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JesperA

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Feb 10, 2012
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I am having an annoying issue with iMessage, its not that big of a deal, just a vanity issue.

All my iMessage contacts are using their phone number as their iMessage primary identifier, all have choosen their phone number as "Start iMessage conversation with *their phone number*".

Lately though, iMessage on iOS and on macOS, for some reason, when the group message/chat in iMessage has been going on for a while (i invited everyone with their phone number, and i checked afterwords that all of them where identified by phone number), some of the contacts after a while has changer their iMessage identifier to their secondary identifier, in most cases their icloud/me or private mail adress.

THEY don't change it manually and i do not change it either, iMessage for some reason change their identifier in the group message from their phone number to an email adress instead.

I have google:d and looked in the settings and in my adress book, everywhere, to find a way to change it back to their phone number but it does not seem to be possible to manually change it back to the phone number?
 
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