I don't see my contact names on my ipad, just their phone numbers

I had the same issue. Contacts was turned off in iCloud. Go to Settings, iCloud, Saved to iCloud (see all), turn on Contacts. Now everyone in messages has a name and face 👍

Adding gmail account works.

I have had this problem several times. What I just did that seem to work was after everything is set up. I went back into my account and turned off messages in iCloud. (turned off the toggle that says use on this iPad). And then once I turned it back on again all the contacts were there.

Trin_ity wrote:

just got a new ipad. I have the correct apple ID in all devices (iPad, MacBook, iPhone). My apps and my contacts don't seem to sync to my new iPad.

Apps don't sync from one device to another. The App Store maintains a record of your purchases, and you might be able to download an app to your iPad that you had previously purchased for your iPhone without having to pay again, but each device has its own set of installed apps.

With regards to contacts, did you check that the iCloud option for syncing Contacts is turned on on all devices?

Okay I had the same issue and after tips and tricks each one failed I found my issue tho. My phone would not sync with my icloud for some odd reason.

on iPhone , go to settings>(your name)>ICOULD>show all> turn off contacts > keep on my iPhone > toggle back on > merge

then on your ipad , go to settings > left panel contacts > My Info

this should pop all your contacts list and show if it worked!

This just happened to me. New phone and a new iPad. My contacts weren’t merging to my iPad. So like someone else said in this thread, Sign out of your Apple ID on both devices. I led with my iPhone first. Both with signing out AND logging back in. Just make sure when it asks you to merge to do so. Problem solved. You’re welcome 🙂

There are no names on my messages on my iPad 10, only phone numbers. My contacts on the same iPad 10 have both names and phone numbers. I need names to identify my messages that already have phone numbers. How can that be done?

Oh here is how to fix it

step 1. Take your iphone, turn it to airplane mode

step 2. Yeet that mf as far as you can, preferably into a lake where it will never be recovered

step 3. Buy a Samsung Galaxy device

step 4. Have peace of mind you don’t own something that comes OUT of a dog.

Hi. I been having the same problems for days. I just figured it out.

Go to settings> scroll all the way down and go to apps> go to contacts > go to contact accounts> click on each of your accounts and toggle on Account. I have iCloud and outlook and contacts was turned off in outlook. I turned it on and all my contacts in messages had names.

This didn't work and disappointed that I spent the time trying this option

I don’t see my contact names on iPad, just their phone numbers

Yes! This did it for me. For anyone trying to solve this problem, make sure you check that all of your accounts are added. Settings—>Contacts—>Accounts—>Add Account.

This worked for me! iPad was default setting to “world”. Once I changed it to the correct region all names showed up. Thank you!

I don’t see names on my text messages. Only phone numbers on my new ipad

This worked for me (changing regions)