My imessage has split my contact into two, the email and phone number (both are apple imessage supported), when i send a message on a group, one is sent (blue) and another is received(grey). In group details there two me's. both identical (both have the email and phone) except the one has my email blue(imessage supported) and the other has my phone number written in blue (indicating it is imessage ready) (iPhone and iPad imessage)
iPad Air, iOS 9.3.1, iPhone 5c
When you go into Settings>Messages>Send & Receive, do you see a checkmark by more than just your phone number? If you do,what is showing when you go to Start Conversation From?
When you say that you send one in Blue, that is what should happen if you send a group message, so long as all of the recipients are iOS users. Then you say that you are receiving a message when you send that is addressed to your email address? Is that correct? How are you creating the group? Are you adding your address to the group, or are you using a group that had been created and others may have adapted?
I Have my email checked on my ipad and phone number checked on iphone for sending adress / starting the new conversation. And i didnt add my email to the group (both phone and email are ios). I tried deleting the one contact from the group but both get removed and i leave the group. For some reason, there two 'me' contacts, both identical information. Cell # and email adress, but the one sees the email as ios user and the second 'me' sees the phone number as a ios user (Indicated by highlighting in blue) therefore when i send a message using my email adress ( as that is what i chose to start a conversation with) a copy gets sent back to me using my iphone number. My phone even makes the noise and vibrates saying, i sent myself a message.
My send and receive is phone and email
start conversation is email on ipad and phone number on iphone
PS. i know that if u have imessage synced from ipad to iphone the same message will appear, i am complaining as it is sending a copy to me.
Okay, I see your response. Let me take a look at my iPad and iPhone and see if I can figure this out. I do not see this behavior. Are you the one creating the group message? You just send to others, and in the process of doing that, you not only get the send, but you receive a copy of it as well?
I'll check my settings and have some things for you to check in a little while.
Okay, If you check settings for messages in both devices, see if this is what you see.
For the iPhone, Text Message Forwarding, 1 device, and that is where the iPad should be listed. Then, if you go to Send & Receive, you should only see your phone number checked off.
Then if you go to the iPad and go to Settings>Messages>and take a look there. You should see your Apple ID, which should be the same as your iPhone is logged into, then you should have both the phone number of the iPhone and the Apple ID checked off. Then under there, Start New Conversations From; and that should have the phone number listed.
Are those settings the same on your devices?
I Created the group
i was just on it and 3 other people (both also have ipads and iphone) are having the same problem
I've never seen this behavior before, when settings are like I describe. If you send an individual message to any of these people, does it work correctly?
Try deleting the entire group conversation and starting over again. You would need the others having the difficulty to do the same thing. See if that works.
HI
i turned my imessage off on my iphone for about a week now and the problem seems to have resolved itself, looks lik a kind of back log and with the iphone imessagge off every thing is clear and okay again
thanks for your support
I'm not sure how it can be cleared up. With iMessage off on the phone, you will not be able to send iMessages on the phone. All of your messages should now have green bubbles, and be sending as SMS.
iMessage Split My Contact
