How Do You Remove old autocomplete entries in Messages

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How Do You Remove old autocomplete entries in Messages

My friend has a new phone number. I've updated his contact in contacts, but the old number still shows up when I type his name in messages in High Sierra. Further more, even if I select the new number, messages will simply send it to the previous number, because it's attached to his name, and it's the number I texted to him in all previous conversations. Yeah, that's right, messages isn't even sending the text to the number I've choosen - it just sends to my my cousins name, with the old number, even though that's not saved under his contact anymore. I had to go to my iPhone and manually text him from contacts. Messages on my computer is totally messed up.

iMac, macOS Sierra (10.12.6), Mid 2011 iMac 21.5-inch

Posted on Mar 9, 2018 2:38 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 10, 2018 12:47 PM in response to Questionable Sanity

Hi,

As far as I can make out it cannot be done.

See Messages shows old removed phone numbers

This Link shows you where some of the info might be held but the two main places I have found don't explain the the whole options listed.

In the SOAgent helper files listed in the other thread the AIM and Yahoo ones are ignored now that the services are not listed in Messages. Bonjour ones also don't show as there are always an ID linked to another computer even though Hight Sierra does not use Bonjour in Messages.

8:47 pm Saturday; March 10, 2018

 iMac 2.5Ghz i5 2011 (Sierra)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 iPhone 6 iOS 11.x and an iPad (2)

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Answer 2

Mar 9, 2018 2:48 PM in response to Questionable Sanity

Are you sure that he has re-registered his new number with iMessages? He also may not have unregistered the old number.

Deregister iMessage on your iPhone or online - Apple Support

Unfortunately, it may be a bit of a problem if he no longer has access to that phone number.

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Answer 3

Mar 9, 2018 2:50 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

No, it's not even an imessage. I'm just trying to send him a regular text, he's never had his number registered for imessages. That's what's so screwy about this. At least now if I choose one number, it "seems" to only be texting the number I choose, but autocomplete still suggests the old number

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Answer 4

Mar 9, 2018 2:51 PM in response to Questionable Sanity

Questionable Sanity wrote:

At least now if I choose one number, it "seems" to only be texting the number I choose, but autocomplete still suggests the old number

Yes, that's expected behavior. It will eventually be overwritten.

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Answer 5

Mar 9, 2018 2:40 PM in response to Questionable Sanity

Delete his contact and any message threads to him and add the contact information back.

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Answer 6

Mar 9, 2018 2:45 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

It removed his email addresses from Messages, but not his phone numbers. They both still appear in autocomplete.

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How Do You Remove old autocomplete entries in Messages

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