Deleted Numbers in iOS 6

I too am having this problem with multiple contacts. Anyone I sent a message to at their old number still shows up, even if I've deleted that old number completely, everywhere, and added a new number.

It shows up as "other" in the message drop down but nowhere else on iCloud, MBP, iPad, Google, FB, etc..

You see, the same ideas present in email application - once you sent email to someone, not stored in your contacts, you can see his name and email marked "other" in gray colour in some cases when you will fill "sent to" field, BUT (!!) this "other" email has a blue arrow at the right side - when you will press this arrow, you can store this email adress to your contacts, OR make a "Remove from recents" (see pictires below)

Why they not make blue arrow with possibility of permanent removing for "other" numbers in SMS applictaion? Who knows. mrg2507,can you ask Apple to make it?

Hi Rob

Thankfully you have already made this post. I was coming on here to make this post.

I had this happen to me last week when i renewed someones number in my contacts. There number is still visible in messages.

I spent an hour on the phone to Apple and the guy i was speaking to had never seen this problem before and tried loads of stuff with me and none of it worked.

I have once again just had a friend text me there new number and once again there old number even though ive deleted it is still sat there when i compose a new message.

This is the second bug ive found with IOS6 / Iphone 5 and am getting very close to returning this phone and going for the S3. Its full of bugs!!!!!!

I have the same problem. Deleted contacts are displayed as "other" when I want to compose a new message. I didnt have this problem before but itis happening in iOS 6. I have tried itunes, iMessage, icloud, all the sync possibilities, but none worked. It is a very annoying bug.

Does anyone know how to get rid of an old number for a contact appearing on messages? I have deleted his details, added him back in my contacts with his new number but when going to messages and typing his name, both his new number comes up and old number as 'other'. Is there a way to get rid of that? I have done the standard delete contact, add new contact with his 1 new number, restart the phone but no luck and its quite annoying. Any advice please?

The only way (according to other posts) is to do a total phone restore back to factory settings, and set up as NEW. If you set up as an iTunes or iCloud restore the same thing will happen. I did it this weekend. Yes it is a pain but that is the only way I have heard.

Yes, it would be good to encourage a fix for this -- it shouldn't be that hard to fully delete an old contact. I've got the same problem and it's a minor but annoying issue that has also resulted in a number of failed messages when I haven't noticed right away that the contact I'm trying to text is showing up as the 'other' ie old number instead of a more current one. Is there somewhere else we can report this? I heartily support that idea as it must be a simple job for clever programmers!

I don't have this issue so i can't check, but...

Does anybody tried to assign the old deleted number to a new fake Contact?

I mean to create a new contact (lets say "Old Numbers") and assign the deleted number.

What will happens?

cheonweb, that doesn't work, which is the nub of the problem. If you 'create a fake contact' the old one is still stored in the phone somewhere else and will override the contacts list, showing up when you try to text the 'new' contact. The only way I've been able to get around it -- which is not really solving it at all -- is to store a contact I previously stored as, for example, "Sally Harris" as S.J. Harris, or else every time I tried to text Sally, I would get her old (wrong) contact, even though I had 'deleted' it. And it kept 'failing to deliver' at first before I caught on to what was happening. It's a pain, a minor one, but still a pain.

Maybe my English are not good. I will try again.

I have a Contact by name "Sally Harris" with number "1111111111".

Sally changes her number to "2222222222".

Im going to her contacts and i add her new number.

Then copy her old number and delete it.

Create a new contact by name "@@@old" and assign the old Sallys number that previusly copied.

Now i have a Contact "Sally Harris" with "2222222222" and "@@@old" with "1111111111".

What will be happens?