How do I get Messages to stop sending from my email address instead of my phone number?

Settings > Messages > Send & Receive. Select your phone number under "Start new conversations from."

Hi,

I have the iphone 6 and for some reason after the last update my iMessages were being sent with the apple email not my phone number (even though it was set as my phone number in the settings under send & receive, also removed the apple email from there and didn't work)...what I did turn off iMessage and then logged into iCloud and under contact info was the apple generated email address (not my Apple ID) and I deleted it....turned on iMessage again and my phone number was the default...sent a test message to another iPhone user and it worked! I hope I helped!

This did not work for me on iphone 5S there is no "send/receipt" after tapping setting, messages,

I continually have an email address and phone number for each persons name when I go to "text" how do I remove this.

Also widgets appear on the opening screen after I swipe to the right "edit" comes up; you tap, widgets appear, I don't want this either.

I see that my email is selected there, but my phone number is grayed-out and I can't select it. What's the issue? This all happened in the last two hours when I was reseting iCloud passwords and settings on my Mac and iPhone 5

What worked for me was:

1. In Settings -> Messages, turn off "iMessage"
2. Hard-restart iPhone (maybe normal shutdown/startup would be fine, maybe this step not needed at all)
3. Still fails when sending to another phone from existing conversation, so DELETE the conversation thread in Messages app.
4. Start new conversation with other phone - it works. Message on other phone is FROM my number, not my email.
5. Can now turn "iMessage" back on in Settings.

So, it seems like the really important pair of steps is turning off iMessage and then deleting the thread that seems to stupidly be remembering the wrong "from" method.

Seems ridiculous to me, but there you go.

Chuck Gray wrote:

Unfortunately, none of my test messages are showing up on my iMac, so for some reason iMessage isn't talking to Messages on the iMac.

Check to make sure you're signed into the same iCloud account on iPhone and iMac, and even if you are maybe try signing out on the iMac and signing back in.

Hi I have been sending texts from my email as well even though my number should be sending texts. It was very annoying for me to figure out and most answers did not work for me. FINALLY I figured it out. Go to Settings>Message>Send&Receive and I had my email AND phone number in the space. I simply logged out of my Apple ID for iMessage and my problem was solved! I hope this helps.

This happens to me every time I switch sim cards when I go to another country and then come back to the US. It's a good idea to restart the phone when switching sim cards or you can go to settings,messages and toggle iMessage off and then on again.

Try signing out of iMessage (and FaceTime) and sign back in. Just for kicks, maybe do an iPhone reset in between.

Sign out of your iMessage account, then send a text to anyone (maybe a few). Wait a bit and then sign back into iMessage to see if your account now sees your phone number as the "send from" default.