Why does my iPhone show "Maybe" in Contacts for my wife's name?

When I get a text from my wife, the popup on my iPhone says "Maybe: (my wife’s name).

I never had this issue before. She’s stored as a contact and have been for many years. I haven’t changed anything and all is same as before.

When I open the message app, she’s listed there with her name like always. This happens only with the popup notification when I receive a message. It’s very irritating. It’s also says the message is to me and also herself, like it was a group message.

i have turned off EVERYTHING with Siri under messages and also under contacts so it’s nothing I can do there. I also did delete her as a contact and added again, and also signed out and in again from iCloud. Nothing helps. Still get this “maybe”. Any suggestions?

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iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 18

Posted on Sep 15, 2024 4:46 AM

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bennythedroid

Level 1

14 points

Posted on Sep 19, 2024 1:57 PM

Did you ever find a fix for this? I’m having the same problem.

Also on ios 18. Also logged in and out of icloud. Tweaked all the Siri settings. Deleted and re-added contact.

Nothing has worked. Still showing “maybe” and “to you & <contact name>” on the notification.

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Waldorff

Level 1

8 points

Nov 25, 2024 10:41 PM in response to Kalboman

i had this “maybe:” issue in front of my partner’s name long time ago. It was back in the year of 2017/2018 and I had iphone 5c or 6. Or both at the same time. I always thought that it was because of use same apple ID on two of mine iphones, but with different phone number on each. When we have had fight/argument and partner blocked me, and after few days unblocked me, it was the trigger of show up “maybe:” in front of her name. From my point of view.

After those years, I have seen it yesterday again since

now on my iphone 8

And it shows “maybe:” in front of name of friend of mine who shared his actual name and apple id profile picture with his contacts, so iphone asked me if I want update his info into my contact list, after I allowed it, he is now “maybe”.

I think he just sets up new iphone

fridge02

Level 1

8 points

Nov 8, 2024 12:32 PM in response to Seahorsepuppy

Thank you Seahorsepuppy, I submitted a bug report for both the contact issue and the Car Play issue.

Pdundon

Level 1

16 points

Nov 17, 2024 12:19 PM in response to Kalboman

Happens with my wife too!

Nov 19, 2024 2:59 PM in response to bennythedroid

This worked for me as well (November 19th). Disabling the Siri functions on WhatsApp, never would have thought about that on my own. Thanks!

Nov 20, 2024 12:55 PM in response to Summcat

This started happening after I started to share my iCloud storage too I never thought about that

Nov 24, 2024 10:35 PM in response to Kalboman

Thank you so much after a week of trying to figure out why it was doing this and trying other solutions offered I tried your solution and it worked

Why does my iPhone show "Maybe" in Contacts for my wife's name?