Iphone Country Code
Bubba Lual
I used to live in the UK and moved to the US in August. I now have Messages set up with my Apple ID and my US number (and my UK number is no longer associated to iMessage). However, Messages seems to think I'm still in the UK. Whenever I try to send an iMessage to someone in my contacts who doesn't have the US country code (+1), it adds the UK country code (+44) automatically!
Thank you sooooo much! I just changed from an Irish Cell to a US one, and I kept getting the Irish International Access Code added in front of US Cell numbers, even thought they were already in my contacts with +1. This completely solved a major headache. Thanks again!
I've checked my iMessage country (Canada) on my phone, the language & region, date & time, and timezone (Canada) on my mac, address format (Canada) of the Contacts App on my mac as well, but the problem still exist. Don't know if there is any other approach I can take to make it work.
I'll point out that this is only a problem on my MacBook Pro. My iPhone puts the right country code in, as does Messages on the iMac I use at work. So the problem doesn't seem to be with my iCloud account, but rather a local problem on my laptop.
On Checking the "To" spot in a New Message in the Messages App entering +44 shows all the Contacts I have will that beginning, then some SMS callers that I am guessing are my phone carrier's SMS service.
Ralph, thanks for your helpful comments. My messages were working fine until I upgraded to El Capitan then all of my contacts (which are not listed with country code) are now coming up in messages as the phone number with country code, instead of the name. I know mac has/had the capability to treat these the same as the iPhone can (recognising both the full apple id number w/ country code, as well as the shortened one for the same contact name). Would you let us know if you find another workaround? I would imagine this would be a fairly large issue for anyone who didn't input all their contacts with the country code. Thanks!
I was wondering if anyone had the same issue. I cannot receive any text messages on my Iphone unless the sender includes the country code. Sender and me are both in the same country. Without the country code, it states message cannot be delivered. I can't even send myself a message without my local country code.
Some countries have similar numbers so it might be that the device needs you to specify the country it's being sent to. I am in the US and have to put the country codes for some people in the US and for international messages being sent.
thank you for your answer. I don't think this is my problem. I used the same phone a couple years ago with another Australian sim card and I did not have the same issue. Same goes for my German sim card. They worked just fine without the country code back then. So I am still lost.
If you're talking about iMessages, then I see the same result here (in the U.S.) under Settings > Messages > Send & Receive. With a GSM cellular carrier here, we have a Settings > Phone > Dial Assist, which allows the iPhone to determine the appropriate international prefix, and solve these sorts of issues. Another approach would be to use the Apple ID instead of a telephone number.
The person trying to send me a message without the country code is also on an iPhone. So I guess we are talking iMessage then. Same happens when I try to send myself a message without the country code. It states it cannot be delivered.
I talked to my mobile service provider. The phone number has no issue. It can be called without the country code. I just cannot receive any iMessages without the country code. It does not recognise my number without the country code.
Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps the issue is simply that you cannot send an iMessage to yourself then. And perhaps the second issue is the person trying and failing to send you an iMessage without the country code has not set up dial assist, or uses a different cellular carrier than you do (and that carrier possibly does not offer dial assist - not all carriers have this option available).
you cannot do it and also it does not affect you in any way when calling or texting in fact when adding a new number directly with the country code and you may be in a different region it is there without the need of modification
E.g. I can simulate your problem by removing 1 number from the end of the phone number of one of my contacts. Instead of displaying the name in Messages as before it will then display the phone number instead.
In any case, try picking one of the messages, scrolling to the top, clicking "Add Contact", "Add to existing contact", and add the number to the contact and see what happens. It should restore the names to the Messsage list and you might end up with two numbers for the contact, one with the country code and one without. Then the question is will both work?
I had the same issue. My iPhone was fine, but my iPad all of a sudden showed country codes in messages instead of names. Very frustrating. I noticed that my contacts in my iPhone had the (xxx)xxx-xxxx syntax versus my iPad displayed xxxxxxxxxx in my contacts. I do sync my contacts in the cloud.
Solution was to turn off contacts on my iPad (via settings in iCloud on iPad), then it asks for option to keep or delete contacts. I deleted them. I waited to validate that my contacts were removed from my iPad. I turned the contacts on via iCloud again in settings menu on my iPad. Once the contacts came back, the (xxx)xxx-xxxx syntax was back on my iPad. Really weird, not sure why it got "corrupted" all of a sudden.
It is so driving me crazy since all my contacts needed to have two phone numbers, one with country code and another one without it. Only then contact name will show properly on both SMS and Incoming call.
When I use an automated response to a phone call on my iPhone, I get the message, "Error Invalid Number. Please re-send using a valid 10 digit mobile number" because iOS adds the country code (which is not needed if I call -- either from the dial pad or my contact list.
Ideally I would like to have a better sync in contacts between Mac and iPhone; ALL my contacts' phone numbers are stored WITH COUNTRY CODE, so there shouldn't be a reason for this type of confusion to be happening.
I've already tried looking for country code options in the messages app in my MacBook Pro in order to find a temporary fix but couldn't find anything. If the numbers were correctly identified by my MacBook Pro Messages App, there would be no need for temporary fixes or country code settings, provided the contacts were correctly stored in the Contacts App with country code, which is my case. Very frustrating.
I have followed our instructions to the letter and after signing in "again" I have found my country to be set to Portugal (+351) and not the UK (+44). I immediately assumed that that then must not be the issue, nevertheless
However the Blue iMessages do require that you are logged in and it seems in your responses that despite the account being Enabled in the Preferences > Accounts it is not sending iMessages. Wrong, I have no problem whatsoever sending or receiving iMessages in any of my devices. All are logged in using the same account.
I have tested in the past and the evidence I thought I saw seemed to be that the Country set in the Details pane determined the Added +44 (for me as I am in the UK) rather than a setting anywhere else.
Changed Number to +61000000000 (Australian mobiles numbers are one digit shorter than UK ones) and Region to R:AU, but Messages still displays mobile numbers in international format rather than as names from Contacts.
The interesting thing is that after a reboot the .plist is automatically changed back to the +44/GB settings. Makes me think that I need to set this sort of thing somewhere else in the Apple Universe. Will have a dig around.
It is odd as I said as I have plain 0four other digits (as in 07654) for service provider then 6 digits for the number set for most of my Contacts list and something removes the leading 0 and adds the +Country Code.
My guess is that it's because I have my phone and computer set to the UK region, so I can get UK date and time formatting. I'm able to change my computer to the US region and then go into advanced settings to change the date/time formats, but the iPhone doesn't give me that level of control... it's all or nothing.
Definitely a problem on Apple's end though. I don't get why it's trying to infer the country code for an SMS instead of just sending it through the phone and letting the carrier handle it from there...
My contacts (address book) on mountain lion, which is synced with my iphone via icloud, is a mess right now because I have phone numbers from different countries but with no country codes at the begining.
I know this will take multiple steps. I tried to use automator flowchats but I couldn't find a "mobile" or "phone number" item in the "Filter contacts" order, so I now believe this is best done with applescripts, hence I need help.
Basically what I need, is for an applescript to fetch through my contact numbers (all categories, iphone, home, work, mobiles) and check if there's a + sign at the begining, if yes, then leave it as is. If no then I will need to add some country codes according to the first digits. For example, if the starting number is (03) or (01) then I need to add a +20 to the begining of the number. There are other numbers that I will need to batch with the relevant country codes, but I think I can edit the applescript accordingly.
The second one is more tricky. I have some numbers that does not start with any zeroes whatsoever. They just begin with a 4 or a 5. These numbers actually could belong to a number of countries, and the only way to know is by going through them one by one and check the name and other information and add the relevant country and city code manually. The thing is, if I do a contacts search for a 4 or a 5 on my mac contacts or on my iphone, it gets all phone numbers that includes a 4 or 5 and not ones that only starts with them. How can I use an apple script or an automator flow chart (or other means) to show me the numbers that only STARTS with these digits?
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