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If I have 2 or 3 numbers for 1 person and the numbers are for different countries how to differentiate between the numbers when I receive a message or call?

Pls can u help advise me what video or forum I can read to use my contacts in apple phone and computer better

iPhone 5, iOS 6.1.4

Posted on Jun 1, 2013 8:50 PM

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Jun 2, 2013 5:23 AM in response to Sanderson_tom

You can tag/label numbers with various country names as needed. Scroll all the way to the bottom and choose Custom.


Or if you need to see which number someone is using, just scroll to the top of the messages window on the conversation of said friend with many numbers (where it has call, facetime, contact buttons)


Then tap Contact and the window will slide over to show you said information. The number currently being used will be highlighted in blue.


It's the same thing for calls, Goto recents > find said friend > tap the blue arrow > and the number used will be in highlighted in blue.

Jun 2, 2013 6:34 AM in response to tonefox

tonefox wrote:


It made good sense to the Subject header. Why do people head a post with one question and then ask something totally different?


Then again, why do they post a question and never return....

Two of the great mysteries of the universe. 😁


To be fair, though, I've been seeing the subject not matching the post a lot today. I'm wondering if it's a Jive problem.

Jun 2, 2013 10:48 AM in response to snowmobile

To Snowmobile, that method doesn't work. The letters just become the corresponding number on the keypad.


The train company here in Austria is 05 1717, I added AT to the end of the number like you suggested and the number when called came out to be 05 171728, needless to say I got the phone bot telling me the number was invalid.


For all, here's what I was talking about about adding a country label to the number.


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If I have 2 or 3 numbers for 1 person and the numbers are for different countries how to differentiate between the numbers when I receive a message or call?

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