Why does my email address show up as my contact name to people in iMessage?

I did a reset due to poor battery life and have been informed that my email address instead of phone number is showing up.,,,,,,,,am on iphone 4s.

I have tried the above fix and it did not work. Messages show receive at 2 Addresses one of which is phone number and the other is email address. The phone number is grayed out and the address is highlighted. It does not provide me with the option to change it from email to phone.

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks. Right now I am very frustrated. Had no issues with phone until upgrade. Now battery does not last a full day and even with reset am now having battery issues plus this one.

Thanks

It seems that this is a well known feature and is apparently being looked at with the new OS coming out this year.

If someone has an ipad and iphone for example it will show the contact twice in your messages list should you recieve an iMessage from the phone number and the email address.

If you iMessage said person's phone number they won't necessarily get it on the ipad. They will get it on both assuming the devcies are set to recieve at both phone number and email address. You can't set to both on your ipad yet

hey there,

did you ever figure this problem out? i just got a brand new iphone to have an old one replaced and am encountering the exact same issue you were.

any help would be appreciated.

hoping i don't have to re-visit apple/verizon.

thanks!