Comments on: iMessage 101: Group messaging

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:39:10 +0000

Can anyone on a group message retrieve phone numbers of the people the message is being sent to?

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:08:59 +0000

If the phone numbers are the ones associated with the iCloud/iTunes account on the recipients iPhone, it should work. It doesn’t have to be an email address. The contact will appear in a blue bubble rather than a green one if it will send them an iMessage.

If you are trying to message an iPod Touch then check to make sure you have their email address in your contacts. You can also search/enter email addresses in the “To:” area.

By: Nicholas Young

Nicholas Young — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:10:56 +0000

@geoffsmith Does this help? http://t.co/3hEqJE54

By: Denise

Denise — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:01:12 +0000

I am using an iPhone 4 with iOS 5.

This seems very odd. When I try to enter a contact in iMessage, it brings up all contacts with phone number info only. If does not bring up any email contact info. Almost like it is doing SMS only.

When I go to contacts and use “send message” from there, it works but the name which is displayed is not the contact name but a corrupted email address (if it was joe@blow.com, the result would be joeblowcom. This actually works however and I do send the message as an iMessage.

The problem is that lookups fail from iMessage and consequently, I can only enter one contact into an iMessage (because I have to start the iMessage from the contact app).

I have SMS turned off (have tried this with it on and off). I have restored and reloaded my phone but no change. I have compared this to two other iPhone4′s which work correctly and see no difference or clue. I have tried everything I can find in iMessage, Contacts and Mail but regardless of what I change, the fact remains that iMessage is failing to see email addresses and is only bringing up phone numbers for contacts.

Anyone else seeing this? Any idea how to fix it?