iMessage sent from email address rather than phone number...

Go to General>Messages>Receive At

You should be able to find a setting your looking for to fix your problem

I had the same issue but none of the solutions mentioned above worked for me. I realized that my phone number under Settings->phone was entered with the +prefix and country code. Just removing this and entering the plain number starting with 0 made it work. (however, putting the prefix and country code back in, it still works as it should. Strange bug.)

I turned off iMessage, went out of settings, back into settings, turned on iMessage and it fixed two problems. A) I got the "Receive At" setting (wasn't there before) and it suddenly loaded my phone number in addition to my email address for Receive At so I was able to chose that under the Caller ID. Worked great. Thanks.

I had the same problem, I would send iMessages to my gf, and it would come up as my email address. I told her to add my email address to my contact info an now it shows up as my name instead of email.

I've had this problem as well.

I had it "waiting for authorization" for a couple days and it was only going through my email.

Not only it was going through my email, but I could not receive any SMS text from anyone unless they had ios5 and was using iMessage.

I was sick of this problem and tried ALL of the methods, called AT&T (don't even bother trying because they don't know what the issue is) as well as Apple (don't bother because even their senior advisor didn't even know) and went to the Genius Bar the next day. Fixed the problem in 20 minutes. They basically told me something about my software didn't have some sort if "ID" thing (I forgot what she said) and so she had to do a hard reset from their computer and so it all ended up working out fine.

Problem solved.

PS Don't bother calling AT&T because it has nothing to do with their service or anything on their end. And Apple would put you on hold for like 30 minutes before you even get a response from someone who probably didn't even know about this problem.

fredrik you are a genius!! I did exactly this and it worked a treat. Tack så hemsk mycket :-)

I had the same problem. logged out of iMessage and backed out of settings, then logged back in. Fixed the problem! thanks!

I can't change number in phone settings like fredrik said. In phone settings I have reg number (not +1) in imessenger i have +1 (area code) phone number and it's grayed out so I can't choose it.

You have to ADD your phone number to your apple ID account by logging on to it in Safari and adding it

Make sure that your email address where you "recieve messages" is @me.com or @mac.com (I think that would work?) For some reason I had my apple ID username@mac.com linked to my gmail address, so everyone was saying they were getting messages from my gmail. When I went into my apple ID settings and consolidated my email address, it gave me username@me.com. I put that email address in to the "recieve at" setting, deleted my gmail, and now everything works!! Yay! Try that...

I am also having this problem.

when i utilize imessage my email address/appleId is being sent to other users as my CallerID

when i send a normal text message, my normal phone number is being sent to users as my CallerID

Logging out of imesage and logging back in did cause a couple of changes:

-the caller id setting to show up magically> I checked this caller id setting and my phone number was selected.

-the receive at setting now lists a phone option with my phone numer already entered, however this line item is grayed out with inability to select it.

I did send a test imessage to a friend after these changes took place when logging out and then back in of imessage, however the message received was still showing my email address/appleid as the Caller ID.

Anyone else have any ideas? The people who have stated that the log in/log off sequence worked-- can you confirm that the imessages you are sending are actually showing your phone numer as the Caller ID to the recipient?

Hey all, I'm having the same problem as you guys and haven't fixed it yet. I tried logging out of my apple id, turning imessage off and then on, changing my phone number under phone settings to "(xxx) xxx-xxxx" instead of "+1 (xxx) xxx-xxxx" and nothing works.

I'm logged in with my gmail, which is my apple id. Under the "receive at" setting, it only shows my gmail, not my phone number.

Any ideas why that is?

thanks! this helped!

Did you manage to fix this yet as I have the same promlem 😟

Nope, haven't had any luck so far 😟