Clearing the data of the Messages app (note: this does not delete all your conversation threads as I feared it would.Force closing the contacts and Messages apps and restarting the phone.

Related, but outdated: Contact names not showing for the calls and messagesĪfter a long support session with Google, some combination of the following things resolved the issue: (although it was unclear what happened when because there were numerous glitches that occurred throughout the process which were corrected by clearing data and rebooting) How can I get messages to show the contact name and not number at the top of messages? Should I not have imported my messages? It also shows the persons name on the lock screen when I get a message-but again, just shows their number at the top of the messages app when texting them. vcf-even though google associates those number with their correct contact when I click on the image/letter representing the person in the chat. However, in my messages app, I am still showing phone numbers instead of names for all my contacts that were imported through the. It seemed to work smoothly, as all my contacts were now showing up in the contacts app. vcf (using an app) and then imported them to the Pixel. To fix this, I exported all my iPhone contacts as a. So when I imported my contacts from my iPhone, every contact I had added since Google migrated away from exchange was not added. However, I wasn't aware that my iPhone contacts were all saved in Google's Exchange account (not gmail), which no longer exists (as of 2012). When I set up the Pixel, I imported my messages (using the switch process) and contacts (synced through gmail), among other things.

Messages on mac not showing names