve been on io18 since June and it’s been fine.

nine of the solutions in here have worked.

additionally about a month ago an entire year of mine and my wife’s messages history just disappeared from the phone. It’s still visible on my Mac so I know it’s in iCloud but the phone is not showing it anymore.

some bizzare behavior since updating to io18

Same exact issue, just woke up and it started happening. Clearly, this is a bug on apple’s end, I’ve already notified them, hopefully this gets resolved as it’s absolutely obnoxious and for the last 10 months, there has been ongoing issues with iMessage, including losing messages Which iOS 18 just fixed and now this .

Question: given that so many responses here are having problems with their wife’s contact…do you guys use iCloud family sharing? I am experiencing the same issue and the only thing that’s changed was adding my wife to my family’s iCloud so she could share my storage subscription.

I don’t use family sharing with the contact it happened with. My guess is that it had to do with sending/receiving messages while iOS 18 was installing ow when the persons main iMessage address (likely phone number) was offline.

This is also happening to me. I’ve tried deleting the contact, all the messages, disassociating Siri with WhatsApp, and nothing works. Frustratingly, this only happens with my husband which is the person I contact the most!

We do have family sharing but it’s not a new change. We’ve had family sharing with storage for years. So I think it migh have something to do with the recent iOS update (basically something changed on Apple’s end is my guess)

Guys, you may have already solved this problem,

but you can turn off the option for

attached photos in

Settings - Apps - Messages - Apple Intelligence & Siri.

Thank you for read this.

Edit: I tested it a few hours ago and it doesn't work now, sorry.

Guys, you may have already solved this problem,

but you can turn off the options for

attached photos in

Settings - Apps - Messages - Apple Intelligence & Siri.

Thank you for read this.

Edit: I tested it a few hours ago and it doesn't work now, sorry.

This problem has gotten even worse for me. My husband has 2 phone numbers and even when I try to text his personal number it automatically shows as going to his work phone. I’ve tried blocking his work number and texts he sends to me from his personal phone still show as coming from his work phone. When I type in his personal phone number with iMessage on, it automatically thinks I’m texting his work phone and fills in his name (even though I’ve deleted the number and blocked the contact). I’ve also turned off Siri learning for Contacts, WhatsApp, and whatever I can turn it off for.

This is beyond frustrating! I really hope it can get fixed soon

I'm having this same issue. I have an iPhone 16 pro running IOS 18.1.1. It started a few days ago with my partner's personal and work phone numbers. When she messages me its like we're in a group chat with both her phone numbers. I deleted her work phone number off of my phone completely, and even went so far as to block the number and it still sends some messages to her work phone. I've tried all the "fixes" I could find online and nothing works. The old phone number even pops up in my messages instead of her name, until I click on the thread and then it reverts back to her name, but the old phone number is still there somehow. I have messages on my Mac and iPad, and it works fine on there, but my iPhone is screwed. This is a huge issue because now I'm hesitant to text her anything personal since it might go to her work phone number which her IT people have access to.

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