a contact no longer shows up in imessage

There are a few people, who ARE still in my contacts - nothing changed, that I can no longer start typing their name in messenger for them to appear. In other words, I open messenger / starting typing the person's first name and the only option that appears is their email address. I even type their entire name - and still only their email. I looked in contacts and his number and contact info hasn't been altered. There are a few contacts that have done this all of a sudden.

iPhone SE, iOS 11.2.5

Posted on Feb 8, 2018 5:50 AM

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Feb 8, 2018 6:31 AM in response to JeffinKnox

This post talks about same but in Contacts, even if you don’t have Contacts being effected there idea of a Forced Restart may still help.


https://forums.imore.com/ask-question/376441-ios-10-contact-search-problem.html


This one also talks about it possibly being a Spotlight issue, again might be worth a read.


cannot search messages after upgrading to iOS8!!!


The only Messages I’ve had so far is to do with missing names on a few discussions, only there numbers show, this was sorted by going to Settings/Contacts and messing around with Sort/Display Order and Short Name settings, basically altering then changing back, it might have to be done a few times to catch though. Appears this altering things kicks something into action, but not sure if it will work for search issue, still might be worth a try.

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