Issue with duplicate numbers

Clark

I think I'm stupid because I believe this problem shouldn't exist, but anyways. I have a persistent problem with my contacts "duplicating". For example, I text somebody and it's all fine and dandy. But the moment they send me an image, it comes from "another" person (it's the same number and person but a separate conversation). Maybe I have written down their number incorrectly (formatting)? Anybody else experience this? It's not a big deal it's just annoying to have a separate conversation for receiving images.

Skyway

Clark what messaging and contact apps are you using ?

de0u

Clark If you type the phone number into the search box at the top of the Contacts app, do you see one contact or two? If one, if you look at the ⋮ menu, is there an "unlink" option?

Clark

Skyway the standard apps that come with GOS. I installed Quik recently but the problem has persisted ever since I got this phone.

Clark

de0u yes, there is an unlink menu. I actually intentionally linked the two numbers because I thought that would solve the duplicates, but maybe that's wrong?

de0u

Clark I actually intentionally linked the two numbers because I thought that would solve the duplicates, but maybe

It is not clear to me what principle the Messages app uses to assign an incoming message to a contact when the message matches multiple contacts that are not linked. It sounds to me as if you may be hoping Messages would do something different than what it does.

Clark

de0u well, I don't know. I was just hoping to merge the duplicate conversation that appears whenever somebody sends me an image.

de0u

Clark It sounds as if maybe the MMS code path for contact lookup is different than the SMS code path.

Re-linking the contacts might help, or trying a third-party SMS/MMS app.