imessage sends messages from email despite selecting phone number for "start new conversations from"

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imessage sends messages from email despite selecting phone number for "start new conversations from"

On both my phone and my computer I have selected to start new conversations from my phone number, but just now I continued a conversation from my macbook and it sent it from my email address instead of my phone number! All the other answers I found for this question were outdated, I couldn't find "Caller ID" in settings for iOS 8 or Yosemite.

iPhone 6, iOS 8.2, Also using a MacBook Pro w Yosemite

Posted on Mar 29, 2015 6:37 PM

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ChrisJ4203

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Mar 29, 2015 6:39 PM in response to DallasSallad

If this is a continuing conversation, I don't believe the device looks at it as a new conversation, which is what that setting is for, from what I understand. If there is a checkmark by the phone number on all devices, then it should start there, but if the conversation was originally started from the email, I believe it will continue until you start a new conversation.

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