Timeline for text messages forwarded from my google voice number aren't recognized as being from my iPhone contacts
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| May 25, 2013 at 1:09 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| May 17, 2013 at 8:30 | comment | added | Elliott | cablesm is mostly correct, although I would add that some people consider this a great feature rather than a limitation, because it gives you a "shortcut" number for each person. You can add those numbers to your address book, then use them in the Phone app to make calls too. But it is true that when GV forwards an incoming text to your cellphone, it cannot spoof the sender's real number unless the sender is using GV also. | |
| May 17, 2013 at 2:26 | comment | added | gesher | Hey, thanks for asking for clarification. This issue is not about sending, it's about receiving. I can use SMS GV Extension when sending to ensure that other people see my correct GV number when they receive a text message from me; but what I'm trying to fix is what I see in my Messages app when I get a text message from someone else to my GV number. | |
| May 17, 2013 at 1:26 | comment | added | cablesm | Are you sending from your own GV number? Because in that case, Google does own your number, and can forward it on to the destination with your GV number and not a forwarding number. | |
| May 17, 2013 at 0:04 | comment | added | gesher | THIS IS NOT A LIMITATION OF GOOGLE VOICE. It is an isolated issue that happens only to some people, not to other people. I have checked with multiple other GV users with iPhones and tested it with them: when I send a text message to their GV number that gets forwarded to the iPhone Messages app, it shows up with my correct number, NOT a GV direct access number. | |
| May 16, 2013 at 23:54 | history | answered | cablesm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |