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contacts problem

  1. M

    iPhone 8/Plus My husband has a burn phone ?

    My husband had his old iPhone (8?) in his drawer, it had been wiped clean. A week later I looked at it, and it had contacts on it . It had both very recent contacts, probably within the last month, but it also had what (he says) were the old contacts that were on that phone before we were a...
  2. dk001

    Call Blocking not working?

    Trying to help out a bud. He recently went from a 6+ to an X. In Contacts he has a couple of Do Not Call contacts. These contacts have multiple phone numbers in them. He still receives calls from these numbers even though when viewed under Recents the contact shows as Blocked. I had...
  3. I

    Triplicate and Duplicate contacts

    I'm running the latest System software. I noticed that nearly all of my contacts were triplicated. (But not all: I don't know why) I ran 'find duplicates'. And then Merge. After that, nearly of my contacts were duplicated. I went to the iCloud preference pane, and unchecked contacts. Duplicates...
  4. E

    Numbers not Names now in Messages?

    In the last week, in Messages, some (not all) of my texts show a phone number and not their name. They are still in my contacts though. I have google'd and tried some of the fixes I found (turn off iMessage, turn it back on. turn off SMS, turn it back on. Reboot. Change short name in contacts...