Yesterday imessage on my iphone was showing the contact name when someone texted me. Now it is showing only the phone number. I have not knowingly changed any settings. What do I need to do to change it back to showing the names?
[Re-Titled by Host]iPhone 5, iOS 10.2.1
None of the above worked but I just got it fixed. (The numbers instead of names happened to me because I signed out and into icloud trying to fix something)
So I went to Settings > Contacts > Short Name and then turned the Short Name in this menu off, and looked at my messages and it was fixed, and then turned short name on again. (I also first played about with orders for the Sort Order and Display Order in Contacts before going to short name, not sure if this had an influence)
I got this issue resolved by toggling off Contacts in Accounts>iCloud, Delete Contacts from iPhone. Then toggling Contacts back on.
This happened on an iPhone 7, maybe after an iOS update?
My problem of missing names replaced by phone numbers got fixed when I changed the entries in my contacts to the standard formula: + countrycode (areacode) phonenumber. Problem has occurred when some new numbers were added for the overseas contacts. After the correction all US numbers look like this: +1 (555) 555-1212 and the overseas numbers look like this: +49 555 111 222 for mobiles and +49 55 555 11 22 for the stationary numbers.
This is what worked for me. I was working on another issue where I signed in and out of iCloud on iPhone 7. Tried a number of turning things on & off. Making the simple edit to one anything in my contacts and restart restored everything in iMessage that had just a phone number rather than displaying the persons name. 😀
I did 2 things which seems to solve my problem.
-I signed out & back into FaceTime & iMessage
-I disabled contacts on my iCloud account & then turned it back on
-I changed ‘contacts’ arrangement from ‘last,first ‘ to ‘first, last’ .
The Names to Numbers happened after I upgraded to iOS 11. Editing one contact by adding the "1" in front of an area code, fixed the problem.
Go to : Settings, Contacts, Short Name. Turn that off and check your messages, it should be back. go back and turn it back on, should be good to go.
Making a minor contact edit and reboot worked perfectly (restored names in messsges) on my iPhone X iOS 11.2.2. Thank you!
SHORT NAME was already off so on the same screen I turned off PREFER NICKNAMES and that solved the problem.
I just upgraded to the X, and had the same issue. I followed your steps: Settings > Contacts > Short Name (turned short name off and back on) and it worked.
I had the same problem. Someone texted me then names disappeared. I signed out of ICloud and made sure to toggle save contacts, and then resigned back in. Fixed it.
I just turned the phone off and back on and everything came back. Contacts were back to normal.
This worked for me first time. I turned off Short Name and the contact names were back. I then turned Short Names back on and all seems to be working. Thanks.
Settings>icloud and just turn the slider to off for contacts then press cancel when it asks you about keeping or deleting contacts. Seems to work!
I just went to settings, contacts and turned off short names. All fixed!
This worked for me. Edited one contact. Restarted phone. Now shows names in messages vs numbers.
iPhone messages not showing contact names
