Phone Link not showing Contact Names....again

Well, I suppose "great" is a relative term. 😄

I do agree that this year's flurry of updates has markedly improved Phone Link's reliability; the connection to my old Samsung Note 9 is now much more stable.

What's not so great is that this problem with associating names to phone numbers in the Messages section still has not been fixed. Several people (me included) have posted ways to change the way phone numbers are saved in the Microsoft contact lists that seem - at least initially - to get the contact names working again. Sadly, it isn't too long before Phone Link seems to lose the association to contact names again and reverts back to showing phone numbers.

That this annoying problem continues to go unaddressed makes me wonder if the Microsoft employees responsible for Phone Link are actually using it themselves. Or is everyone only working on AI now? 😣

I'm still using Phone Link and it's working great now that Microsoft fixed the issues. My phone and computer and tablet are all connected without having to use anything Google.

Me too ditched Link to Windows switched to Google Messages and problem solved!!

Go to your contacts in your phone and locate the contact. Edit the phone number and remove the +1 as the prefix of the number. Hit save, and the name should then show on phone link.

Go to your contacts in your phone and locate the contact. Edit the phone number and remove the +1 as the prefix of the number. Hit save, and the name should then show on phone link.