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)
This worked for me. Sign out of Icloud (Settings... “Apple Id, iCloud“). At the bottom on the right hand pane “sign out”. Delete all info? Yes.(it will all come back when you sign in)
After you are signed out of iCloud, push your home button (the big round one) and your power button at the same time. Hold both until Apple icon comes on the screen. Release buttons.
Ipad will restart shortky after. Now sign back into iCloud by reversing the sign out process.
This worked for me. It also solves some other iMessage problems.
For some reason my iPad sometimes decides to sign out of iCloud. This procedure fixes those problems for a while. It appears that iMessage on an iPad uses iCloud.
Try this next. Go to Settings>Messages>MMS Messaging. Turn it off and then turn it on again.
Hi dsewanee. Try making a trivial edit to one of your contacts. Then restart the device, power off, not just sleep.
That worked for me! I toggled the short name option in the settings>contacts>short name off and on and the names were back. Thanks so much. My issue began for the exact same reason yours did.
This solution worked for me like a charm.
That worked!! Thank you so much! Have a great day.
Hi This fixed my 6S plus 10.3.3
Great tip
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This worked for my new iPhone8+. I had a very rough transfer from a 6 to an 8+, and this was the last bit that needed addressing. The minor edit to one contact fixed the all the messages. Thanks.
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I had the same problem and this suggested solution (short name on and off) solved for me. Thanks so much. ios11.
Thanks for this. For me, it was changing sort and display order which finally did the trick.
This fixed my problem that started on iPad after updating to 11.0 due to phone number prefix issue. Thanks
Genius. I had tried everything in these replies and finally Bingo! yours worked. Thanks!
I have tried all previous suggestions with no luck. When I tried this one I found that my “default account” option is not there. I have “my info” then “Import SIM contact”. Any suggestions??
This is exactly what happened to me ( signing out of iCloud) and this solution also worked for me. Thank you!
iPhone messages not showing contact names
