In Contacts, "me" is not with my name.

From what I recall when I first set up a new iPhone, I was impressed by the fact that "somehow" the device knew my name before I got around to setting up any email addresses in Mail, syncing contacts, setting up the 'me', etc. The only thing I did early on was, of course, entering my Apple ID. My theory right now is that either it read my name from my Apple ID (which I had set up online, in advance, before purchasing the iPhone) or it read my name from my SIM*. However, I checked on the 'net what information is contained on a SIM card and while it contains a lot of info, apparently your own name is not one of them.

All I can think of then, is are you sharing the same Apple ID? I do not know if sharing the same Apple ID affects what populates in the 'me' contact but it is plausible if, for instance, you were logged in using your wife's Apple ID.

Go to Settings>Contacts, click on My Info, and then select yourself from the Contact List when it displays.

Cheers,

GB

To expand on raymond73's reply, go to Contacts, then press Groups on the top left side. Unselect all groups except "All iPhone". In my case, I do not store my contacts on my phone but use gmail, so I unselect my gmail account.

For me, there is one contact in All iPhone, which is me (on the righthand side, it shows "me". From there, you can edit the contact record like any other contact. Save, reselect all your groups, and 'me' should now show correctly.

Tom Cray wrote:

Thanks for the intuitive idea. Except, my wife still does not yet have an Apple ID. Slow on that. We just started with smart phones a few months ago, from flips. Learning curve is interesting. There is a lot to learn. I discovered this issue because Siri was calling me by my wife's name. The only fix for that so far is to use my name as a nick name. And that works. So at least Siri knows my name.

I do not have anything called 'Groups'. I do have lots of contacts. What will happen if I unselect them? I don't want to erase all of these folks. If 'groups' is the alphabet letters, abc. def, etc, wife and I would be in the same group.

You didn't answer Klotar's question… are you sharing an Apple ID between two people? That rarely ends well, if so stop ASAP & create her own ID you may want to wipe a device to separate the ID's cleanly.

You may also view Apples help for iOS, the manual explains how to use contacts etc…

Apple - Support - Manuals

http://help.apple.com/iphone/10/

Or skim through the Tips app on the device.

I would suggest that you delete her contact card. Then go to your Contact card, and be sure to set up all of your info in your card including your phone number. Once her card is deleted, and you have put all of your critical data into your card, make sure that your card is showing the "me" next to it.

Also, make sure that all of your apps are completely closed by double-clicking the Home key, and swiping up on all of the thumbnails until the only one left is the Home Screen thumbnail.

Then open your Phone app again, click on the Contacts option, and see what you see there.

If everything looks as it should, then you should be able to add her contact info back into the Contacts app.

Cheers,

GB

It work on me! Thanks.

Tom Cray wrote:

OK. that worked in the Settings. However, when I return to Home, then go to phone, and from there, the contacts for the phone, the previous listing is there, not what I fixed under Settings.

Sorry - what do you mean by this? When you go to the Phone app, and then open Contacts in the Phone app, what "previous listing" are you referring to? All I instructed you to do in the previous response was to select the Contact that you wanted to have the "Me" next to. So, I do not understand what it is you are looking for in the Phone app under Contacts?

At the top of 'contacts' the other name is there also. The other name is my wife. But we each have our own phones. She still is getting the 'me' designation on my phone. I went back to the "Settings" and the correction to my name is still there.

Again, I do not understand what you are describing? Are you saying that you have both of your names listed in one contact card? If so, then you need to open the Contacts app, click on the entry with both of your names, and then click on Edit to change it to have only your First and Last Name. Set up a totally separate Contact card for her First and Last name.

Maybe the corrections require time to list? Do you know? Everything you are looking at is the same thing - Contacts. The data is stored in Contacts and displayed when you go to Contacts from the Phone app, directly via the Contacts app, as well as when you select the Contact you want designated as the "Me" contact card. It's all Contacts.

Cheers,

GB

gail from maine wrote:

The Name that you see under Settings>General>About is just the "nickname" you give to your phone. The only place you see that is on your Backups, and where your devices are listed in iCloud and on your Apple ID. That is just so you can distinguish one phone from another when you have multiple devices.

The 'device name' is also broadcast via wifi under certain circumstances & others can see that via bluetooth etc.

I would search Contacts for your phone number, maybe that will list the contact card with your spouses name - perhaps that appears to be set to be the 'me card'. I'd also reboot in the hopes that it refreshes any caches.

If your contacts are synced to iCloud you can also set the 'me' card at iCloud.com. Login, view the Contacts, select your card, then choose the 'gear' to change the settings for 'make this my card'. I wonder if that agrees with your device?

Settings > iCloud should list the services set to be synced it may be worth checking first.

YAY Tom! Glad you got that straightened out 😀!!!

When you post a reply, if you click Reply on the post you want to reply to, you can then click on the little white box with the eyeballs in the top menu bar of your response window, and it will duplicate the post you are replying to inside of your reply.

That is pretty much the only way to "link" posts together since they are in the thread in chronological order.

I'm so glad you finally got it set up the way you wanted it to work!

Cheers,

GB

OK, so that is what I was wanting you to change initially. You would want to go to Settings>Contacts>click on My Info:

Once you have clicked on Settings>Contacts, you will see the Contact Settings options, and you want to click on My Info:

That will take you to the Contacts App with the list of all of your contacts. Scroll down to your name and click on your name:

That will then assign the "me" to your name.

When you click on the Contacts option in the Phone app, you should then see your name between the Search bar and the beginning of the contacts list.

The Name that you see under Settings>General>About is just the "nickname" you give to your phone. The only place you see that is on your Backups, and where your devices are listed in iCloud and on your Apple ID. That is just so you can distinguish one phone from another when you have multiple devices.

Cheers,

GB

May want to make certain that the number you have for yourself is the same as your phone number for the phone. Specifically the iPhone number field. Should just be you.