Phone Link not showing Contact Names....again

Anonymous
2022-12-23T03:14:12+00:00

Displays mix of number and contact names. Used to display Names only. It's free, so I guess I get what I pay for?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Connect Phone and PC

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-12-22T20:12:10+00:00

    I just solved this problem on my PC and android phone. It was so simple I'm glad to post here in hope this helps everyone.

    In my case, under phone contacts I found that phone numbers had been either entered or displayed with ellipses around the area code. For example: any contact in my phone contacts whose phone number was shown in this format (xxx) xxx-xxxx got displayed as a phone number in Phone Link.

    When I reentered the phone number in the following format xxx-xxx-xxxx the contacts named displayed properly in Phone Link messages!

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-12-06T16:02:39+00:00

    Thank you.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-12-06T15:00:44+00:00

    A few of my contacts were displaying the phone number without the name on my pc. I deleted the phone number on my android phone, saved the contact without a mobile number, then reentered the mobile number. Problem solved!! Evidently, the the Phone Link program did not like the format used when the contact phone number was originally added to my android phone.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-11T20:02:18+00:00

    Thanks Fred!

    I hope that they permanently fix the issue and I don't need to do this on a regular basis but for now I have your post.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-10-26T00:20:28+00:00

    That might be an answer for some but I don't use Google Contacts, so not for me.

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