For many iPhone X/8/7/6
and mac users are seeing issue that iMessage notification showing number only
instead of contact name. The issue is happening with iOS 12 and iOS 11.4 as
well. When iPhone user receives iMessage/text messages, instead of showing the
contact name of who sent it, it just shows their phone number. And the iMessage is now showing contact names.
This seems like that all
iPhone contacts are missing as no names only numbers are shown for incoming
text and iMessage. The issue is also seen on iPad and Mac devices. Restarting
the device does not seems to fix the issue and iphone not showing contact names
just numbers.
How to fix iphone contact name not showing only number :
Fix 1: Check contacts are turned on for all accounts
Please make sure that
your Contacts are selected (turned on) within iCloud. For that go to System
Preferences->iCloud-> make sure the checkmark is in place for Contacts.
Similar for exchange accounts
as well, go to Contacts>Preferences>Accounts. Then check the box for the Exchange
with contact list.
Fix 2: Change any number
Try making a trivial
edit to any one of your contacts list (eg typing the word "test" in
the notes field). Then restart the device, power off and power on. Check again
if it fixed the issue.
Fix 3: Toggle Settings
Go to Settings >
Contacts > Short Name ,Toggle this Off and ON.
Go to
Settings>Messages>MMS Messaging. Turn it off and then turn it on again.
This should fix contact
name issue.
Fix 4: Add/remove Country code from phone number in
contacts
Problem may occurred
when some new numbers are added for the overseas contacts. Please
change the entries in contacts to the
standard formula: + countrycode (area code) phone number.
Fix 5: Toggle contact load list
Try changing default
contacts from Exchange to iCloud and then switching it back. Everything should reloaded
correctly after that.
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