IMessage caller ID 'reset' every time I change SIM card
I travel fairly regularly and therefore frequently swap SIM cards on my iPhone.
In order to reduce the dependency on a single phone number for iMessage, I enabled my email address for this, and have been using it as the caller ID as well so my contact can always reach me - whatever the country I may be in (as long as I have local data coverage).
However I noticed that everytime I power down, swap SIM, and power up -- the caller ID systematically reverts to the phone number tied to the newly inserted SIM card.
Is that supposed to be a feature? Did anyone else experience this?
Have to agree, this is quite irritating.
I have my iMessage defaulting to my .me email address, and whenever I travel and swap a SIM to take advantage of local cheap data, my iMessage defaults to the new phone number. So new imessages now start from this temporary phone number. Now there are multiple threads in iMessage.
I then have to go into settings/message and reset so that new messages only start from my regular email address, and delete the redundant thread started from the temporary phone number.
Can't see the reason for this "feature"
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