IPhone :: Contact Can Only Send IMessage To Email, Not Phone Number
Jun 24, 2012
Since Apple released iMessage my friend and I have been iMessaging. As of yesterday, I can still send my friend iMessages as usual, but she can only send iMessages to my email (I have "Receive at" set to my phone number and email, Caller ID set to my phone number). If she tries to send an iMessage to my phone number, as she did before, it will only send as a Text. All of my other iPhone contacts can still send iMessages to my phone number. We've each tried rebooting and switching iMessage on and off (we both have iPhone 4, IOS 5.1.1) without any luck. I realise that iMessage is still technically working with her sending to my email, but we just don't understand why sending to my phone number has suddenly stopped working.
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1
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Mar 17, 2012
Recently my phone began using my email address to send all my test through imessage rather than my phone number. So if I send a tesxt to my son my wife receives the text message as an e mail. How can I fix this?
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Apr 2, 2012
Can one send a text message to a phone number, with imessage?
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1
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Aug 30, 2014
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iPhone 5c, iOS 7.1.2
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Apr 14, 2012
My phone is sending my imessages through my email instead of my phone number. I tried reactivating it but it didn't change.
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iPhone 4, iOS 4.3.3
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Mar 22, 2012
I want to receive imessage only through my email not through my phone number is that possible?
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1
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Mar 30, 2012
When I send iMessages, it just appears from my email address, not from my phone number. When, I go to settings > messages, I can only "Receive At" xxxx @ email .com as well, there is no option to add a phone number. How can I make myself available to be "reached for messages" at my phone number instead of (or, in addition to) my e-mail? I also have an iPad. iPhone is running 5.1.
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1
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Jun 12, 2012
I talk to someone who sends me imessages to my phone number from their phone, and also from their ipad to my email. Both phone number and email are under the same contact. But the mesages go into 2 different threads. Id like to combine them since being under the same contact they show up exactly the same in the messages list.. so i cant tell if im messaging the ipad or the phone..
ideally id like to write a message to that contact and it would go to both their ipad and iphone.
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Jun 17, 2012
My wife and I both have iPhones and using iOS 5.1.1 We text routinely throughout the day. I randomly recieve her texts in two different threads, when I go to the top of the thread and click "Contact>" one of them highlights her phone number as the source and the other highlights her email address as the source. On her phone it all appears as a single thread with me, but when I send a text to her it I have to send it in both threads to make sure she gets it, she will only get one of them and I have no way of knowing which one she will get at any given time. Does anyone know why it switched back and forth? It isn't tied to WiFi vs 4g as far as we can tell, we both get the normal blue vs green to indicate SMS vs iMessage.
In case that was confusing, here's an example. If she sends me a text I always get it in one of the two threads, no issue. If I respond to something she just texted me in the same thread, she gets it. Again, no problem. If I send her a text a few hours later in only one of the two threads, she may or may not receive it. To make sure she gets it I send it in both, she only gets it once, and if she responds I know which one her phone is currently on.
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1, 32GB
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Jun 25, 2014
I have an iPhone 4S, and just bought a new Android phone.A fair chunk of my family uses iPhones, iPads, and iPods, so I was planning on keeping the iPhone for iMessage and Facetime. However, my texts from said family (at least the ones using iPhones) are being sent as iMessages to the iPhone, instead of my new phone.I'm wondering if there is a way to disable iMessage/FaceTime on my iPhone for the phone number, but leave it active for the email addresses. or any other ways to achieve what I'm trying to do.?
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May 16, 2012
When I message someone from iMessage it send from my email instead my cell #
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1
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Jun 9, 2012
In my case, most of my family have iPhones. I have an iPad and an android phone. Basically I would like to receive texts on both devices.
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1
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Aug 25, 2014
how do you send a phone number that's not in your contact list to someone through a text message? I was looking for an option to send a phone number in my recent calls, but not in my contact list, to someone through a text message and i couldn't find one.
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iPhone 5, iOS 7.1.2
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Jun 19, 2012
How do I change my iMessage from showing email address and show phone number?
Info:iPhone 4
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Mar 27, 2012
iPhone 3GS
model: MC637C
iOS version: 5.1 (9B176)
This issue started with the last iOS update and has affected not only my phone, but my wife's and father in law's as well (we all have the exact same model) When I attempt to send a text message to my wife, my phone suddenly won't send imessages anymore. Only text. I have tried rebooting my phone, and my wife's phone. We have even tried wiping our phones and restoring them from backups. The problem still persists, wether we are at home connected to wifi or out of the house on 3G. The only way I have managed to send my wife an imessage was by creating a new contact with ONLY her e-mail address. That only worked once. since then, its trying to send everything as SMS again.
This is unacceptable as we live in an area with very poor celular coverage and rely heavily on wifi connections, therefore we won't receive an SMS until our phones get access to the celular network. All other apps and phone functions are working correctly across all 3 phones mentioned. On both my phone, and my wife's, I have double checked to ensure that iMessage is still turned on. I suspect that this is a global software issue seeing as it only started once we updated our phones to the latest iOS. My question is this:
Prior to the update, we were all able to send iMessages to eachother, regardless of where we were. The only time we'd have an issue is if someone's phone was turned off or not connected to either the celular 3G network or a wifi with internet access (which is natural).
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iPhone 3GS, iOS 5.1, iMessages being sent as SMS instead
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May 22, 2012
my husband's number even when added into the contacts only appears as a number in sms/imessage and call log. I have tried deleting and adding again as a new contact but still the same issue.With other contacts that I have saved there was no issue only for my husband. He has 2 numbers from different providers here in UAE both numbers have the same issue. I have restored network settings, turned phone on and off.
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1
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Jun 18, 2012
Will I get charged extra if I send an imessage to an international number?
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1
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Jun 19, 2012
iMessage is not working to my husband number. We both have the iPhone 4 on orange network but when I select to send him a message to his phone number it only ever sends as a text message, not iMessage. I can send as iMessage if I select his email address instead or if I respond to a message from him.
Info:iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1
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Jun 8, 2012
My iMessage will not send to one specific contact, she cannot send to me either, but we can iMessage all our other contacts
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1
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Jun 5, 2014
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iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1.1
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Jun 26, 2014
I used to be able to iMessage my mother on her iPhone on both my iPhone and my mac. All of a sudden, these messages are not going through. I am able to send iMessages to other contacts on both devices. I have restarted my phone, reset the network settings and even deleted the contact, but it still only sends messages to her as SMS.
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Mar 23, 2012
When i send messages using iMessage on mac to an apple iphone, it shows that message was received from my email address not from my number. Is there a way to show that messages are received by the mobile number not by apple ID?
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1
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May 10, 2012
Ive read all the other 1000 responses on this topic, however none of them work. Added another Iphone 4 to my account and we acctivated it lastnight. Imessage is activated on the phone. However when sending imessages its showing her email address rather than phone number. Noww before I get the same replies I have went to Settings<Messages<Recieve at and there is no option for phone and there is no option for caller ID. So im lost. And I was on the phone with Apple for an hour lastnight and got NO where.
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Jun 24, 2012
When using iMessage, is it normal for it to be sent as an email? My friends with iPhones will txt me and when I txt back it starts a new conversation entirely with my email as the contact. Is there a way to set it to my phone number? When I recieve iMessages it's never an email.
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1
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Jul 5, 2012
How can I change the settings for iMessage to display my phone number instead of my email address. Which is registered as apple ID.
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1, I message
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Aug 21, 2014
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iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1.2
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Mar 30, 2012
I am currently on my second iPhone 4s after losing my first one. I have encountered a problem where my contacts which also have an iPhone, thus receiving iMessages are seeing my contact name as my email address. How do I change this in the settings? I have tried to manually change it but even if I switch to the number option there seems to be no change.
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1
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Mar 19, 2012
On last month I changed my iphone 4 to 4S, after the change I noticed that I can't receive imessages using my phone number, only my apple id was there at "Receive at" field.What should I do to solve this?How can I put my phone number back there?This is happening with Facetime too. But on Facetime the phone number has a "Verifying" status.
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1
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May 31, 2012
how do i get my phone number to verify to use the imessage?
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iPhone 3GS (8GB), iOS 5.1.1
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Aug 25, 2014
I need to unregister my phone # from imessage. How?
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iPhone 5
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Jun 4, 2014
After returning from holiday, my imessage no longer works unless it is through email, which I dont like. I have tried loads of options and nothing has worked.
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iPhone 4, iOS 7.1.1
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