Not getting notifications for messages from emails

Messages from email addresses used to be easily identified when I set up a specific email as a contact. Now they are coming across prefixed with a non-unique ID followed by an equal sign followed by the email address. This bypasses my notifications. How can I get around this?

iPhone 16, iOS 26

Posted on Jan 31, 2026 9:10 AM

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Jan 31, 2026 6:51 PM in response to JHfromTX

Messages from email addresses used to be easily identified when I set up a specific email as a contact. Now they are coming across prefixed with a non-unique ID followed by an equal sign followed by the email address. This bypasses my notifications. How can I get around this? … Update- it comes across as prvs= some identifier which appears to be BATV. Is there a way of bypassing this?

Not getting notifications for messages from emails

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