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Liam's avatar
Liam
SMARTY Maverick
27-12-2022

Two numbers ?

Has anyone else had the issue on an android phone, where when you use normal texts it is your normal transferred number, but when you use chat texts it uses your temporary given number ?

11 Replies

  • Wardysays's avatar
    Wardysays
    SMARTY Teamster
    29-12-2022

    IOS? You need to force it to update your number in iMessage. Normal texts get it from the sim. I had this happen. I turned off iMessage in settings, manually changed my number in another setting and then reactivated iMessage. 

    • Liam's avatar
      Liam
      SMARTY Maverick
      30-12-2022

      Android, but thank you

      • PaulyG269's avatar
        PaulyG269
        SMARTY Pioneer
        10-01-2023

        I'm having the same issue. 

        Did you resolve it? 

  • George's avatar
    George
    Team SMARTY
    28-12-2022

    Hi Liam as MSF said, this is something you usually need to change on the settings on your phone - amending my number and resetting the phone should sort this, but if it doesn't pelase contact our team Customer Support who will be more than happy to help!

    • Liam's avatar
      Liam
      SMARTY Maverick
      28-12-2022

      Hello, i haven't found a setting in my phone for "amending my number" however i looked at the sim settings and it says that the number on my smarty sim is the temporary replacement one, but on the app it says my number is my normal number, and I'm not sure how to change this.

      thank you for the help

      • MSF's avatar
        MSF
        SMARTY Guru
        28-12-2022

        I can only tell you how to do this on an iPhone.

        Settings>Phone>My Number - you can then amend the number directly.

  • MSF's avatar
    MSF
    SMARTY Guru
    28-12-2022

    Not sure if this will be helpful, but certainly for an iPhone, you need to change the number in the Settings so that the phone 'knows' its own number.

  • JamesGa_1735985's avatar
    JamesGa_1735985
    SMARTY Pioneer
    27-12-2022

    Can't say I have had that issue. Once transferred I was on my existing number