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
Thanks for your help. I followed your directions and 3 of my messages have names with them but most don't. I just had my son test text me and his message shows up as a number instead of his name. Scrolling through my messages I have one from yesterday that showed the name yesterday and today it shows a number.
I just did that and it absolutely works – thank you so much
I had changed Region to another country and forgotten to change it back. Once I switched back to my original country all names reappeared.
You have to save your contact numbers the way your carrier would sent it to you.
+ country code + area code + phone number
Try it and let me know if it works.
This worked for me. Thanks so much!!!
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.
That also worked for me, turning off short names, thanks so much.
Thanks it helped 👍
I tried all suggestions it none worked. I finally under contacts I hit retrieve names from SIM. It worked instantly.
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This worked. Thanks!
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