It is Twenty Fucking Twenty Six and iMessage still thinks that a phone number without a country code and a phone number with a country code belong in the same message thread (good!) but different contacts (bad!). What am I supposed to do? Save +1 and non +1 variants for every US phone number in my contacts?

Justin Searls

iMessage continues to treat phone numbers with and without country codes (+1) as separate contacts while grouping them in the same message thread, creating a frustrating user experience that forces users to potentially save duplicate contact entries for US phone numbers.

It is Twenty Fucking Twenty Six and…

Switch phones mate, Android is far better 🤷

20F26 and N. America still uses SMS for messaging… drop it and use one of the many others platforms and you’ll find out why this was never an issue for anyone else in the world.

You should have left the iPhone in 2025…

2026-&gt; uses apple. top of the line androids have always been comparable to apple, linux distros have been easier to use than ever. get out of the apple “walled prison”